Deadline: 15-Aug-21
The Fairfield County’s Community Foundation is offering grants for all Fairfield County students graduate with a high school degree and are prepared for:
- Community Impact Strategies
- Increase out-of-school time opportunities for students
- Reduce chronic absenteeism
- Improve life skills
- Increase opportunities for career exploration, internships, and summer employment
- Connect target populations to wraparound supportive services
- Headline Population Indicators
- % of 16-19 year olds not in school or
- employed in Fairfield County
- % of students with a high school diploma or equivalent
Eligibility Criteria
Prospective grantees must meet the following additional eligibility criteria:
- The Foundation will not consider requests from an organization that has an open competitive grant with the Foundation (meaning you have not submitted a final report).
- Fairfield County’s Community Foundation will not consider requests to support religious or political causes, or to organizations organized for religious or political purposes.
- They will consider requests from charitable organizations that are tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) organization and public charities under IRS Section 509 (a). Organizations operating under a fiscal sponsor with tax exempt status under IRS Section 501(c)(3) may also be considered.
- They will only consider requests from organizations located within Fairfield County or that directly benefit residents of Fairfield County.
- They do not consider requests for capital campaigns or capital projects.
- They will not consider requests for any of the following:
- deficit financing
- annual appeal
- fundraising event
- open space purchase
- for-profit, parochial, charter, private, or individual public schools
- or nonprofit endowment
- They will not consider requests for a specific individual.
For more information, visit https://fccfoundation.org/our-grants/apply-grant/