The Miami Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2022 Community Grants program.
Donor Name: Miami Foundation
State: Florida
County: Miami-Dade County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/24/2022
Grant Size: $30,000
Details:
Community Grants is a permanent resource for Greater Miami, made possible by generous donors who trust the Foundation to address their community’s most pressing needs and greatest opportunities.
Categories
The Miami Foundation will make grants across the six categories described below, including a new Inspiring Arts and Culture category and an updated Sustainable Environment category. Category descriptions share their intentions but should not limit your potential approaches.
- Access to Health and Wellness
- Improve health outcomes by connecting people to quality health resources and education, reducing health disparities, or tackling contributing social determinants of health.
- Economic Stability
- Improve residents’ ability to meet local affordability challenges by helping them secure affordable, stable housing, recover from financial crisis, or increase earning potential.
- Inclusion of People with Diverse Abilities
- Expand opportunities for people with disabilities to lead purposeful, productive lives and be increasingly integrated into all aspects of community life.
Priorities
Their priorities align with the values that they hope to model together with their nonprofit partner.
- Advance equity
- Focus on progress
- Build solutions
- Collaborate with community
- Sustainability
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $30,000.
Types of Funding
Select one of two options:
- Mission-Building Support
- Program Support
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are all 501(c)(3) public charities and government entities with an active IRS status that are serving Miami-Dade County. Projects with an established 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor are also eligible.
Additional information:
- Location
- The proposed work must primarily serve Miami-Dade County residents. While they will give preference to local applicants, organizations do not have to be based in Greater Miami.
- Compliance
- If you have a current grant through any Foundation program, you must be in compliance with that grant to apply.
- Number of Applications
- Each applicant may submit only one application to only one category. Colleges, universities, and local governments may submit up to three applications, each from a different department or college.
- Partnership Applications
- they welcome collaboration. For collaborations between two or more nonprofits, the partners should select one nonprofit to serve as the lead applicant. Any awarded funds are to be used for the sole purpose of the partnership’s work, and the lead applicant will be responsible for managing the funds on behalf of the partners. The lead applicant organization may also submit a separate individual application for its own work. progress while strengthening capacity and expertise.
- Inspiring Arts and Culture
- Apply the power of arts and culture to strengthen community. This category will catalyze work that champions the diversity of their community, expands access to arts and culture experiences for residents, or increases opportunities for artistic expression.
- Sustainable Environment
- Develop a healthier, more resilient community by promoting action on the restoration of Biscayne Bay, protecting their most vulnerable from the effects of extreme heat, or expanding awareness and action on the climate crisis and its local effects.
- Thriving Youth and Families
- Expand opportunities for youth to excel from early childhood to young adulthood through high-quality education, personal development, and work to ensure their safety and stability. This may also include support for adult caregivers so the whole family can thrive and work to advance youth development through the arts.
For more information, visit Community Grants Program.
