Augusta Bar Foundation Grants

Augusta Bar Foundation Grants is sponsored by Augusta Bar Foundation, Inc. (via Community Foundation for the CSRA). The Augusta Bar Foundation provides funding and support for programs and organizations designed to enhance the lives of and improve opportunities for at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth within the Augusta Judicial Circuit.

Other Grant Opportunities | Community Foundation CSRA Other Grant Opportunities We realize that achieving your mission will require multiple resources. To help you navigate some of the other grant opportunities in the community, we offer this community funders resource. The Augusta Bar Foundation, Inc. was organized and founded for the primary purpose of improving and promoting the administration of justice.

Consistent with this purpose, the Board of Directors has adopted a policy of using the Foundation’s resources to provide funding and support for programs and organizations designed to enhance the lives of and improve opportunities for at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth within the Augusta Judicial Circuit.

The goal of this effort will be to give these youth alternatives to crime, violence, substance abuse, and illiteracy with a corresponding reduction in the burden on our courts and system of justice. As in the early days of the Mary Warren Home for widowers and indigent women, the mission of the Mary Warren fund is still to support women, children, and the elderly who are in need of assistance in our community.

Sand Hills Garden Club is a gardening and community organization dedicated to the beautification and betterment of Augusta, Georgia. Sand Hills Garden Club provides grants to organizations in Columbia and Richmond counties in Georgia. The St.

Joseph Foundation The St. Joseph Foundation is comprised of gifts made by individuals, companies, foundations, and charitable organizations. These gifts are used to provide resources to nonprofits who are making a positive impact on the health outcomes of the greater CSRA.

Unrestricted gifts from donors are distributed through the annual competitive grants process designed to help nonprofit organizations meet changing needs in the CSRA Region.

The Vinea Foundation was created by Vinea Capital in 2022 as a way to get more involved and hands-on by helping new non-profit organizations get started, existing non-profits execute projects, and overall help the people within the community who have so generously supported their various businesses over the years.

In addition to providing yearly anchor funding of $150,000, The Vinea Foundation will be awarding $100,000 in new grants each year to various non-profits and charities around the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA.) Their three key areas of focus are: individuals with special needs, ending generational poverty, and underserved youth.

” Women in Philanthropy is a charitable organization of over 200 women in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina who are committed to a philanthropic effort focused on the unique needs of women and children within the local communities. There are many other opportunities held outside of the Community Foundation. Please click below to learn more.

Augusta Richmond County Housing and Community Development Destination Augusta – Augusta Tourism Grant Greater Augusta Arts Council 3133 Washington Road Thomson, GA 30824 The Porter Fleming Foundation Contact: porterflemingfund@gmail. com We welcome your questions and comments. Please contact Lasima Turmon , Director of Programs, here or 706-724-1314 .

Are you are grant seeker or grant reviewer? Access your fund information and recommend grants online. Application Opens: June 1 Application Closes: July 20 at 5:00 p.

m. Checks Distributed: December Request Restrictions: If funded for two years in a row you must take a year off Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia and Richmond Grant Usage: Requests must address a community need, and emerging community need, and/or provide a new, creative approach to a community need that positively affects at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth.

Priority areas: Education, Mentoring, Health and safety, Self-sufficiency, and Family issues Questions: Contact Erin Cooper Application Opens: November 15th Application Closes: December 31st Checks Distributed: Mid-March Grant Cap: $7,500 – It is anticipated that the average grant awards will be between $5,000 and $7,500 Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond Grant Usage: Educational programs that benefit women, children, and the elderly.

The Marry Warren Fund has had the same grant funding exclusions as the Community Foundation’s Community Grants process. Questions: Contact Erin Cooper Application Opens: March 1st Application Closes: March 31st Grant Cap: $2,500. Awards typically range between $500 and $1,000.

Funding decisions are based on the strength of the proposal, community need, and available resources. Counties That May Apply: Columbia and Richmond Grant Usage: Any project considered must be compatible with the interests of Sand Hills Garden Club in at least one of the following ways: Stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening. Restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment.

Support existing land and native specimens whenever possible.

Priority Areas: Ecology, Horticulture, Conservation, or Education Application Opens: November 1st Application Closes: December 31st Checks Distributed: Mid-March Request Restrictions: Applicants must have an existing relationship with and be in good standing with the Community Foundation Counties That May Apply: All Counties in the CSRA Grant Usage: Fund nonprofit organizations that are meeting the changing healthcare needs of individuals living in the CSRA.

Our motto is “would the nuns have rolled up their sleeves and done this work. ” Priority Areas: Health Service Education, Medical Uninsured, Hospice and Homeless Around Health Care Questions: Contact Erin Cooper Grant Application Window: The Vinea Foundation will host two application windows. Organizations may apply once per window.

The grant application windows are: January 1 – March 31, announced in the spring August 1 – August 31, announced in the fall Grant Request: It is anticipated that the average grant awards will range from $1,000 – $10,000. Request Restrictions: If funded in one window, a nonprofit must take the next window off.

Grant Usage: Applicants may apply for general operating or program-specific costs Counties That May Apply: All Counties in the CSRA Priority Areas: Nonprofits that work with underserved children, adults with developmental disabilities, and those with initiatives to end generational poverty Questions: Contact Olivia Bryson at olivia. bryson@vineacapital.

com Application Opens: August 10 Application Closes: September 10 Checks Distributed: Mid-March Request Restrictions: Grant Seekers may find this optional audio recording helpful: Women in Philanthropy Grant Guidelines and Application Overview . If your organization was funded in the last granting cycle, you must take a year off.

Counties That May Apply: Burke, Columbia, McDuffie, and Richmond in Georgia and Aiken and Edgefield in South Carolina Grant Usage: Projects that have the potential for high impact, resulting in significant positive change in the lives of women and children. WIP follows the same funding restrictions as the Community Foundation’s Community Grants Process.

Focus Areas: Arts, Education, Health, and Social Well-Being Questions: Contact Erin Cooper