With the help of the Otto Bremer Trust (OBT), Forward Community Investments (FCI) offers $500,000 in grants to Wisconsin-based nonprofit organizations and initiatives that are addressing issues of health equity in 2022.
Donor Name: Forward Community Investments
State: Wisconsin
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/31/2022
Grant Size: $25,000
Details:
They envision these grant funds will address and support your work in ways other grants deem unallowable. These much-needed funds must be deployed in providing services to Wisconsin residents in the project areas of:
- Expanding access to affordable housing
- Early Childhood Education
- Workforce Training
- Health Services While Revitalizing Neighborhoods and Rural Communities
Grant funds can be used to support new and existing work that links to ongoing sustained efforts of racial and health equity. Funds can be program-specific or organization-wide. Examples include, but not limited to:
- Events that align health promotion and civic engagement.
- Work intended to change the narrative and/or policies/systems around health, and factors that drive health.
- Events or initiatives that support the development or advancement of collaborations between organizations looking to partner to address root causes of health disparities.
- Support for campaigns that relate to advancing racial and equity, e.g. communications campaigns (Please note that no lobbying or political activity is allowed)
- Supports funding for items that may be unallowable expenses to leverage restricted funding sources.
Funding Information
- FCI will award 20 organizations or initiatives grants of $25,000
- FCI aims to split grant funding to urban and rural communities 50/50
- FCI aims to hold two funding rounds, one in May and the other in September. Each round will award 10 organizations or initiatives a $25,000 grant
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a 501c3 organization or a project sponsored by another 501c3.
- Serves people of color, low to moderate-income individuals, and/or other marginalized groups.
- Not be an affiliate of a national organization.
- Actively work to improve the health and livelihood of Wisconsin residents and provide services related to the project areas listed above.
- Applicants can be involved in, but are not limited to direct service, and community organizing.
- FCI will not fund the following
- Individuals
- Capital campaigns
- Endowments
- For-Profit entities
- Partisan political efforts
For more information, visit Forward Community Investments.
