Deadline: 1-Sep-22
The Bean Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program.
The Bean Foundation awards grants in the fields of arts and humanities, education, environment, health, human services, and public benefit.Grants are only available for nonprofit organizations that serve Manchester and Amherst.
Priority Areas
- Priority consideration is given to projects which:
- extend services to individuals and groups that are not well provided for through current programs;
- develop service capacity that can be sustained in the future because it will attract other funding and/or generate revenue;
- promote cooperation and resource sharing among community organizations;
- improve the financial stability and managerial capacity of established organizations;
- help service agencies in Manchester and Amherst prepare for the future and help them effectively meet emerging community needs;
- are models with value for replication, or provide new approaches that have been successful elsewhere.
Expected Outcome
- 30 homeless women will complete job skills training by December 2019
- 28 women will obtain full or part-time jobs and retain them for at least four months
- The average starting wage for the women will be at least $12 per hour
- Mental health and/or substance use counseling will be required for most of the homeless women receiving job training and at least 85 percent will complete the counseling
- 25 women and their children will move into community housing units with an ongoing mentor relationship with a Life Navigator
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are accepted from nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations and municipal and public agencies serving the communities of Manchester and Amherst, New Hampshire.
- Priority consideration is given to organizations operating primarily in those two communities. However, the Foundation will consider applications from statewide or regional organizations which provide a substantial and documented level of service to Manchester and Amherst.
- The Foundation does not make grants to individuals or provide scholarship aid. It does not fund field trips. It also will not fund programs or activities which have already taken place.
For more information, visit https://www.beanfoundation.org/grants/bean-foundation-grant/default.aspx