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
Center for Servant Leadership, Philippines
Greetings from the Center for Servant Leadership, Philippines! It is my joy to share with you some of the small steps we have taken in trying to create a true community here at Mindoro. Our two-year journey with you has been a wonderful experience. It is heartbreaking to leave the Ballasts, who have truly become…
New Playhouse at the Collegium!
Recently the Center for Sharing was blessed to receive a donation of a playhouse on behalf of the Tierra Vida Community, which is located right next to our offices, thanks to the generosity of GESA credit union, Habitat for Humanit and Tri-Tech Skills Center, who built the playhouse and helped set it up. We’re excited to have…
A Medical Brigade and Haircuts
The young women of CDC are in the process of becoming servant leaders in their communities. Part of training to become a servant leader involves service, not only to family and friends, but also to the community. The 14th of May four of the young women from CDC, Gaby, Aurora, Xochitl and Aurora visited the…
Pong sends news from Mindoro
Pong Dolojan, Director of Mindoro Bible College, in the Philippines, is an alumni of two servant leadership courses we presented there in 2008 and 2009. During our course, Pong and the rest of the SL class participants were sent out into their neighborhood to meet their neighbors, many of whom are desperately poor. Out of…
How do you build a better society?
Robert Greenleaf wrote that caring for persons, the more able and less able serving each other, is the rock upon which a good society is built. Implied here are images of belonging, participation, sharing your gifts and talents with others (according to unique capacities and resources available) and receiving the benefits from others sharing theirs…
Servant Leadership Global Institute
The Center for Sharing recently invited guests from Kenya, Mexico and locally to meet and discuss how Servant Leadership is making an impact on their lives and the work they are doing. Here are a few of the exciting things we learned—A full report is available upon request. Participation in a Servant Leadership class changed…
CFS hosts Partners Worldwide and Co-Serve
February 2011 was a remarkable month in the life of the Center For Sharing. In addition to the Global Institute we co-hosted with Vista Hermosa Foun-dation, we also had visits from two other NGO partners. We share a vision to raise up indige-nous leaders to make an impact in society as they lead by serving…
A Visit to el Centro de Compartimiento
Things seem to be going very well at CDC as we enter the fifth year since the birth of the dream for a community in which girls could live and study while learning about themselves and the greater community through community service. Glenn, Cheryl and Luke recently returned from a five-day trip to Juchitán, Oaxaca….
SLS In Mindoro Bible College
Mindoro Bible College, The Philippines Servant Leadership School Report April 3-May 2, 2008 The goal of Christian literacy of the word should be to equip everyday disciples to overcome their sense of disempowerment and denial in order to engage in the work of mercy and service, advocacy, community-building and social reconstruction.” Ched Meyer, The Clergy…
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