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Community Improvement/Development

The Ford Institute for Community Building,  a program of The Ford Family Foundation, works to help community leaders learn how to implement local solutions based on principles of effective community building. This paper describes the development and work of the The Ford Institute for Community Building.

A working glossary of terms to help shape a common language for work in Community Capacity. 

This report highlights three philanthropic efforts to build the capacity of local communities in the West - The Ford Family Foundation’’s Ford Institute Leadership Program, the Northwest Area Foundation’’s Horizons Program, and the Orton Family Foundation’’s Heart and Soul Community Planning Program.

This white paper examines the relationship between encouraging sustainable communities and enhancing access to opportunity for lower-income people and people of color.

Audience: All Funders
Release Date: October 19, 2023

The Provident Bank Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2023 Signature Grant cycle.

News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Release Date: April 18, 2023

The Regional Foundation announced $4,750,000 in Implementation Grants to seven organizations throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

News Type: News
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking
Release Date: August 17, 2022

The Provident Bank Foundation awarded more than $620,000 in grants to 43 nonprofit organizations during its first cycle of giving in 2022.

News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Release Date: July 12, 2022

Provident Bank has awarded $475,000 in funding to five nonprofit organizations as part of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program for Fiscal Year 2022.

News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking

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