Community Impact Grant Program will fund efforts to make a positive impact on the quality of life and create a better future for residents in the community.
Donor Name: Golden Civic Foundation
State: Colorado
City: Golden
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Types of Grants
- Capacity-Building Grants
- Capacity-Building Grants exist to foster efforts to increase organizational effectiveness and sustainability. Proposals should include developing and strengthening an organization’s skills, resources, and processes to help it achieve its mission.
- Example Capacity-Building Grant efforts include:
- Board training that enhances organizational capacity in the areas of recruitment, orientation, or retention
- Board governance
- Leadership development
- Organization/Board Planning (annual/strategic)
- Collaboration/Partnerships
- Financial management oversight (budgets and financial reporting)
- Development of best practices in non-profit management
- Development of succession plans (leadership and non-leadership levels)
- Technology (use/implementation, needs assessment, planning)
- Communications/Marketing planning
- Service (design, evaluation, record keeping)
- Project management training
- Staff development and training (team building, performance management, staffing structure)
- Creation of peer-to-peer learning opportunities
- Program Grants
- Program Grants exist to build a healthy and thriving community. Proposals should advance solutions to our community’s greatest challenges using innovative strategies and a collaborative spirit. This opportunity is intended to support basic needs or civic purposes.
- Example Program Grant efforts include:
- Activities that assist low-income or otherwise disadvantaged individuals to meet basic needs, such as food, health care, and urgent housing needs, like emergency rental assistance.
- Activities that enhance Golden’s culture and heritage and are likely to be of economic benefit to and broadly used by the Golden community.
Funding Information
Grant range: $500 to $5,000.
Selection Criteria
Each of these Community Impact Grants will be evaluated with the following criteria. A strong proposal will:
- Fulfill the intended purpose of the selected grant type (Capacity-Building or Program).
- Demonstrate alignment with one or more of GCF’s Funding Priorities and its mission to advance the economic and cultural vitality of Golden.
- Articulate a well-defined need with clearly defined actions to meet the need.
- Leverage other available funding and partnerships to have the greatest impact.
- Define success for the proposed work and how it will be measured.
For more information, visit GCF.
