Community Enrichment Grant

The Community Enrichment Grant, offered by the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts, aims to enhance community vitality through support for local arts, culture, civic engagement, and development projects. Grants typically range from $2,000 to $15,000, with a focus on fostering inclusive relationships among residents and organizations. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, while individuals and for-profit entities are ineligible. This initiative seeks to create impactful and measurable community improvements.

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The Community Enrichment program supports activities that enhance the vitality of our communities. They include activities that promote local arts, culture, creativity, civic engagement, and community development.
Vital communities are characterized by strong, active, and inclusive relationships between residents, private sector, public sector, and civil society organizations.
Examples include:
Arts and Culture: including but not limited to art in public places, programs that encourage art in community institutions (community centers and schools), and “art for art’s sake.”
Community Development: including but not limited to community-enhancing projects, and the preservation of community heritage and history.
Civic engagement: Advancing community cohesion and participation
Grant amounts
While there are no set grant amounts, grants tend to fall between $2,000 and $15,000.

Eligibility

Nonprofit organizations may apply to multiple grant programs each year, but we will only accept one application per organization per grant program.

Ineligibility

What we do not fund:IndividualsFor-profit organizationsLoans or debt reductionActivities outside our regionPolitical activity