Nonprofit Capacity Building
The Nonprofit Capacity Building grant program supports consultant fees for nonprofit organizational capacity building work.
*The Nonprofit Capacity Building grant program is closed for 2024. It will reopen in spring 2025.
To do great work, nonprofits and municipalities need strong leaders, clear plans, efficient systems, and a robust, diversified revenue stream. This takes investment in staff and time to explore and plan—something for which many nonprofits on limited or restricted budgets have few resources to spare.
In response to this gap in the resources needed to strengthen organizations, the Vermont Community Foundation has created a small fund to help. The application is designed to be easy to complete and notification is within 6-8 weeks. We welcome applications to support your organization’s planning needs around achieving your mission, through strategic planning, merger conversations, or similar efforts.
Grants will be no more than $5,000 each and will support the cost of consultants for the activities below. These grants are meant to supplement other funding, as we understand that this amount is typically not enough to cover the full cost of providing these services. In the project budget, please show the additional revenue sources to be used for this work, both pending and secured. We welcome the use of these funds as challenge grants to secure the additional funds.
The program will prioritize applicants with operating budgets of $500,000 or less.
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With questions about the Nonprofit Capacity Building grant program, please contact Jane Mulcahy.
