Is your nonprofit making an impact on education, stability or health and well-being in their community? If yes, then apply for the UWGC’s Community Investment program!
Donor Name: United Way of Greater Chattanooga
State: Georgia, Tennessee
Counties: Catoosa County (GA), Dade County (GA), Walker County (GA), Hamilton County (TN), Sequatchie County (TN), Marion County (TN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/04/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
United Way of Greater Chattanooga’s (UWGC) mission is to unite people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community. They envision a community where all people achieve their full human potential through education, stability, and health & well-being. From the unique position at the center of the nonprofit, government, philanthropic, and business communities, UWGC drives focused collaboration among their partners to address community-specific avenues for everyone to engage in creating social change.
The purpose of UWGC’s Community Investments is to drive transformational change in our community by directing our limited resources towards data-driven efforts that deliver the highest return on investment as measured by education, stability, and health & well-being outcomes within the Steps to Success framework.
Two Funding Opportunities:
- Impact Fund: Investing in local nonprofits through competitive grants for collaborative and transformational work to find solutions to systemic issues in the community.
- Catalyst Fund: Accelerating impact by investing in innovation and nonprofit capacity.
Types of Applications for Innovation:
- A new program or new aspects of an existing program
- Test a potential solution to a root cause issue or barrier to effectiveness in your work
Types of Applications for Capacity-Building:
- Investing in a nonprofit to bring it to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission and future sustainability of the organization.
Funding Information
For the 2022-2023 Community Investment RFP, organizations are allowed to submit applications to both the Impact Fund and the Catalyst Fund. Grants are awarded from July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023 with no option for multiyear funding. An organization may only apply once to the Impact Fund, which has no maximum request amount. The Catalyst Fund provides the choice to select either applying for an Innovation or Capacity-Building grant (you may not apply for both), which are capped at $25,000. An organization may not split the requested amount between the Innovation and Capacity grants to total $25,000 – organizations may only select to apply to either grant for up to $25,000. Proposals that have previously received Catalyst Funds are not eligible to apply for Catalyst Funds for the same programs or purpose again.
Criteria
The Eligibility Quiz will include the following:
- The organization must meet the IRS standards for nonprofit status 501(c)(3), faith-based organization, or governmental entity. Please submit your 501(c)(3) letter.
- The applicant must supply the organization’s most recent IRS Form 990 or 990 EZ. Can the organization submit 990 or 990EZ upon request in the future (churches are exempt).
- The organization must be chartered prior to January 1, 2019, and have staff in the UWGC service region.
- The organization must provide services in 1 or more of the 6-county service region: Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie Counties in Tennessee or Walker, Dade, Catoosa Counties in Georgia.
- The organization must supply the organization’s EIN/Tax ID#.
- UWGC conducts business through the internet and its website. Applicants must be able to send and receive email.
- UWGC makes its investment payments through EFT and will request appropriate banking information from organizations receiving funds. Applicants must be able to provide banking information.
- The organization must be committed and able to make measurable improvements for clients in one of the Steps to Success for which United Way will invest funds. Measurable improvements must align with published outcomes and indicators.
- The organization must be willing and able to enter into a provider MOU with United Way regarding participation in the United Way campaign and the provision of services in compliance with United Way requirements including submission of beneficiary reports of client demographics, program reports detailing outcomes achieved, and financial reports showing support, revenue and expenses by funded program.
For more information, visit Community Investments.
