Targeted Initiatives

A membership-based program established to encourage broad intergenerational philanthropy through a participatory, democratic process where the members select one highly strategic project each year for a major grant.


The 21st Century Fund

A membership-based program established to encourage broad intergenerational philanthropy through a participatory, democratic process where the members select one highly strategic project each year for a major grant.




Good Schools for All 
A partnership of foundations, businesses, educators, and the community at large committed to developing innovative ideas and practices that improve student achievement.




Read to Succeed Buffalo
The Read to Succeed coalition consists of more than forty organizations who share the common goal of creating and maintaining a coordinated, comprehensive system that will address the literacy needs of Buffalo’s children and adults.

WNY Women’s Fund
A collaboration between the Community Foundation and United Way of Buffalo and Erie County established to invest in meeting the needs of women and girls in Western New York.