California

The San Francisco Foundation has announced that its Bay Area Community Impact Fund made a 10-year, $2 million loan to East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) to provide affordable housing for the Bay Area. EBALDC will use the loan to support predevelopment expenses for affordable housing projects over the term of the loan and is planning to build or renovate more than 1,500 affordable housing units for low-income households in Alameda and Contra Costa counties in the next 10 years.

The Marin Community Foundation (MCF) has announced the inaugural grants from its Homelessness & Affordable Housing initiative, which was launched after a 2023 survey pinpointed the issue—along with climate change—as the most critical to address. The foundation awarded more than $3.5 million in grants to invest in homelessness prevention services, increase access to permanent supportive housing and affordable housing, and support a countywide coalition to boost coordination and effectiveness. Recipients include Bolinas Community Land Trust, Bridge Housing, Homeward Bound of Marin, and Hope Housing.

Florida

The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties has announced a partnership with Resilia, a tech-for-good company. Funded by a donation from the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, the community foundation has gifted 25 local nonprofits with year-long access to Resilia, which provides access to tools and resources to aid them in raising funds, maximizing impact, and building capacity. The membership includes online training courses, one-on-one coaching for the entire nonprofit staff and board members, orientations, a learning platform completed with templates and resources, communications forum, and access to a funder database.

Indiana

The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, has announced that it will open a Center for Racial Equity and Economic Opportunity (CREEO) later this year. CREEO will focus on developing innovative research-based solutions and scaling exemplary practices to drive and track meaningful, systemic progress in advancing racial equity and economic opportunity both now and over time. Through collaboration and convening, CREEO also aims to influence policies and actions that build bridges and remove barriers to improve outcomes. In addition, two senior leaders from the Indianapolis Foundation—Pamela Ross and Rob MacPherson—will join the CREEO leadership team in senior roles as vice president for racial equity and vice president for CREEO advancement, respectively.

Massachusetts

The Cambridge Community Foundation (CCF), in partnership with the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee (CEOC) and More Than Food Consulting, has announced the launch of a three-year project to develop large-scale, coordinated solutions that create a food pantry system that not only provides food, but increases food security and economic stability through wraparound support services and systemic change. The project, conceived by CEOC on behalf of the Cambridge Food Pantry Network, has been awarded a three-year grant totaling $150,000 from CCF’s Food Access and Security Initiative, which launched last fall with an initial investment of $1.1 million to bolster the local food system.

New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (NHCF) has announced that Dartmouth Health and New Hampshire Legal Assistance have teamed up to support family health by identifying health disparities and addressing legal needs to improve health outcomes. Legal issues addressed by this “medical-legal partnership” may relate to a family’s physical environment, inadequate knowledge of or access to public benefits, emergency access to insurance benefits, preventing employment and education discrimination, and securing housing and preventing unwarranted and illegal evictions. Any of those needs, left unaddressed, can lead to a cascade of negative health outcomes. The partnership, launched in 2021, has been supported by grants from NHCF and the Couch Family Foundation.

Ohio

The Isabelle Ridgway Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Columbus Foundation, has announced two grants totaling $100,000 in support of organizations that serve aging African Americans in central Ohio. A grant of $75,000 was awarded to At Home by High to build organizational capacity and support operating expenses. In addition, the foundation awarded $25,000 to Catholic Social Services to support marketing and recruitment efforts for the Foster Grandparent Program, which provides local seniors an opportunity to combat isolation, contribute to the community by tutoring and mentoring youth, and receive a stipend for their work.

Wisconsin

The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region in Appleton has announced that the Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region awarded $10,000 through the fund’s Girl-Powered Giving initiative to empower local high school girls to call attention to issues affecting them directly and extend a helping hand to fellow girls in the region. The program is an immersive three-day experience that features volunteering, advocacy, and leadership development and creates a lasting impact through philanthropy and dedicated support for local nonprofit organizations addressing issues critical to girls.