Does your non-profit organization need a grant for a community program? If yes, then apply for the Community Investment Grant!
Donor Name: City of Orlando
Deadline: 03/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,500,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The City of Orlando will award approximately $2,500,000 in Community Investment Program grant funds to non-profit organizations in FY 2023-24 (Grant Term: January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024). Eligible applicant organizations may submit a proposal that aligns with one of the following focus areas:
Housing-Focused Services for Persons Experiencing Homelessness
- Support for areas in the system that cannot be addressed with federal or state funding. Eligible applicants must utilize the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and Coordinated Entry processes. Priority will be given to applicants who utilize the Housing First model.
- Service Examples: Assist with housing search and housing placement, provide case management and housing stabilization services, job placement services, services and case management for homeless youth.
Family Sustainability
- Support for services that are designed to foster independence and/or equip families living in the Orlando city limits who are at risk of not meeting basic human needs with the skills to live healthy, productive, contributing lives. Youth mentoring programs will not be considered.
- Service Examples: Child Care, job training, immigration assistance, programs for LGBTQ+ individuals, legal assistance, mental health, programs that address literacy or technical challenges or build professional competencies, transportation programs aimed at increasing access to economic opportunity for families.
Domestic Violence
- Support for primary prevention initiatives within the Orlando city limits.
- Service Examples: Public awareness campaigns, support for building organizational capacity in local domestic violence programs for primary prevention work, as it relates to assessing and influencing change for individuals, communities and institutions.
Support of Seniors
- Support for services that promote or maintain senior independence and/or create a social environment in which all senior citizens who live within the Orlando city limits can live independent, healthy and productive lives.
- Service Examples: Healthy meal programs, active living and social programs, respite and day care services, health services, transportation programs
Improve Availability, Access and Consumption of Healthy Foods
- Reduce hunger and improve health outcomes by increasing access to fresh, healthy, affordable and local food. Support for comprehensive and innovative approaches to food resourcing within the Orlando city limits. The City of Orlando supports collaboration, education, community empowerment, planning, policy, and investment that is devoted to a fair, equitable, and just local food system.
- Service Examples: Increasing access to healthy food, food preparation classes, school food, urban agriculture and local foods, and local food as an economic driver to create jobs and grow economies, SNAP outreach, food delivery programs.
Funding will be awarded to provide services to individuals and families living within the Orlando city limits.
Special consideration will be given to grassroots organizations that are either minority-led or serving underrepresented communities to increase equity.
Eligibility Criteria
Non-profit organizations must meet the following criteria:
- Federally registered tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organizations with at least a 12-month operating history in the City of Orlando as of March 25, 2023 and be in good standing with the IRS
- Organizations whose requested grant will be used in the direct furtherance of the tax-exempt purpose of the organization (and the specific purpose set forth in the application)
- Organizations with clear plans for how they will use Community Investment Program funds to serve clients residing within the Orlando city limits
Non-eligible applicants:
- Those that discriminate or exclude participants on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, religion, disability or marital status
- Third-party or “pass-through” nonprofit organizations or fiscal agents
- Government agencies (but may associate with a government agency)
- Foundations whose sole purpose is fundraising, unless they directly deliver an eligible program are not eligible to apply
- Faith-based nonprofit organizations/programs, unless there is a non-faith-based service that is inclusive and available to all segments of the population
- National nonprofit organizations, unless dollars requested will remain in the Orlando city limits, impacts families who reside within the Orlando city limits and meets grant guidelines
For more information, visit Community Investment Grant.
