Capacity Building Grant for Black-Led Education Nonprofits

• Grant award of up to $50,000 for a one-year period
• Funding for capacity building activities including strategic consulting, leadership development, IT infrastructure, and program scaling
• Support for long-term organizational sustainability and resilience
• Funding for innovative educational practices and culturally sustaining programming

• Organization contact information
• Organization mission and structure, including details on who the organization serves
• Narrative: description of work with Black students (limit 2,000 characters)
• Narrative: how the grant would increase organizational capacity (limit 1,000 characters)
• Narrative: anything else the organization hopes to gain from the grant (limit 1,000 characters)
• Registered MyOCF account to access the Grants Portal

• Must have 501(c)(3) status as a public charity (not a private foundation), be a public entity, or have a qualified fiscal sponsor
• Staff and leadership must reflect the African/Black community that is served
• A significant number of clients/children/families served must be from African/Black communities
• Organization/leadership must have a track record of successful community engagement with African/Black communities
• The community served must recognize the organization as advancing the best interest of the community
• Organization must demonstrate an understanding of the unique needs of African/Black students
• Must be providing at least one program related to specified focus areas for Black Students
• Program focus must fall within Birth through Pre-K, K-12, or post-secondary education

A community foundation that provides grants for economic development initiatives in Oregon. They fund projects like the Scott Fairley Memorial Edge Grant focused on border region economic development.