Capacity Building Grants:
Legacy Foundation, Crown Point Community Foundation, and Foundations of East Chicago are partnering to offer grants of up to $5,000 to help non-profit organizations develop a Strategic Restructuring plan.
Strategic Restructuring grants are intended to support nonprofits as they assess, negotiate, design, and/or implement substantive strategic restructuring efforts that seek to promote more effective operations and high-performing programs based on community needs and assets. Strategic Restructuring grants can cover costs associated with reorganizing operational expenses as a result of a decrease in revenue. Some examples may include:
• Costs associated with partnering with another organization to move into shared office space
• Costs associated with partnering with another organization to share front office administrative expenses
• Costs associated with merger between two organizations
• Consultants to help organizations with merger
• Legal fees related to restructuring
Eligibility:
o Must provide services within Lake County, Indiana
o Must be classified by the IRS as a 501c3
o Must be registered with the Indiana Secretary of State as a nonprofit
Ineligible organizations:
o Private and publicly funded schools (K-12) and institutions of higher learning
o Organizations that require participation in religious services as a condition of receiving services
o Organizations that have discriminatory policies and/or practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex/gender, marital status, family status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, or political beliefs
This application will close at 5:00 pm on October 30, 2020.
Begin Accepting Applications Date:
10/01/2020
Deadline Date (CST Time Zone):
10/30/2020 5:00 PM