Serving the people of this community with scholarships and charitable giving.
Serving the people of this community with scholarships and charitable giving.
Serving the people of this community with scholarships and charitable giving.
The Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce Foundation was formed as an independent, 501c(3) charitable organization in 2014. At that time, it received the assets and mission from the Oro Valley Community Foundation, which was dissolved.
The Chamber Foundation exists to strengthen the well-being of our community and its citizens by receiving and distributing funds for scholarships, schools, young people, the arts and sciences, people in need and the business community.
It specifically supports the Mayor Steve Engle Memorial Scholarship program, and makes charitable gifts to organizations helping others.
Reinvesting in Oro Valley & Its Residents Since 1990
Major gift forms a building block for an endowment
Marilyn and Al Cook were longtime Oro Valley residents, community supporters and generous benefactors. They are missed.
Marilyn, who was a member of the Oro Valley Community Foundation board of directors, made 1 last selfless act. Her estate donated $1.007 million to the Chamber Foundation for “charitable giving in the Oro Valley community.”
We’re so grateful.
The intent of the Chamber Foundation board is to use that gift as the seed of an endowment, something we can grow into an ever-greater source of scholarship and community support. Plans call for some annual distribution of proceeds from the investment, as well as an accumulation of income to grow the principal.