Community Fund

Dozens of nonprofits work hard to improve Eau Claire’s quality of life. How do you choose which one to support? With the Community Fund, you don’t have to! A gift to this fund helps ECCF fund grant requests that address our area’s most pressing needs, whatever they may be.

The Community Fund supports grants to nonprofits in all four ECCF giving categories: Create Culture, Form Futures, Give Green, and Offer Opportunities. Because it’s unrestricted, grant reviewers can draw upon it to recommend grants to a variety of worthy organizations for approval by ECCF’s Board of Trustees during our annual Community Grant Cycle.

Gifts to the Community Fund not only help ensure that all Eau Claire residents have what they need to stay safe and healthy; they also help make Eau Claire the diverse and vibrant place we love.

Your Gifts at Work

Roundtable Revival

by Don Mowry, Roundtable Revival Board Member

The evidence is in—if a community shifts its focus from controlling and sanctioning people who have served their time in jail or prison to extending needed supportive services, communities can aid reintegration and increase their odds of success.

Roundtable Revival is an emerging, reentry-focused nonprofit with this mission: To cultivate inclusive, accepting, and empowering spaces for people who face barriers due to a conviction history. We also believe that it’s critical to bring everyone to the table to create positive, supportive recovery and reentry solutions.

From the very beginning, we’ve made the integration of people who have lived experience with the criminal justice system a foundation for the board, staff, and volunteers who serve as peer mentors. In the fall of 2022, we’re starting our first program, an intensive, 13-week mentoring program that matches trained volunteer mentors and peer mentors with individuals who are trying to be successful after a period of incarceration.

We’re initially focusing on women because their reentry needs are often overlooked. We’ll be adding a second site for men in the spring of 2023.

“It’s critical to bring everyone to the table to create positive, supportive recovery and reentry solutions.”

(Since Inception)

25YEARS O F IMPACT COMMUNITY FUND $441,880

Total Donations Received $319,648 Grants Distributed

140 Grants to Nonprofits