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Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund Grant
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Background
The Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund is dedicated to restoring native forests to conditions that will improve associated wildlife species and the health of freshwater systems, while advancing strategies to support working forests within the Cumberland Plateau.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is soliciting proposals within the Cumberland Plateau region that will help accelerate the restoration and enhancement of critical forest, grassland, and freshwater habitats. NFWF seeks to increase the voluntary adoption of conservation practices on working agricultural lands in the region to benefit wildlife and improve soil health, water quantity and quality, and carbon sequestration. Funding is provided by the USDA’s Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Altria Group, Cargill and Nestlé and International Paper’s Forestland Stewards Partnership.
Kentucky Grant Program
Steele-Reese Foundation
Steele-Reese Foundation
The Steele-Reese Foundation is a charitable trust committed to supporting rural communities and the nonprofit organizations that serve them in Idaho, Montana, and Appalachian Kentucky. Since its inception, the Foundation has maintained a focus on the unique challenges of rural living and on helping people build healthy, successful, and sustainable communities.
For Kentucky Applicants
The highest priority of the Appalachian Kentucky Grant Program is ensuring that children leave the third-grade able to read and write on grade level; and that children leaving middle school can perform mathematics on grade level.
Additional priorities include:
- improving school libraries, providing supplemental materials to aid learning;
- elementary, middle, and high school programs that improve outcomes for students;
- support of literacy programs and out-of-school services.
All proposals must be specific in identifying a rationale for funding, set out clear steps for execution of the work, and articulate measurable outcomes.
Criteria
The criteria that follow relate to each of the program areas listed above and offer guidance to prospective applicants. Proposed projects should:
- Serve rural areas
- Help people to help themselves
- Be modest and direct in aim
- Be narrow in function
- Be based on experience
- Demonstrate community financial, in-kind, or other support
- Be essential, rather than merely desirable
- Yield a direct and measurable, rather than a remote, benefit to people
- Be conducted by competent, practical organizations and managers and demonstrate strong leadership capacity at both the organizational and program level
Capital Improvements and Campaigns
In all program areas, the Foundation makes a limited number of grants for capital improvements, fixtures, and remodeling, retrofitting, and building new structures. In projects involving the building of a new facility or other large-scale capital endeavors, we typically make these grants only during the closing phases when a substantial portion of the required funds are already in hand.
Program Areas
Rural Education
In both the Appalachian Kentucky and Idaho and Montana Grant Programs, the Foundation focuses on early childhood to Grade 12 education programming.
Examples include
- funding for supplemental programs in early childhood education settings;
- elementary, middle, and high school programs that improve outcomes for students;
- support of literacy programs and out-of-school-time services; and
- charter schools and other model school programs that provide quality educational options for students and families.
We also provide assistance to small public libraries. The Foundation does not accept applications to directly fund higher education, though we will consider early childhood to Grade 12 programs operated by colleges or universities or state or local education districts.
The Foundation considers education projects that demonstrate a comprehensive level of engagement with participants that result in clear and measurable outcomes.
Grants to Help Build & Finance Churches: Major & Minor Funding Requests
Catholic Extension
Goals
To meet the facility needs of evolving or growing Catholic communities through construction, expansion, or renovation of critical facilities.
Summary
Catholic Extension funds the construction, expansion, or renovation of churches and facilities that enable the dynamic practice of faith and promote the experience of church community. In this category, Catholic Extension will consider the facility needs of a diocese, to help ensure that spaces are adequately-sized, safe, and that they meet the needs of the local populations. Catholic Extension will favor those projects where the communities have urgent facility needs, a convincing funding strategy and business plan, demonstrated strong local support for the proposed project, and evidence of their limited means to raise all of the funds themselves. Catholic Extension only supports active building and renovation projects and does not give funds to service debt on projects where work has been completed. Therefore, the ideal point at which Catholic Extension should be engaged for this funding is when a parish/organization is still actively raising funds and the project is within one year or less from starting.
Qualifying Funding Areas
Catholic Extension will consider funding minor and major facility requests only for the following types of facilities:
- Church Buildings - places that regularly celebrate the liturgy
- Community Space - places where a community can convene outside of the liturgy (i.e. parish halls and parish community centers)
- Program Space - facilities that provide religious education and other church ministries
- Residential Facilities for Ministers – modest housing for leaders in extremely under-resourced communities
- Temporary Structures - for faith communities in transition due to population changes, recent disaster, etc.
