Creating Community Change (C3) Grants

Geographic Area: The proposed program must have a physical location within the United Way service area and provide services to individuals residing within one or more of the cities/towns listed. The organizational applicant may have an address outside of the United Way service area.

The following communities are included in the United Way service area: Auburn, Barre, Brookfield, Boylston, Douglas, East, Brookfield, East, Douglas, Grafton, Holden, Hubbardston, Leicester, Millbury, New, Braintree, Northbridge, Northborough, North Brookfield, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Spencer, Sterling, Shrewsbury, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, West, Boylston, West, Brookfield, and Worcester.

Organizations must meet the following requirements:

-Has been in existence for a minimum of three years.

-Has an annual audit completed no later than six months after the end of the organization’s fiscal year by a certified public accountant pursuant to and in accordance with FASB and AICPA standards. If Organization’s budget is less than $499,999, the organization may substitute an auditor’s review. United Way will not accept a compilation, a statement of financial position or a statement of activities (including from organizations with budgets less than $100,000).

-Is a private, not for profit, with an uncompensated Board of Directors that governs the Organization, and to whom the Executive Director/CEO reports. The Board meets regularly and establishes and enforces policy.

-Demonstrates efforts to recruit diverse representation of the community for service on its Board. It is strongly recommended that the applicant’s Board of Directors have representation from central Massachusetts as well.

Not Funded:
-Capital purposes
-Endowments
-Debt reduction
-Partisan campaigns
-Supplanting existing ongoing organization operations
-Religious or sectarian activities

An informal Technical Assistance Session for using ANDAR, the online application system will be held:

Monday, January 5, 2015 at 1:00 PM
United Way of Central Massachusetts
484 Main Street, Suite 300
Worcester, MA 01608

SNOW DATE: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 1:00 PM at the United Way offices (same address).

Please RSVP by contacting Christine McManus at cmcmanus@unitedwaycm.org.

Although there was a pre-proposal information session on December 19 accompanying the release of this RFP, attendance was not mandatory for those interested in submitting an application.

In order to submit an application for either C3 or WI, you must register for he online application system, ANDAR. You MUST register (even if you have applied in prior years). Click the link below to register your program. We will then issue that person a username and passcode to the ANDAR system.

Register here: http://communityimpact.unitedwaycm.org/epledge/comm/SurveyNE.jsp?SurveyKeyHex=6A57257434584D34444F7E3E

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