Deadline: 15-Jul-21
The Greater Toledo Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Builder Grant Program to support a variety of services in the fields of education, social services, physical and mental health, neighborhood and urban affairs, natural resources, and the arts.
Greater Toledo Community Foundation is a public charitable organization created by citizens of our community to enrich the quality of life for individuals and families in their service area. The Foundation serves northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan with a particular emphasis on the greater Toledo area.
Emphasis is placed on programs that will: Create safe, positive living environments; Enable families to develop the skills/resources needed to support and nurture each member; and Foster the development of responsible young people who are capable of achieving their fullest potential.
The Community Builder grant program offers grants 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 above. 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.
Grant 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/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Community-Builder-Grant-Guidelines.pdf