Deadline: 5-Dec-22
The National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG) is seeking applications for its Capacity Building Grants.
Goals
This competitive funding opportunity has the following goals:
- Increase access to bereavement support services in local communities, especially diverse communities
- Enhance the capacity of organizations providing bereavement support service
- Expand bereavement support services to address unmet needs
- Support communities dealing with grief and loss with tangible resources
- This funding opportunity is offered twice a year.
Categories
Applications should focus on enhancing organizational capacity, development, and effectiveness. The grant must support one of six major categories:
- Planning activities
- Staff/board development
- Strategic relationships/collaboration
- Internal operations
- Technology Improvements
- New Organization
Funding Information
- $10,000 grant award. Organizations with minimum annual organizational budgets of $50,000 will be eligible to apply for this grant level.
- $20,000 grant award. Organizations with minimum annual organizational budgets of $100,000 will be eligible to apply for this grant level.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S.-based 501(c)3 for at least three consecutive years.
- Provide 990 tax returns for at least two of the past three years.
- Provide audited financials for the most recent full fiscal year.
- Must provide a budget detailing specifically how requested funds will be used.
- Must be the entity that will provide the children’s bereavement services.
- Must have at least one paid staff person.
- Request amount must not exceed 20% for Capacity Building.
- The grant proposal must include cultural considerations of bereaved children based on the community you will be serving.
- Evaluation of proposed programming. All proposed programs must include an evaluation tool that meets the minimum requirements outlined in the grant agreement. Guidance on best practices will be given if you do not currently have an evaluation tool.
- If you are a part of a larger organization, such as a hospice, hospital, university, etc., you must submit your dedicated childhood bereavement program budget.
- Grants are made only to private, nonprofit organizations, which have tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and which are not private foundations.
For more information, visit https://nacg.org/grants/grief-reach/