Community Opportunity Fund
The Community Opportunity Fund is a permanent civic endowment for our region. This fund is designed to support transformative, collaborative projects leveraging resources for upstream successes, building strong communities, and ensuring everyone thrives. Resources from the Community Opportunity Fund are focused on Opportunity, Resilience, and Belonging.
Nonprofit Partners: Please note that the Community Opportunity Fund application process is being updated and information about the updated process will be available by June 2025.
Please reach out to the Community Impact Team at [email protected] with any questions.
To view the most recent list of Community Opportunity Grant recipients click HERE.
Opportunity
Supporting upward mobility and leading to economic success, power, and autonomy of individuals over their own lives, particularly those that have the deepest need.
Resilience
Redesigning and building the capacities of organizations and systems to be better equipped to navigate shocks and stresses, and address the root causes of our vulnerabilities deeply tied to inequities.
Belonging
Making a place where everyone can feel they belong and are respected, safe, and able to thrive as part of the community.
Transformation
Collaboratively changing systems and creating upstream solutions for opportunity, resilience, and belonging.
Thank You to Our Generous Fund Donors
By uniting our charitable contributions, we can more powerfully and effectively address systemic social issues. Thank you to the following funds for making this collective impact possible in 2024:
Alberta Fund
Anonymous Friend Fund
Barnum Fund
Business Leaders Fund
C.E., Jr. and M.K. Fuller Fund
Campbell Family Charitable Fund
Carolyn Joy Seitz Family Fund
Cleveland Family Fund
Community Leaders Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Bernhard Boecker Charitable Fund
Dr. William and Kay Slack Family Fund
Erick Peter Person Memorial Fund
Family Service Sharing Fund
G. Kendall Smith Fund
Hazel B. and A. Wallace Niss Charitable Fund
Holly C. Sampson Fund for Community Initiatives
Hubert D. and Mildred S. Wheeler Family Fund
J. L. Kelly Family Fund
Jeffrey and Jill Widness Fund
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fund
Lakhan Family Fund
Levin/Goldfine Fund
Living Legacy Fund
Moline Family Fund
Ojard Family Fund
Opportunity Rising Fund
- Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Fund
- Ed and Jane Ryan Family Fund
- Fair Chance Fund
Robert, Gwen, Blake and Conner Erickson Family Fund
Ruth H. Richards Fund
Second Chance Endowment Fund
Smith Danielson Family Fund
Todd, Susan, Matthew and Hilary Johnson 2007 Charitable Fund
Weckwerth-Sampson Family Fund
Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund
Young Leaders Fund
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