The Community Foundation of Jackson County is accepting applications to support the needs of the communities throughout Jackson County.
Donor Name: Community Foundation of Jackson County
State: Iowa
County: Jackson County (IA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priority Areas
- 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
- Diversity – Programs that bring tolerance, inclusion, and value to people of all backgrounds regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age or physical challenges.
- Teaching tolerance to youth: Fostering a generation free of bias and intolerance
- Alleviating discrimination: Encouraging communities to be free of prejudice
- Education – Encompass community education projects that serve all age groups and segments of the 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
- Provide creative approaches to improvement of the educational system.
- The Environment – Programs that address the natural resources and environment
- Enhance awareness of regional environmental issues
- Encourage responsible stewardship and conservation of the natural resources
- Health & Human Services – Encompasses social service projects that benefit the underserved segments of the community. (For example, issues of homelessness, health care, hunger, poverty, and the elderly.)
- Empower the underserved to seek solutions and promote self-sufficiency
- Programs that focus on long-term approaches to issues
- Children, Youth, Families and Senior Citizens – 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
- Enhance life options of youth through such means as improved basic skills and
- Support efforts to enhance parental understanding of strategies they can use to improve the educational attainment of their children.
- Arts and Culture, including Historic Preservation – Programs that increase access to and awareness of arts and culture.
- Encourage participation and awareness in the arts and culture among underserved populations
- Increase public exposure to and appreciation of different ethnic and cultural art forms.
- Support efforts that encourage life-long learning experiences.
- Support efforts to preserve the history of Jackson County
- Wellness Projects – Programs that promote health, wellness education and disease prevention
- Address the particular health needs of traditionally underserved populations
- Encourage solutions for long-term improvement in healthy behaviors
- Increase the priority for physical health and emotional well-being.
The Foundation 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:
- address significant community issues and lead to long-term, sustainable solutions
- present innovative, creative, and practical proposals which build on community strengths
- focus on strategic innovations that encourage cooperation, create efficiencies and reduce duplication of services
- has clear and measurable program results
- improves quality of life for the most disadvantaged in the community.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, an organization/program shall:
- Provide services within Jackson County
- Be a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, public institution, and/or organization without nonprofit status partnering with a fiscal sponsor organization
- Operate in a manner that no applicable anti-discrimination laws are violated
- Submit only one proposal per funding year per organization.
For more information, visit CFGD.
