Applications are now being accepted for the Ford Family Foundation Grants.
Donor Name: The Ford Family Foundation
State: California, Oregon
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Ford Family Foundation’s open grants invest in programs and projects across Oregon and Siskiyou County that are important to community.
To advance its mission, the Ford Family Foundation provides grants that support both direct, child-centered programs and broader systems, while also addressing the community conditions that help rural children and families thrive.
Focus Areas
- Strong Starts
- Children and families have the supports they need in a child’s earliest years.
- Bright Futures
- Every rural kid has opportunities for growth from early education to career.
- Thriving Communities
- Rural people have power, influence and opportunity to chart their own futures.
Types of Grants
- Technical Assistance grant
- Strengthen your organization’s internal capacity with a Technical Assistance grant. These grants can support hiring an outside consultant with specialized expertise or sending staff to mission-relevant trainings. The generally offer Technical Assistance funding to organizations with an annual budget under $1 million, though exceptions are possible.
- Grant amount: Up to $5,000
- Good Neighbor grants
- Good Neighbor grants are designed to support the initiatives that matter in community in a way that works for your organization, including unforeseen emergencies that interrupt programming or services. Their fund both program and capital requests.
- Grant amount: Up to $20,000
Eligible Activities
- Hiring a consultant for strategic planning, board development, leadership transitions, fundraising strategies, or strengthening fiscal systems.
- Sending staff to mission-relevant training courses.
Eligibility Criteria
- The geographic focus of the proposed project should be largely (60% or more) for the benefit of residents of rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. They define “rural” as communities with populations of 35,000 or less and not adjacent to (or part of) an urban or metropolitan area of 50,000 or more.
- The organization should be up to date in filing final reports for any previous grants from the Foundation.
- If the organization has received funding from the Foundation within the previous 12 months, please check with the Foundation’s staff before applying again for support.
- The Foundation does not make grants to individuals (except through programs where recipients are chosen by a grantee institution).
- The Foundation does not make grants to organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, ability, gender, religion or any other protected status.
- The Foundation does not fund debt retirement, reserve accounts or endowments or to help defray deficits.
- The Foundation does not support efforts to carry out propaganda, proselytize, influence elections or affect legislation.
For more information, visit The Ford Family Foundation.
