Corporate Care Funds
Find your company’s Fund, instructions and an application for assistance to the right.
Many generous and caring companies have partnered with The Community Foundation to help their employees experiencing hardships. Corporate Care Funds have basic parameters, while companies can specify both the amount of assistance which can be provided for any individual and which employees qualify for help, which is typically based on length of time with the company.
The following information is an overview of how Corporate Care Funds can help, and we encourage interested companies or employees applying for assistance to contact us for more information, at 615-321-4939. These Funds are designed to provide short-term, emergency support to employees or eligible dependents who are facing serious financial hardship and who cannot afford housing, utilities and other basic living expenses as a result of certain unforeseen and unpreventable circumstances, including:
Natural disaster:
This includes a situation such as a flood, hurricane, tornado, wildfire, severe storms or earthquake, which has damaged or destroyed a primary residence.
Life-threatening illness or injury:
This includes the employee, spouse and eligible dependent(s). Employees do not automatically qualify for assistance when they, or their dependants, are diagnosed, and assistance from a Fund cannot be a substitute for medical insurance. Applicants must demonstrate resulting financial need including an inability to pay basic living expenses.
Death:
This includes both death of the employee or of eligible dependent(s). A Fund cannot pay for travel to funerals or other funeral expense, but can help when the loss of income or the cost of funeral expenses or medical bills prevent an employee or the employee’s family from affording basic living expenses.
Other catastrophic or extreme circumstances:
These may be but are not limited to house fire; major home damage that an employee could not avoid or prevent; serious crime against an employee such as robbery, arson, assault, domestic abuse; or another reportable crime that impacts the ability to afford basic living expenses.
Donations of any size are accepted to existing Corporate Care Funds, allowing company employees and company friends to participate in supporting colleagues who may experience hardship.