The Community Foundation for South Central New York is accepting applications for Projects or Programs that use innovative and/or collaborative approaches to create positive change and that demonstrate the potential to improve the well-being of women and/or girls throughout their lives.
Donor Name: Community Foundation for South Central New York
State: New York
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/21/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The Community Foundation for South Central New York is currently focused on the following issues based on their need assessments which are located
- Safe and Affordable Housing
- Mental Health
- Food Security
- Building the Capacity of Non-Profits
- Racial Justice and Equity
- Arts and Culture
Priorities
Proposals must address one or more of the following areas:
- Promoting economic self-sufficiency
- Supporting healthy decision-making and taking control of one’s life; improving self-esteem
- Strengthening social support
- Leadership development
- Education
- Personal Safety
- Serving women and girls in crisis situations.
Funding Information
The Women’s Fund will consider applications requesting a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation will consider requests from any 501(c)(3) for a program or project that will primarily but not exclusively benefit residents of the Foundation’s service area (Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and/or Tioga counties.) It will also consider requests from certain local government agencies, municipalities and public-school systems within its service area, provided that the proposed project fits the Fund’s criteria for consideration. The determination as to whether a proposed project, or agency, fits the Women’s Fund’s criteria for consideration is made by the Community Foundation for South Central New York.
The Foundation Do Not Consider Requests For:
- Operating or program deficits
- Funding to pay existing mortgages
- Scholarships
- Funding to reimburse an organization for costs that were incurred prior to the date the grant is to be awarded.
- Funding to churches or organizations for religious purposes
- Funding to organizations that have so many counterparts (e.g. scout troops, ambulance squads, volunteer or municipal fire departments, individual schools within a school district, PTAs) that it would be difficult to assess the relative merits of similar proposals.
- Grants to individuals
For more information, visit Women’s Fund.
