The Main Street Community Foundation is accepting applications for its Women & Girls Fund to help women and girls realize their potential and improve the quality of their lives.
Donor Name: Main Street Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
Towns: Bristol, Burlington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Wolcott
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/09/2022
Details:
The Women & Girls Fund was created in 2001 as a community-based endowment of the Main Street Community Foundation. The Women & Girls Fund seeks to deepen their impact by also encouraging organizations to build internal capacity ensuring their sustainability and the ongoing support of women and girls in their community.
Grant Guidelines
- Each request must include stated outcomes and criteria by which they will be evaluated.
- In general, grants are made for future, planned expenditures and not to cover operating deficits or previously incurred obligations.
- A proportionate amount of salaries, overhead/operational expenses can be included in the program or project budget for which funding is being requested.
- Grants for capital expenditures will be given consideration if the project is designed to directly benefit programs which meet the fund’s guidelines.
- The Main Street Community Foundation, at its sole discretion, may provide outright grants, challenge grants or grants which require matching funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are made for a charitable purpose and must serve the public to be a charitable expenditure. Competitive Grants are awarded to 501(c)(3) not for profit organizations while grants to 170(c)(1) public or governmental units are considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Either the organization or the program for which funding is requested, must provide a service to the residents of Bristol, Burlington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington and/or Wolcott. Strong documentation must be provided from out- of-area organizations that they serve individuals from our six-town service area.
- A Statement of Non-Discrimination Policy must be signed.
- Repeat requests from agencies are certainly welcome. If an organization’s request for funding is approved two years in a row, the organization is asked to wait one year before submitting another request for funding.
- Follow up reports from all closed grants must have been completed and returned to Main Street Community Foundation. If they have not, the organization will not be eligible for funding.
Projects Not Funded
Projects generally not funded by the Burlington Community Fund include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Operating/budgets deficits
- Day-to-day operating expenses
- Previously incurred obligations
- Endowments, research, political and/or lobbying activities
- Property repairs/maintenance
- Loans and memorials
- Replacement of governmental or other public funding
- Fundraising events
For more information, visit Main Street Community Foundation.
