San Diego Foundation seeks innovative, high-impact funding proposals for the newly re-envisioned Community Scholars Initiative (CSI) 2024 Grant Program.
Donor Name: San Diego Foundation
State: California
County: San Diego County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The program supports students who identify in any of the following student groups:
- Students with disabilities
- Foster youth
- Students experiencing homelessness
- English language learners
Successful applicants will submit a proposal that outlines the most promising and impactful strategies and programmatic interventions that contribute to increasing college access, persistence and completion among one or more of the priority student populations.
Types of Funding
SDF seeks proposals from community-based organizations that provide college success programming to one or more of the identified priority student populations to join the Community Scholars Initiative as partners. Each partner will be part of the CSI cohort and will receive a four-year conditional funding commitment from San Diego Foundation and will be a recipient of the following:
- Annual Programmatic Funding: Organizations will be eligible for annual grants in the range of $125,000- $150,000 for up to four years to support programmatic operations. The unrestricted operational dollars allow organizations the flexibility to direct dollars where needed to provide robust college access and success programming to students.
- Annual Emergent Needs/Responsive Funding: Organizations will be eligible for annual grants to maintain a $20,000 responsive fund for basic and emerging needs for CSI-awarded students.
- Technical Assistance Support: Organizations will have access to support for professional development opportunities.
- Networking and Capacity Building Support: Organizations will participate in periodic SDF-sponsored and/or -hosted convenings that are focused on capacity building, professional development and networking.
- Student Scholarships: Organizations will refer their eligible graduating high school seniors to a dedicated needs-based two-year renewable scholarship.
Eligibility Criteria
Minimum Requirements:
- Nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) public charity status in good standing.
- Located in San Diego County with existing track record serving San Diego County.
- A 501(c)(3) public charity may serve as a fiscal sponsor for another applicant to administer the grant and provide regular financial reporting to San Diego Foundation so long as the applicant is in San Diego County and serving San Diego students.
- This grant opportunity will not fund endowments; existing obligations/debt, singular events, such as onetime workshops, or projects that promote religious or political doctrines.
- Any organization may be part of more than one proposal but may only serve as the lead applicant for one proposal. Only lead applicants will receive the grant and be responsible for correspondence with, and reporting to, San Diego Foundation. All other coordination and communication should occur directly between the lead applicant and their program partners.
For more information, visit SDF.
