Grants to help address Community Needs in Michigan

The Community Foundation for Oceana County is seeking applications for its 2022 Community Grant.

Donor Name: Community Foundation for Oceana County (CFOC)

State: Michigan

County: Oceana County (MI)

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 10/17/2022

Grant Size: up to $5,000

Details:

Areas of Focus

• Arts
  • Encourage quality Arts programming benefiting a diverse audience
  • Support Arts education and programs for youth
  • Improve access to cultural programs, especially for children and youth
  • Promote financial stability and organizational development for arts organizations
• Education
  • Promote educational opportunities through post-secondary scholarships
  • Find opportunities that can impact all public and private K-12 districts. Programs and projects serving multiple districts would receive greater consideration
  • Support projects that encourage High School completion and success in school
  • Promote educational opportunities for the unemployed, under-employed
  • Support programs & projects that promote college (any post-secondary education & training) and career readiness
• Health and Human Services
  • Promote healthy lifestyles through education and prevention
  • Improve access to quality health care for all residents
  • Promote health programs and projects that increase the quality of health care available in Oceana County
  • Support programs that encourage families to become self-sufficient
  • Support programs targeted to the elderly and youth
• Community Development
  • Support projects that promote downtown development throughout Oceana County
  • Support capital projects with county-wide impact and benefit
  • Support capital renovation projects only if they provide new and expanded programming
  • Support civic improvement and economic development efforts
  • Support projects that improve the image and perception of the community, including projects that embrace racial diversity and inclusion
  • Support programs that improves workforce development & talent creation
• Emerging Community Needs
  • They know their standard grant categories don’t cover all community needs. The Distribution Committee and dedicated grant committees address other important or emerging community issues when they arise and as they are able to respond. Just give us a call to discuss your emerging issue and they can brainstorm together.
• Other Special Funding Areas
  • Environment – support for environmentally oriented programs and projects
  • Homelessness Prevention – support programs and projects that provide a local base of support for long-term commitment to homelessness prevention activities
  • Parks – support programs and projects that beautify and enhance current and future parks
  • Golden Township – support capital improvement projects within Golden Township
  • Hesperia Area – support programs & projects in Hesperia village & township

Qualities of the best grant proposals:

• Collaborative, comprehensive, and sustainable
• Designed to prevent problems, rather than simply addressing the effects of problems
• Provide start-up or seed funding for innovative projects
• Leverage grant dollars to bring in additional funds; have multiple sources of funding

Funding Information

Because of limited financial resources at this time, the Foundation generally makes only one-time grant commitments up to $5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

They give grants to 501(c)(3) organizations, churches, schools, agencies, and governmental units serving the greater Oceana County area.

For more information, visit CFOC.