Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Community Trust Fund.
Donor Name: Community Foundation Boulder County (CFBC)
State: Colorado
County: Boulder County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Community Trust is a discretionary grantmaking fund of Community Foundation Boulder County addressing needs throughout Boulder County in the following areas: animal care and welfare, arts and culture, civic engagement, education, environment, and health and human services. Boulder County community members review grant applications and make funding recommendations. Community Foundation staff manage the review process, lead committee meetings, and present Community Foundation leadership with the committees’ grant recommendations.
Community Trust Areas
Organizations are invited to submit one application to one of the following areas. Please choose the area that most closely aligns with your mission.
- 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 them 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
- 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. Please note: Grants from Community Trust are exclusively for proposed activities in Boulder County and/or for the benefit of Boulder County residents. Applicants should speak to how proposed activities will impact Boulder County in the application.
- 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.
Funding Information
Community Trust grants will range between $3,000 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 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 the discretionary or field of interest funds would be used to further a particular religious doctrine.
For more information, visit CFBC.