Armstrong County Community Foundation Grant

Funder: Armstrong County Community Foundation (The Community Foundation Serving the Heart of Western Pennsylvania)

The Armstrong County Community Foundation Grant supports initiatives that enhance the quality of life in the community by funding projects in arts, education, health, human services, and civic affairs. This foundation prioritizes proposals that foster long-term solutions and involve collaboration among community partners. Grants are available to tax-exempt organizations within Armstrong County and surrounding areas, focusing on impactful projects that address local needs and empower residents.

NOTE: Letters of Intent will be accepted on a rolling basis. Your organization may be asked to submit a full grant proposal at a later date. Applications are accepted each summer and reviewed by our Grants Committee. Grants are awarded during our Annual Dinner each October.
CFSHWP Grant
In keeping with its mission, the Community Foundation invests in organizations and programs that benefit our residents and that build vibrant and healthy communities. Reflecting the special responsibility of a community foundation, the Foundation is open to a wide range of requests that strengthen our communities and provide opportunities for our residents.
Funding Areas
The Community Foundation makes grants in the following areas:

• Arts & Culture

Includes the enjoyment and understanding of visual, literary, performing and other art forms. These program areas might enhance:

• Access to and awareness of the arts
• Capacity and stabilization of arts and culture organizations
• Creative and educational experiences of children and adults
• Increased appreciation of the arts
• Community/Civic Affairs

Community engagement, community capacity building and economic development, job training, volunteering, public safety, community quality of life, and historic preservation. These program areas might enhance:

• Workforce development
• Neighborhood quality of life
• Strong communities
• Citizen awareness, participation and volunteerism
• Economic well-being
• Education

Formally constituted educational institutions and organizations or activities that administer or support those institutions; libraries; organizations whose primary purpose is to provide opportunities for supplementing and continuing education and related services to students and schools outside the framework of formal education institutions. Includes the continuum of learning: early childhood, preschool, primary and secondary grades, higher education, vocational education, and continuing and adult education as well as parent training, library services, and adult literacy. These program areas might enhance:

• Educational attainment of children and adults, in both traditional and nontraditional settings
• Access to learning opportunities
• Work force development
• Strategic initiatives of area schools, colleges and universities
• Health

Includes the improvement of the physical and mental health status for persons of all ages; access to and quality of treatment services; promotion of health and wellness; promotion of the efficient use of healthcare resources; disease prevention and improved health outcomes. These program areas might enhance:

• Health care for the poor and the uninsured
• Access to health services
• Community members in addressing local health needs
• Healthy rural communities
• Health safety net for uninsured and underserved persons
• Human Services

Includes the support of family and individual development; emergency services; parenting skills; human services for children and adolescents; independent living and non-medical services for the elderly and individuals with disabilities; and addresses the basic needs required by all and the special needs required by a few. The program areas might enhance:
Agencies that deliver critical human servicesSocio-economically disadvantagedBasic needs such as food and shelterServices that develop skills and independence of people with special needs, including those with addictions, physical disabilities, and mental illnessPreventive careDevelopment of the family unit

Eligibility

The Foundation typically makes grants to tax exempt entities and for purposes other than to simply fund operational costs.While our focus is on our home county of Armstrong, we do award nonprofits in other surrounding counties. We do not limit eligibility to only Armstrong County.