C.E. & S. Foundation Grant

The C.E. & S. Foundation Grant primarily supports individuals and families in Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on caregiver engagement, social-emotional support for children, academic support, family stability, and postsecondary education success. The Foundation seeks to invest in impactful projects that enhance program quality, policy influence, and community investment, aiming to foster resilience and opportunity for those it serves.

NOTE: Understanding that fund development requires a significant investment of an organization’s resources, we encourage potential partners not to submit unsolicited proposals.
The C.E. and S. Foundation’s grantmaking is largely focused on Louisville, Kentucky – and a few other communities with connection to the Foundation – to support individuals to become resilient and prepared for opportunities to engage and thrive.

• Caregiver Engagement

to improve the quality and accessibility of early childhood (birth to age 5) learning development opportunities in the home and in professionally managed settings by supporting families and caregivers with practices that increase their effectiveness.
Social Emotional Support (Birth through Grade 12)
to increase the quality and accessibility of social-emotional support for children (birth through 12th grade) by developing that capacity within providers and programming.
Academic Support (Kindergarten through Grade 12)
to increase the quality and accessibility of academic support for children (kindergarten through 12th grade) by developing that capacity within providers and programming.
Family and Household Stability
to increase the stability of families and households with children in Louisville to provide a solid foundation for social-emotional wellbeing and academic achievement through supportive multi-faceted strategies that reflect the complexity of poverty.
Postsecondary Education Success
to remove financial barriers to postsecondary attainment for graduates of Jefferson County Public Schools, primarily through the Evolve502 Scholarship Fund, and to provide academic and social-emotional support to those students to increase postsecondary graduation/certification rates.
Within each of our focus areas, the C.E. and S. Foundation looks to invest in leaders, strategies, and programs to have the greatest impact in support of our grantmaking strategy. We are especially interested in projects that emphasize the following dimensions:

• Impact: Changes in the quality, capacity, accessibility, or collaboration of programs.
• Influence: Changes in policies, regulations, systems, practice, or public opinion.
• Leverage: Changes in investments by other public and/or private funders.

Learning: Practices that encourage or advance the field of work and knowledge acquisition to powerfully advance desired outcomes, inform the specifics of a particular impact initiative, or cross-fertilize different initiatives.

Eligibility

Please note that the Foundation can only grant to organizations with a 501(c)3 tax status.