The International Community Foundation has the following key initiatives that it is currently seeking to expand through its donor outreach and grantmaking.

"Retiring Responsibly Abroad" - Assessing U.S. Retirement Trends in Mexico's Coastal Communities During much of the past decade Mexico has become the top overseas retirement destination among American retirees. In 2000, an estimated 1 million Americans were living in Mexico on either a part time or year round basis and that number has grown in recent years.

International Community Foundation Center An effort to promote expanded binational programs, outreach, dialogue and exchange aimed at fostering a healthy, more livable communities in the San Diego-Baja California border region and Baja California peninsula as well as to encourage educational learning and voluntary service furthering cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and expanded philanthropy around the world.

Health Border Campaign The San Diego-Baja California region faces some significant cross-border health care access issues, which if left un-addressed, could have irreparable consequences on the regional economy on both sides of the international border in the coming years. 

Oaxaca Fund Initiative: The Oaxaca Fund Initiative is a two-year bi-national fundraising effort between the Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca (FCO-Oaxaca Community Foundation) and the International Community Foundation.

Give2Baja: Increasing philanthropy and volunterism in the areas of Education, Health Care, Community Development, Economic Development, Environment, Culture and the Arts

The Ties That Bind Us: The California Transnational Community Development Initiative

San Ignacio Lagoon Whale Conservation: International Community Foundation joins the Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance to save a global treasure and the gray whales that depend on it.