A Safe Place Receives The SBB Research Group Foundation Grant
"It is time for all of us to get involved," says A Safe Place's Chief Development Officer. "We need the entire community to stand up and support programs that fight domestic violence." The...more

Iowa West Foundation Board announces $3.9 million in grants
"We heard from so many people in Council Bluffs and surrounding communities who said housing is an issue," Brenda Mainwaring, president and CEO of the Iowa West Foundation, says in a press...more

Community Voices Have The Power To Change
Foundation: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
"We heard stories of struggle, but also voices filled with pride and spirit, that despite all odds continue to push forward and challenge deeply rooted systems of inequity." That's what the...more

Health equity grants awarded to groups helping low-income DC residents
Foundation: Greater Washington Community Foundation
"We can go all the way back to a period where Black people were here as chattel property and were unable to have any means of production for themselves, all the way up to redlining and the inability...more

Small House, Big Idea: JPMorgan Chase Grants $3 Million To MiCASiTA
"This is home. These are our people here. Our primary responsibility is the people of the Rio Grande Valley and we're committed to doing that." That's the pronouncement of Nick Mitchell-Bennett,...more

Rhode Island nonprofits getting $20M to combat food insecurity, homelessness
Foundation: Rhode Island Foundation
Thanks to a $20 million grant program from the Rhode Island Foundation, nonprofits in the state will be able to fight hunger, homelessness, and housing instability, the Providence Journal...more

Relocation Team Has Found Apartments For Remaining Forest Cove Residents
Foundation: Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
In December, an Atlanta judge condemned the Forest Cove apartment complex, ordering its 210 tenants to evacuate by March 1 and for the complex's owner, Millennia Housing Management, to tear it down...more

$7.5 Million Wells Fargo Grant Helps Increase Home Ownership For People Of Color
"For black people, there is a double standard," Monica Montgomery Steppe says. "We, as a city and as a nation, are facing it for what it is." The San Diego Housing Commission on Wednesday...more

Pope Revamps Fund For Rural Communities In Latin America, Caribbean
In September, the Vatican announced it was shutting down the St. Paul II-inspired Populorum Progressio Foundation for Latin America and the Caribbean, which had given more than $40 million to...more

Alliance of Milwaukee Non-Profit and Civic Organizations Announces $7.5 Million Grant
Foundation: Wells Fargo Foundation
Milwaukee is one of eight US cities to receive a $7.5 million grant to help low- and moderate-income families buy homes, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Wells Fargo Wealth Opportunity...more