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At Creighton Community Foundation, we lift up lives across generations. How? By building vibrant places that surround kids with strong relationships, starting with schools, where kids grow, connect, and act. But it takes more than school to raise a child. It takes a village. We're in the business of investing in the people who make a village strong - the neighbors raising kids today and the kids who'll be raising neighborhoods tomorrow.
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in a unique, vibrant community setting? At Creighton Community Foundation, we welcome thousands of volunteers each year — individuals, families, friends, and groups of all sizes — all united in the mission to serve and uplift our neighbors in need. Whether you’re a first-time volunteer or a returning one, there’s a place for *you* here. No matter your age or ability, everyone plays a significant role in our community, from the tiniest explorers in strollers soaking up the energy of our events to active participants building brighter futures. Every Saturday, we offer exciting opportunities to get involved:
And those are just a few of the recurring Saturday opportunities — we also coordinate event, school, and classroom volunteers throughout the week.
Nurturing Neighborhoods, Helping Kids, Building Community since 2012.
CCF is a community-led nonprofit working in the Creighton corridor of Phoenix. We partner with schools, families, and neighborhood leaders to take on the most pressing local needs — food access, classroom support, and the relationships that help kids flourish.
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The one thing proven to create a difference in life outcomes for kids in need? One Adult Supportive Relationship — to protect, nurture, and inspire (Harvard Working Paper #13, 2015). While we focus broadly on developing school capacity and providing access to new resources, Community Works is our investment in the adults who show up for kids.
In our Creighton neighborhoods, too many families and kids face mounting economic pressure, with food insecurity and hunger as the earliest and longest-lasting signs of hardship. Feeding Phoenix stands as more than just a hunger-relief program — it is a lifeline that transforms communities.
In Fresh In The Neighborhood, we envision a vibrant community where open spaces flourish, bringing people together for connection, recreation, and urban agricultural learning. In areas lacking both fresh food access and communal spaces, we transform underutilized lots into thriving hubs of activity and nourishment.
In a community where fresh, healthy food is hard to find, FrescaZona is more than just a market — we're your trusted neighborhood hub for fresh, locally grown food from FrescaFarms, and SNAP/EBT benefits. Whether you need them (see FrescaSNAP.com) or just want to spend them, we understand the challenge of finding reliable partners for food security in our area.
Service is great, but through after-school service clubs and youth gatherings, we equip kids to focus on what makes them tick — people! With an eye toward their neighborhoods, after-school LEADer clubs rapidly take on community vibrancy projects, and pull people back into relationships.
Strong schools need strong communities, and strong schools make for strong communities. We help communities come together better around our schools — whether it's kids in service, teachers and staff, parents, or active volunteers. We serve as fiduciary sponsors for Parent Teacher Organizations and school-led initiatives.
Vertical farming embedded in neighborhoods. A production-first model for ending hunger — built on mushrooms, modular shipping-container farms, and the economics that let communities feed themselves.
A 1-acre therapeutic adaptive garden beside Larry C. Kennedy Elementary — the first fully-adaptive outdoor space in Phoenix metro, designed to welcome people of every ability.
A prescription-grade nutrition program for food-insecure families managing chronic disease. Partnering with ASU REACH and Creighton School of Medicine to treat diabetes from the grocery aisle.
Deep, patient partnership and long-term collaboration for community systems change. Strategic work on the inequities and obstacles that keep organizations from reaching the right people — and keep the right people from finding the organizations who can help.

Reach your community, cost-effectively.
A Foundation-built multichannel messaging platform for grassroots frontline organizations — reaching community members anywhere, at the lowest possible cost, regardless of the digital equity gap.
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Community-driven AI for health communication.
AI-assisted health communication grounded in the language of the people it serves, and foster actionable, integrated connection between community and systems of care. Built on MessageEverywhere, developed with and by community.
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Land Use Coalition for Open Space Equity
Co-chaired with Valley of the Sun United Way, sponsored by Maricopa County Public Health and Vitalyst Health Foundation, LUCOSE collaborates to foster community spaces through innovative land use in urban communities suffering from space inequity.
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Asset-based community development.
Deep, patient relationship-building across education, faith-based partners, healthcare practitioners, researchers, elected officials, and the neighborhood itself. The connective tissue behind every program — because durable change runs on trust, not transactions.
Technology, data, fiduciary governance, social enterprise.
A community-anchored operating stack that lets others — PTOs, coalitions, grassroots teams — move faster. Fiduciary sponsorship, shared data and tooling, and modest social-enterprise scaffolding that turns one-off programs into sustainable, interconnected systems.