The Park City Community Foundation is seeking Letters of Intent (LOIs) from organizations working to improve mental health outcomes and reduce substance use among youth (18 and under) in Summit County, UT, with an emphasis on the middle and high school aged population.
Donor Name: Park City Community Foundation
State: Utah
County: Summit County (UT) and Wasatch County (UT)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/04/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000-$50,000
Details:
These funds must be used to further one or more of the following strategic priorities:
- Offer meaningful programming in support of youth mental health outcomes; and/or
- Provide data-driven initiatives that reduce youth substance use; and/or
- Increase protective factors that reduce youth substance use.
Seven Strategies for Creating Effective Community Change
Approaches should align with the Seven Strategies for Creating Effective Community Change:
- Providing Information
- Educational presentations, workshops or seminars or other presentations of data (e.g., public announcements, brochures, dissemination, billboards, community meetings, forums, web-based communication).
- Enhancing Skills
- Workshops, seminars or other activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff needed to achieve population level outcomes (e.g., training, technical assistance, distance learning, strategic planning retreats, curricula development).
- Providing Support for Prevention Activities
- Creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities/strategies that reduce risk or enhance protection.
- Enhancing Access/Reducing Barriers
- Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g., assuring healthcare, childcare, transportation, housing, justice, education, safety, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity). This can include identifying barriers and possible strategies to overcome.
- Changing Consequences (Incentives/Disincentives)
- Increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g., increasing public recognition for deserved behavior, individual and business rewards, taxes, citations, fines, revocations/loss of privileges).
- Changing Physical Design/Making Environmental Changes
- Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, outlet density).
- Modifying/Changing/Developing Policies
- Formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules or laws with written documentation and/or voting procedures (e.g., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures and practices, public policy actions, systems change within government, communities and organizations).
Areas of Support
Mental health and human services, youth services, and other efforts.
Types of Support
Existing or new programs/projects; equipment; consulting services; matching funds; technical assistance; start-up funds; and joint requests from multiple applicants.
Funding Information
Grants will fall in the range of $10,000-$50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Park City Community Foundation will consider grant applications from organizations meeting all the following eligibility requirements:
- Serve people living or working in Summit County (Wasatch County will be considered, although grant making decisions will emphasize organizations based in Summit County that serve Summit County).
- Qualify as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
- Applicants without 501(c)(3) status, but which have applied to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) for such status, may apply. Receipt letter from the IRS of application is required at time of application to Park City Community Foundation.
- Applicants without 501(c)(3) status, but which are operating under an organization qualified as a 501(c)(3) organization, may apply separately if they have the written consent of the qualified organization. In that case, the application must contain a letter of agreement between the two organizations, which sets forth the responsibilities of each organization.
- Applicants that are not 501(c)(3) organizations but are implementing charitable activities for the benefit of the citizens of Summit County, should contact Park City Community Foundation before applying. Under some circumstances, they are eligible to be considered for funding but may be required to adhere to separate reporting measures and disbursement processes.
Only one application per organization or alliance per grant cycle will be considered. An alliance may be a collaborative effort between two or more nonprofit organizations. The alliance would then submit one application.
For more information, visit PCCF.
