Capacity Building and Community Engagement Grant Program

Capacity Building and Community Engagement Grant Program is sponsored by California Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. This program empowers community-based organizations in California through enhanced training and support to address community challenges, building a network of CBOs to strengthen their capacity for engagement with the state and future challenges their communities may encounter.

Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants - League of California Community Foundations Skip to primary navigation Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants New Sub-Grant Opportunity for Community Foundations The League of California Community Foundations has partnered with the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications to deploy grants to community foundations, for subsequent distribution to local CBOs serving as “trusted messengers” in vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities in California.

The total available pool is $1,360,000. The purpose of the Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants program is to support and strengthen a network of local CBO partners who understand and advance community resilience in vulnerable communities across California.

“Community resilience” includes the existence, development, and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change and uncertainty.

This sub-grant program will provide funds and support to small local CBOs considered “trusted messengers” to vulnerable and hard-to-reach community members including those experiencing the greatest health and social inequities, via a network of local community foundations. View the full RFP below . Contact Sheila Tyree (sheila@lccf.

org) for the recording Overview: The League of California Community Foundations has partnered with the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications to deploy grants to community foundations, for subsequent sub-grant distribution to local CBOs serving as “trusted messengers” in vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities in California. The total available pool is $1,360,000.

Purpose: The purpose of the Resilience, Capacity Building, and Community Engagement Grants program is to support and strengthen a network of local CBO partners who understand and advance community resilience in vulnerable communities across California. “Community resilience” includes the existence, development, and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change and uncertainty.

This sub-grant program will provide funds and support to small local CBOs considered “trusted messengers” to vulnerable and hard-to-reach community members including those experiencing the greatest health and social inequities , via a network of local community foundations. Enhance the resilience of local communities and bridge disparities in resiliency outreach and education in vulnerable communities.

Build the capacity of ‘trusted messenger’ CBOs to address local resiliency challenges. Promote meaningful engagement around resiliency with vulnerable communities. Hard-to-reach, vulnerable communities and people otherwise missed by larger community-based outreach and education efforts will be served by “trusted messengers”.

The activities and shared learning opportunities supported by this grant program will strengthen local capacity and relational connection between all partners. Eligibility: Current League member community foundations, and current participants in the Growing Community Foundation Circle. Grant Amounts: Grant requests from community foundations may range from $25,000 to $100,000.

Depending on the volume and quality of applications, some applicants may receive partial funding. Application Link: Applications must be submitted online via this web form . A Word document containing all application questions is available here for reference .

Monday, April 8: Applications open Friday, April 12: Information session via Zoom at 11 AM Tuesday, April 30: Deadline for community foundations to submit applications Late May: Awardees notified and funds disbursed July 25 (new deadline – previously July 30) : Deadline to submit to the League a list of sub-grantee CBOs with a brief summary of the activities/plans of each September 30: Interim reports due to the League December 31, 2024: Deadline for CBOs to conclude activities January 31, 2025: Final reports due to the League Evaluation Criteria: Award decisions will be based on the quality of applications and the availability of funds.

Preference will be given to proposals that: Are likely to enhance the resilience of local communities and bridge disparities in resiliency outreach and education in vulnerable communities. Build the capacity of a region’s ‘trusted messenger’ CBOs to address local resiliency challenges. Clearly articulates how the impact(s) of the grant toward the goals and outcomes stated above will be measured.

Demonstrates how the community foundation identifies (or will identify) inequities and disparities in resiliency, including specific data sources or methodologies that informs how target populations are identified for funding. Are likely to result in shareable and/or scalable learnings or insights that will inform other community foundations and/or other OCPSC sub-grantees in California.

Reporting Requirements: All awardees agree to: Submit a list of funded CBOs to LCCF by July 30, 2024. Submit a brief interim report to LCCF by September 30, 2024, based on a template to be provided by LCCF at the time of the award. Submit a final report to LCCF by January 31, 2025 based on a template to be provided by LCCF at the time of the award.

Share a short presentation of the funded work at an upcoming League convening, either virtual or in-person as schedules allow. Questions: Please reach out to Laura Seaman ( laura@lccf. org ) with questions Does a community foundation have to sub-grant funds out to local CBOs or can it undertake a capacity-building initiative of its own?

Either. We anticipate that most applications from community foundations will be either entirely for sub-granting to local CBOs or will include sub-granting as a major component of the proposed budget. Does a CBO sub-grantee have to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit?

No. Community foundations may make sub-grants to a variety of types of local CBOs including but not limited to 501(c)(3)s and fiscally-sponsored projects. Is there a minimum or maximum number of CBOs that a community foundation must sub-grant to? Can a community foundation include an administrative fee in its proposed budget?

Yes, if the proposal is for sub-granting to CBOs, the community foundation may include an administrative and management fee of up to 15%. If a community foundation’s proposal is for an initiative of its own, the proposed budget should outline specific administrative and management expenses (including personnel costs) incurred by the community foundation and no additional administrative or management fee should be included.

If a proposal includes both sub-granting and a community foundation initiative, any administrative and management fee should only apply to the portion of the proposed budget that is for sub-grants. Can a CBO include an administrative fee in its proposed budget to a community foundation? Can sub-grants be used to fund CBO staff salaries?

Technology systems? Convenings? General operating support?

There are no restrictions on the types of expenses that can be funded with sub-grants to local CBOs as long as there is a clear connection between the types of expenditures and the key goals and outcomes of this initiative. What information do we need to collect from sub-grantee CBOs to satisfy LCCF’s reporting requirements?

You can expect your interim and final reports to LCCF to include the following information about any sub-grants your community foundation makes to CBOs: Sub-grant amount to each CBO Geographic area(s) served by each CBO Population(s) targeted by each CBO Type(s) of activity each CBO undertakes with sub-grant funding How this funding addressed inequities and disparities in resiliency in your community What changed as a result of the work these grants funded Unexpected challenges or barriers you and/or your CBO sub-grantees encountered As applicable: Videos, photos, outputs, or other shareable results from CBO activities Your community foundation will not need to provide LCCF with expenditure reports from individual CBOs.

This year, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications (OCPSC) are partnering to host a first-of-its-kind joint convening, Rooted. Resilient. Ready.

2024 Statewide Community Partner Convening. Community foundations and their nonprofit partners interested in attending may find more information and register here . Please note this is not a League-sponsored event and attendance at this convening is not required of applicants to the League’s sub-grant opportunity.

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Manage {vendor_count} vendors