The Connecticut Community Foundation is accepting applications for its Building Equitable Opportunity.
Donor Name: Connecticut Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/14/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 and $10,000
Details:
Building Equitable Opportunity seeks to explore solutions across generations and systems.
Focus on equitable opportunity emerged from research on the deep educational and economic disparity that exists in their region. They found disparity based on race, and also income, age, geography, and gender/sexuality.
Efforts they support include:
- Increasing collaboration between school systems and preschools to align readiness, support kindergarten transition, and focus on parent voice
- Evidence-based initiatives that improve the quality of the pre-k and K-12 experience for Black and Latinx, low-income, and children with disabilities
- Interventions that address disproportionate minority contact in in pre-K-12 education and expand access to pathways to college
- Programs that substantially build the long-term assets and economic resiliency/mobility of residents (such as financial education and planning, job and skills training, etc.)
Funding Information
The average amount is between $5,000 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to apply for funding, an organization must:
- Be a not-for-profit organization recognized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a municipal entity seeking a grant for public purposes. Organizations may also have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor, if they do not have their own nonprofit status.
- Have a board, representative of the community, of which a majority is neither employees nor relatives of employees.
- Possess a Nonprofit Registration to Solicit Funds (or exemption, if appropriate) from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. This registration must be renewed annually.
For more information, visit CCF.
