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INLAND EMPIRE FUNDERS ALLIANCE

The Funders Alliance is a collaborative network of organizations with significant formal grantmaking activities in the Inland Empire region of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties that have joined together to increase communication, coordination, and collaboration. Members include foundations, corporate funders, and public agencies that, together, have a unique opportunity for alignment, leverage, and strengthening our collective impact.

Southern California’s Inland Empire is one of the fastest-growing population centers in the United States. Located 40 miles east of Los Angeles, the IE is rich in diversity, culture, history, and economic opportunity. The IE is the New California.

The Inland Empire Funders Alliance advocates for the needs of the region and its communities. Through information sharing, regional networking, and strategic partnership building, the Funders Alliance is committed to partnering with the region’s 11,000 innovative, resourceful, mission-driven nonprofit organizations to help the region’s 4.5 million people fulfill their extraordinary promise and potential.

The Mission of the Inland Empire Funders Alliance is to
advance equity, advocacy, and systemic change in the Inland Empire by
uplifting the region’s assets and opportunities, and leveraging resources for impact.

Strategic Priorities 2020-2023

We have identified three guiding principles around which we align all our efforts:

Equity

to advance social equity and racial justice, including the elimination of disparities affecting communities of color

Advocacy

by and on behalf of nonprofits and the communities they serve

Systemic Change

to address problems at their roots and strengthen underlying determinants of well-being and flourishing

We enact these through three primary strategies:

Leveraging Our Resources
We will maximize our individual and collective grantmaking impact by internally sharing information and data on our own funding activities and strategies, and by organizing ourselves to engage in co-funding or collaborative grantmaking for shared impact.
Advancing Our Collective Impact
We will elevate the region’s needs, assets, and solutions so we can be more bold, strategic, and generative in our individual and collaborative action and that of other regional stakeholders.
Strengthening Funders Alliance Capacity and Infrastructure
To enable the other two strategies, we will build IEFA’s own capacity through effective structures, operating principles, resourcing, staffing, and ongoing self-evaluation for accountability, learning, and adaptation.

We are implementing these strategies through our current and recent initiatives:

Accomplishments

Our current and future impact is built on our past work and learnings. Click here to learn about major initiatives and accomplishments over our first 10 years

IEFA LEADERSHIP

Chair
Anita Dharapuram
VP, Community Consultant
Community Development Banking, PNC Bank 

Past Chair
Margarita Luna
Senior Program Manager,
The California Endowment

IEFA Project Director
Max Freund
Partner,
Praxsys Leadership
Co-Chair
Margarita Luna
Senior Program Manager,
The California Endowment
Co-Chair
Lina Paredes
Consultant,
Guillermo J. Valenzuela Foundation
IEFA Project Director
Max Freund
Partner,
Praxsys Leadership

Membership

Membership in the Funders Alliance is open to organizations providing substantial funding or contributions greater than $25,000 annually in grants, program investment, or volunteer hours to community-based and/or public agencies in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

For nonprofit organizations seeking funding, we encourage you to visit the websites of individual funders. We also recommend you reach out to the members of the Inland Empire Capacity Builders Network for assistance with grant-writing, fundraising, and other capacity building to increase your nonprofit’s organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and stability.

CONTACT US

To contact us, use the form below or email us at fundersallianceie@gmail.com

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