Deadline: 01-Jun-21
The Community Foundation of Greene County is seeking applications for its Community Grants Program to strengthen Greene County empowering individuals of all backgrounds to support charitable causes for generations to come and provide leadership to address community needs.
Focus Areas
Recognizing that community life can be enhanced or improved in many different ways, CFGC supports projects and programs that improve the quality of life in Greene County, PA through:
- Animal welfare, agricultural, horticultural, environmental protection and/or beautification
- Arts, culture and humanities
- Community and economic development for public and societal benefit
- Education and literacy
- Environment
- Health, fitness and safety
- Human needs
Funding Information
The Community Grant award does not exceed $2,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants must be nonprofit, charitable (recognized as Exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code), tax-exempt organizations whose purposes and programs benefit Greene County residents. Eligible applicants also include: schools, churches, support organizations to schools, governmental units, and other publicly supported organizations.
- The Foundation will give preference to proposals which:
- Have identifiable and measurable impact upon the Greene County community
- Promote cooperation among existing agencies
- Avoid program duplication
- Improve upon the effectiveness of existing organizations
- Incorporate preventive and/or curative approaches to addressing significant community problems
- Have multiple funding sources and can leverage other financial sources
- Utilize volunteers effectively
- The Foundation does accept grant applications from:
- Tax-exempt nonprofit entities
- Governmental bodies
- Municipalities
- Schools
- Religious and faith-based projects for non-sectarian, community projects
- They do not accept grant applications for:
- Annual campaigns or endowments
- Fundraising events or activities
- Routine operating expenses (i.e., salaries, rent, and/or utilities)
- Political purposes
- Loans
- Individuals or for the benefit of an individual
For more information, visit http://www.cfgcpa.org/community-grants/
