Applicants are invited to submit applications for The Roundhouse Foundation Grant Program.
Donor Name: The Roundhouse Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
Focus Areas
- Arts & Culture
- Arts and culture bring people together, expand hearts and minds and build vibrant communities. They cultivate, enhance and sustain a sense of community by helping people understand and respect who they are, who their neighbors are and the unique place they call home. Arts and culture also support the creative economy, providing important economic impact in rural communities.
- The Foundation looks for opportunities that harness the power and potential of arts and culture to build better rural citizens, communities and economies. They want to hear and amplify the voices of their rural communities, which they know can often be best heard and shared through art.
- Education
- Education opens doors, changes lives and strengthens their rural communities.
- They support innovative educational programming, including programs for their children who are not best served in traditional educational settings and in career-technical areas that build skills of the builders, mechanics, craftspeople, plumbers and others they depend on to keep their rural communities working. They also support strategies that create equitable rural access to higher education, as well as youth literacy, libraries, and civic education.
- Environmental Stewardship
- The future of rural Oregon’s people and places are tightly intertwined. They depend on the environment to provide water and food, nurture spirits and offer us recreation. The wise, steady and innovative stewardship, always paramount, holds increasing importance for the quality of life as the climate changes.
- From watershed and ocean health to sustainable agriculture, fisheries and food systems to accessible outdoor experiences, they invest in opportunities that build collective responsibility for and/or improve the health of life-sustaining environment.
- Social Services
- Rural Oregonians know that they depend on one another and how they take care of each other matters deeply. They understand that people cannot reach their full potential, contribute the best or be creative when they are in pain, hungry or don’t have a safe, stable home.
- The Foundation funds efforts that support rural Oregonians in meeting their basic needs so that they are better positioned to pursue their passions, creativity and life dreams.
Funding Information
Preferred proposals span 12-18 months. Requested amount is not to exceed $50,000, and it is rare Roundhouse awards the maximum. The median award is around $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Foundation seeks partners who:
- are IRS-designated 501(c)3 non-profits, a government entity (including special districts) or a Tribal government.
- share their passion for and commitment to rural Oregon.
- demonstrate a broad network of community support.
- advance one or more of their focus areas and understand how these areas are interconnected.
- approach opportunities and challenges with innovation, creativity and collaborative spirit.
- have clear goals and clear outcomes that advance work toward solutions.
- demonstrate thoughtful planning.
- demonstrate they are doing the work to develop and apply racial equity and DEI lenses to their work.
- value community and believe strengthening community connections is foundational to their work.
- demonstrate solid organizational stewardship.
- want to engage with Roundhouse and those within their network as partners.
- The Foundation is especially interested in opportunities that:
- stimulate rural economies, foster economic resilience and/or advance efforts outside of traditional economies.
- remove barriers to access services, whether real or perceived.
- bring great, new ideas at a time when Foundation support can act as a catalyst.
- engage and mobilize young people.
- engage a mix of lived experiences at every level, including across generations.
- celebrate rural landscapes.
- support sustainable food production and distribution.
- have the potential to leverage additional investment in rural Oregon.
For more information, visit TRF.
