The Culture Connect Legacy Fund seeks to support both smaller and newer nonprofits that hold great promise as well as larger and more established organizations.
Donor Name: Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
State: Georgia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Culture Connect Legacy Fund has been established to carry forward the mission of the Atlanta-based social enterprise, Culture Connect. This organization fostered cultural fluency between immigrants and the broader community by focusing on three core areas:
- Ensuring all had access to vital services like schools, medical care and the legal system through professional interpretation and translation (language access),
- Cultivating inclusive, welcoming communities through mentorship programs and teaching people to understand and respect their and others’ cultures (cultural competency),
- Promoting economic empowerment and entrepreneurship for immigrants and refugees.
Example Projects/Areas of Work
The Culture Connect Legacy Fund recently completed an in-language community interview series to determine areas of greatest need.
- Language Access – Interpretation, Translation and English Education
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Access to Public Benefits and Services
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Translated eligibility or application materials to public benefits or services (food security/SNAP/Food stamps, healthcare, Medicaid, school enrollments and IEP)
- In-language navigators for public benefits (assistance accessing, enrolling, or handling denial of benefits)
- Training for professional interpreters serving education, court and other public benefits settings
- Improving health outcomes for immigrant and refugee individuals and their families
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Implement job training and placement programs that focus on high-demand skills and industries
- Programs that enable immigrant and refugee leaders to become entrepreneurs (solo practitioner or cottage industry included)
- Programs that increase economic mobility of immigrant or refugee individuals
- Programs that unlock new opportunities within companies for immigrant and refugee individuals
- Establish microloan programs and small business grants to support entrepreneurial initiatives within the communities
- Develop affordable, community-based childcare centers that offer flexible hours to accommodate working parents
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Affordable and Accessible Healthcare
- Examples (not limited to these):
- Programs that train, deploy and equip healthcare navigation
- Translated materials to improve health outcomes
- Cultural competency training for healthcare professionals to reduce unintended miscommunication and therefore poor health outcomes
- Community health clinics or health fairs with culturally competent and multilingual staff
- Offer culturally sensitive mental health services, including counseling and support groups, to address stigma and provide care.
- Examples (not limited to these):
Funding Information
- Grant awards are based on need and available funding and can be up to $150,000 or 100% of the last fiscal year annual budget (whichever is less.)
- This grant can be used for seed funding, project support, or general operating support.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, the applying organization must:
- Have intentionally served US-based immigrant and refugee populations meaningfully and consistently in the last 12 months
- Be classified, or have a fiscal sponsor that is classified, by the U.S. Internal
- Revenue Service under Section 501(c)(3) of the I.R.S. code as a nonprofit, taxexempt organization, donations to which are deductible as charitable contributions under Section 170 (c)(2) and the I.R.S. determination must be current
- Through this funding opportunity, the Culture Connect Legacy Fund will consider applications which align with one or more of the four categories shown below, with priority given to organizations who:
- Are based in Georgia (can serve nationally)
- Have diverse representation in staff and on board of directors
- Demonstrate commitment to language access and cultural competency.
For more information, visit CFGA.
