The Raymond John Wean Foundation seeks to enhance community well-being and vitality through grant making, convening, advocating and providing leadership with a focus on economically disadvantaged people and neighborhoods. With deep roots in the Mahoning Valley, The Raymond John Wean Foundation directs resources to organizations that are committed to improving the lives of our residents. [...]

NeighborWorks America creates opportunities for people to improve their lives and strengthen their communities by providing access to homeownership and to safe and affordable rental housing. A public nonprofit, NeighborWorks provides grants to the 237 affordable housing and community development organizations that comprise the nationwide NeighborWorks Network. In the last five years, NeighborWorks organizations have [...]

The Kalamazoo Community Foundation’s grassroots grants are a part of an initiative called BetterTogether/Kalamazoo (BTK). The BTK Initiative was created to empower community members to cultivate social capital and make positive change in the greater Kalamazoo area. The following three components make up the BTK Initiative: Good Neighbor Grants, ChangeMaker Workshops, and Front Porch Grants. [...]

The Self Family Foundation’s grantmaking exhibits a strong commitment to the principles of asset based community development. The Foundation works in many ways to identify and mobilize the assets, gifts and talents of people, and to continually shift the community conversation from a needs to an assets orientation. The Self Family Foundation’s Civic and Community [...]

HandsOn Network, the volunteer focused arm of Points of Light, committed to providing small grants to resident leaders and volunteers in 2010 through our Neighboring initiative, which continues today. The success of that initiative surpassed the Hands on Network’s expectations as resident leaders in Washington (DC), Louisville (KY), and Macon (GA), created dynamic, critical programming [...]

Located in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada, the Hamilton Community Foundation began their original grassroots grantmaking program in 2002. The program sprung from the President and CEO’s vision that Hamilton be a model community where all citizens have input into their community’s development. Hamilton is comprised of 162 neighborhoods, 20 of which were found to have [...]

Better Together Grassroots Grants is a Humboldt County-wide program that is available to grassroots groups to advance their goals for their communities. The program financially supports projects that improve neighborhoods. Funded projects range from neighborhood park revitalization, to making a community meal, to planting flowers in community areas or removing an eyesore. The important part [...]

Since 1999, The Calgary Foundation has strengthened the ordinary bonds of neighbourliness and active citizenship through grassroots grantmaking. Neighbour Grants offers grants of up to $5,000 for resident-led projects that engage people in the well-being of their neighbourhoods and communities. Neighbour Grants offers in-person support to applicants as well as links to networking opportunities to [...]

In 2000 the Kellogg Foundation started the neighborhood program Yes We Can in Battle Creek, Michigan; one component was neighborhood small grants. Specific neighborhoods in Battle Creek were selected for the program based on economic and social needs. In 2005 the initiative was entering the second phase, which was to be characterized by more ownership [...]