The COVID-19 Nonprofit Resilience and Sustainability Grant Program provides assistance to local nonprofits to respond to the negative economic impacts and racial inequities heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 2.5 years.
Donor Name: Valley Medical Center Foundation
State: California
County: Santa Clara County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/19/2022
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
The goal of the grant funds is to help nonprofits undertake strong, resilient, and equitable recoveries and make investments to support long-term growth and opportunity, as nonprofits continue to support the community during recovery.
This one-time funding is designed to address the resulting deficits and needs in organizational infrastructure, such as those related to facilities, planning, data and IT infrastructure, racial equity planning and implementation, and collaboration.
Funding Categories
- Resilience – to assist nonprofits in addressing the negative economic impacts of the pandemic.
- Sustainability – to assist nonprofits with planning or implementing organizational change to strengthen racial equity, diversity, and inclusion within organizational operations and/or in providing services or programming to the community.
Eligible Uses:
Resilience
Economic or disproportionate impacts must have been incurred after March 17, 2020. Grant amount requested must be reasonably proportional to impact experienced. Funding may be used for reasonable staffing costs associated with organizational changes/operations.
Examples of allowable uses under this funding category include, but are not limited to:
- Replenishing high needs inventory or purchasing equipment
- Fortifying IT, data, or financial systems
- Strengthening fiscal, personnel policies, data collection practices
- Creating safe and accessible spaces to mitigate or prevent COVID-19 transmission for staff and users
- Technical assistance, advice, or other services to assist with business planning needs, i.e., strategic planning and assessment of post-pandemic programmatic operations
- Board governance
- Acquiring, modifying, or closing office space or other service-related facilities
Construction Related Capital Expenditures
Applicants are encouraged to review the Capital Expenditures section in the General Provision:
- Other of the Federal Register that describes eligibility standards for construction related expenditures. Construction projects may trigger federal labor standards Davis-Bacon or environmental review requirements (NEPA), if combined with other federal funding sources.
Sustainability
For cost incurred or to be incurred after March 3, 2021. Grant amount requested must be reasonably proportional to impact experienced. Funding may be used for reasonable staffing costs associated with organizational changes/operations.
Examples of allowable uses under this funding category include, but are not limited to:
- Technical assistance or other services to conduct racial equity, diversity, and inclusion organizational planning and implementation.
- Training for staff that will assist the organization to become more accessible, equitable, diverse, and inclusive and/or to provide more accessible, equitable, diverse, and inclusive services.
- Piloting best-practice community outreach and engagement models to increase community decision-making spaces within nonprofits (e.g., promotora models, lived experience advisory boards, etc.).
Funding Information
- The minimum grant amount is $25,000/funding category.
- Maximum grant amount is $150,000/funding category.
- An applicant may apply for funding under both and be eligible for minimum total grant of $50,000 and maximum total grant amount of $300,000, but no grant may exceed $150,000 within a single funding category, per applicant.
Project Duration
- Resilience – All awarded funds must be expended between March 1, 2023, and February 28, 2024 (12 months). Any unused funds at the deadline must be returned to the VMC Foundation.
- Sustainability – All awarded funds must be expended between March 1, 2023, and August 31, 2024 (18 months). Any unused funds at the deadline must be returned to the VMC Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
Minimum Threshold Requirements
- The application must be complete and with applicable attachments in the appropriate section of the application.
- Funding requests must be within the minimum and maximum range by funding category.
Eligibility Requirements
- Entity must be a public or private nonprofit organization who meets the definition of “nonprofit” under ARPA:
- Must have a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) tax-exempt designation at the time of application submission
- Organizations can be fiscally sponsored. Fiscal Agent must be a registered nonprofit.
- Consortiums must have a Lead Agency that meets the eligibility requirements, and must execute Memorandums of Understanding with Member Agencies outlining responsibilities, performance measures, and budget.
- Nonprofits are required to have a registered Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number through Sam.gov. If applicants do not have a UEI, they are encouraged to apply for it as soon as possible. If applied for and is pending, indicate the pending status on Submittable, and upload confirmation received from SAM.gov.
- Compliant with 2 CFR 200.214 Suspension and Debarment. Applicant has not been debarred or suspended or otherwise excluded from participating in Federal assistance programs.
- Nonprofits must show a negative economic impact or disproportionate impact because of the COVID-19 pandemic—including decreased revenue, financial insecurity, increased costs (uncompensated), decreased capacity to weather financial hardship, and challenges covering costs. Disproportionate impact will be presumed for nonprofits operating in QCTs.
- Nonprofits must demonstrate their commitment to advancing racial equity, diversity, and inclusion within its organization and programing.
- Projects must offer services to all residents of Santa Clara County, regardless of age, sex, race, color, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, political or religious opinions or affiliations.
- Applicant must:
- Have a facility in Santa Clara County, or
- Primarily operate in Santa Clara County, or
- Serves populations located in Santa Clara County
For more information, visit Valley Medical Center Foundation.
