Applying for Grants
Please call the Community Foundation to discuss your proposal before submitting an application. Once we've discussed how your project fits with the grantmaking guidelines and priorities of the Community Foundation, you will be invited to submit an application. Current deadlines are March 1 and October 1.
When the Community Foundation receives your grant application, staff reviews it and forwards it to the appropriate committee. Once the committee, with the help of the Community Foundation staff, has collected all the necessary information, they will make their recommendations to the Board of Trustees at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting. This process takes approximately two months. You will be notified by Community Foundation staff as soon as possible following the Board’s decision.
If you are awarded a grant, you will receive a letter that states the conditions of the grant. One condition is to publicize the funding you received from the Community Foundation; please visit Information for Grantees for more information. You will also be asked to notify the Community Foundation when you are ready to receive your funds (please note that the Community Foundation cuts checks in the middle and at the end of each month).
The term of a grant award is nine months. If grant funds are not used within the grant period, the grant is considered cancelled and no longer available to the recipient. Extensions may make better sense on a case-by-case basis if the grantee contacts the Community Foundation before the grant period expires. At the end of the grant period, or the completion of the project, we ask that you submit a Final Report responding to the ‘Objectives and Methods’, ‘Evaluation’, and ‘Project Budget’ components of this application. You can get the Final Report Form from the website or by calling the Community Foundation office.
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