The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo is accepting applications for its 2025 William F. Thiel Trust Competitive Grant.
Donor Name: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
State: New York
County: Wyoming County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/16/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Categories
Requests to the Foundation must align with one of the six key categories which include:
- Access and Navigation
- Chronic Disease and Related Health Behaviors
- Emergency Assistance for Low-Income Residents
- Food Security
- Mental Health/Behavioral Health
- Transportation
Priorities
- Capacity Building: Developing strategies, systems, structures, competencies, or resources that Wyoming County organizations and communities need to improve effectiveness, survive, adapt, and thrive. This includes addressing priority-related staffing shortages across community service agencies.
- Collaboration/Collective Impact: Building cross-agency and multi-sector partnerships by breaking down silos and aligning energies with practical, relevant, and effective strategies that multiple agencies find engaging. Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.
- Equity/Health Equity: Providing a fair and just opportunity for everyone to attain their highest level of health by addressing access to care and services, social care needs, or social determinants of health.
- Leveraging Funding: Using Thiel funds to attract additional sources of funds and build partnerships with other investors.
- Resource/Referral Management: Enhancing provider and consumer understanding of what service assets each community has to offer, building processes to facilitate good communication among service providers and their patients/clients, or assisting individuals to navigate through systems to enable improved outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are awarded only to organizations that have current Section 501(c)(3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service
- Applicants must be located or delivering services in Wyoming County
- At any given time, organizations can only have one open competitive grant with the Thiel Trust.
For more information, visit CFGB.
