Deadline: 26-Jun-20
The High Point Community Foundation has announced a call for Proposals for the Community Impact Grants Program.
As the community evolves, the High Point Community Foundation adapts to ensure that the investments yield the most positive impact on High Point. Not only do they seek to respond to pressing needs as they arise, but they encourage nonprofits to build their capacity to anticipate opportunities and challenges that are on the horizon.
The COVID-19 crisis resulted in a surge of needs throughout the greater High Point area. The High Point Community Foundation seeks to provide critical funding to the nonprofits that have been adversely impacted by the crisis, and/or on the frontlines responding to the needs in their community. Unlike previous years where HPCF sought catalyst grants, this year HPCF intends to fund requests for operating costs, supplies, emergency relief, and vital personnel (no capital requests will be funded this year). They know this crisis has not affected their community equally. Health, racial, and economic disparities have only been exaggerated by the crisis, so the Grants Committee will place special emphasis on requests that intend to serve the populations who have been most adversely affected by Covid-19. The Grants Committee will also place emphasis on grant requests that demonstrate the organization that is actively listening to and involving the people it serves in the decision it makes.
Funding Information
The maximum allowed will be $50,000 for grant requests both program and capital.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit organizations can only receive grants from the Community Foundation for two consecutive years; after this they must take one year off before they can apply again.
- No waivers or exceptions to the policies set forth here will be allowed.
- Schools that are applying for a grant must have a project that will impact the entire school and not just a single classroom. They must also have the approval of their school principal.
- Only one grant request per organization is permitted. The Grants Committee will allow multiple schools and multiple departments within a municipality to apply, but has the ultimate decision authority.
- Nonprofit organizations must have their own 501(c)(3) status by the deadline of the grant application.
- During the review process, any grant request that the Committee cannot agree to fund to at least 50% of their total request will not be funded.
- If a grant is made as a “matching grant” the Foundation will not release a check to the grantee until the match has been made.
For more information, visit https://www.hpcommunityfoundation.org/grants-and-partnerships/annual-grants-program/