The Porter County Community Foundation is seeking proposals for its Porter County Community Fund.
Donor Name: Porter County Community Foundation
State: Indiana
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/15/2023
Details:
The Porter County Community Foundation gathers generosity from their community, grows those donations through investment and gives grants to organizations all for the good of Porter County.
Organizations grants are awarded through an open grant process for humanitarian, cultural, educational and environmental purposes.
While the Foundation appreciates how important it is for all nonprofits to raise general operating support, they are not in a position to provide ongoing operating support to all the great organizations serving their community. Therefore, the Foundation is interested in funding requests that:
- Increase the capacity of your organization through planning, training and professional development that leads to increased efficiency and sustainability. Recurring professional development opportunities such as annual conferences are not eligible for consideration.
- Enhance the organization’s efficiency through the acquisition of equipment and extraordinary expenses that occur that are difficult to budget for but are important for the long-term growth and vitality of the organization;
- Expand successful programming in order to reach new audiences;
- Facilitate cooperation and collaboration among organizations for new, innovative programming.
Eligibility Requirements
The Foundation Generally Does Not Fund
- Annual appeals or membership contributions;
- Event sponsorships;
- Multi-year grants;
- Programs that are sectarian or religious in nature;
- Political organizations or candidates;
- Contributions to endowment campaigns;
- Campaigns to reduce previously incurred debt
- Individuals (except scholarships from scholarship funds)
- Programs already completed and/or equipment already contracted for
- Travel for bands, sports teams and similar groups
- Camp scholarships or fees related to camp programs; an
- Grants to re-granting organizations.
Grant applications from organizations headquartered outside of Porter County need to identify that they have a facility or are operating a specific program in Porter County or they need to identify a Porter County partner that will sign as a co-applicant.
For more information, visit Porter County Community Fund.
