The Lancaster County Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Bridge Builders Program to support and promote visionary projects seeking to bring historically or recently divided groups into harmony with one another.
Donor Name: Lancaster County Community Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Lancaster County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/22/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $25,000
Details:
Lancaster County is filled with creativity, compassion, and caring. they challenge their county’s CBO leaders to identify new programs to erase hate and prejudice and to advance welcoming and appreciation of differing perspectives. The Community Bridge Builders Program will create bold pathways for all residents to manifest a brighter future – together.
Funding Information
Grants of $10,000 to $25,000 with $100,000 in funds total.
Project Examples
The aim of this grant opportunity is to allow for social innovation and idea generation from within the community. The Community Foundation is deliberately placing minimal parameters around what these programs might entail. They are issuing a challenge for the best visionary projects seeking to bring historically or recently divided groups into harmony with one another. The following are examples are hypothetical.
- A synagogue, church, and mosque share meeting space and set up regular meetings to listen to one another and work together on a shared project.
- A CBO serving rural Lancaster County residents who are mostly white and an organization serving mostly BIPOC residents create opportunities to share volunteers for assisting with programs and events at both sites.
- An interfaith association of clergy creates an interactive LGBTQ+ listening/Q&A opportunity for congregations wrestling with how LGBTQ+ concerns fit into their theology and practice of faith.
Eligibility Criteria
- Provide your organizational Non-Discrimination Policymeeting all federal requirements as it applies to your type of organization
- Align with the Community Foundation’s Anti-Hate policy
- Serve Lancaster County residents without discrimination
- Current 501(c)(3) designation from the IRS
- Registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations unless otherwise exempt per the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act
- Complete IRS Form 990 Annually
- Annual Audit or a financial review by an independent CPA within the last 12 months
- In good standing with all existing awards and contracts with the Lancaster County Community Foundation
For more information, visit Community Bridge Builders Program.