The Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) offers the Strengthening Organizations grant program in partnership with Rasmuson Foundation to help Alaska nonprofits become better equipped to meet their missions.
Donor Name: The Alaska Community Foundation (ACF)
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $4,000 to $6,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Purpose
This program supports projects that strengthen the applicant organization, ensuring it has well-organized systems and experienced staff with the training and resources to successfully provide services. Due to the high volume of applications and limited funds for each program year, applicants may select only one capacity-building activity to he accomplished at a time from the following eight categories:
- Board Training and/or Board-Related Consultants Examples: training on board roles and responsibilities, board succession planning, or consultation with experts in the field of board engagement, etc.
- Executive Director/CEO/Tribal Administrator Recruitment or Coaching Examples: Hiring an executive coach, CEO transition support succession planning, etc.
- Staff Training & Leadership Development Examples: Diversity. Equity, and Inclusion training, nonprofit management training, organizational leadership development, etc. Registration and travel for professional conferences are not eligible costs.
- Volunteer Training & Skills Development Examples: CPR training, mental health first aid, development of a volunteer orientation curriculum, etc.
- Strategic or Business Planning Examples: Hiring a consultant to develop a strategic plan, communication/marketing plan, develop policies, conduct a community needs analysis, etc.
- Donor Development/Fundraising Planning Examples: Hiring a consultant to develop a fundraising or donor development plan. Contracts with grant writers for specific grant writing projects are not eligible costs.
- Financial Management Examples: Installation of accounting software or migration of accounting data, accounting software class, consultation to improve the financial record keeping etc. Annual memberships or subscription fees are not eligible costs.
- Technology Training Examples: Marketing/communications tools training, donor database or CRM software training, Microsoft Office Suite training, data migration work, etc. Annual memberships or subscription fees are not eligible costs.
All awarded projects must be completed within one calendar year from the date grant funds are received.
Funding Information
Grant requests may be for up to $10,000; typically, awards are funded in the $4,000 to $6,000 range.
Eligible Applicants
Your organization is eligible for funding through this grant opportunity if it is one of the following:
- 501(c)3 public charitable organizations with 509(a)(I), 509(a)(2), or 509(a)(3) public charitable status as designated in your IRS Determination letter (including qualified faith-based organizations)
- The faith-based organization providing social services to the broader community
- Federally recognized Tribes or Tribal nonprofit organizations
- City governments or Boroughs
For more information, visit Alaska Community Foundation.