Your participation in the annual All Charities Auction Events is vitally important for the entire community and, because charities have given up individual fund-raisers, your one opportunity to come out in support of the causes you care about. Each year the Foundation’s proceeds from the auction events and ORC Charity Check-Off go to the Community Grants Fund supporting a variety of worthy and effective charities on the Reef and in the surrounding communities which are home to our employee base.
Existing Foundation Funds created to address the variety of causes most important to our community include:
- Administrative Fund (for Foundation Operating Expenses)
- All Charities Fund benefitting the All Charities Partners
- Ocean Reef Art League
- Ocean Reef Community Foundation Community Grants Fund
- Ocean Reef Conservation Association
- Ocean Reef Cultural Center
- Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation
- ORCAT
- The Academy at Ocean Reef
- Anglers Club Community Fund
- “Backpack” Childhood Hunger Relief Fund
- College of the Florida Keys Upper Keys Center Fund
- Community Grants Fund
- Community Relief Fund – This grant was created after Andrew to help respond to needs quickly after a hurricane. It’s available to charities in Homestead/Florida City and the Upper Keys, areas where Ocean Reef Club employees and their families live.
- COVID-19 Relief Fund: To provide relief for our neighbors impacted by the unprecedented public health and economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic in our surrounding local communities – Monroe County, Homestead and Florida City.
- Courage Fund for Hospice
- Florida Keys Hurricane Response Fund – a Hurricane Irma related grant open to all charities located throughout Monroe County outside the gates of Ocean Reef Club.
- Florida Keys Humane Society Fund
- New Hope CORPS Fund – benefits New Hope CORPS
- Ocean Reef Cultural Center Endowment Fund
- Ocean Reef Employee Emergency Fund (O.R.E.E.F)
- Operation Dignity Peru Fund benefitting the charity of the same name
- Small Urgent Response Grant Fund
- The Academy at Ocean Reef Building Maintenance Fund
- This Is The Dog