Collaboration Fund: Seed Grant

Three Types of Grant Awards
The Collaboration Fund makes grants to nonprofits to identify and engage experienced technical assistance providers who can support the exploration or implementation of a sustained collaboration.
The Fund will support collaboration projects involving nonprofits serving Delaware and Delawareans, regardless of whether they have headquarters in the state.

Eligibility

Who is eligible to apply? Tax-exempt organizations that are based in, or provide services within the state of Delaware. This includes cases where a national organization partners with a Delaware-based nonprofit, as long as the primary benefit of the partnership applies to Delawareans. The grants are available to all tax-exempt organizations, regardless of organizational size or issue area. What kinds of projects are eligible for a grant?Grant support can only be used to cover the necessary one-time, out-of-pocket costs incurred in exploring or implementing a sustained collaboration.Although these costs may be modest compared with the potential benefits of the collaboration, they often become stumbling blocks, in part because most funding is tied to programs and is therefore unavailable for process/organizational costs. The Collaboration Fund will provide grants to support nonprofits to identify and engage experienced outside technical assistance (TA) providers.An organization can apply for Seed funding to engage a consultant who may assist with a landscape or network analysis exercise with the end goal of identifying potential partners for the formal collaboration.

Ineligibility

The Collaboration Fund cannot directly assist with partner organization identification or "matchmaking."