The Safety Net Grant Program supports organizations and community groups that provide critical access to essential services and emergency assistance for individuals and families, particularly for those who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
Donor Name: Brookline Community Foundation
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Safety Net grants support organizations, projects, and efforts that provide essential services to individuals and families who live, learn, work, and play in the Brookline community.
Safety Net grants can be used to support a range of activities related to providing, adapting, or expanding vital essential services and/or addressing crises such as fires or pandemics. Essential services can include, but are not limited to: direct cash assistance, rental assistance, food access programs, utility payments, and child care assistance.
In the context of this grant program, essential services are defined as being any and all resources essential to promoting and maintaining health, wellness, safety and belonging. Examples include but are not limited to:
- Healthy food
- Safe, stable, and affordable housing
- Access to medical and mental health care
- Primary and continuing education
- Quality affordable childcare or out-of-school time programming
- Social support services, including those that address social isolation
- Language and translation services
Priority Considerations
In alignment with our organizational vision, as they review proposals, they will give preference to community organizations and groups that:
- are working to advance equity (including removing barriers to opportunities, meeting the immediate individual needs of those impacted by inequities, addressing root causes of inequities);
- and/or focus on BIPOC and other vulnerable or marginalized populations, including those populations most impacted by the pandemic
Funding Information
Grant requests are limited to $25,000 or below this year.
Grant Period
1 year
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)(3) nonprofits organizations, Town departments or agencies, and community groups can apply for funding. If you are a Town department or agency, please see our additional guidelines. Organizations and groups that are currently funded through other BCF grant programs are eligible to apply.
- Proposed projects or programs should directly benefit members of the Brookline community, which they define as those who live, learn, work, or play in Brookline.
- If an organization or project is new and/or not yet tax-exempt (is not a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), an application may be submitted through a fiscal sponsorship. BCF can assist applicants in identifying an appropriate fiscal sponsor. If you are interested in pursuing fiscal sponsorship, please refer to our Grant FAQs for more information or contact BCF.
- BCF grants cannot be used to cover travel costs, political campaigns, or lobbying, and they are unable to provide direct support or scholarships to individuals. While they cannot provide direct assistance to individuals, BCF grant programs may fund organizations and groups that provide direct financial support or scholarships to individuals.
- To be eligible, an applicant must be operated and organized so that it does not discriminate in the hiring of staff or provision of services on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, military status, or disability. Applicants must be in good standing with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, including current Form PC filing, if required.
For more information, visit BCF.
