Community Opportunity Fund
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The Community Opportunity Fund is a permanent civic endowment for our region. This fund is designed to support transformative, collaborative projects leveraging resources for upstream successes, building strong communities, and ensuring everyone thrives. Resources from the Community Opportunity Fund are focused on Opportunity, Resilience, and Belonging.
Opportunity
Supporting upward mobility and leading to economic success, power, and autonomy of individuals over their own lives, particularly those that have the deepest need.
Resilience
Redesigning and building the capacities of organizations and systems to be better equipped to navigate shocks and stresses, and address the root causes of our vulnerabilities deeply tied to inequities.
Belonging
Making a place where everyone can feel they belong and are respected, safe, and able to thrive as part of the community.
Transformation
Collaboratively changing systems and creating upstream solutions for opportunity, resilience, and belonging.
Please visit our Apply for Grants page for step by step instructions.
Applications are now closed. The next grant round is set for fall of 2024. Applications will open early August with an Oct. 1st deadline.
For more information, please contact Michelle Morris at: [email protected].
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