Join Habitat and Community Foundation at Montevallo house

Community Foundation staffers love to see our grants in action, whether it is a reading program for kids or a new building for UAB. On Saturday, Oct. 31, several of our staffers will join the great volunteers who have been building a new home for Debra Williams in Montevallo, supported in part by a grant [...]

Habitat builds more than just homes

What happens when you invest your own sweat-equity in building a home, for yourself or someone else? Somehow you build a community, something more than just a safe and solid structure to keep out the rain.
Since early September, Debra Williams, mother of three, grandmother of seven and devoted daughter to her own mother, has been [...]

Keeping Your Home Sweet Home – CBS 42

Explaining how your Community Foundation helps people during these tough economic times can be a challenge. This story by Anna Donaldson on CBS42 shows how a community makes a difference through the Housing Stability Fund.
Yes, the grants come from three great nonprofit organizations — Greater Birmingham Ministries, Hope House and Shelby Emergency Assistance – whose [...]

Crisis Fund grant illustrates long-lasting partnership

A $50,000 grant award from the Community Foundation recognizes the vital role of the Community Crisis Fund created by United Way of Central Alabama in response to the current economic crisis. This is just one more way that the Community Foundation and United Way have been vital partners for the past 50 years, including the [...]

Housing Stability Fund reaches out in hard times

In 2009, it’s the economy, stupid, to paraphrase an old political line. But more than that, it’s people, the people who, often for the first time, are coming to social service agencies for help paying basic bills. The Community Foundation responded to these needs in February by creating the Housing Stability Fund and beginning a [...]