Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Roundhouse Foundation is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Open Call Grants Program.
Focus Areas
- The Foundation focuses the work in and across four areas that are fundamental to thriving rural communities:
- Arts & Culture: Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home. Arts and culture also support the creative economy, providing important economic impact in rural communities.
- Education: Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens the rural communities. They support innovative educational programming, including programs for the children who are not best served in traditional educational settings and in career-technical areas that build skills of the builders, mechanics, craftspeople, plumbers and others they depend on to keep the rural communities working. They also support strategies that create equitable rural access to higher education, as well as youth literacy, libraries, and civic education.
- Environmental Stewardship: The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. They depend on the environment to provide the water and food, nurture the spirits and offer them recreation. The wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for the quality of life as the climate changes.
- Social Services: Rural Oregonians know that they depend on one another and how they take care of each other matters deeply. They understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute their best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
Funding Information
- Preferred proposals span 12-18 months. Requested amount is not to exceed $100,000, and it is rare Roundhouse awards the maximum. The median award is around $20,000.
- Following the end of the application period, application review takes 4-6 weeks, with funding for selected proposals typically disbursed within 2-3 weeks following the decision announcement.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Foundation supports rural Oregon communities, including Tribal communities. All proposals, regardless of an applicant’s location, must have a clear and compelling benefit to rural Oregon.
- The Foundation is especially interested in opportunities that:
- stimulate rural economies, foster economic resilience and/or advance efforts outside of traditional economies.
- bring great, new ideas at a time when Foundation support can act as a catalyst.
- engage and mobilize young people.
- engage a mix of lived experiences at every level, including across generations.
- celebrate rural landscapes.
- support sustainable food production and distribution.
- have the potential to leverage additional investment in rural Oregon.
For more information, visit https://roundhousefoundation.org/how-to-apply-for-roundhouse-grants/#opencall