Grant Recommendations
Welcome! Here are this week’s recommended foundations. These grants will be for various types of organizations, so they may not always be a perfect fit for you. However, there will be some that are. We also offer customized grant research reports that offer grants researched specifically for your organization, provide you with all of the submission requirements, deadlines, and a researched recommended request amount so that you can put your best effort forward when you apply. Some of the deadlines may have passed, but you can keep this information for their next funding cycle.
SVCF announces RFPs for Immigration: Ensuring the Safety and Security of Immigrants – United StatesDeadline: 30-Sep-20 Donor: Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) Grant Type: Grant Grant-size: Not Available Countries/Regions: United States Areas: Refugee & Asylum Seekers The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has announced a Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the Immigration: Ensuring the Safety and Security of Immigrants. The intent of this grant opportunity is to support responsive projects that help ensure the safety and security of immigrants in communities. Examples of such projects include but are not limited to:
Program Goal
Funding Information
Eligibility Criteria
Evaluation Criteria Grant proposals will be evaluated, on a competitive basis, using the following criteria:
For more information, https://www.siliconvalleycf. |
Submit Applications for BALSA Foundation’s 2020 Grant Program – United States
Deadline: 24-Jul-20
Donor: BALSA Foundation
Grant Type: Grant
Grant-size: Less than $1000
Countries/Regions: United States
Areas: Business & Industry
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the BALSA Foundation’s 2020 Grant program.
The BALSA Grant is designed for first-time St. Louis entrepreneurs wanting to start or grow their early stage business in St. Louis. They welcome applications from all business sectors, and from non-profit as well as for-profit organizations.
The goal of the BALSA Foundation is to empower first-time entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses. The BALSA Grant provides resources to first-time entrepreneurs who need and will benefit from them the most.
Funding Information
BALSA Grant finalists receive the following awards:
- Cash grants of $1,000,
- In-kind donations and professional services, including legal, accounting, marketing, and working space,
- BALSA Learning Series workshops about starting a business,
- Opportunities for one-on-one mentoring.
The number or amount of cash awards and professional services will vary depending on availability.
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation welcomes applications from all business sectors, whether for-profit or non-profit, and from everyone regardless of US citizenship.
In general, having team members with the following criteria will make an application Ineligible for the BALSA Grant:
- Having started a successful business before. They wish to exclude serial entrepreneurs and those who were or are making a living from a business they started.
- Having received any outside equity investment, significant outside funding, or a previous BALSA Grant. Financial support from the founders, their family, and personal friends is OK.
- Living outside of the greater St. Louis area. Their aim is to help those in the St. Louis region, broadly defined as residing or operating within 25 miles of St. Louis City Hall.
In the BALSA Grant application the Foundation asks:
- How much grant funding and/or fundraising have you received to pursue your idea? This includes awards, grants, crowdfunding, or fundraising, excluding that from yourself and your family, and personal friends.
- How much equity investment have you received to pursue your idea?
- How much in loans have you obtained to pursue your idea, excluding that from yourself, family, and personal friends?
Selection Criteria
An external committee of serial entrepreneurs and business leaders review BALSA Grant applications and rank them according to criteria such as:
- How well does the proposed idea/solution address the market need?
- How reasonable and achievable are the milestones and budget?
- Does the team have enough experience and dedication to move this idea forward or demonstrate a way to obtain this experience?
- How well does the applicant fit the mission of The BALSA Foundation?
- How useful would a grant of $1,000, professional services, and mentorship be to the applicant’s success?
Requirements for Grant Recipients
All BALSA Grant finalists are expected to participate in the following programs and events,
- Present a pitch of business at the BALSA Grant awards ceremony,
- Participate in a pitch practice session prior to the awards ceremony,
- Attend the Learning Series, a series of 8-10 classes, which introduce you to the basics of starting a business from business experts. They will announce the Learning Series schedule when they inform you that you are a finalist.
Cash grant recipients must also establish a corporate entity, open a business bank account, and document how the grant was used. You will be asked to sign a contract stating you agree to these responsibilities. They may also invite you to serve as an advisor and mentor for other applicants and participate in future outreach events.
For more information, visit http://www.balsafoundation.
Heinz Endowments announces Small Arts Initiative – United States
Deadline: 01-Aug-20
Donor: Heinz Endowments
Grant Type: Grant
Grant-size: $10,000 to $100,000
Countries/Regions: United States
Areas: Arts & Culture
The Heinz Endowments has announced a call for proposals for the Small Arts Initiative to advance the development of small, professional arts organizations and the artists with whom they work.
- Advance a particular organization or collective of artists/organizations’ ability to carry out welldefined artistic opportunities or challenges, thus encouraging the development of local organizations, technical staff and professional artists.
- The annual production of a local company.
- Guest artists or technical personnel engaged to work with company members in the context of preparing for a public presentation or new work.
- Commissioning and/or presenting an ensemble or artist who will enrich the cultural landscape.
- Artistic expenses that are important to a pivotal project.
- Eligible arts organizations should demonstrate an existing organizational structure and artistic product that is proven or shows signs of promise. Minimally in place must be:
- An active, functioning board of directors.
- Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) public charity status, in place or applied for.
- An identified leader for the organization, paid or volunteer.
- A partnership of, at minimum, two artists working together for a performance, exhibition or screening around a theme.
- An artist or arts administrator collaborating with a group of advisors to present the work of multiple artists around a theme.
- An established, but unincorporated, arts organization consisting of multiple artists.
- Must be a well-matched 501(c)(3) organization with a clear, mission-driven relationship to, or interest in, the project or members of the collaboration.
- Must be persuasive in its preparedness to provide administrative and technical support, offer artistic support when appropriate, oversee the receipt and expenditure of grant funds, and, in general, provide proof that it is exercising control of the project.
For more information, visit https://www.heinz.org/