Send A Kid To Camp Grant

The Send A Kid To Camp Grant, offered by Triangle Community Foundation, aims to support K-12 students in North Carolina's Triangle region by addressing unfinished academic learning due to pandemic-related disruptions. With grants of $10,000 per year for two years, this initiative focuses on collaborating with local nonprofits to enhance educational opportunities for students facing significant barriers. The program is designed to engage families and provide necessary resources to ensure students meet grade-level expectations.

Overview
Since 1984, the Foundation has offered a grant to support students during the summer months. However, during COVID, we know that the learning needs of our students have drastically changed. For this cycle, Send A Kid To Camp will expand beyond the summer months to meet that need, and will focus on unfinished academic learning. We recognize the significant barriers many students have faced, including school closures and unequal access to technology, in finishing learning they began during the last three academic years. We also recognize the strength of our community, including children and their families, and want to partner with local nonprofits to build on successes, address needs, and help students work towards being on grade-level academically.
Grantmaking Criteria
Send A Kid To Camp grants will be $10,000 per year for two years (calendar years 2023 and 2024). Funds may be used to support needs related to helping students complete unfinished learning resulting from extended pandemic-related disruptions of school and afterschool programming including supplies and staff time.
Funding is intended to support K-12 students residing in Triangle Community Foundation’s service area: Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake Counties.

Eligibility

Charitable organizations defined in Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), religious congregations, governmental agencies, or organizations working under fiscal sponsorship of a 501(c)(3) organization are eligible to apply.
Organizations should serve K-12 students (or a subset of that population) in at least one of the Foundation’s four counties: Chatham, Durham, Orange, and/or Wake.
Organizations must provide programming that includes an academic component during the summer and at least some portion of the academic year.
Organizations should involve students and/or families and caregivers in their work.The Foundation will accept applications from organizations that:Support K-12 students in addressing unfinished academic learning from the past three academic years.
Support students during the summer and at least some portion of the academic year.
Support students of color, students with disabilities, English Language Learners, and/or students attending high-poverty schools.
Engage youth, families, and caregivers in programming.For example, having youth and/or parent advisory committee members, inviting youth and/or parent feedback on programs, having youth interns, youth and/or parent volunteers, etc.

Ineligibility

The Foundation is not able to make grants to individual families or to camps serving children outside our four-county service area.