2024-2025 Plan of Action for Community Transformation Grant (Louisiana)

The United Way of Acadiana 2024-2025 Plan of Action for Community Transformation grant is focused on supporting organizations who are positively impacting the community.

Donor Name: United Way of Acadiana

State: Louisiana

Parish: Acadia Parish (LA), Iberia Parish (LA), Lafayette Parish (LA), Saint Martin Parish (LA), Vermilion Parish (LA)

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 03/29/2024

Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000

Grant Duration: 1 Year

Details:

United Way of Acadiana is excited to invest in these organizations and to support their programs through enrichment opportunities, volunteer mobilization, and connections that will lay the foundation for future community growth.

Started in 2008, PACT United is a competitive, community-wide initiative focused on supporting community partnerships that are aligned with United Way of Acadiana’s focus on bettering Acadiana. United Way of Acadiana’s goals for Acadiana are creating a Healthy Community, providing Opportunities for Acadiana’s Youth, and ensuring families in the region have Financial Security. By focusing on supporting these needs, United Way, and their PACT partners, are collectively creating a Resilient Community; a vision they all have for the Acadiana.

United Way of Acadiana seeks to fund organizations with programs that align with UWA’s goals for the community:

• Healthy Community: The foundation of a healthy community lies in access to affordable healthcare, safe housing, and nutritious food, to ensure everyone has a better life.
  • Priority: Address barriers to health and wellbeing
    • Food and Nutrition Security: Build/support programs that address food insecurity and promote access to nutritious foods.
    • Health Inequity: Collaborate with local government agencies, healthcare providers, schools, and other nonprofits to create a network of support for people needing shelter or healthcare.
• Youth Opportunity: A thriving community begins with the development of youth, to ensure they have access to opportunities to support their growth from cradle to career.
  • Priority: Empower families, teachers, and youth advocates through support and resources
    • Family Literacy: Forge partnerships with schools, community organizations, and youth-focused facilities to create a network that supports family literacy.
    • Opportunities for Youth: Establish/support after-school programs that offer tutoring, skill-building workshops, and/or extracurricular activities.
• Financial Security: Data shows that 51% of Louisiana households are ALICE or below and lack the resources to afford the basic necessities (shelter, transportation, food and utilities).
  • Priority: Provide pathways to obtain financial stability.
    • Financial Literacy: Develop and conduct regular financial literacy workshops that provide access to tools and resources unavailable to underserved communities.
• Community Resiliency: A resilient community is healthy, financially secure and provides youth opportunities while thriving through adversity.
  • Priority: Lead new approaches to develop innovative solutions.
    • Volunteerism: Lead new approaches to develop innovative solutions.
    • Care Network: Build a quality care network that connects the community to their basic needs.

Funding Information

• Amount – Up to $100,000.
• Length – One Year.

Eligibility Criteria

Organizations must be designated 501(c)(3) (tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service). Funds will only support programming within one or more of the following parishes: Acadia, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin, and/or Vermilion.

Applicant organizations must also meet the following requirements:

• Be in existence for at least three years
• Governed by a Board of Directors that meets at least quarterly
• Possess audited financial statements (if revenue is $300,000 or more) or CPA’s review for fiscal years older than the most recent fiscal year.

For more information, visit UWA.