The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington has changed the way it does business in order to get more money to more nonprofit agencies across Southwest Washington.
“We used to have two funds that were geographically based,” said spokesman Maury Harris. There was a Cowlitz Community Fund and a separate Community Giving Fund for Clark and Skamania counties, he said. But now, the Community Foundation has instead decided to focus on program areas and needs instead of county boundaries.
“We’ll have one program that covers the entirety of Southwest Washington,” Harris said, and any nonprofit or jurisdiction in the three-county area can apply based on what it’s doing and why that’s important, instead of where it’s located.
Within that overarching program, there are new and different sorts of grants to apply for, Harris said. These include: