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November 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter Trending Topics 2
As stated in our previous November newsletter, your clients are likely aware
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Welcome to starved rock country community foundation
Connecting people who care with causes that matter.
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Our mission
Connecting people who care with causes that matter
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving and maintaining the quality of life for residents in and around LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam counties in Illinois.
Through the generosity of our donors who support our mission to connect people who care with causes that matter, SRCCF has received more than $8.62 million in total contributions and has distributed $3.47 million through over 921 grants to charitable organizations, scholarships and disaster relief funds.
Featured Stories, Funds & more
What's happening at SRCCF
Featured Announcement
Our Year-End Planning & The OBBBA November 2025 Guide Is Now Available!
As we approach the end of the year, SRCCF is pleased to share our new OBBBA Year-End Giving Pamphlet, designed to help donors explore smart, impactful giving options.
Featured Story
SRCCF Hosts An Illinois Valley Quilts Of Valor Ceremony For Five Veterans
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation hosted an Illinois Valley Quilts of Valor ceremony for five veterans on Wednesday at the IVCC Ottawa Center.
Featured Event
WIN Giving Celebration
Please join us for the Women Inspired Network Giving Celebration. Sunday, December 7, 2025.
Featured Announcement
WIN members – Vote for your 2025 Grant Finalists
This year there are four finalists who presented their grant proposals at the WIN meeting on October 22nd. All four are hoping to make an impact in their communities, schools and with the families and students targeted.
Featured Newsletter
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The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation is committed to working alongside you and your clients to structure charitable giving plans that make a real difference in the lives of people in our region.
Featured Story
Second Annual SRCCF Honors
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation showcased leading supporters –including its first board chair – at Tuesday’s second annual SRCCF Honors in Ottawa.
Featured Update
Our Sincere Appreciation To Our 10th Anniversary Appeal Donors
As part of our 10th Anniversary celebration, we launched a special appeal — and our community responded with incredible generosity. We are honored to recognize the donors who contributed to this milestone campaign.
Featured Fund
Seventh Generation Community Support Donor Advised Fund
A longtime Ottawa-area farming family has created a lasting legacy of giving through a major investment in the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF).
Featured Update
A word from our President & CEO, Fran Brolley
Please help us strengthen the land we all love by supporting the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation’s 10th Anniversary Appeal.
Featured Update
SRCCF Launches YouTube Channel
Don’t miss our new YouTube channel to enable donors, nonprofit partners, and community members to stay informed, inspired, and connected.
Featured Update
SRCCF Anniversary Appeal
Since 2015, SRCCF has distributed over $3 million in community investments, grants and scholarships. We inspire local giving, by local people, for local causes. But we cannot succeed without your backing. Please support our 10th Anniversary Year-End Appeal.
Featured Event
Save The Date – A Country Night for a Cause
Dust off your boots and mark your calendars! Join us for a foot-stompin’, heart-warming’ evening of food, fun, and philanthropy – all to support the vital work of the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF).
Featured Update
Maximizing Impact: Understanding the Illinois Gives Tax Credit
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is honored to receive state approval as a Qualified Community Foundation (QCF) for the new Illinois Gives initiative.
Featured Update
Report To The Community
Responsive. Broad-based. Philanthropic. Those are three of the “purposes” or characteristics outlined in the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation by-laws—guidelines we live by. Since 2015, SRCCF has championed the arts, education, entrepreneurship, preservation, the environment, physical and mental health, humanities, human services, and disaster relief.
Featured Update
Learn about our impact in Ottawa
Established in October 2015, the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation makes it possible for non-profit and charitable organizations in the area to benefit from the generosity of the community as a whole.
Featured Update
EleV̅ate
Far beyond the scope of mainstream philanthropy, ELEV̅ATE is a collaborative participatory giving circle approach to philanthropy established to bring together members of our community to collectively support the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation.
Featured Story
Discover the Difference – SRCCF vs Commercial and Private Foundations
Are you curious about how Community Foundations compare to Commercial and Private Foundations? Check out these comparison graphics!
Featured Video
SRCCF – Just 5%
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give” – Winston Churchill
Featured Story
Take a look at our GENUINE IMPACT!
Recipients of grants, scholarships, or disaster funds from the SRCCF to date
Featured Announcement
Our Year-End Planning & The OBBBA November 2025 Guide Is Now Available!
Featured Funds
Bringing donors and communities together
Trinity Rose Montessori School Fiscal Sponsorship
Ottawa Exploreum Children’s Museum Fiscal Sponsorship
Hegeler Carus Mansion Fund
Featured Stories
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Keep up to date with all the latest happenings at Starved Rock Country Community Foundation
Our Year-End Planning & The OBBBA November 2025 Guide Is Now Available!
As we approach the end of the year, SRCCF is pleased to
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Putting the Country in Starved Rock Country – A Country Night For a Cause
We’re rounding up the community for one of the most anticipated events
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Featured Events
Join in with your community at one of SRCCF's Events
Community, Art, and Women Inspired Network Grants
There for our communities
Who we support
Ranging from scholarships for the arts to community grants, SRCCF is a collection of resources given by generous donors to support education, health care, childcare, economic development, tourism, conservation, beautification and to meet the needs of our communities at large.
Established in 2015
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation has awarded more than 921 grants to charitable organizations, scholarships and disaster relief funds
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Support our community funds
As a grant-making public charity, Starved Rock Country Community Foundation brings donors and community agencies of all backgrounds together to improve and maintain the quality of life in Bureau, LaSalle, and Putnam Counties – forever.
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We're here to answer any and all of your questions
Whether you’re interested in making a donation, starting a fund or learning how to give back to the community, we’d love to hear from you!
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is a 501(c)3 organization as designated by the IRS and the state of Illinois. We are a grant-making public charity dedicated to improving the lives of people in LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties.
An unrestricted donation to the "Leadership Fund For Now is the best way to support Starved Rock Country Communication Foundation! These generous donations help support our daily operations and provide us with flexibility we need to further our mission with greater effectiveness.
Starved Rock County Community Foundation supports a variety of not-for-profit organizations in our area. Generally, we partner with community agencies that support the environment, conservation, education, arts, healthcare, childcare, tourism, economic development, and/or the needs and challenges of the community at-large.
