The Alaska Community Foundation is currently accepting applications for the ARPA Nonprofit Recovery Fund (ANRF) grant opportunity.
Donor Name: The Alaska Community Foundation
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000 to $750,000
Details:
The ARPA provides four categories of eligible expenditures. For the purpose of this grant opportunity, only activities and applicants that fall under the ARPA guidelines are considered eligible expenses. Qualified expenses must meet the following two requirements:
- It incurred in response to the Coronavirus pandemic public health emergency or its negative economic impacts, including assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel, and hospitality.
- Must be incurred during the period that begins on March 3, 2021, and ends on June 30, 2022.
The State of Alaska has awarded $20 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development for distribution to the nonprofit sector. The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development is partnering with The Alaska Community Foundation to distribute grants to the nonprofit sector in response to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts.
Priorities
This funding will prioritize proposals from organizations working on frontlines of health and social services response and charitable organisations serving communities most disproportionally impacted by pandemic.
Funding Information
Organizations’ grant awards through this program will range from $25,000 to $750,000. The total grantmaking allocation for this program is $20,000,000 for both rounds of funding, with estimates of $12,500,000 available in the first round and the balance available in the second round.
Eligible Applicants
Your Organization is one of the following:
- 501(c)3 public charitable organization with 509(a)1, 509(a)2, or 509(a)3 public charitable status as designated in your IRS Determination letter.
- 501(c)4 and 501(c)6 charitable organizations, but these funds cannot be utilized for lobbying or advocacy activities.
- 501(c)19 public charitable organization.
- Faith-based organization providing social services to the broader community.
- Tribal organization including housing authorities.
- Local government.
Preference will be given to organizations that have received minimal or no relief to date.
And have experienced one or both of the following:
- Your organization experienced a loss of income caused by broad-based economic damage that the pandemic has wrought.
- Your organization has incurred or will incur expenses in direct response to the Coronavirus public health emergency.
For more information, visit ARPA Nonprofit Recovery Fund.
