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COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GRANTS:
REDWOOD CITY TO GILROY
Community Investment grants are one-year general support grants for organizations serving residents in the geographic area of Redwood City to Gilroy. Grants of up to $20,000 are given to eligible nonprofits working in one or more of the following focus areas:
- Arts and cultural participation;
- Education and lifelong learning;
- Civic engagement; and
- Self-reliant individuals and families.
In an attempt to support the work of more nonprofits in the community, only those organizations that are not currently supported by an Organizational Effectiveness grant are eligible to apply for a Community Investment grant. Eligible organizations may not apply for a Community Investment grant and an Organizational Effectiveness grant at the same time.
How to Apply
A grant information meeting will be scheduled and held in January 2008, approximately one month before the proposal deadline of Feb. 15. The meeting will give you the opportunity to learn more about our grants process and talk with a program officer. Attendance at this meeting is not required for nonprofits to apply for a grant.
You may submit a proposal to the community foundation for up to $20,000. Your written proposal should be typed in 11-point font or larger. Responses should not exceed five pages in length. All applications must include the completed community investment grants application form and budget sheet.
Deadline: February 15, 2008.
Send grant application to:
 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Community Investment Grants
2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300
Mountain View, California 94040
OR
Email:
grants@siliconvalleycf.org
Notification of grant awards and declines will be sent by mail. Arrangements for a site visit or a conference call will be made by phone.
Eligibility criteria for community investment grants:
- An organization or its fiscal agent must have been in operation for at least one year and have a current 501(c)(3) tax determination letter.
- An organization's core program must serve a significant population in Santa Clara County and/or southern San Mateo County residents.
- Organizations must have an address or an office in Santa Clara County and/or Southern San Mateo County.
If your organization is operating under a fiscal agent:
- The fiscal agent must have the ability to pull out your organization’s budget from their own budget.
- You must include a copy of the fiscal agent’s most recent audit.
- You must include a copy of a Memorandum of Understanding between the fiscal agent and your organization.
- You must include a completed budget sheet for your own organization.
If you are a local branch of a state or
national organization:
- The national organization must have the ability to separate your local budget from the national budget.
- Your local office must have an address or an office in Santa Clara County and/or Southern San Mateo County.
- You must include a copy of the local’s office’s most recent audit. If your local office has not been audited, you must include the national organization’s most recent audit.
- You must include a copy of a Memorandum of Understanding between the national organization and your local office.
- You must include a completed budget sheet for your local office.
The following are not eligible to receive
community investment grants:
- City, local or state government agencies or departments
- Individuals.
- Academic or scientific research institutions.
- Schools without their own 501(c)(3) Tax Determination letter.
- Organizations not working within our focus areas of arts and cultural participation, education and lifelong learning, civic engagement and self-reliant individuals and families.
- Organizations not serving our geographic area of Redwood City to Gilroy.
- Organizations that are already receiving an organizational effectiveness grant.
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