Be Here for Good - Invest in Your Community Foundation
Your investment helps the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMC) respond to changing circumstances to meet critical needs of our community. Whether it’s strengthening our nonprofits through grants or the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, inspiring philanthropy through Monterey County Gives!, or and mobilize support during disasters such as wildfires and floods. This is what it means to be Here for Good.
Join former CFMC Board Chair Bertie Bialek Elliott in making a lasting impact. Her generous $150,000 gift means your donation goes even further to support our mission.
We invite you to support the Here for Good Fund so we can continue to:
- serve as a community leader around important issues
- respond to disasters such as wildfires and flooding
- strengthen local nonprofit leaders and organizations
- lead special initiatives
- help our neighbors thrive.
Join US
We invite you to help the CFMC meet the greatest needs in our community. The 2026 Here for Good Campaign takes place October 1 – December 31,2026.
Gifts to the Here for Good Fund are welome year round.
here for good campaign Recognition Levels
There are many levels and ways to give and every gift makes an important difference. Gifts of $1,000 and more will be included in our Annual Report.
$1,000
$2,500
$5,000
$10,500
$25,000
More Ways to Give
The CFMC can accept donor advised fund grants, gifts of stock and IRA Qualified Charitable Distributions.
CFMC Donor Advisors can recommend a grant through our donor portal.
Please contact us or call 831.375.9712 to learn more.
thank you 2025 donors
Thank you to our donors to the 2025 Here for Good Campaign.
Here for Good Donors 2025
“Here for Good” $25,000 and above
Anonymous
Anonymous*
Bertie Elliott/Buffett Fund*
William G and Nancy C Doolittle*
E. Stanton McKee Charitable Fund-Fidelity Charitable
Catalyst $10,000 and above
Tracy Gibbons*
John Hain and Jennifer Allen
Craig and Christine Johnson
The Landreth Family Fund*
Joseph A. and Sheila Mark
David W. Meyer*
Anne Morgens*
David M. and Maryanne Spradling
The Talbott Family Foundation
The Alexander F. Victor Foundation
Walker & Reed, PC
Marsha McMahan Zelus*
Partner in Philanthropy $5,000 and above
Arkay Foundation
Aimee and Patrick Burke
Paul and Elizabeth Ferguson
Joel & Dena Gambord Foundation
Caron and Alan Lacy – Fidelity Charitable
Brooks McChesney*
Bill and Kathryn Sharpe
George Somero and Amy Anderson*
Viscius Family – Schwab Charitable
Thomas A Werbe -T. Rowe Price Charitable
Ken and Mary Wright
Jay Zimmer and Rochelle Blank
Changemaker $2,500 and above
Jane Barry
Incy Brooks- Schwab Charitable
Renee and James Fuqua*
Thomas and Marijke Hart Hawley*
Elizabeth and Gregg McKee
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fund*
Steve and Betsey Pearson
The Tides Foundation
Friend of the Foundation $1,000 and above
American Online Giving Foundation
Anonymous-Fidelity Charitable
Anonymous-Schwab Charitable
Diane Ausonio
Lino and Teri Belli*
Richard Borda
Marilyn Brown
Dalal Family- Fidelity Charitable
Hannah Fingerhut Charitable Gift Account- Schwab Charitable
Samuel and Jeanne M Gesumaria DAF- Schwab Charitable
Guilford Publications, Inc.
Roberta Huntington
Vincent J Huth*
Eric and Kathleen Johnsen- Schwab Charitable
Rick and Martha Kennifer
Daniel and Nancy Kreer
Carol and Brian LeNeve
Jane Lundy- Raymond James Charitable
Mary McCary
Sherrie Y McCullough
David and Marylu Mesa
Charles Olvis and Miranda Morris
Tony and Lary Muller*
Kevin and Mary O’Brien
Frederick O’Such
Patricia Porter-Hoover DAF- Schwab Charitable
Jean Rigg
Nancy Sanders and Alan Perlmutter
Studio Schicketanz Inc.
Patricia Skinner
The SP Legacy Fund-Vanguard Charitable
Richard and Joyce Thau*
Charle Thomas
Marian Van Horn
Jennifer Walker Esq. and Eric Lee
Mary Ann and Benjamin Whitten*
David Wick and Jane Anfinson Trust
*A donor advised fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County