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WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY

We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people in Elkhart County through philanthropic giving, community engagement, and strategic partnerships.

EVENTS

Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Managing Challenging Employees: Clarity, courage, and care in leading people
April 1 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Managing people is one of the most complex—and consequential—parts of nonprofit leadership. In mission-driven organizations, employee challenges are rarely about motivation or goodwill. More often, they grow out of unclear expectations, competing priorities, communication breakdowns, or issues that linger too long without being addressed. This interactive workshop is designed for nonprofit leaders who want practical tools to navigate difficult employee situations with confidence and clarity. Rather than focusing on “fixing” Read More »

STORIES OF IMPACT

The Firehouse Family Gives Back

How the Wortingers’ gift is helping young firefighters find their calling in Goshen Chuck Wortinger remembers what it was like growing up as the son of a Goshen firefighter. His dad, Floyd “Bud” Wortinger, took them to every parade. His mom, Mabel, would make meals and take them to Goshen Fire Department’s Central Station along Third Street. He was accustomed to his father working 24 hours on and then being home for 24 hours. If he misbehaved on the day his father was working, his mom took care of disciplining him. “That was our life,” Chuck says. His family wasn’t Read More »

The Survivors’ Gift

Honoring Sang Brooks’ resilience by opening doors for students to pursue education Sang Pyong Brooks was a survivor. She never talked much about what she saw as a 7-year-old girl in Seokdal, South Korea. On a December day in 1949, soldiers came to her village of 98 people. Her mother hid her under her kimono as soldiers shot and killed the women and babies in the village. A bayonet barely missed Sang under the dress. When 46 men and children came back from school in a nearby village, the soldiers killed them too and Sang escaped again as people around Read More »

Jim Siegmann’s Enduring Gifts

Jim’s heart for people shaped his work, his giving, and the legacy he leaves behind Jim Siegmann used to say he had the best job in the world. As a program officer for the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, he met with people who worked at nonprofits in Elkhart County, constantly learning about them, but also supporting them. He’d been a printer, owning and operating Siegmann Printing Co. from 1967 to 2003 and also Impressions, Inc. From a shop along Main Street in Goshen, he was in a service business and then he transitioned to the Community Foundation for a Read More »

INSPIRE GOOD

INSPIRE GOOD

WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY

EVENTS

Managing Challenging Employees: Clarity, courage, and care in leading people

STORIES OF IMPACT

The Firehouse Family Gives Back

The Survivors’ Gift

Jim Siegmann’s Enduring Gifts

INITIATIVES