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For over 50 years, the Community Foundation has helped people give with purpose, strengthening Memphis and the Mid-South.

We make giving easier and more impactful by matching your generosity with the causes and community you care about most.

We offer solutions and resources to donors and the professionals who advise them to help you give smarter and do more good.

We offer funding opportunities that helps nonprofits and students create positive change and build futures.

When you get involved with the Community Foundation, you join a group of people committed to Memphis’s future.

Learn more about the philanthropic hub that connects capital with the solutions that make our community thrive.

Community Spotlight

  • Four women stand outdoors holding packages from Sweet Cheeks Diaper Ministry, with more supplies on a table in front of them. They are smiling and wearing green clothing, suggesting participation in a community service or diaper ministry event.
    Community Spotlight

    Sweet Cheeks Diaper Ministry: One Mom’s Story, Thousands Helped

    We recognize the inspired leadership of Cori Smith, who turned her own struggle to afford diapers into a mission to help thousands of families.

  • The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis logo over a photo of Crosstown Concourse at dusk, with bold text in the center reading WE’VE MOVED—highlighting our temporarily relocated office.
    Community Spotlight

    Temporarily at Crosstown Concourse

    While we undertake a renovation of our building that will take between 18 months and two years, we will temporarily relocate to Crosstown Concourse during construction.

  • Two Memphis students sit at a desk in a classroom, looking at an open book together. One wears a yellow shirt and points at the book, while the other, in a black sweatshirt, listens and holds a pencil over lined paper.
    Community Spotlight

    Empowering Memphis Students

    Peer Power trains UofM students as Success Coaches to tutor and mentor Memphis high schoolers, boosting grades, graduation, and college readiness.