Investing In Our Community

Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s goal is to build a more prosperous region where more people can thrive. As your community foundation, we are committed to connecting and supporting, inspiring and innovating and thinking big!  

Our role is also to align the goals for donors, past and present, with community needs and to champion greater giving to support projects, initiatives and organizations who make our region even greater. When this happens, we all rise together.

How we invest in our region 

Through the GCF permanent endowment, made possible by generations of individuals who love our community, we are able to invest time and resources to address long-standing issues and emerging concerns. Find out how grantmaking is changing at Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

As we look at the current needs of the community, we’re providing strategic leadership and a focus on two critical areas:

All-In Cincinnati

We’re excited to lead All-In Cincinnati, an initiative to develop growth equitable strategies to achieve broad economic inclusion. Partnering with the nationally recognized PolicyLink, All-In Cincinnati will develop a concrete plan to identify and advocate for regional policy to create conditions that benefit everyone, especially people in low-income communities and communities of color.

Tools we use to invest in Greater Cincinnati

• Submit a Funding Inquiry to better understand how you might partner with GCF. This simple online form is an easy entry portal for us to understand how your idea might match GCF resources.
• Targeted Requests for Proposals provide funding for specific areas of need including the Arts, Education, Environment and more.  
• Partnerships, such as the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation
• Regional funds: The Northern Kentucky Fund and The Clermont Community Fund
• Collective impact support to key "backbone" organizations in Greater Cincinnati to address big, complex problems and accelerate the pace of change
• Impact investing, using charitable assets to invest in projects that can generate revenue as well as direct community benefits
• Our Women's Fund, with a focus on women's economic self-sufficiency

You can help

You can be part of building a more prosperous Greater Cincinnati region. When you contribute in any amount to our Community Fund, you are investing in a region where everyone can thrive. 

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