The Oregon Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Grants Program to support healthy, thriving and sustainable communities.
Donor Name: Oregon Community Foundation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 – $30,000
Details:
Program Goal
- To support healthy, thriving and sustainable communities with funding awarded through an open, responsive grantmaking program that offers flexible types of support to organizations in response to community-defined needs.
- This program prioritizes communities in Oregon most impacted by social, economic and racial injustices and inequities.
Funding Priorities
They know that nonprofits’ funding needs will far exceed our limited grant dollars. While a broad range of nonprofits are eligible to apply, they will prioritize funding in support of the following populations disproportionately impacted by social, economic and/or racial injustices and inequities in Oregon (listed in alphabetical order):
- Black, Indigenous, Latinx and people of color
- Immigrants and/or refugees
- People experiencing disabilities
- People living on low incomes
- People living in under-resourced communities and/or communities lacking critical infrastructure
- People who are homeless/unsheltered
- People who identify as LGBTQIA+
- Survivors of domestic violence and/or child abuse
Types of Funding
- General Operating Support
- Unrestricted funding to support an organization in carrying out its mission
- Capacity Building
- To help strengthen and stabilize an organization’s governance, operations, internal culture and/or community relationships.
- Project/Program
- To develop, adapt or expand programming to respond to community priorities (Not intended to maintain an existing program as is)
- Capital
- To support small capital projects that will benefit priority populations
Grant Award Amounts
An average Community Grant is around $20,000. They anticipate that most grant awards will range between $5,000 – $30,000. In limited situations, they will consider requests up to $40,000 for efforts that very closely match.
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)(3) organizations, Tribal entities and government entities are eligible to apply.
- Additionally, other types of organizations may work with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor to submit an application.
- Applicants must submit formal paperwork confirming the fiscal sponsor relationship.
- Organizations with an active Community Grant or any other OCF grant are eligible to apply.
- Organizations scheduled to apply for renewal of an active Community Grant may submit either a Community
- Grants Renewal application or a new 2022 Community Grants application, but not both.
For more information, visit Community Grants Program.
