Deadline: 12-Mar-21
The Rhode Island Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Grants program to provide grants for community-making efforts that make unique and important things happen at this intersection.\
Priority Areas
For 2021, the Foundation is looking for projects that:
- Build social networks and connection among neighbors;
- Develop and sustain strong relationships that persist over time and experience;
- Enhance the role of shared public spaces as community anchors;
- Help people collaborate in order to identify goals, solve problems, or make group decisions;
- Share traditions with community members.
Funding Information
- Grants program provides grants up to $10,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit organizations, municipal governments, public agencies like libraries or schools, and volunteer-led groups such as neighborhood and resident associations are eligible to apply. Organizations that do not have a 501(c)(3) IRS designation will require a fiscal sponsor.
- To be eligible, proposals must:
- Be doable – i.e. they will generate visible results within the next 12 – 18 months;
- Have staying power — i.e. create a lasting impact;
- Be openly accessible to the community;
- Be relevant and meaningful to the specific community;
- Leverage capital (financial, human, and social) from the community – as indicated by a cash match, committed volunteer time, donated space, or other in-kind contributions.
- Community Grants are intended to support one-time costs and expenses, and are not meant to sustain ongoing programming. Applicants will not be eligible for renewed support for the same project in future years. The program does not support:
- Capital campaigns;
- Endowment funds;
- For-profit entities;
- Fundraising events;
- Individuals;
- Lobbying efforts;
- Political groups;
- Religious organizations for religious purposes.
For more information, visit https://rifoundation.org/grant/community-grants
