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 reconciliation.
At this time, funding applications are available by invitation only.
Our 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
How to Heal a Broken Heart
By Luke Hallowell It was compassion week, and I found myself struggling to teach students to be compassionate. It’s one thing to know what compassion means; it’s another to actually display it to others. In one of our morning sessions, Adriana, a new staff member who just joined us for the summer, said she could…
Servant Leadership Development for College Students
Therapy for low trust cultures By Cheryl Broetje In 1990, Vaclav Havel, dissident and prisoner, who then became president of a new Czechoslovakia after the departure of the Soviet regime, spoke to the U.S congress. He said that their country had much to learn from the U.S about democracy, education, economics….but he believed that we…
Servant Leadership Alumni Survey Results
The Center for Sharing has been facilitating courses in Servant Leadership for nearly 20 years across multiple continents. We recently took the opportunity to survey a cross section of those participants to learn more about how those courses impacted their lives. The gallery below provides some insight into what the work and impact of the…
Servant-Leadership, Chickens & Transformation
By Cheryl Broetje Jane lives in a region of Kenya where a huge number of charitable organizations (NGO’s) offer services. In spite of that, very little change has taken place over the years! One day, Jane was invited to join a new group that was offering a 6 month course on the study of servant-leadership…
Toxic Charity–Service With Dignity
By Cheryl Broetje–The Center for Sharing Staff is currently going through the book Toxic Charity. If you’re interested in joining the conversation or learning more, please let us know by calling us at 509.546.5999. We who are drawn to the values of community and service are often willing to sacrifice time, money, and energy in…
Servant Leadership and Reflection
By Ryan Brault Recently my wife Jamie and I had the privilege of hosting a Servant Leadership Class at our house with a group of friends that was facilitated by the Center for Sharing. One of the things that this class did for me was to create some space, carved out from the rest of…
Gordon Cosby, Midwife to the Dreams of God
In the early 1980’s, I was exposed to poverty and suffering on a global scale. But, through several life-changing encounters, I found Jesus to be very present there! I went back to my church, with my heart broken, but also racing with ‘what-if” kinds of questions that I thought might help both the materially poor,…
Startup Communities
By Cheryl Broetje Start Up Communities is the name of a book by Brad Feld, about ‘building entrepreneurial ecosystems in your city’. He starts the book out by saying that startups are at the core of everything we do. We were all startups at our birth! Every city was a startup, as was every company,…
International Women’s Day is a Success
If you missed it, we’d like to give you the opportunity to relive the excitement of International Women’s Day 2013. In the gallery below are photos of the event. Thanks to the generosity of those who attended, the Center for Sharing was able to provide over $6300 to support the education of young women in…
Join us for the 4th International Women’s Day Fundraiser
We’re excited to invite you to the 4th Annual International Women’s Day fundraiser. For those of you who came last year, you’ll remember we had a wonderful time with three great speakers, and with your help were able to raise over $10,000 to help keep young women from Oaxaca in school! If you missed it, there…