How the New Federal Tax Law Impacts Charitable Nonprofits
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IMLS National Study on Museums, Libraries, and Social Well-Being
Building on a growing body of work conducted by IMLS and others over the past several years, IMLS announced the commencement of a new study, Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation’s Libraries and Museums. The goal of the year-long project is to gain a better understanding on a national level of the conditions under which museums and libraries contribute to quality of life and wellbeing in the communities they serve. The new study will focus on these institutions’ essential roles within a community to help them demonstrate the success and impact of their programs and services.
IMLS New Initiative: Museums for Digital Learning
Museums for Digital Learning is a two-year cooperative agreement that enables museums to broadly share their digitized collections and other resources with K-12 schools across the country. The pilot initiative, funded through an IMLS National Leadership Grant for Museums, will be led by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in collaboration with the Field Museum in Chicago, Denver-based History Colorado, and a technical consultant. A team of K-12 teachers will co-create the educational resources using standardized templates, then test the content in their classrooms. A cohort of up to ten additional museums of various sizes, disciplines, and geographic locations will also test and validate both the platform and the educational resources.
IMLS Investments to Support National Leadership Projects for America’s Museums
IMLS announced the selection of 13 projects from a pool of 62 applicants for the highly competitive National Leadership Grants for Museums program, which addresses evolving needs and trends in the museum field and contribute best practices, tested tools, and innovative partnership models for the entire sector. The projects will receive funds totaling $5,187,402, and the organizations receiving the awards are matching them with $2,304,700 in non-federal funds.
IMLS Collections Assessment for Preservation Program (CAP)
The program is designed to help small and mid-sized museums receive prioritized recommendations for improving the care of their collections, supported through a cooperative agreement between the IMLS and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Applications accepted from November 1, 2018 – February 1, 2019.
IMLS Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff
This special initiative of the Museums for America grant program supports staff capacity building projects that use professional development to generate systemic change within a museum. Application deadline: December 14, 2018.
IMLS National Leadership Grants for Museums
This program supports projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve service to the public. Application deadline: December 14, 2018.
IMLS Museums for America (MFA) Grants
The goal of the MFA grant program is to support projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. Application deadline: December 14, 2018.
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums
This special initiative of the MFA grant program is designed to inspire small museums to apply for and implement projects that address priorities identified in their strategic plan. Application deadline: November 1, 2018.
IMLS Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program
This grant supports Indian tribes and organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians. They are intended to provide opportunities to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge through strengthened activities in areas such as exhibitions, educational services and programming, professional development, and collections stewardship. Application deadline: November 1, 2018.
IMLS Museum Grants for African American History and Culture
This grant support activities that build the capacity of African American museums and support the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums. Application deadline: November 1, 2018.
NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War
This program is part of NEH’s current initiative, Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. Its program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Although the program is primarily designed to reach military veterans, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate. Application deadline: November 15, 2018.
NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
This program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters. Application deadline: December 12, 2018.
Documenting Endangered Languages
This program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Application deadline: November 19, 2018.
Programming Grants to Accompany NEH on the Road Exhibitions
These grants support ancillary public humanities programs to accompany NEH on the Road traveling exhibitions. Typical formats involve lectures, reading and discussion programs, film discussion programs, Chautauqua presentations by scholars, family programs, exhibition tours, and other appropriate formats for reaching the general public. Application deadline: 12/26/2018.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Through a special partnership, the NEH and IMLS anticipates providing additional funding to this program to encourage innovative collaborations between museum or library professionals and humanities professionals to advance preservation of, access to, use of, and engagement with digital collections and services. The institutions may jointly fund some DHAG projects that involve collaborations with museums and/or libraries. Application deadline: January 15, 2019.
Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers the Dialogues on the Experience of War program as part of its current initiative, Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. The program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. Although the program is primarily designed to reach military veterans, men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public may also participate. Application deadline is October 24, 2018. Click here for complete details.
National Digital Newspaper Program
This program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. Application deadline: January 10, 2019.
NEA Art Works Grants Program
Through project-based funding in its principal grants program, NEA supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Projects may be large or small, existing or new. Application deadline: February 15, 2018.
NEA Challenge America Grant Program
This category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Age alone (e.g., youth, seniors) does not qualify a group as underserved; at least one of the underserved characteristics noted above also must be present. Grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development. Application deadline: April 12, 2018.
