The Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF) seeks to make smaller grants for general operations and programs to address changing community needs.
Donor Name: Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF)
State: Minnesota
County: Kandiyohi County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/15/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF) supports specific community initiatives through a variety of grants.
WACF also seeks to make significant grants that will be the “Difference Maker” in bringing about community-wide, lasting, and positive changes in the Willmar area. WACF is looking to provide leadership and financial support that goes beyond the grant in order to advance the project or initiative that needs a large dollar amount to get started or completed.
Focus Areas
- Addressing the Achievement Gap for their Youth
- Projects that address access to quality early childhood programming and address barriers to access.
- Projects that improve access to enrichment activities for low income and underserved children.
- Projects that provide ‘on ramps’ for skills, training and experiences beyond a four year college prep focus including apprenticeships, skills training, innovative programming, etc.
- Projects are preferred that help build foundational, technical and soft skills that prepare young people for their future workforce and that help students with challenges to become productive members of their community.
- Increasing Community Connections and Welcoming Diverse Populations
- Projects that welcome newcomers to their community, that create social connections, create an open/welcoming community, address aesthetics and improve the quality of life through art and active recreational opportunities.
- Leadership development projects for emerging leaders of varied ages and backgrounds.
- Newcomer Programs that are community led and culturally relevant or that connect New Americans to education and civic systems.
- Supporting Productive Aging
- Projects that provide basic needs for low income seniors or enrich the quality of life for seniors across the spectrum.
- Activities that deploy multigenerational approaches to connect seniors and youth or projects that meaningfully engage seniors as a volunteer force to address an unmet community need.
Funding Information
$5,000 to $20,000 (focused on single organization, issue or program)
The foundation can be funded
- Small grants: General operations and project/program support
Favorable Considerations
- Are likely to make a clear difference in the quality of life for a substantial number of people.
- Propose practical approaches to resolve current community problems.
- Address diversity and positive change in a constructive manner.
- Help nonprofit organizations manage themselves and their finances more effectively.
- Encourage cooperation and eliminate duplication of services.
- Stimulate others to participate in problem-solving.
- Promote leverage for generating additional funds.
- Sustainability.
Criteria
- Eligible organizations: 501(c) 3 nonprofit organizations, schools or government entities.
- Geographic Area: Kandiyohi County in Minnesota
For more information, visit WACF.