Minor Funding Requests
Catholic Extension will fund up to 100% of the following minor projects (under $5,000) only for the most under-resourced applicants:
- Repairs - periodic improvements that are necessary for a fully functioning space
- Equipment/Small Furnishing Needs - audio equipment, chairs, other basic furnishings etc.
Major Funding Requests
Catholic Extension will consider funding a portion of a major building project’s (over $5,000) total budget, the amount of which is determined on a case-by-case basis. Funding amounts generally are not able to exceed $100,000. The following building projects will be considered for all applicants in Extension dioceses:
- Renovation - major enhancement or restoration of existing church building or facility space due to age, weather-related needs, updated safety-code requirements, or natural disasters
- Expansion - enlargement of a church building or facility space, necessitated by community growth
- New Church Construction - a new church building or facility space, justified by the needs of the community
Major funding requests will be offered in the form of a matching challenge. After presentation and approval of the request, funding strategy and church business plan, Catholic Extension will pledge a specific amount and lay out the matching challenge benchmarks and conditions. The matching challenge duration, funding amount and aggressiveness will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Such factors will be considered: parish financial capacity, fundraising to date, and the actual building project timeline. The qualifying matching dollars must be raised after the matching challenge approval date. Any fundraising and pledges made prior to the matching grant approval date will not count toward the matching challenge. However, these savings and funds will be noted as a demonstration of the project’s momentum and feasibility. If the intended recipient fails to raise matching dollars in the agreed upon period of time, the matching offer will be rescinded.
Catholic School Leadership Development Grant
Catholic Extension
Catholic School Leadership Development Grant Program
The purpose of this initiative is to enable your diocese to develop and retain its Catholic school system’s most promising leaders.
Catholic Extension has engaged in a partnership with Loyola Marymount University’s Catholic School Leadership Academy to offer a graduate level virtual online Certificate in Catholic School Administration program to novice and prospective leaders in Catholic schools in your Extension Dioceses. Although leadership development is often identified as a strategic concern for Catholic Schools in Extension Dioceses, these schools often lack opportunities for professional development due to barriers of cost and distance. This agreement covers 80 percent of the cost of tuition, as well as funding for travel and accommodations for the introductory course on campus at Loyola Marymount University in late July 2023.
This unique and successful educational program professional development that is specific to the Catholic school administration context. The one-year (4 course/10 graduate level units) program is designed to address three major themes in Catholic school administration, mission effectiveness, operational management, and instructional leadership. All of the certificate coursework will count toward a Master of Arts in Catholic School Administration at LMU.
Students will be asked to commit a minimum of 2 years of service to a Catholic School in their diocese after they successfully complete the certificate program. Additionally, at the conclusion of the program students will be asked to apply their new skills by implementing a specific project that will enhance their local Catholic school in a strategic area identified by the principal.
- Duration: 1 year
- Value to Participating Diocese: $14,120 per student, or $42,360 per group of 3 students
Desired Outcomes
- Building Leadership Capacity: Dioceses and individual Catholic schools can retain their most promising leaders and can eventually promote some to leadership positions or offer increased responsibilities in their current position.
- Knowledge and Skills Applications: Catholic school professional educators can apply the administrative knowledge and skills attained from the program to their current and future work as leaders, therefore strengthening their local Catholic school.
Reproductive Health & Justice Grant Program
Educational Foundation of America
Vision
The Educational Foundation of America is a family foundation that envisions a society in which every person has a meaningful voice in an inclusive democracy, with unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom, and lives in creative, thriving communities on a healthy, regenerative planet.
Mission
The Educational Foundation of America advances progressive change through support for creative initiatives working toward sustainability, justice, and equity.
