Brief Description:

Parent Leadership Grants encourage a commitment to ensuring the parent perspective and expertise to inform program and organization development.

Description:

To encourage a commitment to ensuring the parent perspective and expertise to inform program and organization development, this initiative aims to recognize and promote lived expertise in our community by including a Parent Leadership focus in our grantmaking. Nonprofit organizations can apply for grants to enhance and include the parent perspective and lived expertise in their program and organizational design.
An average grant award through this cycle is $2,500 - $7,500.

Including the voices of the people you serve, and a commitment to listening to the voices and recommendations of families, are a key components of the 2Gen Approach. We anticipate funding to go towards equitable compensation, childcare costs, food costs, or other resources that both empower parent/caregiver participation in your organization and adequately respect their contributions.

Funding Priorities
This grant program focuses on organizations that promote and implement parent expertise; this might look like one of the following:

Adding a parent to the Board of Directors to guide the organization’s strategic vision
Creating a Parent Advisory Council (PAC) to receive strategic feedback
Offering intentional leadership development workshops to caregivers
Gathering caregiver feedback on program development and implementation
Incorporating parent/family experiences into staff trainings
Other avenues that allow organizations to learn directly from the community they serve to improve their services and outcomes

Eligibility
In order to receive a grant through this program, organizations must also have:
· An IRS Letter of Determination that shows the organization is a 501(c)3 public charity
· At least one current program with local impact in one of the following counties: Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, or DeSoto
· An approved/current profile in The Giving Partner, a powerful, searchable online database with over 700 profiles of charitable organizations serving Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties

Review Process
The deadline for this cycle is April 1, 2024.

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Community Impact Team at impact@cfsarasota.org

Begin Accepting Applications Date:

3/01/2024

Deadline Date (EST Time Zone) :

5/10/2024 10:00 AM