Community Foundation of Northern Nevada

The Community Foundation assets consist of invested donor-advised funds, scholarships, designated and legacy funds, and the Northern Nevada Endowment. Launched in 2016, the Northern Nevada Endowment is an unending permanent charitable resource for Nevada. Gifts of all sizes are pooled and invested to address widespread community challenges and emergency relief for generations to come. The Community Foundation serves as a community leader, a permanent charitable resource, and a philanthropic advisor in charitable giving. Our core work on behalf of our donors and the communities of Northern Nevada is philanthropic advising, grantmaking, charitable asset investment management, leadership, and community engagement. **The Community Foundation of Northern Nevada Mission** To strengthen our community through philanthropy and leadership by connecting people who care with causes that matter. **Six Core Values Guide Community Foundation Board and Staff** We are committed to valuable service to our community. We foster innovation, collaboration, and imagination. We are an engaged community leader and ally. We seek to develop and influence philanthropic leaders. We value inclusiveness, diversity, and equity. Our organization is characterized by a generous and caring spirit. We are responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us. We operate with integrity, transparency, and credibility. We are a results-oriented organization, committed to excellence. **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion** The Community Foundation’s mission is one of connection to the community, to its residents and to its needs. The Northern Nevada community encompasses of all of us living here– all people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities. Every one of us matters. How we relate to each other, treat each other, and live together with the purpose of strengthening our common community has come to the forefront of our awareness. As our country and community confront injustice and discrimination, a national conversation is growing about equity and inclusion. This conversation spread to our June 2020 board meeting prompting us to form a Board Task Force to identify an effective approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Community Foundation Board DEI Task Force has ongoing conversations about our goals regarding the Community Foundation with diversity, equity, and inclusion. A Board and Staff assessment, completed in the summer of 2020, marked the start of a journey to improve the Community Foundation. We continue by collecting data such as board and staff demographic information of grantees and scholarship recipients. We will reach out to establish relationships with new groups such as neighborhood associations, business associations, and clubs, to broaden the diversity of our experience and perspective and expand our service in our community. As we learn and deepen our engagement with Northern Nevada communities, new options for growth will present themselves. We do this to help strengthen our community, a community that belongs to everyone – all people of all backgrounds,