CNYCF: Strategic Partnership Funds

_NOTE: Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their grant request with Community Foundation staff before beginning the application process._

The Central New York Community Foundation is a public charity that receives contributions from private donors, manages them to grow over time and then distributes funding to local charities to help them thrive.

Since our inception in 1927, we have invested nearly $300 million in community projects that strengthen our local nonprofits and address the most critical issues of our times.

CNYCF Grants

We offer a number of grant programs that seek to bring about positive change and impact while honoring diversity and building inclusion within and across our many communities. The following programs provide responsive support to projects that enhance the lives of residents within Onondaga, Madison, Cayuga, Cortland and Oswego counties.

Strategic Partnership Funds

The Strategic Partnership Fund supports organizations seeking to create new synergies in and between nonprofits, such as mergers and affiliations, that will enable them to enhance program delivery and achieve more effective and efficient use of limited financial and human resources. Our hope is that the financial support offered through the Strategic Partnership Fund will enable these collaborative partnerships to prosper.

Types of Projects

Grants from the Strategic Partnership Fund support willing organizations pursuing the following:

• Exploration, Pre-Negotiation, Negotiation & Due Diligence
• Administrative consolidation
• Joint programming
• Joint venture
• Regionalization
• Formation of subsidiary or parent-subsidiary
• Reengineering or restructuring
• Mergers and consolidations
• Nonprofit dissolutions

Amount

Grant requests should generally not exceed $25,000. However, collaborative and/or innovative projects may exceed a $25,000 request.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, publicly supported organizations such as schools and municipalities, and organizations using a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor
• Organizations serving residents of Onondaga, Madison, Oswego, Cortland or Cayuga counties
• Funds will be made available for nonrecurring costs related specifically to implementing strategic partnership activities.
  • Typical expenses include professional, legal, human resource management, information management, organizational development and/or technical assistance required to accomplish a merger or affiliation between organizations.