Deadline: 7 April 2017
The KIND Foundation is currently seeking applications for “KIND Causes Program” to support individuals and organizations working to make the world a little kinder.
The KIND Foundation is dedicated to fostering communities that are healthier, more empathetic, and embrace our shared humanity.
The KIND Causes Program celebrates and supports individuals that submit socially impactful proposals to make the world a little kinder and/or help people in need. People in need include those that have a need for life sustaining essentials (i.e. food, shelter, water, health, safety) or are part of vulnerable human populations (i.e. homeless, at-risk youth, cancer patients).
Grant Information
Grants of $10,000 will be awarded to individuals or organizations to use for specific charitable projects that further the purposes and goals of the Program and the Foundation’s charitable mission.
Eligibility Criteria
The Program is open to:
- individuals who are legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, or Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), who at the time of entry are at least eighteen (18) years of age (the “Minimum Age”); and
- bona fide charitable organizations based in the United States or Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) that are
- recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) as tax-exempt within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, as amended (the “Code”) or
- have obtained federal registration as a charitable organization with the Canada Revenue Agency, but excluding:
- organizations that practice discrimination by race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin;
- organizations that serve only their own memberships (such as those types of fraternal organizations, pageants, labor organizations or religious groups that do not provide services to persons who are not members (or relatives) of a particular group);
- organizations affiliated with political parties or political candidates, that produce political publications or political advertising. Officers, directors and employees of the Foundation, KIND Management Inc. and their respective parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and the immediate family members of, and persons living in the same household as, such officers, directors or employees; and the Foundation’s disqualified persons (as defined in Code Section 4946 and Treasury Regulations there under) also are not eligible to participate in the Program. Without limiting the foregoing, the Foundation reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to exclude any organization the Foundation determines is an inappropriate entrant or ineligible for any reason.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit KIND Foundation Grants.