Values
- The Educational Foundation of America believes in strategic grantmaking and impact investing that:
- collaborate with communities and causes seeking structural change
- support innovative ideas and talented leaders
- take risks to achieve results
- invest in people, places, and organizations underserved by philanthropy
Reproductive Health & Justice Program
EFA’s Reproductive Health & Justice program supports a range of strategies to improve access to abortion and contraception at the national and state level. We support national organizations that use litigation to protect and advance abortion access, as well as organizations providing direct support to abortion providers. We provide core support and capacity-building assistance to abortion funds nationwide. And we support fresh and innovative communications efforts to destigmatize abortion care. At the state level, we support state-based organizations that use civic engagement, litigation, communication, and advocacy efforts to improve access to abortion and contraception. Our current geographic focus is on the Appalachian region, Alabama, and Florida.
Additionally, EFA helped to launch the Reproductive Health Investors Alliance (Rhia Ventures) in partnership with our peer funders. Rhia Ventures utilizes shareholder engagement and other impact-investing strategies to support reproductive rights in the workplace. This nascent venture builds upon the Foundation’s commitment to aligning our investments with our grantmaking goals.
Spectrum Digital Education Grants
Charter Communications / Spectrum Mobile LLC
Spectrum Digital Education Grants
Spectrum supports nonprofit organizations that educate community members on the benefits of broadband and how to use it to improve their lives. We award grants across the country to help accomplish this goal.
Spectrum is working to ensure that our neighbors have access to broadband internet and the educational resources needed to use it effectively in their daily lives. Research shows that not all Americans use broadband internet at home, including seniors, people with disabilities, and those with ethnically diverse backgrounds. A fundamental part of this initiative is our Spectrum Digital Education grant program.
The Spectrum Digital Education Grant Program Selection Committee will use the following criteria in evaluating completed, eligible applications:
- How is the program compelling, captivating or unique?
- To what extent does the program address community needs, with a focus on the digital divide?
- Does the program partner with the community or any government entities?
- Does the program support families or seniors in underrepresented urban and/or rural communities?
- Based on the proposed budget, is it financially feasible that the program will accomplish its goals at the conclusion of the one-year period?
- How does the program have a lasting, meaningful and tangible impact?
- Is there data to illustrate the program’s impact? Can the organization report those metrics to Spectrum?
ARISE Grants
Appalachian Regional Commission
Appalachian Regional Commission
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is an economic development partnership entity of the federal government and 13 state governments focusing on 423 counties across the Appalachian Region. ARC’s mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia to help the Region achieve socioeconomic parity with the nation.
The Region’s 26.4 million residents live in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and all of West Virginia.
The Region also comprises three federally recognized and five state recognized Native American Tribal Communities, with Tribal entities in Appalachian Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, and North Carolina.
Purpose of ARISE
Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE) is ARC’s multi-state initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through collaborative projects across Appalachia. With the additional funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or BIL), ARC launched ARISE to strengthen Appalachian business and industry, and to grow and support the development of new opportunities across multiple states.
ARISE encourages initiatives that go beyond borders and help the 13 Appalachian states advance ARC’s strategic investment priorities as one, united Appalachia.
Grant Types
Planning Grants
Funding Availability for Planning Grants: $10,000,000 in FY23
Maximum Planning Grant Award Size: $500,000
Implementation Grants
Funding Availability for Implementation Grants: Up to $63,500,000 in FY23
Implementation Grant Award Size: $10 million maximum (ARC reserves the right to award grants in larger amounts on a case-by-case basis when substantially compelling circumstance are present and funds are available)
Investments Supporting Partnerships In Recovery Ecosystems (INSPIRE) Initiative Grants
Appalachian Regional Commission
Investments Supporting Partnerships In Recovery Ecosystems (INSPIRE) Initiative
The Investments Supporting Partnerships In Recovery Ecosystems (INSPIRE) is an initiative addressing the substance use disorder (SUD) crisis by creating or expanding a recovery ecosystem that will lead to workforce entry or re-entry.
The INSPIRE Initiative makes funding available for projects that address the substance use crisis by creating or expanding a recovery ecosystem that will lead to workforce entry or reentry for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder (SUD). Projects are encouraged to support the post-treatment-to-employment continuum, such as the following, among others:
- Investments in healthcare networks and partnerships that support substance use recovery, as well as behavioral health professionals and employers
- SUD recovery-focused job training programs
- Initiatives designed to coordinate or link SUD recovery services and employment training
The recovery ecosystem, within the context of building and strengthening economically resilient communities in Appalachia, is a complex linkage of multiple sectors, including but not limited to recovery communities, peer support, health and human services, faith communities, criminal justice, public safety, housing, transportation, education, and employers. The goal of the recovery ecosystem is to help individuals in recovery access the support services and training they need to maintain recovery and successfully obtain sustainable employment.
