SFCF: Competitive Community Grant - Spring Cycle

Santa Fe Community Foundation

Predicted deadline: Mar 10, 2024 10:59pm PDT

Grant amount: US $5,000 - US $15,000

Funding uses: General Operating Expense, Project / Program, Education / Outreach

Location of project: Counties in New Mexico: Mora County, Rio Arriba County, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County

Location of residency: United States

Overview:

Grant Summary

As part of our 2023 spring grant cycle, the Santa Fe Community Foundation welcomes grant proposals from organizations in our funding region (Mora, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe counties) that are engaged in direct service, policy advocacy, and/or collaborative efforts to improve outcomes in Civic & Economic Opportunities and Health & Human Services.

Civic & Economic Opportunities

RESULT: Community members are aware of, engaged, and involved in issues that affect them.

We will support nonprofit organizations located in our funding region of Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties that work to improve the following:

• Workforce development/job creation
• Open government
• Community engagement
• Social and economic justice

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address:

• Improving access to employment opportunities and economic advancement by low-income and other disadvantaged community members
• Providing career counseling, job training, and other programs to low wage earners to advance their skills
• Financial literacy training
• Increasing community involvement in activities that will influence public policy to strengthen communities
• Support public policy, civic engagement, community organizing or public information to improve and strengthen local economy

Health & Human Services

RESULT: All people are healthy and safe.

We will support nonprofit organizations located in our funding region of Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties that work to improve the following:

• Access to affordable housing
• Food security
• Safety
• Access to health care
• Healthy neighborhood living conditions

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address:

• Affordable housing and shelter for homeless and at-risk populations
• Access to affordable and high quality food, including food banks, pantries, and community centers that distribute food and promote healthy eating and work to address “food deserts”
• Efforts to address safety for vulnerable populations, including domestic violence and child abuse prevention, bullying prevention in schools, safety issues specific to immigrant populations, low wage workers and communities of color
• Access to health services, including programs providing un- and under-insured populations with culturally appropriate and equitable access to quality health and wellness services such behavioral health (including addiction services), senior services, and groups working on cultural and generational trauma. Priority will be given to efforts applying a social determinants of health lens to the work
• Building healthy communities including built environment and infrastructure, environmental quality (toxins and air/water quality),affordable and reliable transportation, parks and recreation
• Systems change, including public policy, civic engagement, community organizing or public information to improve health and wellbeing of local residents.

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.

Eligibility:

• Grant applications will be accepted from organizations that:
• Are located in or serve the people of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, San Miguel or Mora Counties (except the CHFA grants which cover Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Taos, Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, and San Miguel Counties);
• Are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or are a public or governmental agency or a federally recognized tribe in the state of New Mexico, or that have a fiscal sponsor;
• Employ staff and provide services without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation; and
• Are at least three years old.
• If your organization received a donor advised grant from us in 2022 (but not a community grant), you are still eligible to apply for a competitive grant in 2023.
• You may request $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000, depending on your annual operating budget size, as follows:
  • Organizations/projects with an annual budget under $150,000 may apply for a $5,000 grant;
  • Organizations/projects with an annual budget between $150,000 and $500,000 may apply for a $10,000 grant;
  • Organizations/projects with an annual budget over $500,000, may apply for a $15,000 grant.

Ineligibility:

• If your organization received a community grant from us in 2022, we ask that you sit out for a year.
• We do not make grants for the following:
• Religious purposes
• Capital campaigns or endowments
• Scholarships
• Individuals
• Private school tuition assistance