Deadline: Rolling (until funds are expended)

Amount: $10,000

Website: https://www.commfound.org/grants/get-grant/crisis-fund/request-proposals

Description:

Community Foundation Boulder County has created a Crisis Fund in response to the mass shooting that occurred at the Table Mesa King Soopers on March 22, 2021. Community healing involves people connecting, remembering, reflecting, and taking care of one another while helping to find meaning in our current reality. This funding opportunity is intended to support short-term initiatives that support neighborhood and community-based groups and collaborations to help benefit South Boulder residents. Proposed activities should center around community healing events and can involve projects, programs, classes, and services that:

  1. Have been designed in response to the March 22 shooting and disasters of the last year.
  2. Have community healing as the primary purpose of activities proposed.
  3. Are planned and implemented with a trauma-informed lens (e.g., demonstrated consultations with the Boulder Strong Resource Center, trauma therapist, and/or victim advocate).
  4. Are primarily designed to gather and support the residents of South Boulder (but may still be open to participants hailing from the larger Boulder community).
  5. Anticipate at least 12 unrelated participants who will attend and benefit as a result of proposed activities.
  6. Do not have a particular political or policy agenda or message.
  7. Are nonsectarian or interfaith.
  8. Take place in a publicly accessible location.
  9. Actively promote equitable access for people from historically underrepresented communities.
  10. Adhere to all social distancing/COVID-19 requirements in effect at the time of proposed activities.
  11. Provide documentation of written consent of the property owner(s) if grantee is a tenant or otherwise unaffiliated with proposed activity location(s).
  12. Are free of charge and open to the public.
  13. Follow all local laws and have obtained required permits, if necessary.

Eligible applicants:

  1. Grantees must be currently recognized as a public charity in the United States, including nonprofits with 501(c)(3), or governmental [170(c)(1)], or educational and religious institutions. Groups or organizations that do not have such designations may only apply in partnership with an IRS-qualified entity as a fiscal sponsor. The Boulder County Arts Alliance has agreed to provide fiscal sponsorship for those that are not recognized as public charities.
  2. Grantees must use grant proceeds only for the stated purpose of the grant, and only one grant will be made per organization.
  3. Grants from Community Foundation Boulder County are exclusively for activities in Boulder County and for the benefit of Boulder County residents.
  4. Community Foundation Boulder County does not make grants to organizations where grant money from our unrestricted or field of interest funds would be used to further a particular political or religious doctrine.

This round of funding is not intended to support:

  1. Routine and ongoing programs of nonprofits.
  2. Activities outside of or not designed to support residents within the eligible geographical boundaries.
  3. Ongoing services within the Boulder Strong Resource Center—there are other funding sources for this need. However, bringing programming from the Boulder Strong Resource Center out into the community is eligible for funding.
  4. The purchase of alcohol.
  5. Overhead or profits, only direct expenditures are eligible grant costs.

PROGRAM CONTACT

The Community Foundation Boulder County

1123 Spruce Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303)-442-0436