The Community Foundation Boulder County is seeking applications for its Community Trust Grant Program.
Donor Name: Community Foundation Boulder County
State: Colorado
County: Boulder County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000 and $9,000
Details:
Focus Areas
- Animal care and welfare: Supports pressing needs and concerns related to animal care and welfare in Boulder County. This includes ensuring that income is not a barrier to accessing programs or services and support for animals and their people affected by hardships. This includes organizations with concrete wildfire or disaster preparedness plans.
- Arts and culture: Supports organizations and/or programs helping shape cultural narratives. Efforts to make meaning, heal, and amplify often ignored or unheard voices, accelerate positive change, imagine a better future, add power to social change, and give us hope in times of hardship will be considered. They are focused on supporting work dedicated to access, inclusion, and amplification of arts and culture for historically marginalized groups.
- Civic engagement: Aids efforts that support an informed, inclusive, and engaged community with equitable outcomes for historically marginalized community members in Boulder County. They are committed to work organized and designed by communities that support collective actions to address community issues.
- Education: Supports educational growth and advancement of students of all ages. They are committed to work addressing bias in education systems, efforts that ensure historically marginalized students succeed, access to high quality early care and learning, equitable post-secondary pathways, and adult education.
- Environment: Supports efforts that improve the environment and address equity. This includes environmental education, enhancements, advocacy, energy conservation efforts, preventing the impacts of natural disasters, soil health initiatives, and efforts related to climate change.
- Health and human services: Focuses on individual and family needs across the County that address equity. This includes efforts that contribute to basic needs, such as food, housing, and material stability. Organizations that enhance human well-being, such as behavioral health and physical health will also be considered.
Funding Priorities
Organizations and entities serving Boulder County are invited to apply for funding. Priority will be given to:
- Organizations committed to equitable outcomes for historically marginalized populations.
- Organizations informed by historically marginalized community members and those with lived experience in the design and delivery of programs.
Note: The Foundation defines historically marginalized populations to include an expansive group of people who are most impacted by discrimination, structural racism, inequity, and systemic bias. This list includes, but is not limited to, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, immigrants (including people who are undocumented), people experiencing language barriers, isolated older adults, people experiencing homelessness, and low-income individuals and families.
Funding Information
Community Trust grants typically range between $1,000 and $9,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any nonprofit organization with an IRS 501(c)(3) public charities (not private operating or non-operating foundations) or any governmental or public entity can apply. Groups or organizations that do not have IRS 501(c)(3) designation may do so with a fiscal sponsor.
- Grantees must use grant proceeds only for the stated purpose of the grant or for charitable and educational activities consistent with the organization’s tax-exempt status.
- Grants from the Community Trust are exclusively for activities or projects in Boulder County and/or for the benefit of Boulder County residents.
- Community Foundation Boulder County does not make grants to organizations where grant money from their discretionary or field of interest funds would be used to further a particular religious doctrine.
For more information, visit CFBC.