Grants to improve the Quality of Life in South Carolina
Connected Communities is a challenge grant for interesting and engaging ideas to improve the community’s quality of life and livability and increase residents’ satisfaction and community attachment.
Donor Name: Central Carolina Community Foundation
State: South Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Central Carolina Community Foundation is working to make the Midlands more connected, vibrant, compassionate, and engaged. It strives for a livable, equitable and just community to live, work, play and raise a family. Connected Communities grants support this work through funding innovative ideas from nonprofit organizations that will further knit community together. The Foundation aims to inspire organizations to engage and invest in community and build on the community’s existing assets.
More specifically, Connected Communities grants will fund the most important elements of an attractive community as identified by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Gallup, and On the Table community surveys.
Connected Communities projects should increase the quality of life, community attachment and satisfaction by increasing Midlands residents’ easy access to:
Priority will be given to projects that promote equity, and incorporate policy, advocacy, institutional/systems change and/or social justice (equal rights, opportunity, and treatment for all). Central Carolina Community Foundation encourages organizations outside Richland County and/or benefiting communities of color to apply.
Funding Information
Applicants may request $10,000-$60,000.
Eligibility Requirements
Organizations must be determined as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, public entities or other charitable, educational or faith-based
Organizations must be physically located in one of the following 11 counties in the Midlands: Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda and Sumter
Organizations must register for and participate in Midlands Gives
Current Connected Communities grantees can apply; the same project can only be funded a maximum of three If a program/project is funded more than once, the grantee matching requirement will increase annually: 1st – 20%, 2nd – 30% and 3rd – 40%
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