Spencer Fane is excited to announce it is now accepting applicants for its 2025 Charitable Grant Program in Kansas City.
Donor Name: Spencer Fane
State: Missouri
City: Kansas City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Spencer Fane Charitable Grant Program supports Kansas City-based nonprofit arts organizations through a $50,000 donation paid in installments over the course of three years. The program is rotational, with one new recipient entering each year as a previously selected organization exits upon completion of its three-year cycle.
The primary goal of the program is to provide necessary financial assistance to deserving organizations while fostering strong and impactful community relationships. Simultaneously, Spencer Fane hopes to promote involvement among employees and encourage long-standing relationships which mutually benefit causes close to the firm and the selected organizations. Spencer Fane seeks to support opportunities that meet the firm’s core philanthropic objectives:
- Impact: Concentrate charitable contributions to have maximum impact on select causes within the community.
- Relationships: Create opportunity to grow long-lasting relationships with organizations in the community.
- Involvement: Develop partnerships that allow the attorneys and staff an opportunity to become active participants in the nonprofit community.
- Commitment: Demonstrate the firm’s commitment to each cause by dedicating resources over a three-year period to each organization selected for the program.
- DEI: Support organizations that share the firm’s commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion both within the own firm and in the greater Kansas City community.
To be considered as a 2025 applicant, an organization must:
- Have a strong focus on the arts in Kansas City and a positive, community-driven mission;
- Have a financial need for the funds which the grant will significantly impact; and
- Preferably offer the firm and its employees unique and creative ways to become involved.
Funding Information
One new recipient is selected each calendar year and receives a three-year $50,000 donation. The donation is paid $15,000 Year 1, $15,000 Year 2, and $20,000 Year 3. Previous recipients will be eligible to apply after a two-year pause.
Criteria for Kansas City Recipient Selection
- Organizations that focus on the arts in Kansas City
- Organizations in which the Spencer Fane commitment will have a significant impact to their respective cause
- Organizations that provide our firm unique and creative ways to be involved in their cause
- Organizations that provide opportunity for Spencer Fane attorneys and staff to be involved as board members, committee members and/or volunteers.
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