Deadline: 9-Aug-21
The Sonoma Valley Fund is seeking applications for the 2021 Recovery Fund to support local nonprofits that are adapting during this new phase of the pandemic crisis, aiming for greater effectiveness and efficiency.
The fund seeks to help organizations to change and thrive in a very different social and economic climate.
Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund, which works to improve the community’s collective response to Covid-19, has created a new open grant program to aid in the recovery of Sonoma Valley nonprofits that are restructuring their services due to the pandemic crisis.
Aims
Catalyst aims to:
- Improve the assistance to those most profoundly affected.
- Support leaders on the frontlines to bridge gaps and coordinate responses.
- Support organizations that use the crisis to restructure their service delivery as they look ahead to greater effectiveness and efficiency post-crisis.
Any Sonoma Valley nonprofit that is doing extra work to respond to the special needs caused by the crisis can reach out to explore whether you qualify for funding.
Priority will be given to organizations who serve the people and communities most impacted by the pandemic. But all nonprofits who are working to adapt to the realities the pandemic has laid bare are eligible for consideration.
Funding Information
- Grant of $10,000 to $20,000 to be awarded by late August.
Funding Criteria
Funding is flexible and responsive, within the broad purposes defined here. As examples, grant funds can be used to:
- Evaluate pandemic programmatic changes to assess longer term organizational fit and sustainability
- Create, implement or adjust newly adapted hybrid (pandemic/post pandemic) operations, including programs and systems
- Support transitional staffing adjustments related to pandemic operational pivots
- Support staff training or technology investments to sustain service delivery adaptations created by the pandemic
- Execute new outreach to understand changing needs
- Leverage new opportunities that the pandemic revealed
- Evaluate organizational learnings from the pandemic
- Support leaders and staff who provided exemplary service, and need their energy replenished
Eligibility Criteria
- Any local 501c3 nonprofit operating in or providing services to residents of Sonoma Valley (Schellville to Kenwood) is eligible. Priority will be given to organizations who serve the people and communities most impacted by the pandemic.
- At the same time, Catalyst seeks to support nonprofits that have pivoted operations, innovated new programs or reconsidered how to best adapt to the realities the pandemic has laid bare.
- Faith-based organizations are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.sonomavalleycatalystfund.org/how-to-apply