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Charitable management solutions to transform the communities and causes you love. Serving Northwest Georgia so you can live and give charitably.

We help regional philanthropists get the most out of their charitable giving by offering several different types of tax-advantaged charitable funds. We are a regional grant maker. We work with the community to inspire positive change.

11/04/2026

Before every home game, the parking lot outside Weinman Stadium turns into a gathering spot for Cartersville Purple Hurricanes fans. Trotter Deems & King Attorneys at Law hosts a free community tailgate, complete with bounce houses, food trucks, and yard games, so families can fellowship together before kickoff.

The idea came together last season, and the Cartersville-Bartow Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, stepped in as co-sponsor, helping with setup, teardown, and a lineup of games the kids couldn't get enough of.

This season, the partnership is growing with a new sponsorship called First Fan, created to highlight young Canes fans and celebrate the next generation growing up in the Cartersville school system.

Friday Night Lights are part of what makes life good across Northwest Georgia, and this tailgate is proof: when people love where they live, they give where they live too.

Shout-out to Cartersville-Bartow board member (and diehard Canes fan!) Carrie Trotter for helping us with this initiative!

11/02/2026

Every October, kids across Northwest Georgia knock on the doors of neighbors they may barely know, hold out a bucket, and walk away with a handful of candy. For a lot of children, trick-or-treating is one of the first times someone outside their family shares something with them just because they live on the same street.

Nobody expects to be paid back, and nobody asks whether the kid in the dinosaur costume did anything to earn a Snickers. Along the way, neighbors who might not otherwise meet end up chatting on the porch, and children learn that their community is full of people who are glad to share. Halloween kicks off a stretch of holidays built around giving, and in the weeks ahead, Thanksgiving food drives, coat collections, and toy drives will bring neighbors together again to help families right here at home.

Years later, that same habit can show up as a gift to a local food bank, a scholarship for a student, or an endowment that keeps supporting the region long after the giver is gone. For many people, it started on a cool October night when a neighbor opened the door with a bowl of candy and said, “Here you go.”

10/29/2026

In 2009, the Great Recession hit Northwest Georgia’s manufacturing communities especially hard, and families who had never needed help before began turning to local food pantries.

The Chattanooga Area Food Bank started by meeting with churches, service organizations and civic leaders across the region, who told them local pantries needed more food along with the storage and transportation to get it to families. In 2011, the Food Bank leased a distribution space in Dalton with help from the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia.

Over the next decade, that warehouse supplied a growing network of partner pantries, churches, schools and senior programs across multiple counties. When COVID-19 drove up demand in 2020, the Food Bank used that network to increase deliveries, serve families directly and send mobile pantries into communities where transportation was a barrier.

In August 2023, the Food Bank opened the Pierce Distribution Center in Dalton, an expansion funded by a $2.3 million Georgia Department of Community Affairs award administered with Whitfield County and by local donors. The new center has more room for healthier food, double the office space and more space for volunteers who sort and pack food for pantries across Northwest Georgia.

The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia is glad to partner with organizations like the Chattanooga Area Food Bank in their mission to support a thriving community across Northwest Georgia, and its work with the Food Bank in Dalton goes back to 2011. Learn more about the Food Bank’s work at chattfoodbank.org.

10/26/2026

This year, Dalton Arts Project took Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf to four local elementary schools, performing at Beaverdale and Tunnel Hill in April and at Park Creek and Blue Ridge in October.

Each school visit reached about 500 to 600 students. Many of those students had mostly seen music and dance on videos, and these 30-minute shows gave them the chance to watch it performed in person, in their own school. Every student also received a worksheet explaining the story and the instrument that represents each character.

The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia was glad to help make these performances possible through a grant to Dalton Arts Project. Thank you to Dalton Arts Project and to the schools that welcomed them.

10/22/2026

Stronger cybersecurity starts with the right knowledge.

We recently hosted a Cybersecurity Workshop for Small Nonprofits, bringing organizations together to learn practical ways to protect their data, strengthen digital security, and stay safer from today’s cyber threats.

Thank you to Inventure IT for sharing their expertise and to United Way of Northwest Georgia for partnering with us to make this workshop possible. We’re also grateful to everyone who joined us and continues to invest in building safer, stronger nonprofit organizations.

Together, we’re helping nonprofits protect the important work they do for our communities.

10/22/2026

What does it take to build a stronger community? It starts with investing in people, planning for the future, and giving with purpose.

Our October newsletter is here! From inspiring young people to understanding endowments and giving smarter, we’re sharing stories and insights that show how generosity can create a lasting impact across Northwest Georgia.

📬 Want to stay connected to the people and ideas shaping our communities? Read the October newsletter and subscribe for future updates!

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Address

110 Depot Street
Dalton, GA
30720

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.communityfoundationnwga.org/

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