Simply put, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County is a charitable endowment to improve the quality of life for the citizens of St. Joseph County and their succeeding generations.
It accomplishes this through gifts from people who care about the St. Joseph County community. It invests these gifts forever and uses the investment earnings to make grants each year to local charities.
The number of entries and ensembles has doubled, a day has been added, the size of the jury has increased, an endowment was established through the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, and...more
The project, which costs an estimated $350,000, is happening thanks to a $150,000 Arts Everywhere Grant from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County and two anonymous donors. The electrical...more
There are two ways to register a child for the program: online at The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County's website or by filling out a paper registration form, which will be available at any...more
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Children in St. Joseph County can receive a brand new, free book through an early childhood literacy program that started Monday. The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County...more
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County landed it here thanks to 10 local donors who pledged to cover the local costs, including families, foundations, the Community Foundation's African...more
25, she'll give her first performance as the head of the studio, along with other performing groups from the School of the Arts, at Potawatomi Park as part of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph...more
Student volunteers fromNotre Dame walked door-to-door to promote the event and distribute information about lead poisoning prevention. The NNN received a $16,500 grant from the Community Foundation...more
... Heritage Foundation, Dorene Dominguez, Vanir Construction Management and various donors, including the Institute for Latino Studies, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, the Florence V....more
The cost of creating the master plan is estimated at $200,000, and will be funded by contributions from the library, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County and the City of South Bend. Once the...more
Director Diana Breden said the charity raised the $50,000 it needed to land a matching grant from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County — which was the final part of that campaign, as The...more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a 1970s book by author Paulo Freire, envisions a world not as a given reality, but as “a problem to be worked on and solved.” That mentality is often applied to the greatest social entrepreneurs.