Meet the Moment Fund Grant

The Meet the Moment Fund Grant, offered by the France-Merrick Foundation, provides essential short-term financial support to organizations addressing urgent community needs in areas such as health, housing, and education. This fund prioritizes gap support for nonprofits aiming for operational sustainability and strategic collaboration to adapt to sector changes. Eligible organizations must serve the Baltimore area and align with the Foundation's goals while facing potential risks from shifts in public policy or funding.

The France-Merrick Foundation will provide short-term financial support to organizations working to advance one or more of the following:
Preventing and addressing disruptions that negatively impact essential community needs and services, such as health, housing, safety, education, and environmental protection.Supporting strategic responses to sustain organizations and/or vital services.Investing in collaborative structures and practices to meet complex needs with reduced resources.
Fund Priorities
Gap support for nonprofits with a plan for operational sustainability. One-time operating grants, including:
Bridge funding for organizations awaiting new, withheld, or restructured resources. Costs related to smoothing service discontinuation or workforce reductions, transitioning clients to new providers or services, and determining revised business models.
Strategic response support for nonprofits or groups of nonprofits collaboratively working to address dramatic organizational or sector changes. One-time grants to sustain services, including:
Costs related to organizational collaborations or restructurings, consolidations, wind-downs, and/or mergers to sustain programs and/or effectively deploy limited financial resources across sectors.Costs related to developing or implementing new ideas or approaches to support the sector with capacity building, pooled or aligned funds, cohorts for planning, and/or shared services.

Eligibility

Do you serve the Baltimore area?Have you been funded by the France-Merrick Foundation in the past? (Note: Organizations currently funded by France-Merrick via traditional grantmaking are eligible for Meet the Moment Funding.)Does your organization advance Foundation priorities?Is your work or organizational structure facing risks and losses due to changes in public policy or funding?