Community Leadership Project
The Community Leadership Project (CLP) is a special grants program to strengthen the capacities of grassroots organizations that serve low-income people and communities of color. The CLP is jointly funded by three California foundations, The David and Lucile Packard, James Irvine, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations, who are investing together to strengthen small and mid-sized community-based organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley.
The Community Foundation for Monterey County is proud to have been selected as the local partner for this grants program in Monterey County. The goal is to ensure that small and mid-size nonprofit organizations working in underserved communities are able to flourish and benefit equally from public and private funding resources and, ultimately, are well equipped to fulfill their missions to positively affect the lives of diverse and low-income Californians.
We define a “grassroots organization” as a community-based organization that not only serves a low-income community, but is indigenous to it; an organization of local people working together to find solutions to problems in their own communities; and an organization committed to improving its community by fostering the empowerment that leads to individual self-reliance.
Over the next three years, CFMC will be providing a total of $375,000 to nine local grassroots organizations. Organizations selected for funding will receive a 2-year grant totaling up to $40,000 to support operations and technical assistance services based on an organizational assessment undertaken as part of the program. In addition, participating grantees will be offered opportunities for networking and learning with peer organizations.
The grants will be made in two cohorts. The first five (5) CLP grantees (pictured above) were selected in December 2009. In Fall, 2010 four (4) additional grantees will be funded. Proposals for 2010 CLP grants are due on September 7, 2010.
INTERESTED APPLICANTS SHOULD CAREFULLY REVIEW THE GOALS AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS ON THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BEFORE ATTENDING THE PREAPPLICATION WORKSHOP OR SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION.
Organizations intending to apply must attend a required preapplication workshop on
Wednesday, July 14 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Quadrangle Building, 1000 S. Main Street, Salinas, Room 110
Please select the following link for all the forms you will need.
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