Deadline: 7-Feb-24
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia has launched the Education Fund to increase the number of children and adults who are prepared to enter a competitive workforce in the 21st century.
High-quality preschool has the potential to narrow long-standing racial and economic opportunity gaps, provide crucial relief to Northern Virginia’s working parents, and produce stunning long-term returns on investment. Unfortunately, Northern Virginia’s children at or near poverty have the second lowest rate of preschool enrollment in the country; just 29 percent of three-and four-year-olds in this income bracket are in school, compared with 41 percent nationally. It also has the largest gap in enrollment rates between these children and their counterparts in higher-income families.
To help increase the number of children and adults who are prepared to enter a competitive workforce in the 21st century, the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia makes grants with a focus in Education annually through the Community Investment Funds grant cycle.
The Education Fund is a component fund of The Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia, an unrestricted endowment at the Community Foundation that makes grants to help build a community that works for everyone.
Funding Information
- Grant requests of $15,000 will be accepted.
Eligibility Criteria
- For 2024, applications will be accepted from organizations that provide Early Childhood Education to prepare children for elementary school and Basic Math and English Literacy skills to prepare adults for certificate, job training programs, community college, or university education.
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations providing charitable or educational services. Local, state and federal government entities are not eligible to apply.
- This year, grant requests will only be considered for general organizational support. Applications for capital improvements, endowments, or scholarship awards will not be considered.
- Grants will be made to organizations in Northern Virginia (Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, plus the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church and Manassas/Manassas Park)
- Organizations with budget sizes of $150,000-$4.5M are eligible to apply.
- Applications that are late or incomplete will not be considered.
- Only one application per organization will be considered.
For more information, visit The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia.