Rocky Mount Community Foundation Grant

Background

The Rocky Mount Community Foundation (RMCF) was created as a private foundation to promote and advance the Rocky Mount area as a great place to work, live and learn by enhancing business growth and opportunities for the city. The foundation grew from what was formerly the Rocky Mount Merchants Association. We are a private charity serving thousands of people who share a common concern – improving the quality of life in Rocky Mount, Nash and Edgecombe counties.

The purposes of the RMCF are to advance the public resources and facilities of the greater Rocky Mount area and advance the image of Rocky Mount in the business arena by enhancing the attractiveness of Rocky Mount as a place to work, live, and learn.

Grant Information

RMCF will make grants available to other 501C(3) exempt organizations, and to the State or any political subdivision of the State or the United States for exclusively charitable and public purposes, to accomplish its goals of promoting the community of Rocky Mount and its business, educational, civic, and social environment.

The specific subject areas that will be considered for grants are necessarily broad due to RMCF’s broad goal of community promotion. A list of possible subject areas and their relation to RMCF’s charitable purpose is as follows:

• Community beautification, through maintenance and improvement of community recreational facilities and parklands, educating the public in the advantages of street and area planning, preserving, beautifying and improving public parks, providing community land-use analysis.
• Preserving the historic or architectural character of the community.
• Promotion of the arts, promotion of public appreciation of the arts, or a particular art, and arousing local interest in facilities or institutions for the advancement of the arts, by sponsoring professional presentations, such as plays, musicals, or concerts, or providing funds to charitable institutions such as public radio and community theater.
• Advancement of education or science through establishment or maintenance of nonprofit educational facilities, establishment or maintenance of institutions such as public libraries or museums, advancement and dissemination of knowledge through publications, seminars, lectures and the like.

It has been the favor of the Board not to fund multi-year projects as grants are not intended to be operational or ongoing. The Board seeks to fund grants that will promote jobs and grants are typically from $5,000 to $25,000.

Eligibility

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• Grants available to 501C(3) exempt organizations, and to the State or any political subdivision of the State or the United States

Ineligibility

• The foundation does not support requests for operations, personnel or salaries.