Arizona

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona has announced that the inaugural Vital Nonprofit Bloom Award winner is Community Investment Corporation Tucson (CICT), which promotes economic inclusion for all residents of southern Arizona, regardless of socioeconomic status by leveraging financial and knowledge capital into the areas of the local economy where expansion of access is desperately needed. In addition, CICT works to help people in the community buy homes, access the education they want for their children, and get the funding they need to start, sustain, and grow small businesses.

California

The Orange County Community Foundation has announced the election of Anna Escobedo Cabral, Tam Nguyen, and Framroze Virgee to its board of governors. Cabral is a former Treasurer of the United States and later served as unit chief for strategic communications with the Inter-American Development Bank. Nguyen owns the American Beauty College. And Virgee served as president of California State University, Fullerton between 2018 and 2023.

Indiana

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, the Indianapolis Foundation, and the Indianapolis City-County Council have announced the fifth round of grantees receiving funding through the Elevation Grant Program. Twenty-seven grants, totaling more than $5.1 million, will be distributed to Indianapolis organizations. The funding will support local nonprofits working to address root causes of violent crime and comes as part of Hogsett’s three-year, $150 million comprehensive violence reduction strategy. Recipients include the Centers for Wellness for Urban Women, Mended Arrows Academy of Barbering, New Beginning Church, and SLED Corporation.

Kentucky

The Community Foundation of Louisville launched its Sparking Change Mini-Grants program in February 2024 and recently awarded its first round of grants to three organizations. The Sparking Change Mini-Grant program awards three $1,000 grants each month to organizations whose operating budgets are under $250,000.The March recipients include Elevate Louisville, Robert Jamison Ministries, and the National Parkinsons Institute.

Nebraska

The Omaha Community Foundation has announced the addition of Katie Vogel as a senior advisor. An attorney, Vogel is member of the Nebraska State Bar association and has served on the executive committee and as a past chair of the Women and the Law section.

New York

The New York Community Trust has announced that the Heisman Trophy Trust has awarded grants totaling $1.2 million through the Heisman Trophy Fund for Youth Development, which the foundation manages. The grants will help nearly 5,000 youth in the New York metropolitan area in the classroom and on the playing field. The funding aims to connect young people, many of whom live in underserved communities, with programs that promote academic achievement, develop skills such as discipline, focus, teamwork, and leadership, and make sports widely available to all young people regardless of athletic ability. In addition, the fund provided more than $800,000 in grants in support of nonprofits operating sports and academic programs in Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles.

Ohio

The Dayton Foundation has announced that it has surpassed $1.12 billion in current assets as of December 31, 2023, and is now among the top 4 percent of more than 800 community foundations nationwide for assets under management. In addition, foundation fund holders awarded 23,859 in grants and scholarships totaling $124.1 million in its fiscal year ending June 30, 2023–more than in any previous year–with an additional $90.4 million awarded in its current fiscal year to date. Since its inception in 1921, the foundation has awarded more than $1.37 billion to charities locally, nationally, and internationally.

Oklahoma

The Oklahoma City Community Foundation has announced the appointment of Christina Adcox as chief operating officer. Most recently, Adcox served as director of advancement and philanthropic partnerships at the Noble Research Institute. Prior to that, she served as the regional chief operating officer for the American Red Cross as well as interim executive director for INTEGRIS Health Foundation.

Wisconsin

The Oshkosh Area Community Foundation (OACF) has announced that it and the Webster Foundation have each awarded $750 to the Winnefox Library System for purchases of the Wonder Books for its circulation system to smaller libraries across the Fox Valley. The latest gift is in addition to the $1,000 OACF awarded to the library in 2023.