Deadline: 24-Feb-22
The Golden LEAF Foundation is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Open Grants Program.
Priority Areas
This program is for economic development projects aligned with the Golden LEAF priority areas.
- Job Creation and Economic Investment
- Workforce Preparedness
- Agriculture
- Community Competitiveness, Capacity, and Vitality
The Golden LEAF Foundation is committed to using the funds entrusted to it for projects that show the most potential for strengthening North Carolina’s economy, especially in tobacco-dependent, economically distressed, and/or rural communities.
Characteristics
Golden LEAF requires that the project include one or more of these characteristics:
- Higher level of funding will lead to significant outcomes
- Result of a planning process involving multiple organizations and members of the community
- Building on a history of success that allows a project to scale and significantly increase outcomes
- Funding will enable or encourage compelling collaboration including: uncommon or innovative approaches or organizations in more than one county
- Funding will leverage significant funding from other organizations
- The applicant has limited resources
- The project cannot be implemented in phases without compromising its outcomes
Funding Information
- Most awards in the Open Grants Program will be for $200,000 or less. For projects that possess some of the additional characteristics, Golden LEAF may make awards of up to $500,000 from this program. Most awards from this program will be $200,000 or less.
- To determine which projects will be eligible for consideration for an award of more than $200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are governmental entities and 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit https://www.goldenleaf.org/opengrants/