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The Community Foundation made grants totaling $14.2 million during 2006, most of that from advised, designated, agency endowment and scholarship funds as recommended by advisors to those funds. The total includes $2.6 million out of Community Funds and Field of Interest Funds, the unrestricted endowment set aside to meet the community's most pressing needs. (See below for a complete list of grants from the spring and fall cycles of competitive grantmaking.)
We use the best data available to evaluate the proposals for grants from Community Funds and to assist our nonprofit partners in making most effective use of limited dollars. Sometimes that means asking organizations to work together on a common cause like homelessness or supporting shared resources like ticketing and back office administration.
In addition to outside reports on local, state and national issues, we have funded the development of local indicators, such as the "Community Counts" report published first in 2005. Together with our nonprofit partners and other funders, we are trying to address the indicators that need to be changed in order to make life better.
From "Community Counts" we developed interest areas and priorities that address the most pressing issues we see today. As new concerns emerge in months or years to come, we look forward to helping startup organizations and new programs work toward creative solutions for the problems of the future.
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"When we review proposals for grants from Community Funds, the discretionary funds of The Community Foundation, we focus on results that will make life better in our community."
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Click here for a PDF version of the "Community Counts" report through Region 2020.
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