Deadline: 15-Jan-22
The Greater Toledo Community Foundation is offering Community Builder Grants program 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
The Community Builder grant program offers grants of up to $25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible requests can focus on one or more of the three categories.
- 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.
Review Criteria
Competitive grant proposals will address the following:
- Promote coordination, cooperation and sharing among organizations. Applications which propose deep partnerships among organizations will receive high priority consideration.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of other organizations providing similar services in the immediate geographic area and represent an unduplicated opportunity to meet a significant community need.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of relevant community planning efforts and how the proposed program may correspond to and advance those plans.
- Encourage more efficient use of community resources.
- Test or demonstrate new approaches and techniques in the solution of community problems.
- Propose a specific program rather than general operating support for the organization.
- Include a thoughtful, reasonable plan for obtaining continuing financial support once Foundation funds are expended.
- Propose to generate matching funds, thus leveraging additional support.
For more information, visit https://www.toledocf.org/grants-2/#Open