Grant Types and Amounts
- Implementation Grants: The Appalachian Regional Commission expects to make implementation awards in amounts up to $500,000 for each project it awards within the congressionally defined Appalachian Region. The period of performance for awards under this funding announcement may be up to three years (36 months) if warranted by the size and scope of the project.
- Planning Grants: In addition to implementation grants, planning grants in amounts up to $50,000 each are available to assist communities and regions in the Appalachian Region to develop plans and strategies for expanding or creating a recovery ecosystem. The period of performance for planning grants may be up to 18 months if warranted by the scope of the project.
Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative
Appalachian Regional Commission
Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative
Any selection and award under this NOSA is subject to the availability of appropriated funds, any other legislative action, or policy priorities. The Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative provides funding to help communities and regions affected by job losses in coal mining, coal power plant operations, and coal-related supply chain or logistics industries due to the changing economics of America’s energy production and the coal economy. The POWER Initiative supports efforts to create a more vibrant economic future for coalimpacted communities by cultivating economic diversity, enhancing job training and reemployment opportunities, creating jobs in existing or new industries, and attracting new sources of investment. For coal-impacted communities to diversify their local and regional economies successfully, POWER prioritizes the allocation of federal resources to projects and activities with the following characteristics:
- Will produce diverse economic development outcomes, such as the following:
- Diversify the commercial and industrial bases of local and regional economies.
- Create high-quality, well-paying jobs in new and existing industries.
- Attract new sources of public and private investment.
- Provide a range of workforce services and skills training, including paid work-based learning opportunities, resulting in industry-recognized credentials for high-quality, in-demand jobs
- Are specifically identified under state, local, and/or regional economic development plans.
- Have been collaboratively designed by a diverse blend of state, local, and regional stakeholders
The POWER Initiative seeks to align and leverage complementary economic development resources to provide assistance through competitively awarded grants to partnerships anchored in coal-impacted communities. By aligning and leveraging multiple resources (federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private sector), POWER solicits and prioritizes the selection of projects that integrate multiple economic development systems and support the implementation of existing economic development strategic plans. Additionally, applicants to ARC’s POWER Initiative should apply an equity lens to their projects. This may be done by including intentional strategies that aim to increase inclusion of underrepresented communities in their proposed work. Applicants should consider how their project will aim to expand access to and increase representation and participation of underrepresented communities in their proposed activities.
POWER Investment Priorities
As adopted by the Commission, the POWER investment priorities build upon ARC’s strategic investment goals. ARC’s POWER Initiative will continue to focus on investments that are regional, strategic, and focused on the economic revitalization of coal-impacted communities and regions.
Project proposals need not include all the following POWER investment priorities to be considered for funding; however, all applications will be reviewed for their ability to address at least one of these priority areas.
- Fostering Entrepreneurial Activities
- Developing Industry Clusters in Communities
- Building a Competitive Workforce
- Broadband
Grant Types
- Implementation Grants: Implementation grants awarded under the POWER NOSA are for the support of programmatic delivery. Applicants may also request funding to support construction incidental to their project. The Commission will make individual implementation grants in amounts between $400,000 and $2,000,000 for each project it awards within the congressionally defined Appalachian Region, with exceptions for broadband deployment and BaaS projects, which have a range of $400,000 to $2,500,000. Specific award guidelines may vary by type of project.
- Planning Grants: In addition to implementation grants, ARC will also award smaller planning grants in amounts up to $50,000. These grants will assist coal-impacted communities and regions in the Appalachian Region in the development of plans, strategies, and feasibility studies targeted to the diversification and growth of their economies. Planning awards should result in grantees better understanding their resources, identifying strengths and needs, and helping focus their future efforts through cost/benefit analyses. The objective of the planning projects is to assist entities with the development of an implementation project following their completion; therefore, no activities in the scope of work can include the delivery of a program or services. Planning grantees are encouraged to follow up with a POWER implementation application, but there is no guarantee of funding. Planning grantees should, within the context of their work, identify other possible sources of programmatic funding.
