Introducing The Community Changemakers Fund

May 08, 2023

Palm Beach County residents, nonprofits, for profits and funders gathered on April 22, 2023 for a community workshop in which they learned from one another and shared their respective work shaping the culture of health throughout the county.

Participants celebrated the community-led work that resulted in the county winning the 2021 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize, and brainstormed ways to deepen and amplify those efforts. Attendees were invited to share their design ideas for a new fund at Palm Health Foundation – The Community Changemakers Fund.

This energetic gathering is one of many that will support Palm Beach County’s growing Culture of Health Network.

About The Community Changemakers Fund

This fund invests in new approaches to grantmaking, and in place-based practitioners, changemakers, and community organizers. Palm Beach County grantmakers are exploring innovative ways to support local changemakers; this fund supports that work. Grounded in the work that led to our county's Culture of Prize win, and recognizing that changemakers often don’t have sufficient investment in their personal and professional development, this fund will honor the work of those committed to community change by directly investing in them.

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