To help increase the number of children and adults who are prepared to enter a competitive workforce in the 21st century, the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia makes grants with a focus in Education annually through the Community Investment Funds grant cycle.
Donor Name: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia
State: Virginia
County: Arlington County (VA), Fairfax County (VA), Loudoun County (VA), Prince William County (VA)
City: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/07/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Education Fund is a component fund of The Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia, an unrestricted endowment at the Community Foundation that makes grants to help build a community that works for everyone.
High-quality preschool has the potential to narrow long-standing racial and economic opportunity gaps, provide crucial relief to Northern Virginia’s working parents, and produce stunning long-term returns on investment. Unfortunately, Northern Virginia’s children at or near poverty have the second lowest rate of preschool enrollment in the country; just 29 percent of three-and four-year-olds in this income bracket are in school, compared with 41 percent nationally. It also has the largest gap in enrollment rates between these children and their counterparts in higher-income families.
For 2024, applications will be accepted from organizations that provide Early Childhood Education to prepare children for elementary school and Basic Math and English Literacy skills to prepare adults for certificate, job training programs, community college, or university education.
Grant Period
The 2024 grant will be awarded by May 1, 2024 and should be utilized by June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations providing charitable or educational services. Local, state and federal government entities are not eligible to apply.
- This year, grant requests will only be considered for general organizational support. Applications for capital improvements, endowments, or scholarship awards will not be considered.
- Grants will be made to organizations in Northern Virginia (Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, plus the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church and Manassas/Manassas Park)
- Grant requests of $15,000 will be accepted.
- Organizations with budget sizes of $150,000-$4.5M are eligible to apply.
- Applications that are late or incomplete will not be considered.
- Only one application per organization will be considered.
For more information, visit CFNOVA.
