The Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque is seeking applications for its Clayton County Foundation for the Future Grants.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
State: Iowa
County: Clayton County (IA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/22/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Foundation also welcomes proposals for projects that benefit a broad spectrum of the community or a chronically underserved segment of the population. They look for projects which:
- Build capacity, enabling nonprofit organizations to strengthen their boards and governance, enhance internal management, and strategically plan for the future, all while focusing on fulfilling their mission
- Enhance community impact and increase organization effectiveness and efficiency through strategic collaboration, including strategic innovations that encourage cooperation, create efficiencies and reduce duplication of services
- Address significant community issues
- Present innovative, creative, and practical proposals which build on community strengths
- Present clear work plans which show the ability to achieve the project’s goal
- Develop the leadership potential of the community
- Involve the people served in the planning and implementation of the program
- Demonstrate quality, vision, effectiveness, collaboration and good management;
- Provide a plan for sustainability beyond the funding period
They award grants in the areas of Health and Human Services, Education, Neighborhoods and
Community Development, the Environment, Children, Youth, and Families, and Arts and Culture, including historic preservation.
Health & Human Services
- Encompasses social service projects that benefit the underserved segments of community. For example, issues of homelessness, health care, brain health, hunger, poverty, and the elderly.
- Empower the underserved to seek solutions
- Promote self-sufficiency
- Programs that focus on long-term approaches to issues
- Provide independence to the elderly and/or to persons with disabilities
- Improve access to health care
- Strengthen the capacity of human service organizations to serve their constituencies
Education
- Encompass community education projects that serve all age groups and segments of population.
- Increase literacy and basic skills development
- Develop efforts that address the needs of students who are most at-risk for dropping out of school or not enrolled
- Promote inclusiveness and diversity
- Provide creative approaches to improvement of educational system.
Neighborhoods and Community Development
- Programs that address community and neighborhood development, both social and economic.
- Encourage community responsibility for solving community problems
- Develop leadership opportunities for youth, minorities and the economically disadvantaged
- Benefit the community’s low-and moderate-income population
- Ensure equal-opportunity in housing, services, and economic opportunity
- Build capacity for non-profits and neighborhood organizations
Environment
- Programs that address natural resources and environment.
- Enhance awareness of regional environmental issues
- Encourage responsible stewardship and conservation of natural resources
Children, Youth & Families
- Programs that enhance the quality of life for children and youth through opportunities to enhance their intellectual, emotional, physical, and social development.
- Support models that encourage an alliance of shared responsibility and coordination of resources among schools, parents and community-based organizations
- Enhance life options of youth through such means as improved basic skills and development of work, life management, and leadership development skills; and reduction of risk-taking behaviors.
- Support efforts to enhance parental understanding of strategies they can use to improve the
educational attainment of their children.
Arts and Culture
- Programs that increase access to and awareness of arts and culture.
Funding Information
Maximum grant request amount for this grant cycle is $1,000.00
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit 501( c)(3) tax-exempt, not-for-profit agency or affiliated with a public agency/unit of government (County, City, School) operating and providing services within Clayton County
- Organizations who do not have 501(c)(3) status are encouraged to find a qualifying agency to sponsor them. A Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement must be attached to the application.
- Example of organizations and sponsors:
- Park and Rec Board sponsored by City Council
- Example of organizations and sponsors:
Applicants must demonstrate a 25% cash match of the requested amount.
For more information, visit Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque.
