Our Grantmaking

The funds will be made available over three years to nonprofit organizations with annual budgets of less than $2 million. In the belief that those closest to communities best know their needs, the Project will work withcommunity foundations and other intermediary organizations to regrant Project funds to 100 nonprofit organizations, and to create workshops, peer networking opportunities, and leadership development programs for other nonprofits and individual leaders. Each regranting intermediary will form an advisory committee of community leaders. Nonprofit organizations that receive funding will be offered some combination of general operating support, technical assistance, and opportunities to learn from peer organizations.

The Community Leadership Project is working with 27 intermediaries, which will launch their programs and select nonprofits to receive regranting funds. Many of these intermediaries have begun regranting funds to the nonprofit organizations.

Note: The Community Leadership Project is no longer accepting applications from additional intermediary organizations.

The Project aims to reach small and mid-size organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Coast, and San Joaquin Valley. The map below shows the targeted counties and the intermediaries serving each of these areas.

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