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Jewish Community Grant (Cook/Lake County) is sponsored by Circle Of Service Foundation. Supports programs and organizations that enhance the vitality and engagement of the Jewish community. While the foundation supports Jewish causes globally by invitation, it accepts unsolicited pre-applications from organizations with programming specifically in Cook or Lake County, IL.
Geographic focus: Cook County and Lake County, Illinois
Focus areas: Jewish Community, Community Vitality
Official opportunity description and requirements excerpt:
Application Process - Circle of Service Foundation Planning for a COSF Grant What is a Challenge Grant? What is a Challenge Grant? Planning for a COSF Grant Begin Your Pre-application or Application Please click Start a New Pre-application or Application to start our online process (only if you have a portal login). You will then be asked a few basic questions. Your answers will determine whether you will be routed to the Pre-application or the Application. Before starting, we encourage you to review our Pre-application and Application Questions . We suggest you use these questions as a worksheet to gather the information you will need to complete the online Pre-application or the online Application. Complete Your Pre-application or Application After starting your Pre-application or Application, you can save your work and enter and exit the application as many times as you would like. After starting your Pre-application or Application, please click Continue an Incomplete Pre-application or Application . As you work, do not use your browser’s Back button – you will lose all unsaved data. We strongly recommend that you save regularly while filling out the Pre-application or the Application. The save button is at the bottom of each page. Alternatively, please feel free to download the Application in Word form and complete it offline. You can then log into the system, copy in all of your answers and save and send it all at once. Once a Pre-application or Application has been submitted, you cannot add, modify or delete it or any part of it through the online system. Please note, though, that there will be an opportunity to make amendments to the outcomes chart through conversations with your Program Officer during the review process. If you find that you need to make an important change to the rest of your Pre-application or Application after you have submitted it, please contact us directly. Pre-application and Application Questions The documents below outline the questions you will find in the online Pre-application and the online Application. We encourage you to use these questions as a worksheet to gather the information you will need to complete the Pre-application or the Application. Please note that we only accept applications through our Online Application Process . View Pre-application Questions View Application Questions The Outcomes Chart, part of our Application Questions, is a tool used to collect information to help us understand your programmatic goals and outcomes. Please view the Outcomes Chart below, which includes instructions and a sample of how a hypothetical social service
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Application Process - Circle of Service Foundation Planning for a COSF Grant What is a Challenge Grant? What is a Challenge Grant? Planning for a COSF Grant Begin Your Pre-application or Application Please click Start a New Pre-application or Application to start our online process (only if you have a portal login).
You will then be asked a few basic questions. Your answers will determine whether you will be routed to the Pre-application or the Application. Before starting, we encourage you to review our Pre-application and Application Questions .
We suggest you use these questions as a worksheet to gather the information you will need to complete the online Pre-application or the online Application. Complete Your Pre-application or Application After starting your Pre-application or Application, you can save your work and enter and exit the application as many times as you would like.
After starting your Pre-application or Application, please click Continue an Incomplete Pre-application or Application . As you work, do not use your browser’s Back button – you will lose all unsaved data. We strongly recommend that you save regularly while filling out the Pre-application or the Application.
The save button is at the bottom of each page. Alternatively, please feel free to download the Application in Word form and complete it offline. You can then log into the system, copy in all of your answers and save and send it all at once.
Once a Pre-application or Application has been submitted, you cannot add, modify or delete it or any part of it through the online system. Please note, though, that there will be an opportunity to make amendments to the outcomes chart through conversations with your Program Officer during the review process.
If you find that you need to make an important change to the rest of your Pre-application or Application after you have submitted it, please contact us directly. Pre-application and Application Questions The documents below outline the questions you will find in the online Pre-application and the online Application.
We encourage you to use these questions as a worksheet to gather the information you will need to complete the Pre-application or the Application. Please note that we only accept applications through our Online Application Process .
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Must be a 501(c)(3) public charity with programs in Cook or Lake County, IL. Applicants must have at least $75,000 in private revenue in the prior fiscal year and a board of at least five unrelated members. Must have the capacity to manage a challenge grant. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Not specified Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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View Foundation ProfileApplication snapshot: target deadline rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows; published funding information Not specified; eligibility guidance Must be a 501(c)(3) public charity with programs in Cook or Lake County, IL. Applicants must have at least $75,000 in private revenue in the prior fiscal year and a board of at least five unrelated members. Must have the capacity to manage a challenge grant.
Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
View Pre-application Questions View Application Questions The Outcomes Chart, part of our Application Questions, is a tool used to collect information to help us understand your programmatic goals and outcomes. Please view the Outcomes Chart below, which includes instructions and a sample of how a hypothetical social service organization might complete the chart. This same chart is also included within the Application Questions.
If you have questions or would like to discuss the chart with a Program Officer before you submit your application, please contact us . Circle of Service Foundation 30 S. Wacker Dr.
, Suite 2500
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