Deadline: 31-Mar-21
The Roundhouse Foundation is seeking applications to offer grants to non-profits throughout rural Oregon. The Foundation looks forward to building relationships with organizations who strive for creative solutions to unique challenges.
The Foundation understands smaller organizations or flagship programs may not have a need for a significant budget, and believe small grants can support grassroots, innovative work in an effective way.
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture
- Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home.
- Environmental Stewardship
- The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. The Foundation depends on environment to provide water and food, nurture our spirits and offer us recreation. The Foundation wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for quality of life as the climate changes.
- Social Services
- Rural Oregonians know that the Foundation depend on one another and how take care of each other matters deeply. The Foundation understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute their best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
- Education
- Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens our rural communities.
Funding Information
- Preferred proposals span 12-18 months.
- Requested amount is not to exceed $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Foundation support rural Oregon communities, including tribal communities. All proposals, regardless of an applicant’s location, must have a clear and compelling benefit to rural Oregon.
- The Foundation seeks partners who:
- Share passion for and commitment to rural Oregon
- Demonstrate a broad network of community support
- Advance one or more of the focus areas and understand how these areas are interconnected
- Approach opportunities and challenges with innovation, creativity and collaborative spirit
- Have clear goals and clear outcomes that advance work toward solutions
- Demonstrate thoughtful planning
- Apply racial equity and DEI lenses to their work or demonstrate they are doing the work to develop such lenses
- Value community and believe strengthening community connections is foundational to their work
- Demonstrate solid organizational stewardship
- Want to engage with us as partners
- The Foundation especially interested in opportunities that:
- Stimulate rural economies, foster economic resilience and/or advance efforts outside of traditional economies
- Bring great, new ideas at a time when Foundation support can act as a catalyst
- Engage and mobilize young people
- Engage a mix of lived experiences at every level, including across generations
- Celebrate rural landscapes
- Support sustainable food production and distribution
- Have potential to leverage additional investment in rural Oregon
- The Foundation unable to fund:
- faith-based organizations
- political organizations
- The Foundation does not favor proposals to fund endowments or capital campaigns through open call application process.
For more information, visit https://roundhousefoundation.org/grants/2021grants/