National Trust for Historic Preservation Emergency Funds
Intervention funding from the National Trust for Historic Preservation is awarded in emergency situations when immediate and unanticipated work is needed to save a historic structure, such as when a fire or other natural disaster strikes. Funding is restricted to nonprofit organizations and public agencies. Emergency grants typically range from $1,000 to $5,000, but a cash match is not required for intervention projects. For more details, click here.
National Trust Preservation Funds
Grants from National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector. Next deadline: February 1, 2019.
Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations
StEPs is AASLH's self-study standards program designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions. Through a workbook, online resources, and an online community, organizations enrolled in StEPS assess their policies and practices and benchmark themselves against nationally recognized standards. NEMA members that enroll in StEPs receive a free AASLH webinar registration. For complete details, click here.
Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives (Preliminary)
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may: Deadline April 16, 2019.
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials is a national grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content in collecting institutions. The program is generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is built upon the model of CLIR’s Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program (2008-2014). Applications for the 2019 cycle will be due in March or April, 2019.
Recordings at Risk
A national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program will run five competitions from January 2017 to April 2019 and will award a total of $2.3 million. Awards from the open competitions range from $10,000 to $50,000 and cover costs of preservation reformatting for audio and/or audiovisual content by qualified external service providers. Application Cycle Opens December 3, 2018 with a deadline of February 8, 2019.
Jane's Trust
Grants to address important issues in the Trust's fields of interest and areas of geographical focus. Jane's Trust will make grants in the areas of Arts and Culture, Education, Environment and Health & Welfare. The Trust will make grants to qualifying nonprofit organizations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; in southwest and central Florida; and in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts. January 25 is the deadline for consideration in March 2019.
Kress Foundation Conservation Grants Program
The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation. Deadline is January 15, 2019.
Kress Foundation History of Art Grant
This program area supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture. Deadline is January 15, 2019.
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship
Research grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to one mid-career professional whose research project relates to the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art, architecture and related disciplines from antiquity to the early 19th century, in the context of historic preservation in the United States. Deadline November 2, 2018.
The Edwin S. Webster Foundation
The Edwin S. Webster Foundation will consider requests for capital programs, special projects or operating income. They support organizations with an emphasis on hospitals, medical research, education, youth agencies, cultural activities, and programs addressing the needs of minorities. Generally, the foundation confines its grants primarily to the New England area. Before submitting a request, please contact foundation assistant Phil Cappello (email preferred): pcappello@gmafoundations.com, 617-399-1852. The deadline is November 1.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Community Facilities
This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings. Rolling deadline.
Terra Foundation
Recognizing the importance of experiencing original works of art firsthand, the Terra Foundation supports exhibitions that increase the understanding and appreciation of historical American art (circa 1500–1980). Letter of Inquiry due March 1, 2019. Deadline for Proposal is March 15, 2019.
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Historically grants range from $20,000 to $100,000-to organizations working in one of three areas: early childhood welfare, early childhood education and play, and parenting education. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
The Fuller Foundation
The Fuller Foundation makes grants to support organizations working in the areas of wildlife, the arts, and youth at risk. The deadline for applications is midnight on Monday, January 15, 2018.
Northeast Delta Dental Foundation
In keeping with the spirit of the mission, vision, business, and value statements of Delta Dental Plan of Maine, Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire, and Delta Dental Plan of Vermont, the Foundation aspires to partner with community organizations and programs that share its passion for increasing access to, and quality of, oral health care in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont., Typically grants range from $5,000 or less, to support organizations working on oral health. The deadline for applications is February 8, 2019.
TD Charitable Foundation
TD Charitable Foundation grants will be awarded to area non-profit and public institutions to create meaningful change and improvement in the communities.
Google Ad Grants
This program provides up to $10,000 per month of in-kind AdWords on Google.com. You create advertisement and key word searches that relate your nonprofit, services, and organization as a whole, and when people use Google to search for related offerings online, your ad may appear next to the search results. When people click the ad, they will be directed to your website. For full program details, click here.
CLHO Awards of Merit
The Connecticut League of History Organizations presents Awards of Merit to institutions and individuals who demonstrate the highest of professional standards, and who enhance and further the understanding of Connecticut history. The purpose of the Awards of Merit is to recognize the care, thought and effort invested in these contributions and to inspire and encourage others by acknowledging exceptional contributions to state and local history. The mere fulfillment of routine functions does not justify an award. Action over and above the ordinary call of duty is prerequisite for an Award of Merit. Nominations are due January 4, 2019.
Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund
The Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund was established by the State of Connecticut to stimulate the development of private sector funding and help stabilize arts institutions. Connecticut non-profit arts organizations which have received a minimum of $25,000 in contributions in each of the last two years from non-governmental sources are eligible. Organizations may use funds for capital projects, operations, and programming or to build their own endowments. Application deadline is December 15, 2018.
Connecticut Humanities Capacity Building Grants
Support Connecticut organizations that bring the humanities to the public. Grants from $1,500 to $9,999 are awarded to help organizations better understand their audiences, assets, and operations. Deadline November 2, 2018 and April 5, 2019.
Connecticut Humanities Project Planning
Support projects that help us understand and appreciate human history, culture, values, and beliefs. They allow us to analyze our complex society and to make thoughtful, reasoned decisions based on inquiry, evaluation, and empathy. Planning Grants, from $5,000 to $25,000, may be awarded to develop exhibitions, public programs, and interpretive digital media projects. Deadline November 2, 2018, and April 5, 2019.
Connecticut Humanities Quick Grants
With awards up to $4,999, a streamlined application process, and only one month from application to award notification, Quick Grants continue to help organizations create small-scale humanities programs that have big impacts on their communities. Quick Grants can be used to expand or enrich a larger public presentation project or serve as a standalone exploration of a specific topic or theme. Application deadline: the first Friday of every month. Deadline December 7, 2018 or February 1, 2019.
ArtWeek Massachusetts
After explosive growth throughout 70+ towns/neighborhoods in Eastern Massachusetts, it was announced in May 2017 that ArtWeek would become an annual spring festival but expand statewide. Mark your calendars for April 27 - May 6, 2018! Early bird application deadline will be January 11, 2018, and the final deadline will be on February 22, 2019.
Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund
The Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund (MPPF) is a state-funded 50% reimbursable matching grant program established in 1984 to support the preservation of properties, landscapes, and sites (cultural resources) listed in the State Register of Historic Places. Applicants must be a municipality or nonprofit organization. Deadline November 19, 2018.
Maine Arts Commission Arts Learning Grant
The Maine Arts Commission’s Arts Learning Grant offers a maximum of $5,000. Funds are to be used to enhance PK-12 arts education through teaching artist programs, connections with community arts education, curriculum planning, professional learning for arts educators, teaching artists and teachers of all content. The deadline is March 1, 2018.
Maine Arts Commission Organizational Development Grant
The Maine Arts Commission offers an Organizational Development Grant for up to $5,000. The Organizational Development grant is designed to support capacity-building projects for arts organizations throughout Maine. Grant funds can help address issues that include positioning of the organization, board and staff development, planning, financial management, and marketing. The deadline is March 1, 2018.
Maine Arts Commission Partnership Grants
Partnership Grants through the Maine Arts Commission offer grants from $7,500 to $25,000. This program provides much-needed unrestricted operating funds to arts organizations and establishes a process for partnering with the Maine Arts Commission to advance the role of the arts in strengthening communities and enhancing local economies. The deadline is March 1, 2018.
Maine Arts Commission Project Grant for Organizations
The Maine Arts Commission’s Project Grant for Organizations offers up to $5,000. The Project Grant for Organizations is designed to support creative projects throughout Maine. Grant funds assist arts organizations with the production of high-quality creative activities, the creation of new work, and the continuation of successful arts programs. Projects can be in any artistic discipline and on any scale. The deadline is in spring 2019.
Maine Humanities Council Mini and Major Community Outreach Grants
Maine Humanities Council offers mini grants (up to $1,000), which support a wide variety of public humanities projects, such as exhibits, lecture and film series, reading and discussion programs, symposia, cultural celebrations, etc. The upcoming deadline is November 13, 2018. The Maine Humanities Council also offers major grants (up to $7,500) to support a variety of larger humanities projects such as exhibits, conferences, films, and other initiatives. The deadline is January 30, 2018. For more information click here.
Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund
An initiative of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the goal of the Cultural Facilities Fund is to increase investments from both the public sector and the private sector to support the sound planning and development of cultural facilities in Massachusetts. Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) grants support projects that create jobs in construction and cultural tourism; expand access and education in the arts, humanities, and sciences; and improve the quality of life in cities and towns across the Commonwealth. Grants range from $7,000 to $300,000. The 2018 grant application will be available mid-November 2018.
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Program
The Local Cultural Council (LCC) Program is the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences annually. Each year, local councils award more than $3 million in grants to more than 6,000 cultural programs statewide. Individuals, schools, and cultural organizations are eligible to apply for project support from their local council.
Massachusetts Cultural Council Cultural Investment Portfolio
The Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Cultural Investment Portfolio (CIP) provides unrestricted general operating support grants and project support grants to nonprofit organizations that provide public programs in the arts, sciences, and humanities in Massachusetts. CIP recognizes that organizations with an established record of programmatic service and administrative stability should have access to funds to support their organizational goals and objectives, and to maintain their ongoing programs, services, and facilities without special emphasis on new initiatives as justification for funding. The application deadline is May 1, 2019.
Mass Humanities Discussion Grant
Mass Humanities has six Discussion Grant options, ranging from open in format and content as long as the project includes facilitated discussion (Open Discussion); to discussion series (Reading & Discussion, Common Good Reads, Literature & Medicine); to the Family Adventures in Reading program with syllabi and set budgets that simplify planning; to the small Civil Rights Discussion grant for the shared reading of a civil rights text. The upcoming Inquiry Form deadline is April 1, 2019.
Mass Humanities Local History Grants
Mass Humanities offers two Local History Grants to support smaller historical organizations in working with their collections. Massachusetts towns and historical societies have significant collections that archive the history of the people of the Commonwealth. The Research Inventory Grant (RIG) funds inventorying projects designed to support future programming, including but not limited to cataloguing of manuscripts, published records, photographs, artifacts, or other materials in the organization`s collections or mission area. A rig grant carries a maximum award of $2,000. The Scholar in Residence (SIR) grant funds research that advances the interpretation and presentation of history by Massachusetts history organizations, based on research in the organization’s collections or mission purview. The program has a dual purpose: to provide organizations with expertise not usually available to them, and to encourage scholars to use the rich resources of the state’s history museums and historical societies. A SIR grant carries a maximum award of $3,000. Both grants have an upcoming Inquiry Form deadline April 1, 2019.
Mass Humanities Project Grant
Mass Humanities offers a Project Grant of up to $7,500. In general, Mass Humanities prioritizes funding projects that engage those whose contact with humanities programming is limited and programming that responds to their current theme, Negotiating the Social Contract. Those who respond to the theme may receive up to $15,000. The upcoming Inquiry Form deadline is December 17, 2018.
New England Foundation for the Arts NEST Program
A cooperative program between the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the state arts agencies of New England provides support to nonprofits for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists that have met the eligibility criteria for the NEST Program. The upcoming grant deadline is December 3, 2018.
NH Charitable Foundation Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund Large Grants and Local Grants Program
The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund Local Grans Program makes grants of between $20,000 and $300,000 to support "projects in Coos County, NH and bordering communities in the United States and Canada that focus on community revitalization." Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2019 .
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Community - Express Grants
Grants of up to $5,000 for project support, "a set of activities conducted during a specified period of time and with clear deliverables that further the organization's mission or build organizational capacity). The deadline for applications will be listed on the website here. https://www.nhcf.org/how-can-we-help-you/apply-for-a-grant/
New Hampshire Capital Regional Development Council Community Grant Program
Starting in October 2018, CRDC will offer small grants of between $2,500 and $5,000 to municipalities and non-profit corporations located in CRDC's core lending area of Sullivan, Merrimack and Hillsborough Counties with the goal of identifying business or community development projects that result in the renovation or re-purposing of under-developed, high visibility, downtown buildings or other impactful projects. Deadline December 31, 2018.
New Hampshire Community Project Grants
New Hampshire Humanities Council awards two types of Community Project Grants. Quick Grants offer up to $1,000 to support simple, single-event or short-series projects, and are available in as little as six weeks from submission deadline. The next Quick Grant application deadline is January 5, 2018. Quarterly Grants of up to $10,000 enable organizations to design and carry out larger projects that attract diverse audiences, engage minds, and stimulate meaningful community dialogue. The next mandatory letter of interest for a Quarterly Grant is January 5, 2018.
