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Inspiring philanthropy:at gulf coast, our mission begins "together with our donors." their gifts help power the actions we take every day to transform our region. Our gulf coast family of donors includes individuals, families, corporations, organizations, and other foundations. Gulf coast works in thoughtful coordination with donors and their legal, financial, and tax advisors to create custom philanthropic action plans and steward their gifts to meet their wishes. Whether it's a donor advised fund to support their favorite charities or a planned estate gift that will create a permanent charitable endowment in their name, gulf coast listens to what each donor envisions for their giving and then helps turn their vision into reality.gulf coast also offers donors intelligence on emerging community issues and assistance from our professional staff in identifying charitable projects most compatible with their interests. By engaging donors in gulf coast's regional initiatives, the foundation can help them have a much greater philanthropic impact in the community than they might have had on their own. Impact in our region:in our role as a regional leader, gulf coast identifies priority issues through quantitative and qualitative research, then creates and funds catalytic community initiatives that target those priorities. These initiatives typically involve cross-sector collaboration and aim to leverage additional philanthropic funding from within and beyond our region. Priority issues identified through this research include affordable housing, water quality and access to green spaces, and mental health. Gulf coast also provides support in the areas of arts and culture, civic and economic development, disaster recovery, education, environment, and health and human services.additionally, gulf coast funds a variety of grants to support the work of nonprofit organizations in the region. Our grant programs include leveraged grants, which fund collaborative projects and programs that target regional priorities in measurable ways; community grants, which fund smaller projects at regional nonprofit organizations that can have significant impact in the community including work designed to raise funds and awareness of their mission; and empowering arts grants, which provide unrestricted funding to cornerstone arts and cultural organizations in the region to help them meet their artistic missions.