The Organizational & Professional Development Grant is designed to strengthen cultural non-profit leadership and organizational effectiveness to better serve Oregon’s cultural community.
Donor Name: Cultural Trust
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2026
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Organizational & Professional Development Grant Program is an opportunity available to cultural nonprofits in Oregon as well as Cultural Trust County and Tribal Cultural Coalitions and their members. Applying organizations must have an annual operating budget of under $1.5 million.
Funding Categories
This program has two categories:
- Organizational Development: This category supports organizational development with a maximum award of $2,500 for capacity building through professional consultation and/or facilitation projects.
- Professional Development: This category supports professional development for key leaders of cultural nonprofit organizations and Cultural Coalitions in the professional development categories listed below. A maximum of $1,000 per opportunity may be requested. An organization or Coalition may submit and receive up to two grants per year in this category. Organizations are eligible to submit up to two requests per application cycle, however in general organizations may not receive more than a total of $1,000 from this category per cycle.
Grant Period
September 1, 2025- July 30, 2026.
Eligible Projects
- Organizational Development Projects may include:
- Strategic planning
- Organizational branding/marketing plans
- Board development
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training/policy development
- Audience development or marketing plans
- Fund development planning
- Evaluating and planning to make facilities, programs and staff accessible to individuals with disabilities
- Financial management planning
- Executive development
- Transition planning
- Professional Development projects may include:
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be staff members (full or part time) of organizations that meet the following eligibility criteria or County/Tribal Cultural Coalition members. A cultural nonprofit registered on the Cultural Trust website which is:
- a recognized 501(c)(3) organization by the IRS and
- current with all grant reporting requirements to the Cultural Trust and its funding partners or A County/Tribal Cultural Coalition, current with all grant reporting requirements.
For more information, visit Cultural Trust.
