Deadline: 22-Mar-21
The Wayne County Foundation is seeking applications for its 2021 Grants Program to foster and encourage private philanthropic giving, enhance the spirit of community, and improve the quality of life in the Wayne County, Indiana, area now and for future generations.
The Foundation intended to promote fair and nondiscriminatory processes; support wellinformed decision-making; and ensure the highest and best use of the limited resources available.
The Foundation hopes to inspire creative approaches to moving the community forward and encourage a wide range of applications and proposals representing the many different facets of the community.
Field of Interest
- Animal Welfare
- Arts
- Education
- Environment
- Human Service Assistance
- Literacy
Funding Information
- Up to $100,000 available from Unrestricted Funds.
- Plus over $190,000 available from Field of Interest Funds
Eligibility Criteria
Generally speaking, grants can only be made to qualified charitable organizations operating in the public interest and providing benefit to the citizens of Wayne County, Indiana. Other groups and government entities may also qualify, provided they are operating very broadly in the public interest and/or are aligned with a qualified charity that has agreed to serve as a fiscal sponsor. No grants will be made that return private benefit to any individual or group of individuals that is disproportionate to the benefit provided to the community; support illegal activity; or threaten the Foundation’s qualified charity status. Programs or initiatives must be essentially charitable in nature.
The Foundation’s grant program strives to anticipate the changing needs of the community and be flexible in responding to them. To that end, they are especially interested in proposals that:
- Examine the underlying causes that are creating a local need and seek a solution to address that need
- Are proactive rather than reactive
- Are change-oriented and problem-solving in nature
- Strengthen the grant-seeking organization and are directly related to the organization’s mission
- Balance the amount of the request with the potential benefit
- Demonstrate sustainability for projects or programs that are to be ongoing
- Encourage cooperation and elimination of duplicate services
- Have the potential to encourage donations from the general public through a match by the Foundation
- Have the potential of leveraging additional grants from other funding sources
- Have a broad reach, as represented by the number of people affected, and/or the depth of impact to those who are involved or affected
- Provide start-up money for projects or programs that are not duplicative and that make the organization more effective and better able to reach sustainability
For more information, visit http://waynecountyfoundation.org/Spring-Grant-Cycle/