Holzer Family Charitable Trust invests in practical, visible work that helps communities respond faster, build stronger local leadership, and sustain public momentum around urgent civic needs.
Our work centers on four connected priorities: moving resources quickly, preparing community leaders, supporting public engagement, and strengthening the local networks that carry campaigns forward.
Each area is designed to be useful on the ground, not abstract on paper.
We provide timely support for transportation, event materials, accessibility needs, printed resources, volunteer coordination, and other near-term costs that can determine whether a local action happens effectively.
Priority goes to community-led efforts with a clear plan, a local base, and an immediate public purpose.
The trust supports workshops and briefings that help volunteers step into facilitation, turnout, communications, safety, stewardship, and campaign planning roles with confidence.
We focus on practical skills communities can use immediately in meetings, outreach, and public actions.
We help communities build petitions, public briefings, neighborhood outreach, and story-gathering efforts that invite more people into civic life and make shared priorities visible.
That includes support for message clarity, public education materials, and volunteer mobilization.
Durable change depends on trusted local relationships. We support coalition-building, chapter development, volunteer onboarding, and connective work that helps independent groups coordinate without losing their local identity.
The goal is to leave communities with more capacity than they started with.
Printing, signage, venue costs, and volunteer coordination support for community-led gatherings and campaigns.
Introductions between local leaders, civic partners, and volunteers so efforts are better coordinated and less isolated.
Messaging support and shareable materials that help strong local work reach more people with clarity.
Follow-up support that helps communities move from one successful event into ongoing organizing and stewardship.
The trust’s focus is local, relational, and visible in the spaces where people gather, learn, and act together.
We back work shaped by communities themselves. That means listening for local priorities and making support useful to the people already doing the organizing, hosting, and care work.
Rather than funding broad statements alone, we support the mechanics that make public participation possible: meeting space, materials, coordination, training, and follow-through.
Strong moments matter, but strong networks matter more. We aim to help each project leave behind stronger habits, stronger leadership, and stronger community ties than before.
If your organization, neighborhood group, or community network is building practical civic capacity, we want to hear what support would make the work stronger.