The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties has announced the launch of its 2026-2027 competitive Community Impact grantmaking cycle, offering nonprofit organizations serving Palm Beach and Martin Counties the opportunity to apply for funding to support programs, operations and organizational growth.
Applications open November 2, 2026 and close December 18, 2026 at 5 p.m. Grant recipients will be announced in late Spring of 2027.
“Our Community Impact grants are about investing in the organizations that are closest to the needs of our community and helping them turn strong ideas into meaningful, lasting impact,” said Pam Rauch, Chair of the Community Foundation’s Community Impact Committee. “Each year, we have the opportunity to learn from nonprofit leaders across Palm Beach and Martin Counties, understand the challenges they are seeing firsthand, and direct resources where they can make a real difference. It is incredibly rewarding to see how these grants strengthen organizations and, ultimately, the communities they serve.”
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Grant: $30,000, Morningday’s first from the Community Foundation, to expand product distribution in Palm Beach and Martin counties
Team: 12 staff members and close to 200 volunteers last year across two warehouses
Warehouses: 10,000 square feet in Pompano Beach and 12,000 square feet in West Palm Beach
Over the last 16 years, 17 million pounds of over-stocked or returned merchandise that was once headed for a landfill went to a local nonprofit instead. That is what Morningday Community Solutions has redirected since it started in 2010, and its members have saved an estimated $20 million by receiving these goods through Morningday rather than purchasing them at retail.
Morningday’s mission statement is helping those who help others, and its members are other nonprofits, about 400 of them across Palm Beach, Martin, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, said Buddy Walck, executive director.
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Hometown: Houston, Texas
High School: St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton
University: Morehouse College
Major: Business Administration
Scholarship: Mickey Mandelblatt Memorial Scholarship Fund
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For most of his senior year at St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Harlem Stern did not know whether he would be able to afford college. His father has lived with Sickle Cell Disease throughout Harlem’s life, a condition that has meant frequent hospital visits, high insurance costs and periods without steady work.
Then, during Harlem’s final year of high school, his mother lost her job after taking extended unpaid medical leave, adding new strain to the family’s finances just as college costs loomed.
“Those types of things made it really difficult for me during that time,” Harlem said, “but that just motivated me to work harder for scholarships and really find any way possible to go to college and make it possible for me to get my education.”
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The Community Foundation will host the next installment of its Partnering for Good: Deep Dives for Professional Advisors series, “Family Wealth: A Hard Look at the ‘Soft’ Issues” on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at the Center for Philanthropy in West Palm Beach.
Renowed family giving expert Susan R. Schoenfeld, founder and CEO of Wealth Legacy Advisors LLC, will lead the discussion aimed at professional advisors, including wealth managers, CPAs, estate attorneys, and other professionals who counsel to philanthropic clients. |
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According to Schoenfeld, financial advisors are often trained to lead with performance, products and planning strategies. Yet some of the most consequential issues facing families of wealth are deeply personal.
Her program will provide advisors with a practical framework for becoming trusted thought partners to client families — helping them navigate not only the technical aspects of wealth planning, but also the family dynamics and values that can shape decisions across generations.
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