The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona helps caring people make our community a better place through philanthropy.
For more than 38 years, hundreds of individuals, families, and businesses have established funds at the Community Foundation, creating a family of funds that have granted more than $176 million. Together, our work touches every aspect of daily life, including animal welfare, arts and culture, community development, education, environment, health and human services and so much more.
Providing more than $10 million each year in direct support to charitable organizations that improve the quality of life in Southern Arizona through Competitive Grant Rounds, Donor Advised Funds, Field of Interest Funds, or funds designated to a specific organization in perpetuity.
We convene community leaders to address critical issues and develop solutions. For example, in 2011 the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona joined the Community Foundation in convening community leaders to examine the need for high quality, community-driven, objective data about Southern Arizona in order to inform grantmaking, organizational and community planning, and policy development. The result is the Southern Arizona Indicators project. With the help of many partners, the project provides data in areas that have been identified as key “indicators” of demographic trends and needs in our community through an accessible user-friendly website.
We are helping to build the capacity of hundreds of charitable organizations in Southern Arizona that provide services to those in need, protect the precious environment that has brought so many to this community, and enrich our lives through our diverse arts and cultural heritage. Through our partners, we promote training, education, technical assistance, and teaching communities to ensure that the charitable organizations that our fundholders support represent excellence in their field.
Supporting collaborative work to address critical community issues. Our six-year Collective Impact Initiative is supporting the ELDER Initiative to meet the coming demographic crisis by activating senior power and transforming senior services; and the Ajo Regional Food Partnership to develop the local economy and health of the population by creating a thriving food system out of a food desert.
Every community has its unique set of needs, issues and opportunities. We are strengthened by our Services, Collaborative Funds, Geographic Affiliates and Supporting Organizations. By working together, we do greater good in Southern Arizona. Learn more here.
Please contact Mary Louise Luna, Director of Planned Giving, at mlluna@cfsaz.org or (520) 770-0800 ext.7107.