Foundation
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The Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce Foundation works 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.
The Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Mayor Engle Memorial Scholarship, a $1500 award, is available to students who are enrolled in, or are applying to an accredited undergraduate, graduate, or vocational/trade school with a degree program in Arizona. Recipients must be attending an Arizona college, university or vocational school in the upcoming (2025-2026) academic year. Priority will be given to residents of Southern Arizona, in particular the greater Oro Valley area to include but not limited to Oro Valley, Marana, Catalina, Oracle, San Manuel, unincorporated Pima County and Tucson. Application open: January 15th, 2025. The Deadline to apply is Friday, March 21th, 2025 at 5pm.
Each year, the Chamber Foundation provides money to help local organizations doing good work in the community.
With a $110,000 gift in 2024, it endowed a scholarship fund in memory of Marilyn and Al Cook through the Pima Community College Foundation. In turn, the PCC Foundation provided a 50%, $55,000 match. That $165,000 fund provided its first 5 scholarships to Pima students in 2024.
In March 2023, the Chamber office on Oracle north of Ina caught fire. Its contents were lost and the Chamber decided to acquire a building. To help, your Foundation made a $75,000 gift toward down-payment on the Chamber’s beautiful, functional building in Oro Valley’s Innovation Park.
Over the course of these months, we have made donations to Project Graduation, The Arizona Heroes Memorial, the Centers for Neuroscience Research and Saguaro City Music Theater. Each gift is intended to help our community thrive.
The Greater Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit raising and distributing funds to support community philanthropy, educational endeavors and business activities in and around Oro Valley. We have special emphases on scholarships, service to youth, helping people in need, and schools.
Where our money comes from:
You, primarily. Your gifts to the Chamber Foundation may be tax-deductible; consult with your tax preparer.
Our objective is to create ongoing gifts and endowments to grow the reach and power of our Foundation.
To donate, click the link above or contact Kristen Sharp, Chamber president / CEO and a member of the Foundation board, at 520-297-2191; or by e-mail at kristen@orovalleychamber.com.
Our board
Chair, Dave Perry
Secretary, Alan Dankwerth, Market Considerations.
Treasurer, Camella Koeller, Pima Federal Credit Union
Lisa Hopper, Arizona Heroes Memorial
Fred Roof
Kay Williams, Arizona Heroes Memorial
Kristen Sharp, Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce
Otton Suarez
Nancy Boyle, Splendido at Rancho Vistoso