Our goal is for the communities that we serve to experience transformation in months, not decades. The volunteer infrastructure, combined with city partnerships, stable financial support, and a strategic geographic focus, enables us to help change the direction of neighborhoods. We have seen that with the right collaborations, we can create together what none could create alone.
Cities Strong Foundation builds an ecosystem of partners focused on strengthening key ZIP codes across Utah—aligning cities, volunteers, nonprofits, schools, and community organizations to create lasting neighborhood impact.
Volunteers engaged across myHometown Utah Community Resource Centers and Days of Service initiatives, contributing over 250,000 hours of community service in our partner cities. Cities Strong Foundation helps support the hard costs for individuals to benefit.
Neighborhood revitalization projects led by myHometown Utah completed through Days of Service improve homes, parks, and community spaces. Cities Strong Foundation helps support the equipment, supplies and other hard costs.
Students served through Neighborhood Hubs across our myHometown communities, providing ongoing education, mentorship, and life-skills programming.Cities Strong Foundation helps support skills based learning with sewing machines, keyboards and other individual needs for learning.
Students participated in the Leader in Me program, funded in partnership with FranklinCovey, helping build the next generation of community leaders. In 2026 and 2027, we’ll be expanding even farther thanks to the State of Utah.
Immigration legal cases filed through community clinics through NoMas, supported by 6,800 volunteer hours representing $178,000 in pro bono legal service. Cities Strong Foundation offsets the legal filing fees to help make this possible.
Households stabilized through $172,000 in emergency help with housing, healthcare, and transportation, with active case management and long-term outcome tracking by Good Samaritan Foundation funded by Cities Strong Foundation in partnership with Intermountain Health.
Together, these efforts demonstrate how Cities Strong Foundation convenes partners and mobilizes resources to strengthen neighborhoods and expand opportunity in the communities that need it most.
In November 2025, Cities Strong Foundation brought Dr. Raj Chetty to Utah Dr. Chetty is the Harvard economist who has spent his career mapping opportunities across America — trac
There’s a moment that happens in Leader in Me schools that teachers describe the same way, over and over.
Maria came to Utah fourteen years ago. She came legally, on a visa, with her husband and a daughter who was three years old at the time. They settled in West Valley City because so
Our goal is long-term impact in Utah’s most in-need neighborhoods.
While we are proud of how quickly we create community impact in Utah, our fundraising efforts and structure are designed to provide ongoing, perpetual impact. By creating strategic partnerships, we can make donor and grant dollars go farther. By mobilizing volunteers, we’re able to create a culture of support in these communities, which helps financial investments multiply.
Cities Strong Foundation prioritizes careful growth and community support in Utah. Our goal is to create upward mobility and neighborhood support that can be sustained long-term, ensuring that communities are truly transformed.
There are many ways to work with Cities Strong Foundation.
