After convening Lake County health and human services agencies in a series of dialogues between 2008-2010, making significant investments in nonprofit capacity building through grant making, launching the REACH program, providing technical assistance workshops for nonprofits and culminating with a request by nonprofit leaders that the Foundation actively engage the nonprofit sector in creating system change, the Foundation launched the Leadership Task Force in 2010.

The Foundation recently announced its largest investment to date with the 2011-2012 grant to the Leadership Task Force and its coalition of member organizations. This next phase includes a year-long process that will assist the coalition as it transforms into a viable human services council with the goal of implementing and sustaining a unified system of human services delivery throughout Lake County.