The Adams County Community Foundation focuses its Adams County Grants program to encourage bigger thinking around strengthening vulnerable people on a systemic level through three primary focus areas.
Donor Name: Adams County Community Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Adams County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $30,000
Details:
Focus Areas:
- Operating Grants intended to help nonprofits become more effective at addressing the needs of vulnerable residents. (up to $25,000)
- Program Grants to help nonprofits make a meaningful and sustained difference in people’s lives, by helping low-income residents move toward self-sufficiency. (up to $25,000)
- Collaboration Grants to support significant collaborative projects that advance affordable housing, transportation and economic development. (up to $30,000)
Funding Information
- Operating Grants: up to $25,000
- Program Grants: up to $25,000
- Collaboration Grants: up to $30,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits with tax-exempt status under IRS Section 501(c)(3) serving Adams County residents.
- Nonprofits whose nondiscrimination policies are consistent with the Adams County Community Foundation Nondiscrimination Policy on Employment and Grantmaking.
What Adams County Grants Will Not Fund:
- Organizations that are not tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) Public Charity of the Internal Revenue Code
- Organizations based outside Adams County, unless it can be clearly demonstrated that Adams County residents will benefit from the grant requested
- Grants to individuals
- Private foundations
- Projects aimed at promoting a particular religion or construction project for religious institutions
- Programs at private schools that benefit only their students
- Political campaigns or direct lobbying efforts
- Post-event, after-the-fact situations or debt retirement
- Fundraising events and galas
- Core curriculum for schools
- Travel for bands, sports teams, classes and similar groups.
For more information, visit ACCF.
