The Community Foundation of Burke County is seeking applications for its Women’s Fund Grant.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Burke County
State: North Carolina
County: Burke County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/05/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
BWF grants are made to tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organizations that impact Burke County women and their families. All grants are submitted through the Community Foundation of Burke County’s online grant management system.
Guidelines
Burke Women’s Fund Grants may be used only for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes. Grant requests must fall strictly within the guidelines listed below.
- BWF Funding Priorities include programs and services that:
- Support the needs and enrich the lives of women and families
- Target a diverse population of women and families
- Address the basic needs of underserved women and families
- BWF encourages proposals that:
- Demonstrate collaboration and cooperation, fostering partnership or fellowship between individuals or groups of different backgrounds/experiences
- Enhance or improve organizations which serve clients whose needs are not being met by existing services
- Emphasize prevention and early intervention
- BWF is inclined to give favorable consideration to proposals that:
- Are pilot programs that can clearly be used as a model for others
- Have reasonable prospects for future support
- Foster collaboration between individuals or groups of different backgrounds/experiences
- BWF will not fund the following:
- Programs outside of Burke County unless directly benefiting Burke County
- School specific projects – unless it is a pilot for a larger strategy and there is a plan included for implementation at other schools
- Annual fund campaigns or capital campaigns
- Programs fostering specific religious or political beliefs
- Individuals (including scholarships)
- Organizations which have not been determined to be tax exempt as described in Section 509(a)(1) and 170B (1)(a) of the Internal Revenue Code
- Endowment augmentation.
For more information, visit CFBC.
