Deadline: 2-Aug-21
The Community Foundation Jefferson County is seeking applications for its Competitive Grant Cycle for Responding to the Needs of Jefferson County. These grants utilize the Foundation’s Flexible Community Funds and Field of Interest Funds and are awarded once a year.
Priorities
- Higher priority (in no particular order)
- One-time projects
- Highest percentage of population reached
- Services Jefferson County, Indiana as a whole
- Preventative rather than remedial
- Examines and addresses the underlying causes of local problems and issues
- Attracts volunteer resources and support
- Encourages collaboration among organizations
- Builds the capacity of the organization
- Offers services not already available to the community
- Capital needs beyond an applicant’s capabilities and means
- Seed money for pilot projects
- Will have the greatest benefit per dollar granted
- Lower Priority (in no particular order)
- New or routine maintenance construction projects (except renovations of existing facilities that enable the organization to provide a better quality of service to Jefferson County, Indiana)
- Normal operating expenses (except start-up expenses)
- Computer hardware and software equipment
- Funding to organizations that have received a CFMJC grant in the previous year
- Organizations having an existing tax-base of support
- Absolutely not funded (in no particular order)
- General group or individual travel expenses
- Annual giving/membership campaigns
- Individuals
- Political purposes
- Promotion of the teachings of a particular church, denomination, or religion
- Debt – new or existing
Eligibility Criteria
- Competitive grants will be made only to organizations whose programs benefit the residents of Jefferson County, Indiana
- Grants from the Community Foundation of Madison & Jefferson County (CFMJC) must meet legal and tax requirements as to purpose and may be made only to nonprofit organizations and government agencies, specifically 501(c)3 charities and 509(a) agencies
- Grant recipients must show that their financial affairs are being properly administered and may be required to submit audited balance sheets and operating statements
- No grants will be made to support political parties or political campaigns
- No grants will be made specifically for sectarian religious purposes, but can be made to religious organizations for general community programs
- No grants will be made exclusively for endowment creation or debt reduction of the recipient organizations
- Generally grants will not be made for programs and/or equipment that were committed to prior to the grant application being submitted
- Grantees agree to forward the Community Foundation a final program and financial report for the project. The timeliness and quality of the final reports will be factors in evaluation of the grantee for future funding. All requirements for past grants must be current in order to be eligible for another grant
- If grant applicants are turned down for a specific grant application request, they may not re-apply for the same, or similar, request in the next grant cycle unless suggested by CFMJC
For more information, visit https://www.cfmjc.org/grants/