Planning Grant Guidelines

The deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent to Plan for 2010-11 is Thursday, June 24, by 12:00 p.m.

Through a competitive process the Capacity Building Fund (CBF), will award $2,500 -$5,000 to approximately 15 networks for a 4 - 6 month planning phase. Six to 10 of those networks will be eligible to receive additional funding in the range of $20,000 to $25,000 to implement their respective projects. Networks can be comprised of nonprofits, civic groups, schools, faith-based organizations, municipalities, unions, etc. that wish to build their capacity together.

Philosophy of the Capacity Building Fund

The overall goal of the CBF is to strengthen a network of community-based, social change oriented organizations. We seek applications from groups that want to learn how to work together to achieve community impact beyond what one organization can achieve alone.

For the purpose of this funding stream, “building capacity” refers to institutionalizing new individual organization and group learning and/or new skills development. The assumption is that by learning and skill building together, organizations will simultaneously learn how to work more effectively together to achieve impact that leads to social change.

Eligibility

Only networks, not individual organizations, are eligible to apply for CBF Planning Grants. Networks must be comprised of 5 or more organizations that come together to design a joint learning experience (peer or expert led) that will ultimately result in a positive community impact. An ad hoc, informal network can be convened for the purpose of this grant, or a network can be pre-existing in the form of a collaboration or a coalition.

Each network needs a lead organization that will accept the fiscal responsibility of the grant and an identified person who will coordinate the planning process and convene the learning group.

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