The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation provides grants for capacity-building initiatives identified and submitted by nonprofit organizations serving communities in Northeast Wisconsin, specifically, Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Oconto counties.
Donor Name: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation
State: Wisconsin
County: Brown County (WI), Door County (WI), Kewaunee County (WI) and Oconto County (WI)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000-$7,500
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Capacity-building grants invest in the health and sustainability of nonprofit organizations in Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Oconto counties. Within each cycle, there are grant dollars specifically allocated to support organizations led by people of color and those serving populations age 60 and older, as well as grant dollars available for organizations serving all sectors of the community.
Funding Information
Typically range from $1,000 to $7,500 for one year.
Types of Grants
- Grants will be awarded to assist eligible organizations with dedicated capacity-building efforts. A typical application will involve the cost of hiring third-party expertise.
- Examples of such efforts could include:
- Board training that enhances organizational capacity in the areas of recruitment, orientation, or retention
- Board governance (examples include officers, committees, effective meeting facilitation, accountability)
- Development and activation of ad hoc or board committees
- Leadership development
- Organization/Board Planning (annual/strategic)
- Collaboration/Partnerships
- Financial management oversight (budgets and financial reporting)
- Development of volunteer recruitment, management, retention best practices
- Development of best practices in nonprofit management
- Development of succession plans (leadership and non-leadership levels)
- Technology (use/implementation, needs assessment, planning)
- Communications/Marketing planning
- Service (design, evaluation, record keeping)
- Project management training
- Staff development and training (team building, performance management, staffing structure)
- Hiring of consultant to increase capacities (staff, board, organizational)
- Creation of peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- Establishment and implementation of lean process improvements.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must meet the following:
- Be a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) designation by the IRS
- Directly serve Brown, Door, Kewaunee or Oconto counties
- Conduct business without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual preference, age, marital status, disability, or national origin.
Grantmaking Criteria
Projects will be evaluated on the following criteria. Strong programs will provide:
- Clarity in the description of the capacity challenge
- Clarity in the work plan design to address the capacity challenge, including feasibility
- A brief description of the anticipated results
- Clarity in the evaluation methodology with defined and measurable outcomes
- An articulated plan to reinforce the gains in capacity
- Budget clarity and relevance
- A contract and work plan from the service provider, which clearly addresses the capacity challenge.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Annual appeals, capital campaigns, or other fundraising activities or events
- Religious activities or programs that serve, or appear to serve, specific religious organizations, groups, denominations or beliefs
- Individuals
- Endowments
- Debt retirement, debt financing, reduction of operating deficit or replenishment of resources used to pay for such purposes
- Lobbying or legislative activities
- Capital improvements
- Expenses occurring before the grant is awarded
- Efforts substantially serving those outside of rural Northeast Wisconsin
- Contractors who actually perform the work, as differentiated from consultants who train and teach to build capabilities
- Direct service program support
- Projects that add to staff member or provide board volunteer compensation
- Organizational expenses unrelated to the capacity-building project.
For more information, visit GGBCF.
