Apply for Blackford County Community Foundation’s Grant Program (Cycle 1) – US

Deadline: 06-Feb-2025

Apply now for the Blackford County Community Foundation’s Grant Program.

Areas of Interest 

• The Community Foundation will focus primarily on these fields of interest; however, it expects to remain flexible in its grant-making activities.
  • Community Development 
    • Arts and cultural development
    • Community parks
    • Community beautifications, improvement and enhancement projects
  • Community Services Planning & Coordination 
    • Health services coordination
    • Human services coordination
  • Education 
    • Community education on relevant issues
    • Post-secondary, secondary, elementary, preschool and special education
  • Health 
    • Community health services
    • Mental health services
  • Human Services 
    • Elderly services
    • Children and youth services
    • Family services
    • Youth advancement

Eligibility Criteria

• Consideration Requirements
  • Grants are not awarded to profit-making enterprises.
  • Grants are not awarded to support political activities.
  • Grants are not awarded to support operating budgets of organizations, except for limited experimental or demonstration periods. Exceptions to this policy may be made when there are compelling reasons.
  • Governmental units applying for any budgeted items need to show why additional funding is needed.
  • Grants are not awarded for sectarian or religious purposes or to sectarian or religious organizations operated primarily for the benefit of their own members.
  • Capital grants to building campaigns will only be made when there is evidence that such support is vital to the success of a program meeting priority needs of the community. Payments of such grants are made only after a significant percentage of the total campaign requirements have been raised.

For more information, visit Blackford County Community Foundation.