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WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY

We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people in Elkhart County through philanthropic giving, community engagement, and strategic partnerships.

NEWS

Now Accepting Applications

Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship

• Three Scholarships
• Four-Year, Full-Tuition Scholarships
• For 2025 Elkhart County seniors who will be first-generation college students

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EVENTS

  • Grants Made Clear: A Beginner’s Workshop for Nonprofits

    March 17 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

    Writing your first grant—or your first good grant—can feel overwhelming. This free, beginner-friendly workshop is designed to clarify, make the process more approachable, and make it more manageable. Led by Vonnie Trumble, program officer at the Community Foundation of Elkhart County and student in the nonprofit management program in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, this interactive session is ideal for new grant writers and nonprofit Read More »

STORIES OF IMPACT

The Firehouse Family Gives Back

How the Wortingers’ gift is helping young firefighters find their calling in Goshen Chuck Wortinger remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a Goshen firefighter. His dad, Floyd “Bud” Wortinger, took them to every parade. His mom, Mabel, would make meals and take them to Goshen Fire Department’s Central Station along Third Street. He was accustomed to his father working 24 hours on and then being home for 24 hours. If he misbehaved on the day his father was working, his mom took care of disciplining him. “That was our life,” Chuck says. His family wasn’t Read More »

The Survivors’ Gift

Honoring Sang Brooks’ resilience by opening doors for students to pursue education Sang Pyong Brooks was a survivor. She never talked much about what she saw as a 7-year-old girl in Seokdal, South Korea. On a December day in 1949, soldiers came to her village of 98 people. Her mother hid her under her kimono as soldiers shot and killed the women and babies in the village. A bayonet barely missed Sang under the dress. When 46 men and children came back from school in a nearby village, the soldiers killed them too and Sang escaped again as people around Read More »

Jim Siegmann’s Enduring Gifts

Jim’s heart for people shaped his work, his giving, and the legacy he leaves behind Jim Siegmann used to say he had the best job in the world. As a program officer for the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, he met with people who worked at nonprofits in Elkhart County, constantly learning about them, but also supporting them. He’d been a printer, owning and operating Siegmann Printing Co. from 1967 to 2003 and also Impressions, Inc. From a shop along Main Street in Goshen, he was in a service business and then he transitioned to the Community Foundation for a Read More »

INITIATIVES

Acts of Service Logo
Building Strong Brains - Elkhart County's Early Childhood Initiative Logo
Pumpkinvine Trails Coalition logo
Elkhart County Estate Planning Council logo
100 Women Who Care - Elkhart County logo
Elkhart Health & Aquatics logo