Foundation Donate & Contact

The GGCC Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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Giving Tuesday Campaign 2024: Please consider a tax-deductible gift for Professional Development, to help us build Pathways to Success Cohort #2! Gifts given on Giving Tuesday will be used to build professional development business-building programs for female and minority entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders in the Upcounty, including furthering the participants’ professional development with networking in the GGCC. To make this a true Pathways to Success Program Cohort #2, we need to raise $10,000, which will impact 20-25 community members.

Please Consider a Gift to the Following Initiatives

Become an Annual Sponsor of the GGCC Community Foundation

Community Hero – 2500
Logo in prominent location on Foundation landing webpage, program page, and donor webpage with hyperlink, logo recognition on signage at Picnic with a Purpose, Annual Golf Tournament, and Annual Gala. Recognition from podium at those events. Includes two golfers at the 2024 annual Golf Tournament or 2 tickets to the 2024 GGCC Gala.

Community Champion – 1200
Smaller logo on Foundation landing webpage, program webpage, and donor webpage, logo recognition on signage at Picnic with a Purpose, Annual Golf Tournament, and Annual Gala.

Community Partner – 600
Name on Foundation landing webpage, program webpage, and donor webpage, name recognition on signage at Picnic with a Purpose, Annual Golf Tournament, and Annual Gala.

Friends of the Foundation – 25-599
Name on Foundation donor webpage.

All gifts to the GGCC Community Foundation are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. The GGCC Community Foundation is incorporated in Maryland, EIN 92-3563139.

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Contact us:
The GGCC Community Foundation shares office resources and professional staff with the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce.

GGCC Community Foundation
910 Clopper Road Ste 205N
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Foundation@ggchamber.org
President & CEO: Paula Ross, 301-840-1400

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Annual Corporate Sponsors of the GGCC Community Foundation

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Champion

Partner

2025 Friends of the Foundation:

*2025 Donors to the GGCC’s Scholarship at Montgomery College
Jerry Ellis, Ellis-Lopez Travel Partners

*2025 Donors to the GGCC’s Shop with a Cop Donations Initiative
GGCC’s Mastermind Direct Connect group

*2025 Donors to the Back to School Block Party Initiative

*These donors have provided additional support at “4 A Cause” events in 2025 (beyond ticket purchases):

• • • Roxana Arias, nymeo Federal Credit Union
    • Jared Bailey, Northwestern Mutual
    • Steve Barber, Supporting Strategies
    • Beltway Merchant Services
    • Jim Bindeman, Celebration Marketing
    • Luis Cardenas, Bargain Movers
    • BNI Central Maryland
    • Joey Chambers, Capital Bank
    • Mick Collins, Pay it Forward Processing
    • Cruise Planners – Beth Borrego & Rod Rodriguez
    • Colie Daniels, Ballpoint Capital
    • Kevin Donohew, New York Life
    • Jim Frangenberg, Wells Fargo
    • Fernando Fuentes, M&T Bank
    • Orville Haye, Groomed by Haye
    • Martin Hollander, Crown Trophy
    • The Kempes Group Homespire Mortgage 
    • Pamela Luby, ServPro Team Hall
    • Heather Madison, Peterson Companies
    • Nick Marchetti, AMI Signs
    • Toby Morrison, Mid Atlantic Contracting
    • Ivan Nalibotsky, HealthMarkets Insurance Agency
    • Dan Peddicord, Peddicord Plumbing
    • Craig Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Realty Services RE/MAX Realty Group
    • Visa Shanmugam, Aire-Master of Central Maryland
    • Joseph Smith, Legacy Vested Financial
    • Daniel Sullivan, Factor Real Estate Finance
    • Heather Sunderman, McMillan Metro Faerber
    • John Teel, Supporting Strategies
    • Mauricio Vasquez, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Montgomery County
    • Gary Vaughn, DCWebRevolution
    • Richie Vicente, PNC Bank
    • Justin Volman, Volman HR Strategy LLC
    • David West, Capital Bank
    • Supporting Strategies of Northwest Maryland

*Donors at our 4 A Cause events in 2025 have helped to support gifts to these Upcounty nonprofits and causes:

• • • BlackRock Center for the Arts
    • Comfort Cases
    • Veterans Growing America

Special thank you to Dan Helhowski (Beltway Merchant Services) for planning and organizing our 4 A Cause series of joint networking events!

2024 Annual Report – our inaugural year: