The Southern Tier West Development Foundation's discretionary grant making supports a variety of local community and economic development activities and is focused in the following areas:

• Planning - The goal of the Planning priority is to build the capacity of community leaders to plan, organize, and implement their community economic development initiatives
  
  
• Community Economic Development - The goal of the Community Economic Development priority is to help advance locally planned community and economic development activities
  
  
• Leadership and Capacity Building - The goal of the Leadership and Capacity Building priority is the enhance the skills and abilities of local individuals, organizations, and communities to identify, access, and sustain community and economic opportunity