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

Hero

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):
Jared Bailey, Northwestern Mutual
Steve Barber, Supporting Strategies
Beltway Merchant Services
BNI Central Maryland
Mick Collins, Pay it Forward Processing
Colie Daniels, Ballpoint Capital
Kevin Donohew, New York Life
The Kempes Group Homespire Mortgage 
Pamela Luby, ServPro Team Hall
Nick Marchetti, AMI Signs
Richie Vicente, PNC Bank
Supporting Strategies

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