To award populations from predominately low income familes.

Awards programs that benefit children and neighborhoods.

Awards programs focusing on enhancing the educational, moral and spiritual development of children.

Winners of the Leo W. Seal Teachers Recognition Awards: Bruce Lampe, Melissa Williams, Angela Heise and Heidi Verner

Army Specialist Christopher Ladner presented a special gift to GCCF Board.

A website has been created as a resource for individuals and families who need assistance as a result of the oil spill.

GULFPORT, MS – Gulf Coast Community Foundation awarded $1,139,684 from the 3rd round of grants to fourteen coast non-profit agencies through the Fund for Gulf Communities.

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation Presents
“A NIGHT IN PARIS”. Presentation of the 2011 MS Coast Philanthropist of the Year

The funding will help coast non-profit agencies meet the unmet needs affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The $4.0 million grant is part of the Fund for Gulf Communities (the Fund) to address some of the unmet needs due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.