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Putting Civic Hubs at the center of our small grants program – Trust for Civic Life Putting Civic Hubs at the center of our small grants program Over the past quarter, the Trust for Civic Life awarded $1. 9 million to 21 of our Civic Hub grantees to help us identify and support dozens of hyper-local civic experiments in their communities.
This marks an important shift in our Civic Experiments small grants program, which came directly out of what we learned in 2024. Last year, we distributed $1. 5 million to support more than 100 civic projects across rural America.
While most of these small grants were awarded directly by the Trust, we also tested a Hub-led approach with three of our Civic Hubs, where they sourced and supported experiments in their communities. These Hubs quickly identified creative, high-impact projects we could not have found on our own. Because of that learning, we put Civic Hubs at the center of the small grants program in 2025.
This year, we are excited to partner with the following Civic Hubs to find and fund the local experiments that spark participation across the country: Adirondack Community Foundation (2024 Civic Hub-NY) Athens County Foundation (2025 Civic Hub-OH) Black Belt Community Foundation (2024 Civic Hub-AL) Communities Unlimited: Lewisville (2025 Civic Hub-AR) Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque (2024 Civic Hub-IA) Eastern Carolina Community Foundation (2025 Civic Hub-SC) Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky (2024 Civic Hub-KY) Four Bands Community Fund (2024 Civic Hub-SD) High Desert Partnership (2025 Civic Hub-OR) Higher Purpose Hub (2025 Civic Hub-MS) Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation (2024 Civic Hub-CA) Innovia Foundation (2024 Civic Hub-WA/ID) Nebraska Community Foundation (2025 Civic Hub-NE) Pennsylvania Wilds (2025 Civic Hub-PA) The Industrial Commons (2024 Civic Hub-NC) Thrive Allen County (2025 Civic Hub-KS) Thrive Regional Partnership (2025 Civic Hub-TN/GA/AL) Thrive Umpqua (2025 Civic Hub-OR) Vibrant Hawaiʻi (2024 Civic Hub-HI) West Virginia Community Development Hub (2024 Civic Hub-WV) West Texas A&M University’s Texas Panhandle Community Resilience Corps (2025 Civic Hub-TX) in partnership with Amarillo Area Foundation
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