Deadline: 10-Jan-2025
The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut has launched the Willimantic Basic Needs Fund Grants Program to support programs and services designed to promote self-sufficiency for residents of the Town of Windham.
Priorities
- Priority is given to programs that:
- promote individual and family economic security;
- increase food security and access to nutritious food;
- decrease homelessness through programs that promote diversion and intervention.
Funding Information
- Eligible applicants may submit grant requests for up to $8,000. Few grants are made at the maximum amount.
What they will fund?
- These grants must be for the benefit of residents of the town of Windham.
- Preference is given to programs that:
- seek to eliminate racism and societal inequities;
- incorporate the voices of clients/consumers in planning;
- are rooted in evidence-based, solution-oriented approaches;
- include specific, measurable outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, schools, municipal or governmental agencies, or partner with a nonprofit fiscal agent. They do not make grants to individuals or for-profit endeavors.
- Applicants must serve one or more of the 42 communities in Eastern Connecticut.
- They do not provide funding for capital or endowment campaigns, litigation costs, religious programming, deficit funding or debt retirement. They do not typically make grants for special events.
- Applicants may not discriminate against any person or group of persons on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state and/or local laws.
- Final or interim grant reports must be received before a new grant award may be made.
For more information, visit Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.