California

The Chula Vista Community Foundation (CVCF), a regional affiliate of San Diego Foundation, has announced the availability of grant funding for projects focused on education. CVCF will award $10,000 to $50,000 to education projects that support the Chula Vista community. The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. on November 22.

Iowa

The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $2.4 million in support of 313 nonprofit organizations. The awards include Competitive Donor-Advised Fund grants, as well as distributions from donor-advised, designated, scholarship, and agency funds. Recipients include Orchestrate Iowa, Indian Creek Nature Center, the Arc of East Central Iowa, and YPN.

Kansas

Hutchinson Community Foundation has announced that it awarded Fund for Reno County grants totaling $14,600 to three nonprofit organizations in September. The recipients are Arlington Community PRIDE Association, Hand Up, Inc., and the Kansas Children’s Service League.

Maryland

The Community Foundation of Frederick County has announced grants totaling more than $539,000 in support of 21 area nonprofits focused on supporting families with children, preparing for a growing aging population, and responding to substance use disorder.. Recipients include Advocates for Homeless Families, Center for Adoption Support and Education, Mission of Mercy, and Daybreak Adult Day Services.

Massachusetts

The Cambridge Community Foundation has announced that it will invest $1.122 million in its Food Access and Security Initiative to strengthen the emergency food system in partnership with seven local nonprofits. The initiative is the first step in the foundation’s new strategic plan aimed at solving some of Cambridge’s most entrenched social problems. Recipients include Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Food for Free, Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, and Rescuing Leftover Cuisine.

North Carolina

The Winston-Salem Foundation has announced that its Black Philanthropy Initiative (BPI) will receive a $300,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation toward its campaign to support local Black communities. In the fall of 2022, BPI announced its goal of raising at least $2 million over three years to help increase its annual grantmaking, with remaining funds to be added to its endowment to ensure future funding. To date, BPI has raised more than $1.5 million toward its goal. Since its founding in 2003, BPI has awarded more than $800,000 to local organizations working to transform lives and build a better future for Black residents.

Ohio

The Dayton Foundation has announced grants totaling $104,850 to 13 charitable organizations as part of its Basic Human Needs Grants program. Recipients include Christ Child Society of Dayton, Helping Our Families, New Life Furniture Bank, and Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Rhode Island

In an effort to expand its services for donors, the Rhode Island Foundation (RIF) has announced the addition of Adrienne Adeyemi as a senior philanthropic advisor and Adrian C. Bonéy as co-funding and donor-advised fund officer. Adeyemi most recently served as donor relations officer for major gifts at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England; she previously was a major gifts officer at the Rhode Island School of Design and program director of grants to organizations at the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. Bonéy had served since 2007 as a grant programs officer on RIF’s Grants and Community Investments team.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation has announced that Kris Hermanns is leaving at the end of December after five years as an executive advisor. To help in the transition, Hermanns will serve in a part-time consultative capacity supporting the organization’s executive team as it plans for the next chapter of growth.