The Rhode Island Foundation is accepting applications for its Capacity Support for Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Agencies Grants to support nonprofit organizations who provide services in Rhode Island for people who use drugs, those who are seeking or in treatment, and those who are in recovery.
Donor Name: Rhode Island Foundation
State: Rhode Island
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Specifically, this program seeks to aid small, grassroots groups without the tools that larger agencies have to keep them afloat during tough times – like endowments, a long-standing major donor structure, or a rainy day fund.
This program will provide unrestricted funding to small, grassroots organizations that are carrying out key opioid mitigation activities like the ones described in Rhode Island’s Opioid Settlement Agreement.
Principles
These nonprofit capacity building grants will be made based on these principles:
- Dollars will be unrestricted – with one requirement: they should focus on addressing organizational successes and challenges, and cannot be tied to direct service delivery.
- Grants will be for one year, with the possibility of a no-cost extension if agreed to by the Rhode Island Foundation and EOHHS.
- Dollars can be spent on both front-line staff and organizational leadership.
- Organizations can consider using these dollars to fund time off (sabbaticals) for staff (front line and leadership) who need to recharge.
Funding Information
Proposals may be made to address organizational successes and challenges as defined below that require $100,000 in funding, for one year.
Considerations for Addressing Organizational Successes and Challenges
Organizational successes and challenges impact your organization’s ability to meet your program delivery goals. However, they are not the same as program delivery successes and challenges, which would include whether you met your service delivery targets.
Here are some examples of organizational successes and challenges that organizations could address with this capacity-building funding:
- Creating new funding models for sustainability
- Staffing needs: investing in recruitment, retention, and capacity, addressing burnout and trauma response, or planning for staffing compensation changes, including benefits
- Governance: strengthening board capacity
- Fiscal needs: addressing cash on hand needs; creating a 2 to 3 month rainy day operating fund; addressing operational overhead cost needs
- Addressing facility/space related issues including accessibility
- Helping with supply chain related issues
- Building communications capacity including linguistic capacity
- Supporting technical assistance needs, including strategic planning
- Addressing technology-related needs
- Building evaluation capacity, including data collection capacity
Eligibility Criteria
- Small to midsize organizations. A small organization has a budget up to $1,000,000. A mid-size organization has a budget from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. Budget total allowances will be based on the most recent completed fiscal year.
- Organizations with a demonstrated track record of opioid prevention, harm reduction, treatment, or recovery activity, as evidenced by grants that you have received, publicly promoted programming, media accounts, and/or board meeting minutes.
- Organizations that are committed to promoting equity and eliminating disparities, as evidenced by their mission statements, publicly stated program priorities, data collection practices, and/or board meeting minutes.
- To meet the State’s focus on equity and eliminating disparities, organizations led by members of Rhode Island’s BIPOC community, LGBTQ+ Rhode Islanders, Veteran Rhode Islanders, Rhode Islanders with disabilities, and others who are disproportionately impacted by overdose are especially welcome to apply.
- Individual nonprofit or collaborations of 501(c) organizations located in and serving the state of Rhode Island are eligible to apply.
- This program does not fund individuals, scholarships or research, capital or endowment efforts, or fundraising events.
- Grants may support faith-based organizations for secular programs or projects.
- The Rhode Island Foundation believes that their community can best be served by charitable organizations that both reflect and serve the diversity of their community. They do not award grants to applicants or for programs that have a policy that discriminates against any person or group in any way that is either unlawful or inconsistent with the mission or values of the Foundation.
For more information, visit Rhode Island Foundation.
