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Funding available to support Community-based Organizations in New York
The New York City Good Neighbor Committee seeks to strengthen the Ford Foundation’s ties and support for local organizations working on issues related to the foundation’s mission.
Donor Name: Ford Foundation
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
It also serves as an opportunity to provide Ford staff who are not grantmakers to experience the core work of the foundation. As part of this work, they seek to employ the Ford Foundation’s values and approaches to effective grantmaking practices by supporting the grantees through flexible support, approaching relationships with transparency and trust, and striving to keep burdens light.
Every year, the Good Neighbor Committee provides unrestricted funding to a small group of community-based organizations working locally in New York City in three focus areas:
Within these areas, they prioritize funding for initiatives that reduce the barriers of inequality, create opportunity, and improve the overall quality of life and well-being of those most marginalized in New York City, including communities of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, people of low socioeconomic status, and other underserved groups.
Funding Information
Grants vary between $30k-100k, typically last one year, and are generally unrestricted in nature.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicant organizations must:
Be based in New York City and primarily support local work within the five boroughs
Have 501(c)3 status or work with a fiscal sponsor who does
Work in one of the three priority thematic areas of the GNC
Not be a current grantee of other Ford Foundation programs
Be led, informed by, and accountable to the communities they support.
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