Deadline: 15-Jan-22
The Rumphius Foundation’s Grants are now open to strengthen community, promoting education and protecting the environment, is proud to announce that it has more than doubled their number of grants this year.
The Rumphius Foundation has awarded five grants to a group of diverse non-profit organizations. From a bus that delivers farm produce to communities without access, to nurturing at-risk adolescent girls through equine therapy, they all are investing in human potential and reconnecting people.
The purpose of the Rumphius Foundation is to make the world a little more beautiful; to sow little seeds of hope and joy that will strengthen community and protect the environment, in small but meaningful ways.
The Foundation seeks to brighten the lives of a diverse range of people in need of a helping hand through projects that enrich groups and organizations across America, and simultaneously educate young people about sustainability and healthy living.
The Rumphius Foundation is pleased to provide grants to the following non-profit organizations:
- CORRAL provides adolescent girls in high-risk situations and their communities with skills, resources and opportunities so they can gain access to bright futures. They do this through a long-term, holistic program of equine therapy and education.
- The Growcery Store Bus Project is designed to increase exposure to farm-to-table foods while providing education to communities that are typically excluded from consideration. Their mission is to “Connect Farmers To People & Reconnect People With Real Food.”
- Guerrilla Gardeners of Washington DC improves neglected public spaces in underserved communities in the nation’s capital. They provide leadership, volunteer labor and supplies in collaboration with residents to create more attractive, usable and safer spaces for their neighborhoods.
- Root to Rise is a yoga & meditation based mentorship program for youth that helps break cycles of family trauma, poverty and substance-use. Participants are 14 to 21 years old who live in Turners Falls, Massachusetts and surrounding communities.
- Sawhorse Revolution fosters confident, community-oriented students through the power of carpentry and craft. They organize teams of high school youth led by professional carpenters and architects to create needed community projects.
Funding Information
The Rumphius Foundation accepts grant requests up to $ 6,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only nonprofit charitable organizations, exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, are eligible to receive a grant.
- Grants are made for activities that conform to the mission of the Foundation and have a completion date or other measurable outcome within a year of the project start date.
- Grants are awarded for one year only.
- The Foundation award grants annually in the spring of each year.
- Grants are limited to projects based in the United States
- The Rumphius Foundation is committed to supporting racial equity and environmental and social justice. They especially encourage applications from BIPOC led organizations and those that can demonstrate how their project would contribute to these causes.
- If awarded, grant funds must be used only for the purposes for which the grant was made. Organizations are required to provide a detailed update within 12 months of when the grant was made, preferably including a narrative description and images of the project activities.
For more information, visit http://www.rumphiusfoundation.org/news.html#.YXJiGJ5BzIV