The Centerville-Washington Foundation makes grants to support local non-profit organizations for a wide array of charitable purposes in the areas of education, poverty, environment, arts, health and social services.
Donor Name: Centerville-Washington Foundation
State: Ohio
City: Centerville
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The word “community” implies fellowship and sharing. A community foundation is a tax-exempt public charity built on the concept of people helping people to improve the quality of life in a particular geographic area. More than 700 community foundations nationwide serve their individual regions.
Individuals, through gifts and bequests, establish permanent endowment funds and other types of funds with their community foundation to help respond to emerging community issues and opportunities.
The grant will award $10,000 to one organization that best demonstrates a unique initiative to serve and improve the lives of residents in the Centerville-Washington Township community.
Categories of Support
- Arts and humanities
- Civic affairs
- Conservation and the environment
- Education and Health
- Social services
Grant Criteria
The Foundation supports projects that:
- Encourage more efficient use of community resources and promote coordination, cooperation and sharing among organizations, and the elimination of duplicated services.
- Test or demonstrate new approaches and techniques in the solution of important community problems.
- Could not be accomplished with other sources of support.
- Promote volunteer participation and citizen involvement in community affairs.
- Strengthen non-profit agencies and institutions by reducing operating costs, increasing public financial support, and/or improving internal management.
The Foundation does not support grants from the discretionary funds to:
- Provide the principal source of support to an organization or activity.
- Organizations located outside the community.
- Establish or add to endowment funds.
- Individuals, except for scholarship purposes.
- Fund specific scientific, medical, or academic research.
- Sectarian activities of religious organization.
- For profit organizations.
For more information, visit CWF.