The Starke County Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Grant Program.
Donor Name: Northern Indiana Community Foundation
State: Indiana
County: Starke County (IN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Size of the Grant: over $15,000
Details:
Types of Grants
- Impact Grants: Impact Grants are for organizations seeking funds to support large projects that are over $15,000. First Step is to submit a Letter of Intent.
- Community Support Grants: Organizations seeking grants in the range of several hundred to several thousand dollars.
- Community Education Grants: For public schools/teachers in the Starke County.
- Field of Interest Grants: Two grants: one for Indiana history, one for youth attending NJ-SP School Corp.
Grant making areas of interest are:
- Education
- Health
- Human Services
- Arts & Culture
- Environment
- Civic
- Recreation
The Community Foundation favors activities that:
- Reach a broad segment of the community, especially those citizens whose needs are not being met by existing services that are normally expected to be provided by private rather than government sources
- Request seed money to realize innovative opportunities to meet needs in the community
- Stimulate and encourage additional funding
- Promote cooperation and avoid duplication of effort
- Help make a charitable organization more effective and efficient and better able to be self-sustaining
- One time projects or needs
The Community Foundation places a lower priority on the following:
- Projects where Starke County Community Foundation is the sole funder
- Reduction of debt
- Grants to individuals
- Travel
- Attendance at conferences, seminars or other projects
- Programs that fall more appropriately under government funding, such as operating expenses for public schools and police or fire protection. (schools should complete a Community Education Grant)
Funding Information
- Impact Grants: For Projects over $15,000
- Community Support Grants: For projects needing several hundred to several thousand dollars
- Community Education Grants: The maximum amount is $1,500.
- Field of Interest Grants:
- The Maude Brown and Henry F. Schricker Endowment: Grant amount available is $500.
- Our Kids Excel Grant: Grant amount available is $200.00
- Knox Class of 1970 Cares Grant: Knox Indiana Grant amount available is $1,000.00.
For more information, visit Starke County Community Foundation.