The Community Foundation of Utah is a forum for Utah's social and for profit entrepreneurs to take calculated risks, gain new networks, and drive innovation – together.

• We sponsor the Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Utah was the first state in the nation to add this category to the international competition.
• We created the first 'speed mentoring' event where leaders from the state's most dynamic companies work one-on- one with nonprofits seeking insights on how to respond to community needs.
• In the fall of 2010 Utah's first Social Innovation Challenge will deeply engage teams of mentors in 'surgical strikes' on problems common to nonprofits such as cash flow, marketing to a new generation and revenue generation and sustainability. Each team will present the result of their analysis and implementation in a public forum so that all may learn from these scalable solutions.
• Entrepreneurs for Utah's Future provides early stage companies a leveraged opportunity to engage in philanthropy through gifts of options, warrants or shares and participation community involvement and networking programs.
• The E-50 is a peer nominated group of individuals judged most likely to have a profound, positive influence on the health and wellbeing of our state.

Our original research and public education efforts are a catalyst for social innovation and smart philanthropy.

• Our quarterly economic studies measure the impact of the recession on the state's charitable organizations and their clients. We conducted the state's first analysis of giving patterns of private foundations.
• Our web site publishes the latest research in the areas of philanthropy, nonprofit best practice, social entrepreneurship and the work of other community foundations each week.
• We collaborate with the state's academic institutions, associations, local government and foundations to encourage a fundamental shift in innovation, entrepreneurship and revenue generation in the state's nonprofit sector.

We help individuals, families, corporations and nonprofits build endowments.

• In our first year, donors have established Donor Advised and endowed funds valued at more than $1 million.
• To encourage their creation, the foundation establishes nonprofit endowments without charging fees.
• We serve as a fiscal sponsor for programs that serve the common good or meet an emergency need.