Community Impacts

Trust is Our Greatest Currency!

Our community’s most impactful resource is not money. It is changemakers like you. Changemaking is not an ethereal, undefined concept. It is a set of values, practices, and skills learned over time: empathy, the courage to speak up and engage, and the practice of giving whether it be time, ideas, or money.

JCF serves as a platform for changemakers to be informed and strategic. We want you – altogether as a community – to make the greatest impact because you are connected and collaborative. One person’s actions amplify into group action, which turns into a mighty movement to address unmet needs.

2021 Community Impacts

• COVID Response & Recovery: Donors contributed an additional $245,000, 100% of which was allocated to local nonprofits, including $100,000 to arts and culture organizations.
• Affordable Housing: Anonymous donors worked through JCF to provide $100,000 to Peter’s Place emergency shelters and $70,000 to Housing Solutions Network and its Share Our Spaces campaign.
• Racial Justice: Black Lives Matter and Jefferson Land Trust connected through JCF to support the start-up of Usawa Consulting and their new 16-week Racial Justice Literacy Workshop in which over 20 local nonprofits participated.
• Economic Development: North Olympic Development Coalition and local makers came together through JCF to explore a new Creative Entrepreneurship Network, to find ways we might build our economy back with less dependence on tourism and higher wage jobs for the next generation.
• Education: When Chimacum and Port Townsend school districts wanted to explore ways they could deepen collaboration and find efficiencies, JCF funded the project.