Nurturing the roots of holistic wellbeing
Rather than focus on project-based outputs or services, we seek to invest in the holistic wellbeing of people living in vulnerable communities around the world.
Through our grantmaking, we prioritize community-led initiatives that seek to heal people’s connections to God, self, others, and creation. As communities embrace new mindsets about their own identity and purpose, and learn to steward resources in more innovative ways, new paths unfold.
We believe if you heal the spirit of a people, they will lead themselves
We believe that it is not simply lack of access to such things as education, healthcare and job creation that keeps communities from flourishing, but a much deeper brokenness of spirit evidenced by lack of voice, purpose, meaningful relationships, agency and connection. (See Theory of Change)
Choosing our Grant Partners
When exploring new partnerships, we use the following criteria in our evaluation process.
We focus on 4 geographic areas – Mexico, Haiti, Northern India, and East Africa – prioritizing community-based organizations in specific regions of each country that can be connected and learn from each other.
Our support goes beyond funding. We seek to be mutual partners, creating opportunities for networking and collaboration across regions.
We seek partners who share our values and approach to living and working in community.
We are place-based, prioritizing rural communities; we are faith-inspired, responding to God's call to service and justice; and we are healing-centered, prioritizing grassroots initiatives that promote healing and reconcilation.
If your organization meets all of our partner requirements and would be interested in future funding, please fill out our inquiry form.
Our Global Partners
Our current grantees work in one or more of the following areas of community development.
Stories
Changing Mindsets and Livelihoods in India
Inderpaul is a cotton farmer in the Vidarbha region of India. Due to poor weather conditions, he fell into heavy…
Combatting Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
In 2018, VHF hosted our first international grant partner retreat in Mexico City. Forty people from 15 organizations attended. Following…
We For Others: Mindset Change in India
When I (Joseph) joined Vista Hermosa Foundation as a Program Officer to steward relationships with partners in East Africa and…
Changing Mindsets and Livelihoods in India
Combatting Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
We For Others: Mindset Change in India
Find your Voice
Today, we find that nearly 30 percent of the migrant population in the United States is from Mexico. This means that almost 12 million people live here in the U.S. that were born in Mexico. They migrate north for a chance at a better life; a chance to raise their family with better odds than…
Meet Joe
Like my dad, I was born in inner City New York, where I, my parents, and my older sister lived. My parents had the best of intentions for our family when they decided to move us from the inner city’s bad happenings. My family traveled and moved many times, inevitably ending up with us living…
Daisy
“If I didn’t have the support I received through the Servant Leadership Program and from my parents, I think my story would have ended in tragedy” Meet Daisy! Sharing Daisy’s story allows us to highlight many of the Center for Sharing’s servant led communities. Daisy was born in Mexico and came to the U.S…
Glenn Cross: My Journey
I come from a family with a mother, father, and older brother and sister. As a child, I was taught the virtues of going to church twice on Sunday, once on Wednesday, and pretty much any other time the church was open. I felt guilty if I missed Sunday school, but on the other hand…
Blessed to Be a Blessing
It’s that time of year! The time when we as a nation reflect on what we have been blessed with. In an era where the world is in chaos, we have been so privileged to live in a nation where much of our basic needs can be obtained conveniently. There is much to be celebrated, and much to be…
Opportunity: Lizbeth Mendoza
When Lizbeth Mendoza moved into Tierra Vida (one of the center for sharing’s sister organizations), she had no idea what kind of an impact the community would play on her future. Lizbeth and her family experienced some demanding times after her father was diagnosed with cancer. Her mother worked overtime just to try and pay…
Trip of Perspective to Uganda
July 16-24, 2015 Those Travelling: Jermaine Broetje, Suzanne Broetje, Cheryl Broetje Purpose of Trip: to Learn more about children of war, especially child soldiers Wilberforce Onyango administrates for ALARM, an NGO working in Uganda. He was #6 of 14 children his mother was left with by a polygamist father. As a result of their destitute…
Visit with Mama Maggie
Our community was blessed by a visit from Mama Maggie this Fall. She is the founder of Stephen’s Children in Egypt and has been a special friend to us since 2004. Over the past 25 years, Mama Maggie has devoted her life to serving vulnerable children and families living in the slums and squatter areas…
Kenya Trip September 2015
Visit to SLEC, Kenya August 28-September 6, 2015 Traveling; Glenn Cross and Cheryl Broetje Notes by: Cheryl Broetje Purpose of Trip: To Visit SLEC, (a Servant Leadership Environmental Conservation organization CFS assisted in birthing as a result of the SL courses we taught in Kenya) and help evaluate where it is now at 4 years…
Growing
What would a community look like if it was built on the foundation of service to one another? That was the mindset behind Tierra Vida, a community birthed out of this vision. Since its creation almost 10 years ago, the development has grown into a flourishing community. Many of it’s first children are now young adults and…