Founded in 1997 and registered in Kenya as a public foundation, Kenya Community Development Foundation is a Kenyan development organisation that supports communities to drive their own development priorities, by linking them to resources and information.
 
The foundation promotes sustainable development approaches by among other things, encouraging local resource mobilization, and helping communities to utilize resources that they have, rather than sorely depend on external resources.
 
KCDF thus invests significant resources in strengthening of capacities of local organizations to be effective in promoting community driven development efforts, and building linkages and partnerships with other like-minded actors who speak to the issues they care about.
 
Our vision
All Kenyan communities giving and working together in a prosperous nation

Our mission
KCDF promotes sustainable development of communities through social investment, resource mobilisation, endowment building and grantmaking.
 
KCDF has established itself as an organisation that is rooted in the aspirations of Kenyan communities. The Foundation's sustainable community led development is implemented through the following core functions:
 
Capacity building and grant-making by making available financial and technical information or other needed support to communities.
 
Resource mobilisation and endowment building
 
Promoting local philanthropy and working with others to foster a positive legal and policy environment for it to thrive in Kenya
 
Advocating for sound development policies and practices
 
Advocating for sound development policies and practices
 
The KCDF model for community development is a unique one that is now globally recognized as a best practice - most recently by the Dubai International Awards for Best Practices for Best Practice in 2008 for outstanding contribution towards improving the living environment.
 
Where We Work
KCDF has a national mandate. The Foundation makes conscious and deliberate effort to reach all areas of the country in scaling up development efforts, especially for the underserved. Both grant-making and asset development work are present in all regions of the country wherever there are credible grassroots organisations that can be used to organize communities around issues that matter to them.