The Reasons for Hope MKE grant offers a prompt response grant opportunity to support community-based actions and activities that encourage social connections, promote peace, and build community cohesion.
Donor Name: Reasons for Hope MKE
State: Wisconsin
City: Milwaukee
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline:04/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Amid the Sherman Park Uprising that followed the murder of Sylville Smith in 2016, the Foundation created the Reasons for Hope MKE Fund. In 2022, the Foundation made a significant investment in community-led violence prevention efforts out of the MKE Respond Fund, which began to meet emergent needs evolving due to the Covid-19 pandemic. These two funds were created to support the many people and organizations who are seeking to act in their neighborhoods now, on the ground serving alongside their community.
This grant program intends to provide highly-targeted, immediate support to smaller, under-resourced community efforts, over a short term. The intention is to avoid advancing a “quick-fix” to the broad and complex problems afflicting neighborhoods, instead prioritizing community power and representation, while leveraging a community advisory council to advance proposals that build equity into way of being.
Funding Information
Grants from the Fund will range from $1,000 to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Reasons for Hope MKE will award grants to projects or programs within City of Milwaukee neighborhoods. Nonprofit organizations invested in partnering with residents, community leaders, and stakeholders in activities that promote community cohesion and foster peace, including youth equity and empowerment, are encouraged to apply.
- The Fund will consider proposals from groups, agencies, and organizations with charitable status as determined by the IRS internal revenue code 501(c) 3. Please note: Entities that do not have this designation may use a fiscal sponsor (organization recognized as a 501 (c) 3 charitable entity) to serve as the recipient and manager of the grant. Eligible nonprofits must have a board membership of at least 10 percent people of color. “people of color” refers to all persons not categorized as white by the U.S. Census.
For more information, visit Reasons for Hope MKE.