Our Program Director, Lindsay Marriott, (on the left) was recently an invited panelist for a special session on "Making the Case for Investors" at the National Alliance to End Homelessness annual conference. Issues addressed in the lively session included current funder perspectives on issues related to housing and homelessness and managing relationships with foundations.
David Krumlauf, chief technologist for the Pierce Family Foundation honored with the 2010 NTEN Award . . . read more
In the news... Crain's Chicago Busines
January 25, 2010
Is now a good time to start a private foundation?
An update of the Pierce Family Charitable Foundation's activities in 2009. The Pierce Family and PFCF Staff would like to thank you all for your continued support. (Download as a pdf)
La Casa Norte in the news, watch video
on Facebook
Past events related to the Foundation
Foundation Priorities
The Pierce Family Foundation supports nonprofit organizations providing essential social services in the areas of housing and opportunities for homeless people. We primarily support organizations in the Chicago metropolitan region as well as select projects in Michigan.
We place special emphasis on organizations that:
- Provide housing for women and children and families
- Address the needs of immigrant families
- Supply environmentally sound practices for food, housing and energy efficiency
We are particularly interested in helping organizations increase their effectiveness by providing support that focuses on operational needs and organizational development, offering grants and technical assistance for technology, strategic planning, nonprofit operations, financial management, fundraising, communications, board development and other areas that contribute to organizational stability and sustainability.
Unique to the Foundation is its commitment to underwriting the donation of organizational support services for its core grantees. Once an organization becomes a grantee of the Pierce Family Foundation, it is eligible to receive at no cost a host of direct services provided by a team of nonprofit support specialists on call to the Foundation.
We tend to fund community-based organizations in need of ongoing support to stabilize or grow their core operations, and organizations with less opportunity to secure funding elsewhere.
* All proposals are by invitation only. Unsolicited proposals are not accepted or acknowledged. Organizations invited to apply are chosen through recommendations made by the Foundation’s founding family, the Foundation’s professional staff, and its grantee network.