The Greater Grand Island Community Foundation offers a Capacity Building Grant program designed to strengthen nonprofit organizational effectiveness in the Hall County area.
Donor Name: Greater Grand Island Community Foundation
State: Nebraska
County: Hall County (NE)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Funding Information
Grants will be provided for up to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Greater Grand Island Community Foundation awards grants to both private and public organizations. To be eligible for a Capacity Building grant, organizations must fit within the following parameters:
- Organizations classified as 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service
- Organizations applying may only receive a capacity-building grant every three calendar years
- If prior funding has been received, a final grant evaluation must be completed and accepted before applying for additional funding.
- Greater Grand Island Community Foundation serves the greater Grand Island area. Excepting when extraordinary circumstances apply, only programs and projects in Hall County will be considered for support.
- Grants for the following purposes will be considered:
- Board training and education to strengthen and enhance the organization’s governance through training or assistance from an expert in the field. A project outline of deliverables is required as part of the application.
- Critical equipment
- Staff training to enhance governance, management, program delivery
- Strategic planning and visioning for the future of the organization
- Technology/software upgrades, networking, websites
- Enable organizations to merge operations and programming to ensure sustainability
- Other assessment, consulting, or facilitation that improves an identified area of organizational capacity
Ineligibility
Grants for the following purposes will NOT be considered:
- To individuals
- Religious or political purposes
- Endowments, capital campaigns, annual fund drives, vehicles, furniture, ongoing operational or program delivery costs, consumable supplies, or food/beverages for meetings or events
- In limited circumstances, staff salaries may be considered eligible if:
- the organization can show how an existing or temporary staff member will devote specific time to achieving the capacity building project in a similar way to a consultant and
- the organization can demonstrate financial need to offset other support for that staff member – for example, that that staff member is usually funded by a restricted source that will not pay for the time to engage in this capacity-building project.
- Salaries to carry out existing, new, or increased program delivery and operational activities are not eligible.
- Fundraising event sponsorships or creation of fundraising event collateral materials
- Request for additional funding for projects that have already been approved and funded
- Individual conference registrations without a comprehensive dissemination plan
- Incomplete requests
- Completed projects or proposals that have begun implementation
- Feasibility Studies.
For more information, visit GICF.
