Deadline: 15-Nov-21
The Bread & Roses Community Fund is offering Kensington Community Resilience Fund to support one another and advocate for the quality of life improvements and opportunities for residents and community-based organizations.
The Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund) answers this need through grants that will advance three key pillars: community empowerment, neighborhood investment, and economic opportunity.
Goals
A public-private-community partnership between the community, regional funders, Bread & Roses Community Fund, and the City of Philadelphia, the KCR Fund will work to advance the following goals:
- To promote wellness, build resilience, and improve the quality of life in the greater Kensington community
- To increase agency and support equity and racial/social justice by having community partners and residents direct funding decisions
- To build cohesion and connectivity among community providers, residents, and city agencies to support collaboration, information sharing, and alignment of services
- To expand capacity of participants – both organizations and individuals to pursue sustainable, quality-of life focused programming to support the community
- To serve as a catalyst and build the infrastructure to support long-term, sustained investment and partnership with funders in the Kensington community
Grant Focus Areas and Guiding Principles
- Informed by resident surveys and determined by community providers and residents on the KCR Fund’s Community Advisory Committee, the KCR Fund will provide grants targeting the following six issue areas that have been identified as being most important to community residents. Applicants should be able to demonstrate how their work aligns with, advances, and supports at least one of these areas.
- Public Safety and Gun Violence
- Youth Development (birth to age 24)
- Workforce Development and Training
- Beautification and Blight Removal
- Connecting Residents to Resources
- Building Resilience Addressing Community Trauma
- In addition to these issue areas, KCR Fund grantees should share a commitment to advancing the following guiding principles that cut across all key issues, either currently or in their future work:
- Building social cohesion, collaboration, and connectivity
- Utilizing trauma-informed principles and practices
- Being informed by community voices
- Advancing equity and racial and social justice
- Demonstrating cultural competency and relevance
- Being informed by data, evidence, and best practices
Funding Information
- All grants will provide flexible, general operating support in the amount of $10,000.
- This level is intended to give grantees of all sizes the ability to think creatively about their work and to work sustainably over the one-year grant period, including being able to provide fair compensation to those carrying out the work.
Eligibility Criteria
The KCR Fund encourages any organization located or providing services in the Kensington community to apply for this new place-based funding opportunity. They particularly encourage smaller and grassroots organizations/projects to apply. Additional eligibility requirements include:
- Must be physically located within the following boundaries in the Kensington, Harrowgate, and Fairhill communities, or bring a track record of providing programming/services in this area: Lehigh Ave. to Erie Ave./Castor Ave and 5th Street to Aramingo Ave
- Have current 501(c)3 IRS status OR a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 status and be in good standing with the IRS, including faith-based organizations
- Can demonstrate that funds from this grant will benefit community members living in the boundaries
- Can document how work supports at least one of the six funding issue areas stated
- Can document and report on use of grant funds
- Demonstrate a commitment to equity and inclusion with respect to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical and cognitive ability, immigration status, and religion, among participants, board members, leadership team and staff
- Have decision makers (board members, leadership team, staff) that reflect the communities being served by the organization/project
For more information, visit https://breadrosesfund.org/kcrf/