Community Building And Organizing Funds

Neighborhood & Community Arts (NCA)

Description Supports groups producing recurring festivals or events that promote arts and cultural participation, build community, and enhance the visibility of neighborhoods through arts and culture. $1,200 awards.
Application Opens August 27, 2012
Deadline October 24, 2012
Eligibility Neighborhood arts councils and neighborhood groups
Funded By Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Project Examples Arts festivals
Cultural celebrations
Music festivals
Film Festivals

Neighborhood Matching Fund Large Projects Fund

Description Provides funds of up to $100,000 to support groups in building community relationships around a project. Projects must demonstrate a capacity to build a stronger and healthier community and:
  • Provide a public benefit and be free and open to the public.
  • Emphasize self-help, with project ideas initiated, planned and implemented by the community.
  • Demonstrate a community match of volunteer labor, donated professional services, donated materials, and/or cash.
Deadline The deadline for applications is July 16, 2012. There will be no Letter of Intent (LOI) required as in previous years. Instead, applicants must attend one of three mandatory workshops before they can complete an application. The workshops will be held:
  • Thursday, April 19, 2012 * 5:45PM-7:45PM
    Seattle Public Library: Douglass-Truth Branch
    2300 E Yesler Way
    Seattle, WA 98122
  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012 * 5:45PM-7:45PM
    Seattle Public Library: Greenwood Branch
    8016 Greenwood Ave N
    Seattle, WA 98103
  • Saturday, April 28, 2012 * 10AM-NOON
    Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
    4408 Delridge Way SW
    Seattle, WA 98106
Eligibility Open to neighborhood-based groups, community-based organizations, ad-hoc groups and business groups.
Funded By Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
Project Examples Parent leadership training

Neighborhood Matching Fund Small and Simple Projects Fund

Description Provides funds of up to $20,000 to support groups in building community relationships around a project. Projects must demonstrate a capacity to build a stronger and healthier community and:
  • Provide a public benefit and be free and open to the public.
  • Emphasize self-help, with project ideas initiated, planned and implemented by the community
  • Demonstrate a community match of volunteer labor, donated professional services, donated materials, and/or cash.
Deadline March 12, 2012
October 8, 2012
Eligibility Open to neighborhood-based groups, community-based organizations, ad-hoc groups and business groups; or community groups that do not have a geographic base, such as an ethnic group, GLBT groups, disability community, etc.
Funded By Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
Project Examples Neighborhood history projects
Site plan development

Neighborhood Matching Fund Small Sparks Fund

Description Provides funds of up to $1000 to support community members in becoming civically engaged. Projects must demonstrate a capacity to build a stronger and healthier community and:
  • Provide a public benefit and be free and open to the public.
  • Emphasize self-help, with project ideas initiated, planned and implemented by the community.
  • Demonstrate a community match of volunteer labor, donated professional services or materials, and/or cash.
Deadline None – applications accepted year-round
Eligibility Open to neighborhood and grassroots community groups with annual organizational budgets of less than $25,000.
Funded By Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
Project Examples Emergency preparedness training
Neighborhood organizing events

Seattle Communities Online Boost Grants

Description

Awards up to $1000 in matching funds to help community groups gain skills and proficiency using online resources and tools. In coordination with the Seattle Communities Online initiative, we are seeking opportunities to enhance:

  • Increased awareness of community issues;
  • Increased community participation in problem solving; and
  • Increased interaction with government.

Grantees will be required to attend one workshop intended to increase their capacity to engage community members online.

http://www.seattle.gov/boostgrants
Deadline Launch April 4, 2012
Due date: May 15 2012
Eligibility Informal and formal nonprofit neighborhood and community groups whose members are from Seattle neighborhoods
Funded By Department of Information Technology Community Technology Program
Project Examples

Creation of social media community engagement strategy with professional marketing firm
Purchases of hardware or software to allow and encourage community members to create and post web content
Web hosting and domain name registration

Technology Matching Fund (TMF)

Description

 Awards up to $20,000 in matching funds to community projects which increase resident access to information technology, increase literacy in using technology, and/or apply technology to foster civic engagement and community building.
Deadline Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012. Workshops will be held March 1st and 3rd.
Eligibility
  • Nonprofit organizations located in Seattle serving Seattle residents
  • Ad-hoc groups of residents formed to work on specific projects
  • Community councils, neighborhood associations, or groups of businesses that draws their memberships from a commonly recognized geographic neighborhoods
  • Community-based organizations with a majority of its members residing or operating in Seattle and who seek to improve the quality of life for a particular community
Funded By Department of Information Technology Community Technology Program
Project Examples Online tools support to improve community communication and discussion
Street-level survey project for youth to collect data and communicate community priorities

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