(United States) Community Builder Grants Program

(United States) Community Builder Grants Program

Deadline: 15-Jul-23

The Greater Toledo Community Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for the Community Builder Grants Program to support a variety of services in the fields of education, social services, physical and mental health, neighborhood and urban affairs, natural resources, and the arts.

Focus Areas

Community Builder Grants Program to support projects in the following areas:

• New innovative programs that addresses an unmet community need
• Existing program expansions to reach a unique audience
• Capacity building efforts that benefit existing nonprofit organizations

Funding Information

• Requests up to $25,000 will be considered.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible requests can focus on one or more of the three categories above. Grants will only be awarded to nonprofit, charitable organizations which have been designated as having tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code.
• Applications must propose to provide services benefitting residents of northwest Ohio or southeast Michigan.

Criteria

Competitive grant proposals will address the following:

• Promote coordination, cooperation and sharing among organizations. Applications which propose deep partnerships among organizations will receive high priority consideration.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of other organizations providing similar services in the immediate geographic area and represent an unduplicated opportunity to meet a significant community need.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of relevant community planning efforts and how the proposed program may correspond to and advance those plans.
• Encourage more efficient use of community resources.
• Test or demonstrate new approaches and techniques in the solution of community problems.
• Propose a specific program rather than general operating support for the organization.
• Include a thoughtful, reasonable plan for obtaining continuing financial support once Foundation funds are expended.
• Propose to generate matching funds, thus leveraging additional support

For more information, visit Greater Toledo Community Foundation.