About Us

10 square miles, 10,000 kids, and 30,000 households in our boundaries. 100,000 households counting surrounding, connected neighborhoods. More than 2,500 volunteers annually, and over 20 active, engaged community sites delivering education, community services, community connection, and human needs. That's who Creighton is.

Creighton Community Foundation was established to support Creighton School District #14 and the communities within and surrounding its east central Phoenix boundaries. We labor to bring resources to bear upon life needs and whole person development of people and children within some of the poorest neighborhoods in urban Phoenix. We're in the business of building partnerships that transform collections of houses into vibrant neighborhoods of hope and opportunity. The resources we bring into a neighborhood start with 1 person - yes, 1 person - a catalyst who serves the sole purpose of connecting and working bring other partners into more effective work among the lives of that neighborhood.

We are faith-based and faith-partnered in many of our pursuits, and while seeking to engage in achieving better developmental outcomes for children, we seek to bring people into deeper relationships with our communities, and in turn bring resources and opportunities throughout our neighborhoods. Key partners in this work are churches and para-church organizations with hearts for the poor and disadvantaged, as well as our entire community of civic organizations and businesses around Phoenix, Arizona.

Of course we're more than one person, and the team behind Creighton Community Foundation is behind hundreds of points of community engagement, monthly service and community events, place making, broad systems reform, social enterprises, school social work and youth leadership programs, after school programs, and millions of pounds of food integrated with many different facets of community food security and nutritional health programming.

Creighton Community Foundation works primarily in places of diversity, marginalization, and inequity to build transformed communities of hope and improved potential for all peoples. We systematically provide services that create place, enable culturally rich access to the building blocks of life for the most vulnerable, and educate and equip diverse people for life together and better future opportunities. As such, diversity is welcome with open arms, and intolerance is not tolerated, in the workplace, among our programs, or in the midst of our communities. We ask each to serve one another, and in this spirit work together for the uplift of each person among us.

Principal Staff

Founder	Jeff Boles
Sustainability Programs Coordinator	Tearsa Saffell
Youth Team Lead	Frank Navarrete
Urban Ag Lead / Youth Team	Kenny Marslender
Landscape Architect - Open Spaces	Luis Avila
Transportation Coordinator	Aaron Langbehn
Volunteer Coordinator	Abigail Boles
Finance Director	Jackie Johnson
Finance - Special Projects	Diane Prindville