Strategic Investment Grants (Heart of Maine United Way)

Strategic Investment Grants (Heart of Maine United Way) is sponsored by Heart of Maine United Way. These grants serve as the primary vehicle for funding programs that align with community goals across Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington Counties, focusing on basic needs, early childhood education, and substance use disorder prevention and recovery.

Somerset Strategic Investment Grants - HoME UW Strategic Investment Grants. Strategic Investment Grants are Heart of Maine United Way’s primary vehicle for funding programs that meet our Opportunity 2028 bold goals. Approximately $50,000 in funds are available to agencies serving residents of Somerset County.

Join our info session at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Applications open at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Link to apply will appear below.

ORGANIZATION APP (once per organization) FAST TRACK APP (program applications of $2,500-$10,000 annually) Applications close at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Award information will be announced in late September 2023. Volunteer grant reviewers are needed!

Click here to apply as a volunteer grant reviewer. Review Eligibility Criteria Highlights of our Funding Every three years, HoMEUW distributes allocations from the Community Fund to health and human service programs throughout our six-county service area; Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington Counties. Note: Somerset County grant process will be handled separately.

Community volunteers review, score, and determine who will be funded. Volunteer to be a reviewer! Programs will choose from a list of shared community indicators as their performance measures that will feed up to HoMEUW’s headline indicators, instead of creating individual program logic models as in past cycles.

Grant awards are multi-year commitments! Successful applications will receive three years of program funding, contingent upon availability of funds and program performance. Impact Grant awards of $10,001-$50,000 annually.

FAST TRACK Grant awards of $2,500-$10,000 annually (see details below). Organizations may submit an application for 1-4 programs. No more than 4 programs may be submitted for review by an organization.

Total agency application requests/awards cannot exceed $80,000. No more than $80,000 in funding requests may be submitted by an organization. It is the responsibility of each organization to determine the program(s) for which they submit an application and the amount of the funding request, while adhering to the above limitations.

The maximum grant per program, per year is $50,000. Grants cannot exceed 35% of the program budget.

Applicants must demonstrate alignment with and report data every 6 months on one United Way Bold Goal: Bold Goal #1: Meet basic needs and promote self-sufficiency for all Bold Goal #2: Prevent, treat and support recovery from Substance Use Disorder Bold Goal #3: All children have quality early learning experiences Bold goal information, including headline indicators, objectives, and statistics can be found by visiting opportunity2028.

com/boldgoals Strategic Investment Grants – Funding Philosophy and Guiding Principles Opportunity 2028 Measurement Framework Strategic Investment Grants – Application Review Scoring Info/Training Session Video For more information or questions please email grants@homeunitedway. org or call 941-2800.