The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona is seeking applications for Innovative grants.
Donor Name: Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona
State: Arizona
County: Cochise County (AZ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/05/2022
Grant Size: $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Every year the Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona funds Innovation Grants for projects that are aligned with the Foundation Mission of Promoting Population Health and Community Wellness. Collaboration and forging partnerships with other community organizations are key determinants in funding decisions.
The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona will kick off the Innovative Grant Cycle with a workshop that will provide full information regarding the goals of the cycle.
Types of Requests
The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona encourages proposals that:
- Convene organizations and collaborate on how best to address the Innovative project.
- Engage innovative, mission-driven collaborations/partnerships.
- Increase community capacity by identifying and addressing issues affecting community health and wellbeing.
- Consider how you might design systems and policies to improve health where we live, learn, work, worship and play.
- Consider not only issues affecting basic physical needs, community outreach, and access to services, but consider them in terms of incorporating how you might improve the environmental, social, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, and emotional (behavioral and health infrastructure) conditions that impact determinants of health and enable community members to be healthy and resilient.
- Create a solution to the problem being addressed that can be sustained beyond the term of the grant funding.
Funding Information
Each year the Legacy Foundation offers Innovative Grants up to $50,000 a year for up to two years, ($100,000 max).
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization is, and for the term of the grant funding will remain, an eligible recipient, defined as:
- An organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) and classified as a public charity (other than a Type III nonfunctionally integrated supporting organization);
- An organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) and classified as a private operating foundation; or
- A government entity described in Section 170(c)(1) and the grant will be used exclusively for public purposes
Innovative Projects must meet at least one of the following criteria:
- New and innovative way to perform existing program
- New idea that’s never been tried
- Project creates new collaborative partnerships
- New program for your organization
- New project for your organization
For more information, visit Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona.
