The Morgan Family Foundation is currently accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for the 2023 Winter/Spring grant cycle for Social Equity program.
Donor Name: Morgan Family Foundation
State: Minnesota
City: St. Cloud
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Advancing social equity is one of their major grantmaking themes. The Morgan Family has a long history of engagement with social equity issues, trying to make the world fairer and more inclusive. The Morgan Family Foundation seeks a just society in which all individuals have ample opportunity to thrive and outcomes are not determined by one’s heritage, physical characteristics, beliefs, residence or inclusion in any particular group. They aim to reduce or eliminate unfair differences among groups of people and they advocate for positive change in attitudes, practices and policies that leads to equitable outcomes. Geographically their focus is on central Minnesota.
Social equity is central to their purpose, as they seek a just society in which all individuals have ample opportunities to thrive and outcomes are not determined by one’s heritage, physical characteristics, beliefs, residence or inclusion in any particular group. Social inequities directly challenge many different groups of people and in many different sectors of their society, and they all suffer when some are excluded from their full potential.
The scope of this grant program is limited to advancing social equity in St. Cloud, Minnesota and/or the immediate vicinity. The focus of their social equity grantmaking is the reduction of unfair disparities for disadvantaged communities and at-risk populations in St. Cloud, Minnesota and for positive change in attitudes, practices and policies that lead to equitable outcomes for those communities. This includes, but is not limited to, disparities and inequities of race, class, religion, gender, age, immigrant status, sexual orientation, and ability, as well as inequities related to COVID-19.
As the Foundation learns more about social equity in St. Cloud, they may narrow their focus further for future grant cycles.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- preparing individuals from marginalized and at-risk populations to serve and lead the community;
- building healthy relationships among various societal groups; and
- triggering bold, collaborative community projects that advance social equity.
Funding Information
The Foundation generally don’t consider requests for less than $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation will accept requests for a variety of grant types, including:
- Program, Project, Capital, Start-Up and Operating Grants: They welcome grant requests to support innovative program initiatives, short-term projects, capital requests, start-up or operating needs.
- Capacity Building: Grant resources are available to invest in efforts to enhance the management and governance performance of charitable organizations that are addressing their themes of social equity in St. Cloud, global warming in Minnesota and end of life issues in Minnesota.
- Advocacy: While the Foundation is prohibited from lobbying, they will consider funding permissible advocacy activities such as public education campaigns on a given topic, nonpartisan analysis study or research, training for nonprofits on how to engage effectively in advocacy, educating public policy makers on various issues, and nonpartisan election-related activity.
Limitations on Grantmaking
- The Morgan Family Foundation awards the vast majority of its grants to charitable, nonprofit organizations that are recognized by the IRS as 501(c)(3) public charities. Occasionally grants may be made to units of government. If a charitable project is being undertaken by an entity that does not have 501(c)(3) status, please contact the Foundation for eligibility. Generally, the Foundation will not:
- make grants to individuals or for the benefit of pre-selected individuals
- provide funds to lobby legislation or influence public elections
- support animal rights or animal welfare causes
- promote any particular religious doctrine
- serve as replacement funding for public programs
- finance medical research.
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