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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.

Housing & Infrastructure

  • South City CDC

    Building housing, healing, and economic opportunity for women and families in transition. create safe, affordable, and dignified communities where.

  • Operation Taking Back 901

    Empowering Shelby County youth and families through education, economic opportunity, and community-led support.

  • Persevere

    Empowering people to persevere through mentorship and life skills that build resilience, confidence, and a path forward.

  • Power Center CDC

    Restoring the social, economic, and spiritual fabric of Memphis through community empowerment that builds pride, purpose, and hope.

  • National Offender ReEntry Association

    Reducing recidivism by connecting returning citizens to apprenticeships, jobs, and education that build stable futures and dignity.

  • Neighborhood: Count It Up, Build It Up, Inc

    Expanding healthy, affordable housing for underserved households through outreach, education, and development that supports stability and pride.

  • New Genesis Homeless, Inc

    Providing emergency assistance, transitional housing, and work programs in Memphis so people regain stability, dignity, and a fresh start.

  • Nurse-Family Partnership

    Strengthening families by pairing first-time moms with nurses for trusted support from pregnancy through a child’s early years.

  • Memphis Metropolitan Land Bank Authority

    Revitalizing Memphis neighborhoods by acquiring blighted properties and returning them to productive, community-serving use.