The Community Foundation of Elko County received a huge boost with an unexpected donation of $35,000 from Nevada Gold Mines. Nevada Gold Mines is a member of the Community Foundation of Elko County Builders’ Club, a group of businesses...
Learn about the latest scams targeting our community at the Community Foundation Virtual Coffee and Conversation. REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM LINK Be part of the conversation. Participants will share tips and resources on how you can protect yourself, your family...
This week, four area nonprofits serving the most vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis received the first grants from the Community Foundation of Western Nevada’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. Northern Nevada HOPES will use their $10,000 grant to purchase Personal...
The COVID-19 Relief Fund advisory committee will initially focus grants from the COVID-19 Relief Fund on meeting the needs of healthcare professionals in Washoe County. As the number of people infected rises, health care workers on the front line...
In cooperation with the City of Reno, The City of Sparks, and Washoe County, the Community Foundation opened a charitable relief fund to help address needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Nevada. The COVID-19 Relief Fund will...
This week in its 22nd year, the Community Foundation of Western Nevada announced that more than $132 million in grants and scholarships were made since February 1998. In 2019, The Community Foundation Board of Trustees approved more than $13,253,000....
As the images and stories of devastation, desperation, and heroism across the broadcast news and social media connect Nevadans to our neighbors across the globe in Australia, we have been asked, “What can I do?” “What is the best...
The Community Foundation of Western Nevada is considering building housing on 68 to 93 lots in Churchill County. Before planning begins, community conversations will ask interested residents, “Would you buy a house with the Community Housing Land Trust model?”...
Reno, Nev – The Truckee River Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada has released a Request for Proposals to improve the water quality of the Urban Truckee River Corridor. The fund has $200,000 to grant to nonprofit,...
Depoali Memorial Fund grants were awarded in 2019 to five Washoe County Schools in memory of Kendyl Ruth Williams Depoali The Depoali Memorial Fund supports Washoe County schools in improving their classrooms to directly benefit students. Grants support innovative...