The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is seeking applications for its Resilience Fund Grants to further address the impacts of COVID-19, bolster their region’s long-term efforts to rebuild, respond to emerging opportunities, help nonprofits adapt, and support creative new approaches and partnerships that would ideally benefit their communities well beyond recovery.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of South Puget Sound
State: Washington
Counties: Thurston County (WA), Mason County (WA), and Lewis County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,500 – $30,000
Details:
To uphold this purpose in 2022, they are committed to approaching Resilience Fund grants with a flexible and open mindset. They understand that some in their communities continue to face challenges caused by COVID-19, while many more are addressing needs and challenges that existed well before 2020 but were amplified or made worse through the pandemic. Others face the challenge of continuing to strengthen their communities in a pandemic-changed social and economic environment still undergoing frequent and unpredictable shifts.
Priorities
In reviewing grant proposals, the Community Foundation will consider the following elements to prioritize limited funding:
- Geography: They will consider proposals that fill crucial needs in their area (Thurston, Mason, and Lewis counties) and demonstrate a strong connection to their local communities. They will prioritize proposals from organizations headquartered here.
- Equity: They will seek to ensure that funds are invested as equitably as possible by prioritizing the needs of underserved populations, communities, and geographic areas; and/or prioritizing people and organizations disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
- Impact: They will prioritize applications that bolster community strength and long-term local resilience, including applications that address one or more of the following:
- Provide crucial services or meet urgent needs
- Fill gaps in COVID-recovery left out of the public sector response
- Support multiple, deep, or interconnected local needs
- Expand services or improve capacity to better impact the community
- Address needs related to their current insights (including support for children & youth, equity & inclusion, housing, mental health, technology, social connection & civic engagement).
- Innovation and Collaboration: They will seek to fund organizations that are adapting, innovating, and responding to changes in their social and economic environment; working with other organizations to do more than they can do alone; or making other changes to better serve the long-term health, well-being, and resilience of their communities.
- Accountability: They will prioritize services that are designed appropriately for the communities they serve and organizations that engage meaningfully with the perspectives of those most affected by the issues they seek to address.
Funding Information
- Most grant awards will range from $2,500 – $30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound generally makes grants to 501(c)(3) “public charities” that serve Thurston, Mason, and Lewis County residents.
For more information, visit Resilience Fund Grants.
