Laguna Woods Village is a wonderful place for active adults to live and thrive, and since opening in 1964, our 2,100-acre community has achieved many significant improvements. However, inherent conflicts exist between maintaining affordable resident fees and asking homeowners to pay for improved programs, services, and facilities.

Village Community Fund came into existence as a vehicle for residents, their family members, friends, and other charitable institutions, to support planned improvements with a tax-deductible donation.

Many of the Village’s 260 registered clubs have members who want to enhance facilities and programs through charitable donations to approved projects.  Facilitating such gift giving opportunities is the role of Village Community Fund.

Village Community Fund serves as a means for family and friends to donate and honor the memory of a loved one. Limited naming rights exist for naming buildings, rooms, spaces, equipment, and facilities.

Village Community Fund works in cooperation with Golden Rain Foundation (GRF); Village Management Services, Inc. (VMS); and individual clubs or groups of residents. We support programs, services, and facilities that are available to Laguna Woods Village residents as well as older adults living outside of the community. For example, Saddleback College, through its Emeritus Institute (the largest such program in California), offers some 80 college-level extended learning classes on site in the Village, classes which are open to all Orange County seniors. Seniors living outside of the Village are also welcome at Village events as guests of residents and as non-resident members of Village clubs.

In addition, Village Community Fund makes donations to local non-profits outside the community whose programs serve older adults.