Foundation / Corporation
Allegany County United Way (ACUW)
02/16/18
03/30/18 4:00 PM Electronic Receipt
Grants to New York nonprofits for education, health, urgent needs, and financial stability programs that benefit the residents of Allegany County. A Letter of Intent (LOI) is due February 16, 2018.
The funding source aims to support programs that impact the community in the following areas.
- Education: Provide people of all ages with the tools and structures necessary to succeed.
- Income Stability: Provide people of all ages with the structural opportunities that result in economic self-sufficiency.
- Health: Provide people of all ages with the opportunities to live healthy, secure, independent, and meaningful lives.
- Critical Needs: Provide people of all ages with life-saving services, emergency needs, and disaster aid.
ACUW further seeks to affect sustained change and documentable community impact in targeted community conditions through the following strategies:
- Investing in strategies and programs that deliver cost-effective, measurable results.
- Supporting programs and agencies that have sound fiscal and management practices.
- Fostering efforts that build collaboration and partnerships.
- Addressing the root causes of problems that challenge our community.
- Leveraging community resources beyond the annual campaign.
Types of funding that may be granted include:
- Single year grant
- Renewable grant – if initiative expectations and other considerations of the grant are met, the grant will be renewed for a specific timeframe (i.e. – 3 years)
- Multi-year declining funds grant – the grantee will receive declining funding over the life of the grant (i.e. – year 1, $20,000; year 2, $15,000; year 3, $10,000)
- Combination of above – total funding may be divided into any of the above grant time frames.
GrantWatch ID#: 142104
Funds are available for grants for the program year May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019.
Types of funding:
- Single year grant
- Renewable grant – if initiative expectations and other considerations of the grant are met, the grant will be renewed for a specific timeframe (i.e. – 3 years)
- Multi-year declining funds grant – the grantee will receive declining funding over the life of the grant.
- Combination of above – total funding may be divided into any of the above grant time frames.
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
For Questions and Completed LOIs:
acuw@acuw.com
Allegany County United Way
PO Box 15
99 N Main St., Suite 3
Wellsville, NY 14895
Phone: 585-593-0020
Judi Niedercorn, Executive Director
judi.niedercorn@acuw.com
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