Our Community Partners

The St. Joseph Fund (SJF) collaborates with values-driven partners to build healing-centered capacity that advances community power building, equity, and systems change. We are motivated by compassion, kindness, and the desire to benefit others. At SJF, our relationships are not transactional –we don’t just write grants and expect a data-driven evaluation at the conclusion. Instead, our collaborative approach celebrates and centers community expertise, and we remain partners long after the grant period ends.

Our actions and decisions are rooted in love, and our grant partners are, too. We listen to their wisdom, understand their needs, and invest in their opportunities.

We collaborate with our partners to design opportunities based on two core components – healing-centered capacity building and grantmaking field learning.

Healing-Centered Capacity Building

We offer healing-centered capacity building through a collective care lens, creating nourishing spaces that center the well-being of community leaders. Through this kind of stewardship, we don’t just support the work – we uplift the people doing it, investing in leadership development and supportive structures that help staff thrive and sustain organizational health over the long term.

Grantmaking Field Learning

We’re reimagining what grantmaking can be – less extractive and more regenerative. We honor and work to strengthen the wisdom and practices already in place in community. While staying open and curious, we are continually exploring new ideas and opportunities that help shared power, healing, and possibility take deeper root.

We are proud to be rooted in love with our partners.