Deadline: 01-Sep-21
The T-CETRA Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to improve the lives of the un/derbanked population across the United States by providing financial grants and in-kind technology support to improve financial literacy and community development to those populations most in need.
Charitable Giving Criteria
- Financial Literacy
- Expand financial knowledge in underserved communities with the creation of programs and curriculum that focus on financial self-empowerment, entrepreneurship, and more.
- Technology Impact & Community Development
- Provide grants to public, nonprofit organizations to improve technology access and economic growth in underserved, low-income areas around the United States and Puerto Rico and where VIDAPAY has a retail presence.
Funding Information
- Their average grant award is $3,500 with plans to award several grants in 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
The T-CETRA Foundation will give priority consideration to organizations whose primary focus is centered around financial literacy in communities and technology education that can positively impact low income, underserved individuals. Support is provided in the form of monetary or in-kind technology gifts. Significant partnership projects and capital requests are by invitation only.
At a minimum, nonprofits requesting support from the T-CETRA Foundation must:
- Be a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit charity as sanctioned by the Internal Revenue Service
- Serve areas where VIDAPAY has a retail presence across the United States and Puerto Rico, and/or our corporate office (central Ohio).
- Not exhibit discriminatory behavior or practices.
Ineligible
- Organizations that are not 501(c)(3) public charities
- Individuals, for any purpose (e.g. hardship, illness, scholarship)
- Political candidates, committees, or organizations.
- Athletes, teams, sporting events or tournaments of any kind
- Fraternal, labor, social, or veterans’ organizations.
- Places of worship such as churches, synagogues, mosques.
- Non-academic educational activities such as bands, choirs, proms, after-proms, graduations, etc.
- Public service agencies such as police/fire departments nor staff positions for government agencies.
- Organizations that spend more than 20% of their revenue on overhead and fundraising costs.
- Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, uniformed service member status, age, marital status, parental status, disability.
- Requests to fund publications, or audio or video productions, unless they serve as supporting materials for a project within our focus.
- Requests to support travel for groups or individuals wherein that is the primary reason for the proposal.
For more information, visit https://www.tcetrafoundation.org/
