United States: Soldotna Corona-virus Nonprofit Response Fund

Deadline: 11-Aug-21

The Alaska Community Foundation is seeking applications for Soldotna Coronavirus Nonprofit Response Fund to provide funding to organizations whose services help to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, many area nonprofits have seen a marked increase in demand for their services.

Issues that have existed in our community long before the pandemic have been compounded as many households in the Soldotna area have suffered economic hardship and disruption to the activities of daily life.

The grant program will provide funding to nonprofit organizations that provide essential services to residents of Soldotna and the surrounding area, including organizations that have expanded existing services to meet increased demand during the pandemic and organizations that have added new services to address essential community needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organizations need not be located within Soldotna city limits. However, they must provide services to the residents of Soldotna.

Priorities

The program prioritizes organizations that are addressing the following key issues:

• Food security
• Childcare & youth services
• Mental health support
• Housing & homelessness prevention
• Transportation
• COVID-19 vaccination efforts

Funding Information

• Grant Request Amount Range: $25,000 to $100,000
• The total allocation for the SCNRF program is $750,000, with $500,000 estimated to be available in the first round, and the balance available in the second round.

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organization is one of the following:
  • 501(c)3 public charitable organization with 509(a)(1), 509(a)(2), or 509(a)(3) public charitable status as designated in your IRS Determination letter (including qualified faith-based organizations)
  • 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) charitable organizations, but these funds cannot be utilized for lobbying or advocacy activities.
  • 501(c)(19)
  • Faith-based organization providing social services to the broader community
  • Tribal nonprofit organization including housing authorities And
  • has experienced the following:
    • Has incurred or will incur expenses in direct response to the coronavirus public health emergency in one or more of the following six categories:
      • Medical,
      • Public health expenses,
      • Payroll expenses,
      • Expenses of actions to facilitate health mandate compliance,
      • Expenses associated with the provision of economic support,
      • Other expenses reasonably necessary and related to COVID-19.

Please Note

• Any expenditures that are not determined to fit within the six categories listed above will require repayment from the grantee. Grant reporting will require submission of receipts for all expenses to confirm eligibility.
• The requirement that expenditures be incurred “due to” the public health emergency means that expenditures must be used for actions taken to respond to the public health emergency. These may include responding to second-order effects of the emergency, such as by providing economic support to those suffering from employment or business interruption due to COVID-19-related business closures. Funds may be used for purchasing assets that will be used in the short term for public health purposes, even though the assets may outlast the crisis – for example, a vehicle used for delivery of food to individual homes.
• Organizations can receive CARES Act funding from multiple sources, but the funding cannot be used for any expense otherwise paid using CARES Act or other federal funds. Requests for funding from the Soldotna Coronavirus Nonprofit Relief Fund cannot duplicate funding received through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Injury Disaster Loan emergency advance program (EIDL), AK CARES small business loans, City of Soldotna CARES grants, or other CARES Act-sourced funding.
• Recipient organizations must sign all state and federal assurances. Reporting for grant awards received through the Soldotna Coronavirus Nonprofit Response Fund will be due on January 15, 2022.

Ineligible Applicants

The following are not eligible for grant funding:

• Individuals
• State or federal government agencies
• For-profit organizations or businesses
• Private nonprofit organizations (those not identified in their IRS determination letter as 509(a)(1), 509(a)(2), or 509(a)(3)
• Requests for support that do not fall within the funding guidelines
• Activities that improperly discriminate as to race, gender, marital status, sexual preference, age, disability, creed or ethnicity, or grants for religious indoctrination or other religious activities
• Activities that do not primarily serve the Soldotna area and its residents

For more information, visit https://alaskacf.org/blog/funds/soldotna-coronavirus-nonprofit-response-fund/