Brown Rudnick Community Grants

The Brown Rudnick Community Grants program aims to support front-line educational workers in underserved communities across cities like Boston and New York. With grants up to $2,000, it addresses immediate educational needs that traditional funding overlooks. This initiative encourages collaboration with educators to enhance learning environments and foster positive change, ensuring that impactful projects receive the necessary support to thrive within a year of funding.

NOTE: The delivery of grant funds shall be conditioned upon the recipient's willingness, indicated in written form, to accept the grant, use it for the required time, and report to the Foundation on the grant's success.
Leading by Example
The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation, which is managed by the Center for the Public Interest, has a mission to make grants which bring energy and interest of Brown Rudnick volunteers together with opportunities and resources to create positive social change. To maximize its effect, the Foundation focuses to organizations focused on education in underserved communities in Boston, Hartford, Houston, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County, CA, and London (UK).
Since 2001, over 275 grants have been made and collaborative efforts undertaken with grantees, in each of these locations consistent with this initiative.
The Foundation awards Community Grants in the amount of $2,000 or less, to address specific, one-time, tangible, and immediate needs. Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis from those on the "front lines" of education (the classroom teacher, student parent, school nurse, etc.) - the kind of need that those with funding authority don't have the resources to make a priority.
Your Proposal for a Community Grant
The Community Grant Program proceeds from the premise that those working on the front lines of the educational system have unique insight into small but significant needs or innovations that are often overlooked and which, when addressed, make a truly positive difference to the community served.
The purposes of the Community Grant Program are to simultaneously
encourage those involved broadly with the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest to actively think about the educational needs in the communities of Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County and London (UK);recognize, encourage and collaborate with the front-line educators who often do not have a voice in funding decisions; andprovide funding to assist with small, concrete projects or needs which will improve education in underserved communities, within a year of the grant award.(Grants are geographically limited to proposals that benefit educational programs in Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County and London (UK). Applications seeking funds for use outside of the boundaries of these cities will not be considered.)

Eligibility

Applicant: the applicant must be a "front line educational worker" who is involved in the education field or a related field in one of the communities eligible for Foundation grants (Boston, Hartford, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County and London).Recipient: The proposed recipient must be a non-profit organization or tax-exempt organization (e.g. a public school) that is willing to accept the grant and use it in the required manner.Purpose: The proposed use of the grant must be to fully fund a specific, one-time, and future education-related need or idea which will improve education in an underserved community, within one year of the grant award, in one of the cities eligible for Foundation grants. These cities are in Boston, Hartford, New York, Washington, D.C., Orange County and London (UK).Applications seeking funds for use outside of the boundaries of these cities will not be considered.
Support:The applicant may, if they wish, provide a letter of support by those knowledgeable about the potential recipient, especially those who are connected with the Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation and/or those who are involved (or plan to be involved) with the grant recipient's endeavors.

Ineligibility

Applicants who have control over approving the organization's budget are not eligible.Applications shall not be considered or eligible where the purpose is to pay for sponsorship of a fundraising event.

Non-profits or schools in Boston, New York, Hartford, Houston, Orange County CA, London or Washington D.C. whose programs benefit financially disadvantaged populations; religious-based organizations are not eligible.