Community Investment

A Prosperous Greater Cincinnati Region
“Building a More Prosperous Greater Cincinnati Region” is our goal when we invest in our community. As the Tristate region’s community foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation is uniquely positioned to provide long-term leadership to make this goal a reality. As a permanent endowment, we can invest time and resources over years, even generations, to lead on longstanding issues and emerging concerns.

Our Community Investment Framework works to ensure Thriving People and Vibrant Places by focusing on the following areas:

Thriving People         

  

Vibrant Places
 



              

How we work


Responsive Grants meet the changing needs of our community, as identified by our region’s nonprofits organizations.

Collaboration allows us to work with a variety of partners on large-scale issues, such as comprehensive community development.

Community Leadership describes our efforts to be a catalyst and convener of people, institutions and resources to make lasting change on the community’s most critical challenges, such as education.

Collective Impact invests in “backbone” organizations and uses shared measures of success to address big, complex problems and accelerate the pace of change. 

Impact Investing uses charitable assets for projects that can generate revenue as well as direct community benefits. GCF now offers this opportunity to donor advised funds on selected projects, allowing them to “recycle” their charitable funds to make a difference.

Real Stories

Connecting People and Places
Monica MitchellVolunteer Dr. Monica Mitchell talks about Thriving People, Vibrant Places.