The first New York City Council fund of its kind, Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF) aims to build the capacity of New York City nonprofits in recognition of the fact that organizations led by people of the community are best equipped to meet the needs of the community.
Donor Name: New York City Council
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/14/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $45,000
Details:
Hispanic Federation (HF), Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), New York Urban League (NYUL), and Asian American Federation (AAF) formed an alliance to provide capacity-building support to Black, Latino, and Asian-led community-based organizations (CBOs) throughout New York City’s five boroughs. These four organizations, along with the Black Agency Executives, developed this initiative to generate new levels of support for the city’s organizations. As a result, the New York City Council allocated $2.5 million to establish the Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF).
CCNSF is also intended to promote learning among CBO leaders.
Project Eligibility
The purpose of the CCNSF capacity-building program is to help organizations identify and address their most pressing organizational needs. Organizations can apply for funding in one of their seven areas, but MAY NOT apply for a project under an area that they previously were funded for through the CCNSF. The seven eligible areas are:
- Management information systems design and development:
- This includes securing and/or designing software, and building related staff skills necessary for managing work more effectively (e.g., tracking client demographic data, service utilization, and progress toward outcomes).
- Financial management and planning:
- This includes assessment, planning, and development of financial systems, as well as staff skill-building to improve reporting systems and enable organizations to identify the most cost-effective services.
- Evaluation and outcomes system development:
- This includes efforts to implement systems to keep information related to client needs, referral sources, and services provided; implement systems to measure and/or service recipient satisfaction and/or service recipient outcomes; develop programmatic success measures; and develop evaluation capacity.
- Leadership development:
- This includes leadership succession planning; creation and implementation of volunteer management/recruitment plan; management/leadership training for staff; training for board of directors; and creation of board policies.
- New program planning and development:
- This includes conducting a needs assessment of community needs and assets, planning of new programs through research on effective practices, and staff development in support of the new initiatives.
- Strategy and organizational development:
- This includes efforts to create a staff performance review process; a strategic or operational/annual plan; a communications or marketing plan; and a fundraising or donor development plan.
- Collaboration and strategic alliances:
- This includes efforts to establish partnership agreements, create action plans to collaborate with other agencies, and develop a plan for organizational mergers.
Funding Information
Under this RFA, CCNSF will make awards of up to $35,000 for organizations with organizational budgets between $150,000 to $500,000 and awards of up to $45,000 for organizations with budgets that are $500,001 to $2 million. Community-based organizations with budgets over $2 million are NOT eligible to apply. All awarded funds must be expended, and all services must be completed by June 30, 2023.
Criteria
Be eligible for funding, your organization must meet the following requirements:
- Have tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and a history of at least two years as an incorporated nonprofit, including faith-based institutions.
- Be current in registration with the Charities Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General
- Be a New York City-based, direct social service organization that serves primarily (75%+) New York City residents (i.e., not an association or a re-granting or referral service).
- Have experience serving and currently serve communities where 51% or more of the population are people of color.
- Have demonstrated record of outreach to communities of color for recruitment of the executive director or CEO and members of the board of directors
- Have an operating budget of at least $150,000. Organizations with budgets OVER $2 million will NOT be eligible.
- Have demonstrated commitment to equal employment opportunities.
- Have demonstrated commitment and capacity to deliver culturally competent services.
- If your organization utilizes fiscal sponsors/conduits, you are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Communities of Color Non-Profit Stabilization Grant.
