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
A Mother is Found
Thirty years ago, Gladys lost her son…but more than that, she may have lost herself and her family. She left everything she knew and began to wander from her native El Salvador, migrating north and living in the streets. She became a broken woman, and she lost all contact with her family and left her…
Sharing Bread with the Immigrants
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CDC: Challenges of changing a culture
This is a tale of two young women in Oaxaca who are struggling to decide if they want to follow their own dreams or give into the social pressure to marry at a very young age. This month one of our middle school students, Basilia, did not return to the program. No official word came…
Servant Leadership on the Job: Reed Bennett
Reed was a participant in a Servant Leadership class in early 2011. This interview was a follow up to Reed’s class to see what he’d learned and how he’d been able to apply the principles of Servant Leadership in the work he does as Food Safety Certifications & Training Manager at Broetje Orchards. What did you…
A Visit From Chile
The Center for Sharing recently hosted a group of Chilean apple farmers with an interest in how the Servant Leadership management philosophy employed by Broetje Orchards and taught around the world by the Center for Sharing works in real life. They asked a few questions about how the apples are produced and stored, but many…
Xochitl is first in her family to graduate!
From Kristin Lietz of CDC and Casa Isabel This month we had three of our students from Casa Isabel graduate from a level of school. Xochitl has the distinction of being the only member of her family, in any generation, to complete high school. Xochitl is the youngest of five sisters. Her father left the…
Spaghetti, Oatmeal, and Backpacks
By Ruth Ortega, Center for Servant Leadership, Philippines (CSLP) I marvel at the realization that a small child can bring so much energy in community. In fact, it is a child’s smile that is a source of life for us. It is genuine, it is pure, the kind of response of the heart when it…
Eneydi Graduates from CDC!
After five years being part of the program at CDC, Eneydi graduated from college and she now is ready for the next step in life. Upon her exit from the program, Eneydi wrote a touching letter about what she learned in the program and how CDC helped her grow into the woman she is today….
Visitors from Ukraine and Kazakhstan
The Center for Sharing was blessed to receive a visit from a group of future international servant leaders from Kazakhstan and Ukraine as a part of Coserve’s 2011 International Servant Leadership Academy (ISLA). The leaders spent part of a day at CFS and another two days touring Broetje Orchards and Jubilee Youth Ranch. We were…
Center for Sharing at SL Conference
Cheryl Broetje and Glenn Cross attended the recent Greenleaf Center 21st Annual International Servant Leadership Conference held in Dallas last week. Cheryl was invited to be the closing Keynote speaker of the conference. She did a wonderful job of telling those personal stories that have affected so many here and around the world. Many people…