Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Gannett Foundation is pleased to launch a Community Thrives, a grant-making and crowdfunding program to share your great ideas for how to improve your community.
A Community Thrives, a program funded by the Gannett Foundation and part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, invests in community-building initiatives across the country.
The initiative is part of the Gannett Foundation and supports nonprofit organizations with projects focused on community building.
Funding Information
They provide a national platform, a way to get your neighbors, friends, family, and peers excited to support your ideas, and most importantly a chance at $2,000,000 in grants to get them off the ground running.
Why should the organization participate?
- Raise funds for your organization
- Educate the public about your cause
- Find and cultivate new donors through the national conversation surrounding the day: media, advertisements, social media
- Activate your supporters to advocate and leverage their networks on your behalf
- Reinvigorate lapsed donors
- Convert check-writing donors to online donors
- Kick off your end of year fundraising campaign early
Eligibility Criteria
- The ACT Challenge is only open to legal entities
- Incorporated or organized within the 50 United States, Guam, or the District of Columbia,
- With valid Employer Identification Numbers (“EINs”) and physical mailing addresses,
- Located in the US, Guam. or District of Columbia and support domestic projects only, and
- That have and will maintain tax-exempt status under sections 501(c)(3), and 509(a)(1,2) of the Internal Revenue Code throughout the ACT Challenge. Municipalities (for example, departments of park and recreation, schools) are also eligible to apply.
- If you are an individual submitting an entry and agreeing to these Official Rules on behalf of a legal entity, you represent and warrant that:
- you are an authorized representative of such entity and able to legally bind such entity or that you have permission from such entity to submit an entry on its behalf and
- have read, and hereby agree to, these Official Rules on behalf of such entity.
- All entries made in connection with the ACT Challenge are governed by these Official Rules and are subject to verification of eligibility before a grant is awarded. Sponsor and Grant Provider and their respective parents, affiliate companies, subsidiaries, their respective officers, directors, independent contractors, agents, judges, advertising and promotion agencies and anyone involved in the development of the ACT Challenge are not eligible to submit an entry or to receive an award.
- Employees, independent contractors, officers, and directors, of Administrator as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) and household members of each such employee, whether or not related , are not eligible to participate.
- Entries that are submitted in connection with the ACT Challenge will only be eligible if the charitable entity’s fundraising Campaign, and related content posted by the entrant, does not contain content that is unlawful, hateful or obscene, in the Sponsor’s Grant Provider’s, and/or Administrator’s sole and absolute discretion. or as otherwise stated in Section 5(c) herein.
- By participating in the Challenge, you represent and warrant that you are eligible to participate in accordance with these Official Rules.
For more information, visit https://www.gannettfoundation.org/act/