The Decatur County United Fund (DCUF) is dedicated to improving lives and strengthening community by advancing education, health, and financial stability for all.
Donor Name: Decatur County United Fund
State: Indiana
County: Decatur County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/05/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Decatur County United Fund is working to create the kind of community they all want to live in. Where every child graduates and achieves their dreams, where every person has a good job that allows them to fully provide for their family, and where every family is stronger because they are healthy.
Priorities
Applications for funding must address one or more of the following impact priorities described below.
- Education Community Focus on Childhood & Youth Success
- Children enter primary school prepared for success.
- Youth and adults gain the knowledge, skills, and credentials needed to obtain family sustaining employment.
- Health Community Focus on Improved Health
- Individuals and families have access to quality healthcare.
- Individuals and families continue to improve their health.
- Financial Stability Community Focus on Economic Success
- Individuals or families are economically stable and resilient.
- Individuals are meeting basic needs.
Funding Information
The expected salary range for this position is $50,000–$75,000, based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
- Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; confident and engaging public speaker.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to develop and execute long-term plans aligned with organizational goals.
- Strong leadership experience, including talent development and team management
- Solid financial acumen, including budgeting and data analysis.
- Project management expertise with strong organizational skills & ability to prioritize
- Proven ability in fundraising and donor relationship management.
- Problem solving mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office; ability to learn new systems and databases.
- Minimum 3-5 years management experience (non-profit experience preferred); bachelor’s degree or higher preferred.
- Flexible schedule to accommodate early mornings, late evenings and occasional weekends.
Eligibility Criteria
Mission
- Applicants must have a clear purpose and function to provide a health or human service in Decatur County and contribute to the health and welfare of individuals and families residing therein.
- Projects must provide services with a non-religious purpose. For this reason, faith-based organizations submitting requests for religious purposes will not be considered.
Corporate Structure
- Applicants must be a 501(c) 3, non-profit corporation, exempt from federal income tax as determined under the 501(c) 3 provision of the Internal Revenue Service Code.
- Applications must demonstrate a need for Decatur County United Fund financial support and be willing to submit financial and program data as requested.
- All requests must be essential to the organization’s ability to provide human services. Local funding sources for capital requests are available in Decatur County. Therefore, capital requests are discouraged and will be considered only when the request is essential for the organization to provide human services.
Governance
- Organization must have an established, rotating, voluntary Board of Directors which meets regularly and serves without compensation.
- Organizations must be willing to seek funding from other sources, such as the government, third party entities, other nonprofits, individuals, and families based on their ability to pay for services rendered.
- All applying organizations must operate and provide services without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or physical handicap.
- Applicants must comply with all federal, state, and local laws pertaining to employer relationship, services rendered, and other applicable concerns.
Personnel
Organizations receiving grant funding agree to comply with the following:
- Identify their affiliation with the Decatur County United Fund in their communications, by use of the Decatur County United Fund logo or other written recognition.
- Avoid supplementary fund raising or capital campaign efforts during the Decatur County United Fund’s Blackout Period, September 1 through November 6; unless the Decatur County United Fund determines that it will not conflict with the annual campaign.
- Provide progress reports and data as requested.
- Consideration of Decatur County United Fund requests, including, but not limited to, participation in campaign presentations.
Programming
To assure equity and fairness in the decision making process, proposals will be evaluated in light of the following criteria:
- Ability of the program to impact the Decatur County United Fund’s impact priorities, including education, health and financial stability with measurable outcomes.
- Implementation of unique programs and services currently unavailable in Decatur County. Avoidance of duplicate community services is encouraged.
- Evidenced based/performance based programs with a history of success and strong capabilities of the requesting nonprofit/organization.
- Potential to reach multiple individuals, across Decatur County.
- Ability to develop funds to sustain the project, if needed, after funding through the Decatur County United Fund is expended.
- The extent and completeness to which the need for the program is substantiated.
- The extent of collaboration with other agencies and use of volunteers, where appropriate.
For more information, visit DCUF.
