The Community Building Initiative (CBI) represents a new three-year, grant-making program on the part of the Foundation to invest in collaborative organizations that want to act to improve the health and quality of life of our community by engaging groups of individuals in transforming their own environments. .

Results of this initiative are intended to build upon current community assets by:

• Enriching and encouraging resident leadership in neighborhoods

• Promoting the use of principles steeped in fairness and equity in the allocation of community resources

• Fostering collaboration among engaged service organizations

• Creating long-term change, such as increasing the availability of solid sustainable jobs