The Greater Toledo Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Builder Grant Program to supports variety of services in the fields of education, social services, physical and mental health, neighborhood and urban affairs, natural resources, and the arts.
Donor Name: Greater Toledo Community Foundation
State: Ohio and Michigan
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/15/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $25,000
Details:
Greater Toledo Community Foundation is a public charitable organization created by citizens of community to enrich the quality of life for individuals and families in the service area. The Foundation serves northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan with a particular emphasis on the greater Toledo area. Emphasis is placed on programs that will: Create safe, positive living environments; Enable families to develop the skills/resources needed to support and nurture each member; and Foster the development of responsible young people who are capable of achieving their fullest potential.
Community Builder Funds support projects in the following areas:
- New innovative programs that addresses an unmet community need
- Existing program expansions to reach a unique audience
- Capacity building efforts that benefit existing nonprofit organizations.
Funding Information
The Community Builder grant program offers grants of up to $25,000 in the following three categories:
- To provide seed money for new, innovative programming that addresses unmet community needs
- To expand successful programming in order to reach unique audiences
- To provide capacity building benefits to existing nonprofit organizations.
Eligible Activities
In the area of capacity building, the foundation is specifically interested in requests that illustrate how funding will advance the applicant organization to a higher level of operational, programmatic, financial or organizational sophistication. Proposals that promote continuous improvement strategies aimed at increasing sustainability and impact will be prioritized. The following activities are eligible for consideration through the capacity building category:
- Evaluation: funds may be requested to support costs associated with a high-quality, third party assessment designed to ascertain a program’s impact or increase the effectiveness of an organization’s internal process
- Business Planning: funds may be requested to support costs associated with a high-quality consultant to evaluate the organization’s fee structure, staffing configuration and other business practices and create a business plan designed to increase efficiency and sustainability. Funding to support regularly occurring organizational expenses like strategic planning processes will not be a high priority
- Leadership Development: funds may be requested for agency leadership or board members to attend training opportunities. In this category, a high priority will be placed on joint-training sessions that incorporate leadership from multiple organizations. Recurring professional development opportunities like attendance at annual conferences are not eligible for consideration.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible requests can focus on one or more of the three categories above. Grants will only be awarded to nonprofit, charitable organizations which have been designated as having tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code. Applications must propose to provide services benefitting residents of northwest Ohio or southeast Michigan.
For more information, visit GTCF.
