United Way of 1000 Lakes seeks to award grants to nonprofit organizations whose services align with framework strategies and metrics.
Donor Name: United Way of 1000 Lakes
State: Minnesota
County: Itasca County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
United Way of 1000 Lakes strives to create a thriving Itasca-area community where children, individuals, and families can realize their full potential. Situated at the intersection of Itasca’s nonprofit, public service, and business sectors, United Way of 1000 Lakes has a unique vantage point and role to play in ensuring that community works for everyone. United Way’s greatest strength is ability to approach a challenge from multiple directions.
Informed by the voices of community’s residents and nonprofit organizations in community assessment, United Way will focus investments across four impact area pillars:
- Ready Kids, Resilient Families
- Family Financial Stability
- Healthy Minds & Bodies
- Safety Net
The findings in their community assessment also underscored the interconnected nature of educational, economic, and health outcomes for children and the adults in their lives. In response, United Way is introducing a new two-generation approach across community impact area pillars.
To advance a two-generation approach across community, United Way will partner with organizations addressing the multiple domains that impact individual and family success, including:
- Education spanning early childhood through secondary
- Postsecondary and employment pathways
- Family stability and economic asset-building
- Holistic health and wellness
- Social capital and connectedness
Funding Information
Investments, ranging from $2,500 to $15,000.
Population of Focus
United Way will direct resources where they can make the greatest impact, focusing on children, individuals, and families who are vulnerable in Greater Itasca County.
Geographic Area
United Way supports work that is vital to communities, in Itasca County as well as parts of Aitkin and Cass counties and the Leech Lake Reservation.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations must meet the following criteria in order to be considered for funding:
- Serve individuals, children, and/or families who may be vulnerable, marginalized, and/or ALICE (those employed but living paycheck-to-paycheck) with limited resources in greater Itasca County, including: individuals at risk for multiple health problems and/or pre-existing conditions, children and adults facing educational and economic disparities, and individuals experiencing any form of discrimination (racial, ethnic, caste, gender, sexual orientation, disability, cultural, national, religious, etc.).
- Must be a nonprofit agency, including:
- Nonprofit agency designated as a 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code with an active and responsible governing board, whose members have no material conflict of interest.
- Government agencies/units
- Faith-based organizations, provided they can demonstrate that there will be no explicitly faith-related content included in their programming and that there are no discriminatory restrictions on service recipients
- Community organizations without 501c3 status, provided they can document their relationship with a fiscal sponsor with 501c3 status
- Align with United Way’s Impact priorities:
- Ready Kids, Resilient Families
- Healthy Minds & Bodies
- Family Financial Stability
- Have substantial local presence and programming in the geographic area served by United Way of 1000 Lakes, which includes Itasca County and the surrounding communities of Hill City and the Leech Lake Reservation.
Funding will not be provided for:
- Individuals
- For-profit entities
- Political campaigns, candidates, parties, or partisan activities
- Programming that includes theological functions or requires religious participation
For more information, visit United Way of 1000 Lakes.
