Deadline: 5-Nov-21
The Impact Austin Foundation is inviting applications for the Girls Giving Grants (g3) to charitable programs or projects that benefit youth within Travis, Hays, Bastrop and/or Williamson counties.
The programs or projects must strengthen, improve, enhance, and positively impact the lives of children and youth in the greater Austin area. The members of Girls Giving Grants will choose the recipient of the grant.
Girls Giving Grants, the youth enterprise of Impact Austin, is changing the face of giving. They are a grantmaking cooperative, funded and operated by young women in 8th-12th grades.
Types of Programs they Will Not Consider:
- General operating expenses
- Debt reduction
- Endowments or memorials
- Bridge funding or interim financing
- Operational deficits
- Partisan, political lobbying or legislative activities
- Fraternal, sectarian, and religious organizations where the grant is intended for the principal benefit of the organization’s own members or adherents, or where the grant is intended for inherently religious activities
- Private foundations
- Legal expenses incurred in any action by or against the organization
- General construction or renovation (unrelated to a specific proposed project or program)
- General capital campaigns (unrelated to a specific proposed project or program)
- Fundraising activities or events
- Advertising
- Sports teams or any sports-related activity or competition
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for a grant, an organization must be classified as a “public charity” with tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) and 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. In addition, the organization’s proposal must:
- Outline a project or program that targets a specific youth population for a specific duration and with specific measurable goals to be achieved;
- Provide services in Travis, Hays, Bastrop and/or Williamson counties, Texas;
- Use the full amount of the Girls Giving Grants’ available grant; and
- Plan to expend the grant funds within 12 months of receipt of the grant.
For more information, visit https://www.impactaustin.org/apply-for-g3-grants