Deadline: 30-Aug-2020
The Greater Toledo Community Foundation has launched a call for proposals for Community Resilience Fund to support Nonprofit organizations.
Greater Toledo Community Foundation is a public charitable organization created by citizens of the community to enrich the quality of life for individuals and families. As a place-based funder, the Foundation is prepared to leverage its resources to support sudden and unexpected needs that arise in community. In March 2020, Greater Toledo Community Foundation created the COVID-19 Response Fund to support area nonprofits that stepped up to provide immediate basic needs items like food, personal protective equipment and shelter to residents who were disproportionately affected by the virus and its immediate impacts. While the need to provide these services persist, it is now time to address long-term recovery efforts as well.
Through a competitive process, the Foundation will consider proposals in the following categories:
- Long-Term Service Provision: In this category, funding will prioritize service delivery to residents who have been impacted by COVID-19 related circumstances. Proposals for Long Term Service Provision should focus on interventions that assist residents in stabilizing their lives after experiencing impacts caused by the outbreak. These activities may include, but are not limited to, job training programs for the recently unemployed or mental health services for residents who have been traumatized.
- Organizational Restructuring: In this category, proposals should focus on lessons learned at an organizational level, and the strategies agencies could employ in the future to be better positioned to ensure stability and resiliency in the face of future unexpected crisis. It is anticipated that proposals would include best practice models currently being used in the applicant’s sector, incorporate new tactics based on geographical alignment with other providers to re-envision services, or utilize technology in service delivery to build capacity.
Funding Information
The Foundation is providing services in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan are invited to submit requests up to $15,000 to the fund.
This Fund will not make grants to:
- Support the general operating budget or budget deficit of established organizations.
- Annual campaigns.
- Support sectarian activities of religious organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- The Fund seeks applications from organizations with a demonstrated track record of service provision through established programs.
- Grants are not intended to support start-up programs.
- Applications seeking to offset loss of revenue as a result of cancelled fundraising events, lost program fees or third-party reimbursements will not be considered.
For more information, visit https://www.toledocf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Community-Resilience-Fund-Guidelines.pdf