Rhode Island Foundation's Herman H. Rose Civic, Cultural and Media Access Fund
The Fund offers two grant opportunities: Media Project Grants (greater access to information through archiving, documenting, displaying, or disseminating information) and Library Challenge Grants (To provide added funding for fundraising campaigns planned to meet local needs). Deadline January 12, 2018.
Rhode Island Foundation’s Organizational Development Grants
A strong nonprofit sector, able to meet the needs of the community, requires strong nonprofit organizations. To that end, we offer organizational development grants of up to $10,000. The grants can be used to fund activities that strengthen and improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness. This may include strategic planning, business planning, feasibility studies, fund development planning, marketing and communications planning, planning for reorganization, streamlining, and/or mergers, financial management planning or systems adoption, and transition or succession planning. Contact Jill Pfitzenmayer, Ph.D., Vice President of the Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence. (401) 427-4006 with questions. Learn more and apply here.
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’ Mini Grant Program
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities' Mini Grant Program, for requests up to $2,000, invites individual researchers, nonprofit organizations, and schools to apply for funding in support of public humanities projects, documentary film, civic education initiatives, and individual research. Mini Grant deadlines are November 1, 2018, and February 1, 2019. They also offer a Major Grant Program for requests over $2,000. An Intent to Apply is due October 1-November 1, 2018. For more information click here.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts’ Arts Access Grants
The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts’ Arts Access Grants (AAG) provide small grants (maximum of $5,000) to new ventures, occasional arts programs, or arts and cultural organizations that do not meet the new IAC eligibility requirements (see below). The Arts Access Grant provides program support to organizations across Rhode Island that contribute to the vitality of our communities, the economy of our state, the education of all Rhode Islanders, and our quality of life. Organizations must demonstrate excellent artistic, educational, and cultural value, as well as engagement with their community. The next deadline April 1, 2019.
Rhode Island & Connecticut 2018 Matching Grants for Historic Preservation
The 1772 Foundation announces that funding in the form of 1:1 matching grants of up to $15,000 will be made available for the following historic preservation projects: exterior painting, finishes and surface restoration, fire detection/lightning protection/security systems, repairs to/restoration of porches, roofs and windows, repairs to foundations and sills, and chimney and masonry repointing. Connecticut and Rhode Island organizations must submit letters of inquiry. Not all letters of inquiry will result in an invitation to submit a full application.
Vermont Humanities Council Grants Program
The Vermont Humanities Council supports humanities related projects of other non-profit organizations through its Grants Program. These grants are primarily focused in public programming, curriculum development, or teacher enrichment projects. The maximum award is $5,000 but most are smaller. For more information click here.
Vermont Arts Council Animating Infrastructure Grants
Animating Infrastructure Grants support community projects that integrate art with infrastructure improvements. Through this program, the Council strives to demonstrate the positive impact of art in helping communities meet goals of livability, walkability, safety, economic vitality, and community vibrancy, and to support the creation of unique infrastructure projects where function and art are one and the same. Grants range from $1,000-$15,000. A Letter of Intent is due by December 20, 2018.
Vermont Arts Council Arts Impact Grants
The Vermont Arts Council’s Arts Impact Grants support organizations, municipalities, and schools in their efforts to create a more vibrant quality of life by providing equal and abundant access to the arts. Grants range from $500 to $3,000. The next round of deadlines will begin spring 2018.
Vermont Arts Council Cultural Facilities Grants
The Cultural Facilities Grants help Vermont nonprofit organizations and municipalities enhance, create, or expand the capacity of an existing building to provide cultural activities for the public. The next deadline will be spring 2018.
Vermont Arts Council Technical Assistance Grants
Technical Assistance Grants to support activities that help Vermont arts organizations strengthen their capacity to serve constituents. Vermont-registered 501(c)(3) arts organizations can apply for grants to support activities enabling them to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their organizational development, professional skills, or expand marketing capacity. Grants range from $250 to $1,500. Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline.
Vermont Community Foundation: Nonprofit Capacity Building
Grants of no more than $2,500 each to support the cost of consultants to facilitate discussions related to strategic planning, development of an organizational fundraising strategy, or orchestrating a merger. Ongoing application process.
Vermont's Community Foundation: The Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) grant
In the SUN grant round, organizations working to meet basic human needs (social services, food, shelter, health) will be given priority though all types of organizations are encouraged to apply.