The United Way of Southeast Louisiana is seeking applications for its 2023-24 Programmatic Grants program.
Donor Name: United Way of Southeast Louisiana
State: Louisiana
Parish: Selected Parishes
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $75,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
UWSELA seeks grant requests across five priority areas aligned with their Blueprint’s prosperity outcomes that they believe will produce long-term change to sustain their mission of to end poverty.
Prosperity Outcomes
Data, community conversations, and partner convenings conducted in 2014 and 2015 resulted in four interrelated outcomes that describe the region United Way and residents they want to see.
- Stability Today: Families have the skills, resources, & opportunities to access basic needs.
- Prosperity Tomorrow: All families have the social, emotional, and financial assets to create a better future.
- Personal Wellness: People of all ages enjoy a high quality of life and well-being.
- Vibrant Communities: All communities are safe, equitable, and thriving.
Additional community conversations held in 2022 drilled down into the four prosperity outcomes, resulting in five priority areas for each parish. Once again, they will give priority to those programs that address these areas for each parish.
- Youth Development: Investing in organizations with a primary focus on serving youth, including both academic and recreational programming, to support the learning, well-being, and prosperity of their next generation.
- Mental Health: Investing in organizations that provide direct counseling and substance abuse treatment to expand the capacity of local providers supporting those facing mental health challenges and to create a more supportive and healthy community.
- Financial Empowerment: Supporting workforce development programs, community-level economic development initiatives, and emergency assistance programs to provide all residents pathways to attaining the skills, opportunities, & supports that undergird economic stability for communities and families.
- Access to Resources: Investing in personnel and community-facing platforms to ensure residents are aware of and able to access existing local supports & resources
- Coordinating & Convening: Supporting efforts to drive coordination between community-serving organizations with the goal of enhancing accountability, information-sharing, and referrals across the ecosystem, resulting in holistic services and solutions for residents.
The following six guiding principles represent the core values of their work and, by extension, the work they want to see from and with their partners:
- Connectivity: They coordinate their efforts to create pathways of prosperity that are trusted, culturally appropriate, accessible, and without bias.
- Equity: They strive to lift up all people and to eliminate systemic barriers to prosperity.
- Lived Experience: They amplify the voices of those they are serving and allow their needs and aspirations to guide their work.
- Long-Term Commitment: They commit to continuing their work until the cycle of poverty is broken, communities are thriving, and people are living prosperously.
- Shared Responsibility: They believe success requires the unique contributions of the entire community, including individuals, families, schools, nonprofits, the faith-based community, funders, governments, and the private sector.
- Systems Change: They embrace their work as holistic and dynamic, impacting people, place, practice, and policy
Funding Information
Grant awards are up to $75,000 for the twelve-month funding period.
Eligible Requirements
Additionally, applicants must also have the following for funding eligibility:
- All participating organizations must operate within Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, or Washington parishes.
- 501c(3) status. Only agencies applying for 501c(3) status are allowed to use a fiscal agent. For-profits are not funded through this process.
- Note: For-profits and agencies organized primarily for religious, fraternal, governmental, political, or to redirect funds are not eligible for funding.
- 2022 or 2021 audited financials, review, or compilation with footnotes (or submit fiscal agent’s)
- 2021 or 2022 IRS 990 or IRS 990N (or fiscal agent’s)
- Volunteer board roster that includes race/ethnicity, age, gender, place of employment, and contact information
For more information, visit UWSEL.
