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.
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.
Please visit our Apply for Grants page for step by step instructions.
Applications for fall 2024 are open now through Oct. 1, 2024 for Opportunity, Resilience and Belonging.
For more information, please email: [email protected]
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:
Alberta Fund
Anonymous Friend Fund
Barnum Fund
Bob and Diane Meierhoff Fund
Business Leaders Fund
C.E., Jr. and M.K. Fuller Fund
Campbell Family Charitable Fund
Carolyn H. Sundquist Fund
Carolyn Joy Seitz Family Fund
Cleveland Family Fund
Community Leaders Fund
Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Fund
Daniel K. Lew and Maypakou Ly Family Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Bernhard Boecker Charitable Fund
Dr. William and Kay Slack Family Fund
Erick Peter Person Memorial Fund
Fair Chance 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 C. and Margaret B. Hunner Memorial Fund
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fund
Kelvin Reeves Herstad Memorial Fund
Lakhan Family Fund
Levin/Goldfine Fund
Living Legacy Fund
Mitchell J. and Elva B. Sill Family Fund
Moline Family Fund
Ojard Family Fund
Pat and Carrie Heffernan Family Fund
P.L.B. Memorial 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
Walter and Irene Lundquist Family Fund
Weckwerth-Sampson Family Fund
Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund
William, Florence and Dorothy Burns Family Fund
William G.Stobel, M.D., Family Fund
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