C3F: Geographic Enrichment Grant Cycle

C3F: Geographic Enrichment Grant Cycle

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Charlevoix County Community Foundation
Last Updated: January 07, 2025

Summary

The C3F: Geographic Enrichment Grant Cycle aims to enhance the quality of life in Charlevoix County by providing funding opportunities for nonprofit projects in communities like Beaver Island, Boyne City, Charlevoix, and East Jordan. This initiative encourages collaboration and innovative approaches to meet community needs while ensuring that grant proposals deliver tangible benefits to each affected area. The foundation invites diverse applicants to contribute to impactful local projects.

Overview

Mission The mission of the Charlevoix County Community Foundation (C3F) is to enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Charlevoix County, now and for generations to come. The Community Foundation helps people make a difference close to home by accepting contributions of all sizes. Each year, the Community Foundation makes grants that support a wide variety of organizations, schools, and municipalities in their work. What is the purpose of the Geographic Enrichment Cycle? The purpose of the Geographic Enrichment Cycle is to offer all eligible nonprofit partners the opportunity to apply for project and program support on Beaver Island, in Boyne City, Charlevoix, and/or East Jordan. Individuals, couples, families, and businesses who advise funds at the Community Foundation (donor advisors) may choose to make grants through the cycle as well. What kinds of projects or programs are most likely to receive grant funding? The Geographic Enrichment Cycle aims to attract requests that are focused on the people of and places in Charlevoix County’s individual communities. There are enrichment funds dedicated to Beaver Island, Boyne City, Charlevoix, and East Jordan. Organizations impacting more than one of the communities may be eligible to apply if the following conditions are met: the work will result in a deliverable to each community impacted, and the proposal indicates the estimated percentage of the work that will take place in each community impacted. Successful requests may include any of the following characteristics: demonstrate collaboration, address new needs or try new approaches for existing needs, encourage people to help themselves, focus on prevention of problems, and/or avoid duplication of services.

Eligibility

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