Deadline: 06-Feb-2025
Apply now for the Blackford County Community Foundation’s Grant Program.
Areas of Interest
- The Community Foundation will focus primarily on these fields of interest; however, it expects to remain flexible in its grant-making activities.
- Community Development
- Arts and cultural development
- Community parks
- Community beautifications, improvement and enhancement projects
- Community Services Planning & Coordination
- Health services coordination
- Human services coordination
- Education
- Community education on relevant issues
- Post-secondary, secondary, elementary, preschool and special education
- Health
- Community health services
- Mental health services
- Human Services
- Elderly services
- Children and youth services
- Family services
- Youth advancement
- Community Development
Eligibility Criteria
- Consideration Requirements
- Grants are not awarded to profit-making enterprises.
- Grants are not awarded to support political activities.
- Grants are not awarded to support operating budgets of organizations, except for limited experimental or demonstration periods. Exceptions to this policy may be made when there are compelling reasons.
- Governmental units applying for any budgeted items need to show why additional funding is needed.
- Grants are not awarded for sectarian or religious purposes or to sectarian or religious organizations operated primarily for the benefit of their own members.
- Capital grants to building campaigns will only be made when there is evidence that such support is vital to the success of a program meeting priority needs of the community. Payments of such grants are made only after a significant percentage of the total campaign requirements have been raised.
For more information, visit Blackford County Community Foundation.