Northeast Iowa Funders Network

Mission

The NEIFN supports the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative as its singular and first project and seeks to:

• Learn more about the FFI initiative at the regional and community level
• Understand how each funders goals fit with the initiative Collaborate to support regional policy-focused approaches to meeting initiative goals
• Collaborate to leverage regional and national funding opportunities
• Support grant-making which reflects and leverages the work of the initiative 
  
   

Members

The NEIFN is comprised of representatives from community foundations in the region, including: Allamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Clayton, and Fayette as well as host foundation representatives in Waterloo and Dubuque.

The role of community foundation representatives is to become educated about projects and funding opportunities and then officially communicate the network's business back to the county boards as well as bring the county board's needs to the network.