MutualOne Charitable Foundation Grant

The MutualOne Charitable Foundation, established in 1998, focuses on promoting charitable, educational, and civic purposes within its market area. Grants of up to $10,000 are available for projects in workforce development, health services, education, community development, and the arts, with a special emphasis on benefiting underserved populations. The foundation prioritizes projects that demonstrate significant community impact and sustainability beyond the grant period.

Established in 1998, the MutualOne Charitable Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of charitable, educational, and civic purposes within MutualOne Bank’s market area.
Grant Program
Foundation considers grants of up to $10,000 in the areas of workforce development, health and human services, housing, education, community development, the environment, and culture and the arts. Special emphasis is placed on those projects that focus on the less-advantaged and/or underserved population
The areas of interest are workforce development, health and human service, housing, education, community development, the environment and the Arts.
Grant requests will be considered for program support, seed money, challenge grants, and capital improvements.
Funding Criteria
In reviewing proposals, the Trustees will give special consideration to the following:

• The benefit to low and moderate income population
• ;The demonstrated needs of the target population to be served;The size of the population in the Bank's market area to be impacted by the grant
• ;The projected impact of the project on the population served by the applicant;
• The significance of the grant to the applicant's ability to implement the project;
• The sustainability of the project once the grant period has ended
• ; andThe significance of the grant in addressing community-wide problems and concerns.

Eligibility

Grant applicants must be non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, municipalities, or public schools located in or serving communities in the Bank’s market area.

Ineligibility

The Foundation will not fund political or sectarian activities.

501(c)(3) nonprofits or public institutions (e.g., schools, fire/police departments) located in or serving Framingham, Natick and surrounding MetroWest communities.