Deadline: 01-Sep-21
The Community Foundation of Greater Flint is currently accepting applications for the Flint Kids Fund Grant Program to support projects impacting increases in family, social and emotional support and parenting skills and improved access to a medical home and a child health team for all children and pregnant mothers, to ensure in part that all children are provided with robust developmental assessments and support.
Focus Areas
The Flint Kids Fund will make grants in this round to support projects impacting:
- increases in family, social and emotional support, and parenting skills
- improved access to a medical home and a child health team for all children and pregnant mothers, to ensure in part that all children are provided with robust developmental assessments and support
Funding Information
Grant Range: Up to $150,000
Outcomes
Access to medical home and developmental assessments and supports related priorities, include but are not limited to:
- Reduction in the number of children visiting the emergency department, and missed or noshow medical home appointments;
- Increase in well-child visit rates and/or use of medical home prevention services;
- Reduction of child/family barriers to accessing a medical home;
- Increase in prenatal visits by pregnant mothers; and
- Increase in children reaching developmental milestones.
The following will not be considered for funding:
- Grants will not be made to organizations that discriminate based on ethnicity, race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, economic circumstance, physical/mental abilities and characteristics, or marital status.
- Grants for sectarian religious purposes or any religious activities are not eligible.
- Grants will not be made for loans, debt reduction, capital projects, lobbying, research, or annual appeals.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be selected for funding, organizations must be a legally incorporated entity in Michigan with 501(c)(3) status or a project sponsored by a government agency with a clear charitable purpose. Organizations with a fiscal sponsor are also eligible to apply.
- Grant requests must have direct relevance to Flint youth.
- Prior Flint Kids Fund grantees are welcome to reapply.
For more information, visit Community Foundation.
For more information, visit https://www.cfgf.org/Grantmaking/The-Flint-Kids-Fund
