The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation (The Community Foundations) is seeking grant application to support nonprofit organizations in their region that strive towards providing the highest quality services and advance ideas, innovations and techniques that improve the quality of life for their residents.
Donor Name: Valley Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/02/2023
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
General Operating Support is defined as a grant made to further the general mission and work of an organization, rather than for a specific purpose or project. General Operating Support gives nonprofits flexibility to direct their spending where it is needed most and allows greater focus on achieving an organization’s mission.
It is the belief of The Community Foundations that the best use of the community’s endowment is to invest in nonprofits that display the following:
- Vision for the Community: The applicant must have clear goals and objectives for how it will impact the community it serves during the term of the grant which have been informed by a planning process that includes input by stakeholders with lived experience.
- Social & Structural Determinants of Equity (Health Access & Quality, Education Access & Quality, Basic Needs, Social and Community Context, Economic Stability, Neighborhood and Built Environment): Does the applicant mission and work contribute to improving the social and structural determinants of equity?
- Accountability: The applicant must on an ongoing basis evaluate the impact of its work on the people and/or community it serves.
- Vision for the Organization: The applicant must have clear goals and objectives for how it maintain or improve its governance, management, operations and programs during the term of the grant which have been informed by a planning process.
- Culture of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The applicant must have policies and procedures that respect and advance diversity, equity and inclusion within the organization. Members of the Board and staff reflect the diversity of the community served.
- Vitality: The applicant must have sound practices for financial management, and include a lens for sustainability in its planning.
Grant Period
For 2023, one-year grants will be available.
Eligibility Criteria
- While each grant process has its own criteria, all applicants must be defined as tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c) (3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue code. While grants are occasionally made to governmental agencies, local nonprofits receive priority. Requests will be considered from groups that do not have tax-exemption status, provided that they have a fiscal agent with the appropriate tax status. In projects involving a partnership of agencies, a single agency with the appropriate tax status and financial management capacity must assume the role of lead organization.
- Applicants must have had active programming for at least 2 years.
- Applicants must have a published giveGreater.org® profile.
- An organization cannot apply if it has a current GOS grant that ends later than Dec. 31, 2023.
- Applicants who received a grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven or the Valley Community Foundation in the previous three years must be up to date with all reporting requirements.
- You must comply with all applicable local, state, and federal anti discrimination laws on the basis of:
- Age
- Sex
- Religion
- National origin
- Sexual preference
Projects that do not generally receive consideration
- Religious activities
- Endowment campaigns
- Lobbying
- Travel
- Previously incurred debts
- Funding deficits
For more information, visit Valley Community Foundation.
