The Hutchinson Community Foundation is currently seeking applications for its grant program to strengthen the resilience and capacity of Reno County in Kansas.
Donor Name: Hutchinson Community Foundation
State: Kansas
County: Reno County (KS)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000-$15,000
Details:
The grant program acts as a permanent resource for the changing needs of Reno County. It serves as a “community savings account” that allows the community to take risks on new projects, address deep and daunting issues, and try innovative solutions.
It represents an innovative approach or collaboration, a new efficiency for an established organization, a critical need that requires “just in time” funding, or an opportunity that needs just a bit of local support to leverage great resources for the community.
Priority Areas
- Innovation – Proposals that represent new and promising approaches, smart experiments, or bold ideas that shift the collective focus from reactive problem solving to creating the vision of our future.
- Collaboration – Proposals that strengthen cross-sector and inter-sector relationships, leverage resources to optimize shared goals of multiple organizations, and create increasingly inclusive and seamless systems of services.
- Effective organizations – Proposals that evaluate, expand, or improve the effective services, operations, and leadership development of established organizations.
- Adaptive leadership – Proposals that prioritize an attitude of curiosity, acknowledge the multiple perspectives in a system, and foster reflection and trust among people with diverse life experiences.
- Systems and environment change – Proposals that go beyond programming and into changing policies, systems, and environments that lead to improving the livelihoods of all people, especially those living on the margins.
Funding Information
- Grant awards have typically ranged from $1,000 to $15,000 but have averaged around $6,000.
- Multi-year proposals and larger requests will be considered, particularly for collaborations, innovations, and efforts around systems and environment change.
Eligibility Criteria
- Proposals must come from organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) and serve Reno County.
- Special purpose units of government may apply for support of innovative projects.
- Community groups who do not have a 501(c)(3) status may apply for grant awards if another tax-exempt organization acts as a fiscal sponsor. Grant proposals from individuals or non-qualifying organizations will not be considered.
- Applicants must conduct business without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, creed or ethnicity.
For more information, visit Hutchinson Community Foundation.
