The Community Foundation Alliance is a network of nine Community Foundation affiliates serving counties throughout southwestern Indiana. The Alliance provides management, administrative, and development expertise to our local affiliate community foundations, empowering each to promote philanthropy, build endowment, and improve wellbeing in our local communities.
The Women’s Fund Grants Program annually awards two $35,000 Impact Grants, one each for a program and a project, primarily focusing on enhancing the lives of Vanderburgh County families. Additionally, a $35,000 Focus Grant is specifically designated for initiatives in mental health. The grant program supports a broad range of causes including community development, education, health and mental health, human services, endowment creation, and other civic endeavors like arts and culture, environment, recreation, and youth development for program funding. For project funding, it focuses on capital projects and endowment creation. Key considerations for these grants include the demonstration of commitment to long-term planning, financial stability, sustainability, effective plans addressing identified issues, realistic evaluation plans, promotion of collaboration to avoid service duplication, preventive project methodology, and evidence of thorough organizational planning and management.