Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Innovation Fund

Our staff have always been at the forefront of our mission to build innovative solutions hand-in-hand with the communities we serve.

When we received a generous unrestricted grant from Yield Giving in 2023, we knew we had a unique opportunity to invest in innovative ideas coming from our staff on the ground. That’s why we launched the Innovation Fund, providing seed funding of $25,000 and $225,000 to staff members with bold new ideas for how we can address the needs they see every day.

Hear from this year’s recipients, finalists, and others who made the inaugural Innovation Fund possible and check out how the process leveraged the firsthand experience of our staff working directly in communities.