Box Impact Fund Grant

The Box Impact Fund Grant offers six $25K awards to nonprofits focused on digital transformation in child welfare, crisis response, and environmental protection. With a total of $150K available, the fund aims to support organizations that align with these missions, enhancing their operational effectiveness and community impact. Eligible applicants must be legally recognized charities and submit projects that demonstrate measurable outcomes and stakeholder inclusion. For more details, visit the Box Impact Fund FAQs.

NOTE: This year's Box Impact Fund application period is now closed. Boost your impact with one of six $25K awards
At Box, we power how the world works together — and we’d like to help our friends in the nonprofit sector do the same. That’s why we’re excited to give out $150K in grants to help fuel critical missions and digitally transform the nonprofit workplace.
Advancing child welfare
Angels Foster Family Network, CASA of San Mateo County: These are just a few Box customers doing amazing things in the child welfare space. We want to amplify the impact of nonprofits working in child welfare systems around the world. Your application might include projects like foster care programming, legal services, or programs for orphaned children.
Supporting crisis response
When you’re coordinating critical services, secure collaboration across every device is a must. Our crisis response category covers nonprofits in emergency and disaster relief services, including refugee support (think Oxfam, IRC, and Team Rubicon Global). Applications for this category could tackle challenges like gathering topographic data or enabling mobile hotspots.
Protecting our planet
Digital transformation leads to planet-saving outcomes — just look to Box customers like The Nature Conservancy and charity: water. This category covers areas such as environmental protection, energy conservation, renewable energy, nature conservation, and biodiversity. Application examples include projects like improving environmental research or calculating your impact from going paperless.
Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on four criteria:
Alignment - Demonstrate clear alignment with a digital transformation focus in child welfare, crisis response, or the environment impact.Impact - Show potential for impact and the difference this project will make for your organization, and those you helpInclusion - Include a plan for inclusion of key stakeholder voices, buy-in and support.Scale  - Share your plan for achieving scale, including possible challenges and how you will address them.
Please see FAQs for more informations.

Eligibility

Organizations eligible for the Box Impact Fund have a declared and verifiable charitable or philanthropic mission to benefit communities.Organizations must have a recognized legal status in their respective country.Additionally, the application must be for a digital transformation project in child welfare, crisis response, or the environment to be considered.