The Bunbury Fund supports non-profit organizations making significant impacts across central New Jersey, and most specifically Mercer County, to strengthen their capacity to effectively advance their missions toward sustainable, organizational maturity.
Donor Name: Princeton Area Community Foundation
State: New Jersey, Pennsylvania
County: Bucks County (PA), Burlington County (NJ), Huntingdon County (PA), Mercer County (NJ), Middlesex County (NJ), Somerset County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Bunbury Fund’s mission is to strengthen the ability of nonprofit organizations to do their best work. They refer to this work as capacity building. It is work that helps your organization deliver its mission with greater confidence. They respect that what an organization might need in terms of capacity building is best identified by its staff and board. The Bunbury Fund Advisors strongly support and encourage projects and organizations that embrace and promote anti-racism strategies and conduct projects that place racial equity at the core of their work.
Funding Information
- One year capacity-building grants: up to $50,000
- Strengthening the board governance
- Succession planning for board and staff leadership
- Developing strategic partnerships and program collaborations
- Strategic and scenario planning
- Systems upgrades to improve service delivery and measurement
- Embracing practices that support racial equity and inclusion
- Supporting the strategic and capacity building needs of start-ups and newly launched initiatives
- Strengthening Human Resources systems
- Improving technology/communications
- Multi-year capacity building grants: up to $150,000 and up to three years
- Foundation will also review proposals for multi-year projects that focus on developing organizational effectiveness over a period of up to three years. This is work that might be accomplished in phases where the completion requires more than one year.
- Planning Grants: up to $10,000:
- A planning grant helps an organization evaluate the resources required to undertake a more comprehensive capacity-building project. This is often an initial step in determining the needs and viability associated with a larger capacity building project.
Eligibility Criteria
An applicant must have tax-exempt status under Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Service Code, be a publicly supported charity under Section 509, and be registered with the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs as a charity in good standing.
Applications will be accepted from organizations that operate and provide services within the geographic region covered by the Princeton Area Community Foundation, defined as follows:
- Mercer County
- Eastern Bucks County, PA, including New Hope, Morrisville, Washington Crossing and Yardley
- Northern Burlington County, including Bordentown and Bordentown Township
- Southern Hunterdon County, including Lambertville, West Amwell, adjacent parts of East Amwell
- Southern Middlesex County, including Plainsboro and Cranbury
- Southern Somerset County, including Montgomery, Rocky Hill, and adjacent sections of Franklin Twp.
For more information, visit PACF.