Applications are now being accepted for the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Grant.
Donor Name: Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation
State: Florida, Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/20/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Focus Areas
- Education (including scholarships)
- Adult Education and Workforce Development Programs and Services.
- Programs and services focused on leadership, professional development, workforce development, and employment training that expand an adult’s knowledge in a particular field or discipline.
- Early Childhood Programs and Services.
- Educational programs that provide a learning foundation, engagement in early learning, and brain development programming for children aged birth to five years old.
- Scholarship and Financial Support.
- Financial help that students need to meet their educational expenses while in school.
- Special Education.
- Individualized programming, instruction, and support services for gifted and disabled children and youth, modified curricula, teaching methodologies, or instructional materials to learn.
- Youth Education Programs and Services.
- Classroom support, after-school tutoring, and instruction for school-aged students that enhance formal education, semi-skilled, skilled, technical, or professional post-secondary programs for college-aged students.
- Adult Education and Workforce Development Programs and Services.
- Human/Social Services
- Children’s and Family Services.
- Services that promote a child’s well-being — childcare, adoption, foster care, family counseling, and parenting education that strengthen their families.
- Disability and Special Needs Services.
- Individual and group support and advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, services that promote self-determination, employment, connection, and involvement in community life.
- Domestic Abuse.
- Domestic violence support and prevention programs that address the needs of individuals and families experiencing domestic violence and work that helps prevent the (re)occurrence of these situations
- Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Distribution.
- Hunger relief in communities.
- Homeless, Shelter & Crisis Services.
- Help for individuals and families who experience homelessness, programs that increase housing stability through direct interventions, basic needs, and advocacy
- Housing.
- Placement into permanent, supportive, or transitional housing and services that promote housing stability, rental or utility help, landlord-tenant mediation, eviction prevention, affordable housing unit development, or preserving existing affordable housing units.
- Multipurpose Human Service Organizations.
- Direct services to the communities served such as YMCAs, YWCAs, Red Cross, and Salvation Army.
- Youth Development.
- Outside-of-school activities that promote the ongoing development and growth of youth, activities that connect them to caring adults and mentors, and camping experiences for young people.
- Children’s and Family Services.
Geographical Areas
These counties in Minnesota and Florida remain important to the family. While foundation funds some national programs, the priority is to invest in these counties.
- Minnesota Counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, Washington.
- Florida Counties: Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must have IRS Tax-Exempt Status
- tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
- organize and operate for charitable purposes
- Must serve the geographic locations foundation supports
- serve communities in the counties foundation serves
- requests for counties other than those listed where foundation do the work are by invitation only.
Ineligibility
- Addiction and substance abuse recovery
- Biomedical research
- Debt retirement
- Endowments
- Environmental causes
- For-profit businesses
- Government agencies
- Hospice care
- Individuals (except through the scholarship programs)
- Labor organizations
- Lobbying, advocacy, or political campaigns
- Mental health providers other than those focusing on prevention and early intervention services for children and adolescents
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Performing and fine arts organizations
- Publicly funded K-12 schools except for charter schools
- Sectarian religious causes
- Special events or conferences
- Sports or athletic organizations.
For more information, visit RMSFF.
