Creighton Community Foundation — Nurturing Neighborhoods, Helping Kids, Building Community

Creighton Community Foundation
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We build stronger communities.

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.

SCHOOLS

SCHOOLS

embracing schools as resources

CONNECT

CONNECT

equipping with bridge builders

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

building strong communities

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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:

  • Hunger Relief Program: Help us serve over 450 families by packing nutrition-focused family food boxes or assisting with our drive-up distribution line. Your work ensures local families have access to the healthy, nourishing food they need.
  • Community Gardens / Community Spaces!: Join us in cultivating our community gardens! Under the guidance of master gardeners and farm staff, volunteers care for plants, tend to animals, and develop new garden features that sustain and beautify our neighborhoods.

And those are just a few of the recurring Saturday opportunities — we also coordinate event, school, and classroom volunteers throughout the week.

creighton community foundation

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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Programs

Community Works

Community Works

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.

Feeding Phoenix

Feeding Phoenix

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.

Fresh In The Neighborhood

Fresh In The Neighborhood

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.

FrescaZona — A Community with Food Access and Healthy Nutrition

FrescaZona — A Community with Food Access and Healthy Nutrition

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 Learning — After School In Community Action!

Service Learning — After School In Community Action!

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.

School Support

School Support

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.

FrescaGrow

FrescaGrow

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.

Capital Campaign
Thrive & Grow

Thrive & Grow

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.

Medical Food Box

Medical Food Box

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.

Our Toolkit

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.

MessageEverywhere
Messaging platform

MessageEverywhere

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.

Visit messageeverywhere.app →
ConnectWellness.AI
Collaboration in Community Innovation and Research

ConnectWellness.AI

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.

https://connectwellness.ai →
LUCOSE
Land use · equity

LUCOSE

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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Partnership & Community Development
Relationships

Partnership & Community Development

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.

Innovation in Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Innovation in Infrastructure

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.

Help us lift up communities, transform futures

Your gift powers food access, youth programs, and school partnerships across Creighton neighborhoods. Give once, give monthly, or Venmo us directly — every dollar lands here.

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Tax Credit Season is Upon Us — until April 18th

Make Your Tax Credit Donations Count

You Choose Where Your Tax Money Goes

Don't let the politicians decide for you!

Give Now to Creighton

100% goes to the Foundation and our schools — uplifting lives in Creighton neighborhoods.

File Your Taxes

Fill out 2 simple extra forms (321 & 322).

Step 4 — Get every dollar back. A dollar-for-dollar increase in your refund check or reduction of your state tax obligation.

We Love Our Schools & Neighborhoods Combined: up to $706 single · $1409 couple

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Teacher Thank You Program

Submit your pledge sheet and earn an Amazon gift card for 10% of each pledged donation. A personal thank you — no strings attached.

Fill Out Your Pledge Sheet

List the donors you helped pledge to School (Form 322) and Foundation (Form 321) tax credits.

Turn It In to the Foundation

Turn it in to your CEA Site Rep, or put it in your front office Creighton Community Foundation mail slot.

$141

Get Your Amazon Gift Card

10% of each pledged donation — e.g. $141 from a married couple's max $1409 combined pledge. Personal thank-you, no strings.

Creighton is here because of you.

Stay here. Help us grow. Our Thank You Program is one way we say what the neighborhood already feels — our schools are strong because our teachers choose to stay.

Across Arizona, districts compete hard for classroom talent. Our Thank-You Program is one of Creighton's answers — because the best thing we can do for kids is keep the teachers they know.
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