The Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Foundation is proud to offer grant proposal support for nonprofit organizations that do not have access to a professional grant writer or certified fundraising expert (CFE).
Donor Name: Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Foundation
State: Washington
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000 up to $10,000
Details:
PSE Foundation is dedicated to Empowering Community Resiliency. For their 2023 Competitive Grant Program, they want to hear what your nonprofit needs to help you expand impact and accomplish the important goals and objectives you’ve established to serve their shared communities.
Grant requests must demonstrate how funds will be used to develop or strengthen competencies, strategies, systems or structures to help improve organizational effectiveness within the funding areas below:
- Food Security
- What will fund: Projects that support existing community food and meal suppliers or foodbanks such as equipment or facility repairs, program expansion and beyond the shelf needs
- What it is not: Direct food purchases or general operating support (separate charitable programs will focus on non-competitive direct food purchases)
- Shelter
- What will fund: Rent assistance/subsidies, program administration or technology enhancement, community needs assessments or other efforts that enhance capacity of programming or clients served
- What it is not: Direct material purchases or general operating support
- Literacy
- What will fund: Training and certification for childcare or community educators, stabilization or expansion of existing literacy programs in all forms including language services or education assistance programs that provide upward mobility for community members or youth
- What it is not: Scholarships for individuals or general operating support
- Nonprofit Staff Training
- What will fund: Professional training and/or development for nonprofit staff and volunteers that enable them to effectively accomplish their work or nonprofit goals. Proposals should have specific goals with proposed and/or identified training resources.
- What it is not: Personal development, individual tuition assistance, or general operating support
Funding Information
Applicants may request awards ranging from $5,000 up to $10,000 for grant requests. The program is funded at a total of $600,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- An active IRS 501(C) 3 public charity or a tribal government designation. Additionally, community organizations that have an IRS fiscal sponsor may apply for funding utilizing the tax-ID associated with the sponsoring organization (please reference within the application the roles of each organization).
- Must be located in and serving the public within Puget Sound Energy’s 10-county service area (Whatcom, Island, Skagit, Snohomish, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Pierce, Lewis and Thurston counties).
- Cannot fund: Individual K-12 schools, youth groups, clubs, families or persons. Fundraisers or event sponsorships. Permanent staff payroll, wages or salaries. Cannot be classified as a religious or political organization unless charitably serving the public without discrimination (such as a food bank).
For more information, visit PSE.
