Social Innovation Projects
The future is already here - it's just not equally distributed.
The Forbes Funds supports innovative, collaborative, and sustainable approaches to solving challenges faced by our community.
We work with a wide group of community partners to help make sure those working to solve our communities' most important challenges get the resources they need. Through our capacity-building work with hundreds of regional nonprofits, we encounter common needs and bring together teams to create common solutions. Explore a sample of current and past projects are listed below and in the menu list at the right.
The Forbes Funds welcomes contact from agencies with ideas of challenges to tackle or solutions to scale. To get involved or to learn more, please contact Jayme Holloway.
Sample projects:
Cross-sector collaboration for new technology: Codefest
New Operating Models: I-Count
Collaborative fundraising for cause: Operation StrongVet Western Pennsylvania
Space sharing options for nonprofit events: Nonprofit Spaces
New funding for innovative solutions and social entrepreneurship: UpPrize