Deadline: 15-Jan-2025
The Greater Toledo Community Foundation is accepting applications for the Community Builder Grant Program to support a variety of services in the fields of education, social services, physical and mental health, neighborhood and urban affairs, natural resources, and the arts.
Emphasis is placed on programs that will: Create safe, positive living environments; Enable families to develop the skills/resources needed to support and nurture each member; and foster the development of responsible young people who are capable of achieving their fullest potential.
Categories
- The Community Builder grant program offers grants in the following three categories:
- to provide seed money for new, innovative programming that addresses unmet community needs,
- to expand successful programming in order to reach unique audiences, or
- to provide capacity building benefits to existing nonprofit organizations.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $25,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible requests can focus on one or more of the three categories above.
- 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.
- Applications must propose to provide services benefitting residents of northwest Ohio or southeast Michigan.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The Foundation usually will not make grants from its Community Builder program to:
- Support the general operating budget or budget deficit of established organizations.
- Annual campaigns.
- Capital campaigns or building projects.
- Exclusively purchase equipment, such as computer hardware/software, phones, motor vehicles, etc.
- Produce films, videos, television programs, and the like.
- Support sectarian activities of religious organizations.
- Conduct a needs assessment.
- Replace the loss of public dollars.
For more information, visit Greater Toledo Community Foundation.