Deadline: 15-Jan-21
The Community Foundation of Howard County is seeking applications for its Grants Program in order to connect people, resources and causes to produce a positive and sustainable change in the communities they serve.
The Community Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable corporation. It gives donors of varied interests a vehicle for charitable giving to the community and provides responsible stewardship for donated gifts. It encourages philanthropy by attracting and distributing permanent and non-permanent gifts that together can have substantial and constructive community impact.
Focus Areas
In Howard County, the Foundation addresses needs that generally fall into the following categories:
- Health & Medical – to include the support of health and medical related programs;
- Social Services – to include the support of human service organizations, programs for children and youth and services to the aged;
- Education – to include support for programs in pre-school, elementary and secondary education, post-secondary education, scholarships and for special education programs;
- Cultural Affairs – to include the support of programs and facilities which are designed to establish a diversified county cultural program that offers widespread participation and appreciation;
- Civic Affairs – to include support of programs related to criminal justice, community development, employment, citizen involvement, leadership training, and other general community activities;
- Community Beautification – to include the support of projects that advocate, stimulate and support community vitality, beautification/environmental preservation and adornment.
Criteria
- Grants will be made only to organizations whose programs benefit the residents of Howard County and preference will be given to those projects that have high visibility in the community;
- Grants will be made only to organizations which provide for a responsible fiscal agent and adequate accounting procedures, and preference will be given to those projects that generate revenue and/or that have plans that sustain the project;
- Grantees are required to submit final evaluation reports to the Foundation. Grant applications from a previous grantee will not be considered if final reports have not been received for previous grants;
- Grants may be made to previous grantees. In a competitive situation with grants of equal value, preference may be given to organizations that have not received a recent grant;
- In a competitive situation, quality of the application will be used in the selection between grants that are otherwise equal.
For more information, visit http://www.cfhoward.org/grant_seekers.html#gsc.tab=0