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Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families living in low-income communities in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware by concentrating resources on comprehensive, neighborhood-based economic and community development initiatives. We award Neighborhood Planning Grants and Neighborhood Implementation Grants to support long-term, resident-driven neighborhood revitalization. See the counties we serve.
Note: We are not accepting new grant applications at this time. Please check back for future updates.
Neighborhood Planning Grants
Neighborhood Planning Grants are designed to help create a comprehensive neighborhood plan for a neighborhood. These grants support direct expenses that are essential to the planning process such as:
- Planning consultants and staff
- Outreach and neighborhood organizing functions
- Community meetings and advisory group development
Grant size
Grants range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Applications
The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation is not accepting new grant proposals at this time. Please check back for future updates.
Neighborhood Implementation Grants
Neighborhood Implementation Grants support comprehensive community development projects that target specific neighborhoods. The community development project typically based on a resident-driven neighborhood plan and is used for program costs only. It doesn't provide funding for deficits, general operating costs, or bricks-and-mortar capital development.
Grant size
- Single grantees. Grants range from $100,000 to $750,000 and are disbursed over 5 years.
- Collaboratives. Grants range from $100,000 to $1.25 million, and are disbursed over 5 years. Learn more about applying as a collaborative (PDF).
Applications
The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation is not accepting new grant proposals at this time. Please check back for future updates.
Neighborhood Implementation Renewal Grants
Neighborhood Implementation Renewal Grants (NIRGs) are designed to help Regional Foundation Implementation Grantees continue momentum in their comprehensive neighborhood revitalization initiatives for sustainability and long-term impact. These grants are awarded on a highly competitive basis to implementation grantees who are close to completion of their initial implementation grant.
Grant size
Each Implementation Grantee is eligible for 1 renewal grant at up to $500,000 for a single grantee and $825,000 for a collaborative. The grant is disbursed over a 5 year period.
Applications
The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation is not accepting new grant proposals at this time. Please check back for future updates.
Community Development Corporation
The Regional Community Development Corporation (CDC), is a not-for-profit organization associated with Wells Fargo that seeks to improve the quality of life for low-income individuals and communities in New Jersey, Delaware, and Eastern Pennsylvania. The program makes investments, by invitation only, to nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses for select ventures that are designed to promote community- and economic-development opportunities for low-income individuals and communities.
Investment size
Investments range from $25,000 to $250,000, over 1 to 5 years.
Investment programs
- Indirect investments are loans that provide capital contributions to community development financial institutions
- Direct investments are pre-development loans for physical development projects in neighborhoods where the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation is already invested
Questions?
Please contact wellsfargoregionalfdn@wellsfargo.com if you would like more information on the Wells Fargo Regional CDC.
Our Board of Directors and staff
Board of Directors
- Peilin Chen
- Doug Dimmig
- Kevin Dow
- Craig Drinkard
- Robert F. Durkin
- Jonathan D. Encarnacion
- Wanda P. Hardy
- Sidney Hargro
- Joseph Kirk
- John Thurber, Esquire
- Christian Willauer
Staff
Aishah Miller, Senior Vice President and Executive Director
Aishah joined the team in November 2018. She provides oversight and management of the Foundation. Aishah brings a broad range of experience in leadership, management, and communications in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors as well as the community development finance industry. Aishah was recently a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She holds an MA in International Education and Economics from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from Williams College.
Lauren M. Mikus, Program Officer and Community Relations ConsultantLauren M. Mikus reviews and distills large quantities of data to inform the analysis of proposals, the evaluation of the investment portfolio, the advancement of lessons learned, and the increased awareness of the importance of this work on the lives of children and families. Lauren holds a MA from Carnegie Mellon University in arts management and public policy and a BA from Pennsylvania State University in integrative arts.