READY Grants to Grow
Appalachian Regional Commission
The READY G2G Initiative actualizes ARC’s vision of ensuring the Region achieves socioeconomic parity with the nation. READY G2G aims to invest in strategies that grow the region’s capacity through sustainable and outcome-driven projects related to ARC’s other investment priorities: building Appalachia’s businesses, workforce ecosystem, infrastructure, and regional culture and tourism.
- Goal 1: Building Appalachian Businesses
- Strengthen and diversify the region’s economy through inclusive economic development strategies and investments in entrepreneurship and business development.
- Goal 2: Building Appalachia’s Workforce Ecosystem
- Expand and strengthen community systems (education, healthcare, housing, childcare, and others) that help Appalachians obtain a job, stay on the job, and advance along a financially sustaining career pathway.
- Goal 3: Building Appalachia’s Infrastructure
- Ensure that the residents and businesses of Appalachia have access to reliable, affordable, resilient, and energy-efficient utilities and infrastructure in order to successfully live and work in the region.
- Goal 4: Building Regional Culture and Tourism
- Strengthen Appalachia’s community and economic development potential by preserving and investing in the region’s local cultural heritage and natural assets.
Education & Workforce Readiness: Place-Based Education Grantmaking
James Graham Brown Foundation
James Graham Brown Foundation
The James Graham Brown Foundation is dedicated to making transformative philanthropic investments in Louisville and the Commonwealth of Kentucky that build on its strengths to continually advance our city and state.
Our Vision
Louisville and Kentucky are recognized as prosperous and vibrant communities for all.
Our Mission
The James Graham Brown Foundation cultivates progress and civic pride through philanthropic investments that promote the image of Kentucky and Louisville and the well‐being of its citizens.
Area of Impact: Education & Workforce Readiness
The James Graham Brown Foundation (JGBF) believes that equitable educational attainment and aligned workforce systems will increase economic and social mobility for all citizens of Louisville and Kentucky, improving prosperity of the Commonwealth. JGBF makes education grants within three primary focus areas.
- K-12 Grantmaking
- Postsecondary Grantmaking
- Place-Based Education Grantmaking
Place-Based Education Grantmaking
The goal of this grantmaking focus is to support efforts of postsecondary institutions to accelerate economic growth and social mobility in the two regions that are the focus of JGBF’s community and economic prosperity grantmaking program. Of interest are programs and initiatives to:
- Connect people to jobs with livable wages in sectors of the economy that are stable and growing.
- Increase access to credentials with labor-market value and decrease the time and cost to earn those credentials.
- Accelerate entrepreneurship by increasing access to supports designed to develop the capacity of nascent and novice entrepreneurs.
- Leverage the potential of postsecondary institutions to play a leadership role in regional transformation and in supporting community and economic development.
Funding
With occasional exceptions, the Foundation does not generally make grants under $250,000.
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Grant Insights : Grant Funding Trends in Kentucky
Average Grant Size
What's the typical amount funded for Kentucky?
Grants are most commonly $131,992.
Total Number of Grants
What's the total number of grants in Bath County Grants for Nonprofits year over year?
In 2023, funders in Kentucky awarded a total of 20,882 grants.
2022 21,785
2023 20,882
Top Grant Focus Areas
Among all the Bath County Grants for Nonprofits given out in Kentucky, the most popular focus areas that receive funding are Education, Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations, and Human Services.
1. Education
2. Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
3. Human Services
Funding Over Time
How is funding for Bath County Grants for Nonprofits changing over time?
Funding has increased by 43.82%.
2022 $1,911,078,212
2023
$2,748,460,722
43.82%
Kentucky Counties That Receive the Most Funding
How does grant funding vary by county?
Kenton County, Jefferson County, and Fayette County receive the most funding.
County | Total Grant Funding in 2023 |
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Kenton County | $7,147,312,471 |
Jefferson County | $2,504,742,304 |
Fayette County | $158,280,565 |
Whitley County | $64,546,051 |
Campbell County | $62,934,452 |