Each member of the Circle invests their own philanthropic dollars into the program to collectively magnify the impact of their giving in our community. It is the ONLY Catholic granting giving circle in Arizona!
The Giving Circle will offer awards in these three granting areas:
1. COMMUNITY Forever Fund:
Supports organizations wanting to make capital improvements to their infrastructure or programs that enriched educational opportunities, leadership, promotion of Christian virtue, and academic enhancement. Organizations looking to make improvements to their music ministry also have granting opportunities available through the Community Forever Fund.
2. Sanctity of LIFE Forever Fund:
Funding opportunities for ministries and nonprofit organizations dedicated to the protection of human life - from conception to natural death. Funding is also to those organizations that help overcome addiction so individuals can live a quality of life that God wants them to have.
3. CARE Forever Fund:
Enables support for those organizations that focus on the Corporal Works of Mercy. Those include solutions to the issues of poverty, such as homelessness, lack of basic medical care, and provides for outreach and direct care for the poor. The Care Forever Fund also has opportunities to awarded to organizations serving vulnerable populations and addressing any of the following needs: food insecurity and/or access to healthy foods, preventative health and wellness, health education, access to health resources, and recreation and physical activity.
The Giving Circle seeks to fund project proposals that:
Organizations applying for a grant through the Catholic Community Foundation's Giving Circle must meet all the following eligibility criteria: