Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Join us for Solutions-Focused Community Conversations: Living with Extreme Heat, a free webinar about how rising temperatures affect our health, environment, and daily life in the desert over Zoom on Tuesday, June 24th from noon to 1:00pm. Local experts will share how Arizona has built one of the strongest heat-response programs in the country and discuss solutions. We’ll also share ways to take action, including signing up for updates and supporting the Environmental Sustainability Impact Fund. Let's talk about how to survive the heat and protect our beautiful desert communities. Register here: cfsaz.org/heat

The heat is on here in Southern Arizona, and even in hard times, this is a community that doesn’t give up. We adapt, we organize, and oh yes, we drink a ton of water! That’s the vibe in the latest Steady Saguaro bulletin from our President & CEO, Jenny Flynn, and she shares a variety of ways to keep showing up right here at the link: https://lnkd.in/d_t2F57u

NEWSFLASH! Seven noteworthy journalism operations are recipients of CFSA’s Local News Initiative of Southern Arizona Grants. They are as follows: Arizona Luminaria Civic News Company - Votebeat KAWC Colorado River Public Media PATAGONIA REGIONAL TIMES Somos Tucson Tucson Sentinel Tucson Spotlight For those who aren’t familiar with our Local News Initiative of Southern Arizona Grant program, they are designed to help strengthen our community by supporting robust local journalism and news and information providers in Southern Arizona. With more journalists producing original reporting and community news and information, the people in Tucson, Pima County, and across our region can become better informed and rely on local journalism to hold the government and other institutions to account. For more on this program, read on here: https://lnkd.in/gxkG6bVb

TEAMUP GRANTS ARE OPEN! The Center for Healthy Nonprofits’ TeamUp program provides nonprofits with up to 20 hours of fully-underwritten consulting and coaching, aimed at supporting nonprofits at key points in their lifecycle. Application deadline is June 30, please apply here: https://lnkd.in/gSJj35zS

GRANT OPEN: Applications for the June 2025 round of South32 Hermosa Community Fund Grants are now open! Please proceed here for more details: https://lnkd.in/gScX_Fs Application deadline is Friday, June 27th at 5:00PM AZ Time.

LAST CALL: The Center for Healthy Nonprofits will be hosting ‘Ask an Expert: Sustained Collaboration – What It Is and How To Do It!’ here at CF Campus on next Thursday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, presented by Christine M. Thompson, Director of Arizona Together for Impact, along with nonprofit executive panelists from Roots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation, Easterseals Blake Foundation, and Children's Museum Tucson. RSVP today: https://lnkd.in/gZbmtQ6Q

BUILDING A COMMUNITY: Our Notable & Quotable nonprofit spotlight turns to B.O.S.S., or Building Out Safer Spaces, which was the recipient of a CFSA 2025 Comunidad Grant, a program designed to support emerging nonprofits operating at a grassroots level. “Receiving this grant means so much to us and the community we serve. It would help us keep doing what we love which is offering hands on workshops led by skilled professional WQTF folks for WQTF folks and making sure those workshops are accessible to everyone, no matter their financial situation. It would also allow us to grow our programming, support the behind-the-scenes work that makes it all happen, and pay our instructors for their time and expertise.” -Victor Valencia, Co-Executive Director/Co-Founder, Building Out Safer Spaces. For more on Comunidad Grants, follow this link: https://lnkd.in/ghR4B_hb

JOIN US for 'The Brand That Got You Here Won’t Get You There - A Mini Brand Clarity Workshop', hosted by our Center for Healthy Nonprofits, and presented by Raechel Larsen, CEO & Creative Director of Modern Bay Branding Bar. Rachel specializes in helping ambitious small business owners rebrand their companies. She’ll walk attendees through self-assessments in this workshop to determine if their brands still ‘fit’, like a good pair of jeans, over Zoom on June 10th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM. All are welcome! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gPjkxhr3

ATTENTION NONPROFIT PROS: The Center for Healthy Nonprofits will be holding their leadership development and skill-building training for nonprofit supervisors & managers, Leading with Purpose and Passion, presented by Kent Burbank, Founder and CEO of Kent Burbank Consulting and Coaching LLC, and Rose Snyder, ACC, CPIC, OCC, Director of the Center for Healthy Nonprofits & Certified ICF Coach, beginning July 9. The course runs 6 weeks, beginning with an initial session here at CF Campus with four Zoom sessions to follow, concluding with a final in-person session. The registration price is $200, with a limited number of need-based scholarships available, with 16 total seats available for the cohort. For registration and more information on the hosts & sessions, see the event page here: https://lnkd.in/gxjJ8sae Any questions? Please email [email protected] with queries.

ICYMI: Continuing our conversation from last week, KGUN 9 interviewed CFSA President & CEO Jenny Flynn for her perspective on the detrimental impact of proposals in the federal budget bill (aka ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’) on nonprofits across the country, and specifically what challenges they would pose for already-squeezed Southern Arizona 501c3s. Explore the article + video from KGUN 9 for more on this rapidly evolving story: https://lnkd.in/gg-WsJbw