To help support these effort, the Community Initiatives committee announces a new grantmaking program: Community Solutions Grants.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
State: Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/14/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Community Solutions Grants will invest in organizations working alongside communities to address complex challenges and create lasting change. By focusing on ground-level, community-driven strategies, this initiative supports innovative approaches to tackling systemic issues and empowering communities to lead the way in shaping their futures.
For 2025, Community Solutions Grants will focus on supporting Safe and Resilient Places. Funding will support organizations working to create innovative, tangible, ground-level solutions to address critical challenges related to community safety and well-being. This grant will support organizations that are deeply connected to the communities they serve and actively collaborate with them to design and implement transformative solutions.
Safe and Resilient Places Grants will invest in organizations that:
- Deeply understand systemic barriers that contribute to public safety challenges
- Address the root causes of public safety challenges
- Amplify underrepresented voices in shaping public safety approaches
- Actively partner with impacted residents and communities to co-design innovative models of addressing crime and safety
- Promote long-term strategies that uplift community perspectives on public safety and support sustainable community well-being.
Funding Information
Safe and Resilient Places Community Solutions grants will provide multi-year general operating support. There is approximately $300,000 available for 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- To receive a Safe and Resilient Places Community Solutions grant, organizations must:
- Has operated as a 501(c)(3) agency for the last three consecutive years or longer
- Operates in the Community Foundation’s service area: west Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and/or eastern Arkansas
- Is permitted by the Tennessee Secretary of State to solicit funds
- Has the last three years of 990’s and audits
- Has at least one paid staff member and stable, demonstrated board leadership
- Operates under sound financial management and is financially stable
- Provides significant community impact in, has solid relationships with, and reflects the makeup of the communities it serves
- Have demonstrated leadership, characterized as:
- An organization that holds community trust
- Leaders who unite people and organizations and inspire others to action
- Leaders who partner with other organizations and people; sharing power to accomplish a common agenda.
For more information, visit CFGM.
