PROPOSAL DEADLINE
The online grant application deadline is June 26, 2009, to be received by 5 pm
Grant period: Nov. 1, 2009 - Oct. 31, 2010
2009 Community Grant Guidelines
2009 Practice Grant Application -- this is a Word document. Please download this practice grant application and complete it to your liking. When you are ready, you can cut and paste your responses into the live, on-line grant application.
Click here to access the online application. Please note that once you submit your online application, you cannot go back and make changes – for this reason we encourage you to draft your responses in the downloadable practice grant application first.
We will contact you by late July about your grant status.
To learn more about the grant application process, site visits, and required financials please review the following Frequently Asked Questions:
Frequently Asked Questions about the Application Process
Frequently Asked Questions about Site Visits
Frequently Asked Questions about Financials
Santa Fe Community Foundation
2009 – 2011 Grant Funding Priorities
In awarding grants, the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s goal is to be active in community problem-solving. Funding will focus on organizations that practice inclusiveness, anti-discrimination, environmental justice, and that support a multi-cultural diversity of populations in the Foundation’s geographic funding area.
Community Grant Program - Fields of Interest
Health and Human Services
• Increased and more efficient access to quality affordable healthcare through a centralized information hub;
• Behavioral and preventive health services in the areas of substance abuse, domestic and other violence, teen pregnancy and suicide, and gambling addiction;
• Care for vulnerable populations, including veterans, the elderly, people with disabilities, the homeless and caregivers;
• Family-based intervention services; and
• New addiction prevention treatment models.
Environment
• Advocacy and policy development for regional resource management, including land, air and water;
• Promotion and advocacy for local, renewable energy;
• Local food production and availability;
• Sustainable agriculture; and
• Increasing youth and adult engagement and actions in agricultural and ecological restoration.
Education
• Improvement of youth and adult literacy and comprehension, emphasizing reading, writing and mathematics fundamentals;
• Promotion of parent, elder and community involvement in education;
• Increasing participation in before and after-school programs as part of the general educational model;
• Increasing high school graduation rates by promoting mentoring, tutoring and career development; and
• Promotion of students actively involved in community issues and learning outside the classroom.
Civic Affairs
• Promotion of a strong and diverse local economy with emphasis on green industry and food production;
• Providing pathways to jobs for local youth;
• Increasing community involvement in civic dialogue, advocacy and action; and
• Promotion of centralized assistance for meeting basic human needs and social justice issues, including affordable housing.
Arts
• Supporting art as a tool to engage young people in learning and improving self-esteem;
• Reaching out to youth artists and audiences;
• Improving access to the arts for people who otherwise would not have had that opportunity; and
• Promotion of art projects that build healthier communities.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact Christa Coggins, Program Director or phone 505.988.9715, ext. 2. For examples of previous grants.
SFCF provides grants to eligible applicants so long as funds are available, without regard to the race, creed, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, country or place of origin, ethnicity or citizenship status of the applicants.
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