Arizona

The Arizona Community Foundation has elected Armando G. Roman to its board of directors. Roman is CEO of AXIOM Financial Resources, Inc., a family office that helps founders of family-owned businesses preserve their American success story.

California

The El Dorado Community Foundation has announced the opening of the Caldor Fire Recovery Grant Application for nonprofits. Funded by gifts to the Caldor Fire Relief Fund in September, grants will support nonprofits serving El Dorado County who are working to help residents and communities recover from the losses and trauma of the Caldor Fire. The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m. PT on November 10.

The San Francisco Foundation has announced the launch of a two-year, $3.4 million initiative to respond to the needs of Black-led nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area. The initiative is aimed at strengthening the region's ecosystem of Black community organizers in the wake of a pandemic that has exposed deep systemic inequities in the Bay Area and across the country. Recipients include All of Us or None, Black Organizing Project, Hidden Genius Project, and San Francisco Black Wall Street.

Illinois

The Chicago Community Trust has announced grants totaling $150,000 to ten We Will Chicago community partners to help advance the City of Chicago's first citywide planning initiative in more than fifty years. Through the trust's Flexible Funding Program, each $15,000 grant will help the nonprofits engage and represent their constituencies in working toward the We Will plan's long-term equity and resiliency goals. Recipients include the Chicago Cultural Alliance, Endeleo Institute, North River Commission, and the Southeast Environmental Task Force.

Indiana

The Community Foundation of Southern Indiana in New Albany has named the inaugural grant recipients of its Quality of Place — Pathways to Progress program. Grants totaling $150,000 were awarded to the Jeffersonville Township Public Library and the Floyd County Parks and Recreation.

Massachusetts

The Cambridge Community Foundation has announced the winners of its third annual Imagined in Cambridge! Social Innovation Award and nearly tripled its investment in grassroots solutions to big social problems with a $5,000 grant to each winner. The recipients are Heart Jr.; the Triggered Project Presents Watch, Talk, and Heal; R.O.C.K.; Cambridge Bike Give Back, and GenUnity.

Michigan

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and its local and national partners have announced a new round of investments totaling $200,000 in technical assistance from the Community Policing Innovations Initiative, a program launched earlier this year in support of collaborative police reform in the region. Communities receiving support include Pontiac, Ecorse, the Eastern Michigan University campus, Ann Arbor, and Hamtramck.

Nebraska

The Omaha Foundation has announced that the Omaha Venture Group awarded $32,000 in support of four area nonprofit organizations. Recipients include Anastatis Theater, Go Beyond Nebraska, inCommon Community Development, and MOMentum.

Texas

The Communities Foundation of Texas has announced the addition of JJ Ponce to its CFT for Business initiative. Ponce most recently served as senior vice president of community development at Texas Capital Bank.

Washington

The Seattle Foundation has announced the addition of Trish Millines Dziko, co-founder of the Technology Access Foundation, to its board of trustees. She also is a board member of the Washington Technology Industry Association, a member of the Washington State Charter Schools Commission, and treasurer of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Links, Inc.