Augusta Bar Foundation Grant Program

The Augusta Bar Foundation Grant Program, managed by the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area, aims to enhance the lives of at-risk youth through funding and support for creative community initiatives. With over 25 years of community engagement, the foundation prioritizes proposals that address pressing needs, demonstrate measurable results, and align with funding areas such as education, mentoring, health, self-sufficiency, and family issues, fostering a sustainable impact beyond the grant period.

The Augusta Bar Foundation, Inc. was organized and founded for the primary purpose of improving and promoting the administration of justice. Consistent with this purpose, the Board of Directors has adopted a policy of using the Foundation’s resources to provide funding and support for programs and organizations designed to enhance the lives of and improve opportunities for at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth within the Augusta Judicial Circuit.
Currently the Augusta Bar Foundation will consider funding proposals that include the
Requests that fit within at least one of the following funding areas:

• Education (within and outside the school system; skills training);
• Mentoring (providing positive role models in relationships, parenting, employment);Health and Safety (conflict resolution and substance abuse);
• Self-Sufficiency (such as education, self-esteem, empowerment, self-respect);
• and Family Issues (such as parenting skills, family counseling, and juvenile
• justice).

Eligibility

Eligibility:

• Organizations must be located and provide services in one or more of the following

counties: Burke, Columbia or Richmond. Applicants must qualify as charitable under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or be classified as a unit of government, or other charitable, education or cultural organization.Organizations must not discriminate on basis of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or religious beliefs.Organizations must demonstrate financial stability.If funded for two years in a row, you must take a year off. Requests must address a community need, and emerging community need, and/or provide a new, creative approach to a community need that positively affects at-risk, disadvantaged, and underserved youth.

Ineligibility

If funded for two years in a row you must take a year offAreas Generally Not Funded:Capital and endowment campaignsTravel and conferencesIndividualsFraternal organizationsOrganizations for re-granting purposesCapital expenses for transportation