The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation: Capital Grants - Housing

Overview

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The Weinberg Foundation fulfills its mission of meeting the basic needs of people experiencing poverty by providing grants across five focus areas that serve a range of populations, primarily within the Foundation’s priority communities. Grant requests should align with one of these areas: Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, or Aging.

The Weinberg Foundation’s grantmaking reflects the wishes of Harry and Jeanette Weinberg, as outlined in the Foundation’s charter, as well as the laws and public policy that govern private philanthropy in the United States and Israel.

Housing

Stable housing provides a foundation for individuals, children, and families to lead healthy and productive lives. Without a place to call home, individuals and families cannot put themselves on a path to a healthy, stronger future.

Priorities

* Housing With Supportive Services: The Foundation supports nonprofit housing development to accelerate the production of affordable housing that integrates into the broader community and includes services to help people achieve and maintain stability.
* Examples of appropriate projects:
* Permanent supportive housing developments or units serving people who are exiting homelessness.
* Working capital for predevelopment of supportive housing or to build nonprofit developers’ capacity to create more housing, such as expanding their real estate development teams.
* Community-Led Development: The Foundation supports innovative, community-driven efforts that preserve affordable housing for generations. Projects should have the potential for replication or expansion and enable residents to live and thrive in their home communities.
* Examples of appropriate projects:
* Community land trusts primarily in Baltimore and Hawaiʻi that prioritize people experiencing housing instability.
* Models for community ownership or community wealth building to prevent resident displacement.
* Mixed-income housing integrated into the community that is designed by and for individuals who are often marginalized, such as people with disabilities, youth, and residents of rural areas.
* Coordinated Responses to Homelessness: The Foundation supports projects to improve collaboration across public systems and organizations that serve people without housing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. Projects should involve individuals who have been homeless to inform planning and implementation.
* Examples of appropriate projects:
* Partnerships to coordinate services across organizations that address homelessness. Projects should demonstrate how the work improves the lives of people served.
* Leadership development and other opportunities for people who have experienced homelessness to participate in planning and decision making about programs designed to serve them.
* Models for sustainable funding of supportive services that help people maintain housing.

Capital Grants

Capital grants fund the purchase, construction, and/or renovation of a building; the purchase of major equipment; home modifications for low-income homeowners; and select technology projects.

To qualify for capital grant consideration, the proposed project must meet the following criteria:

* Specific, confirmed plans, including value-engineered drawings and confirmed total project costs.
* At least 50% of project costs have been raised (either pledged or received).
* Direct services provided as a result of the project should align with the Foundation’s funding priorities in its focus areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Aging.

The Foundation’s charter also sets a threshold for the total funding that it can provide to any one capital project at a maximum of 30%. However, grants are often approved for lower amounts.

Eligibility

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* To be considered for funding, an organization must meet several requirements:
* Be a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status; or have a fiscal sponsor that has 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status; or be an Israeli equivalent.
* Provide direct services to low-income and vulnerable populations.
* Have audited financial statements or external financial reviews.
* Have been in operation for at least three years.

Ineligibility

* The Foundation does not fund the following interests/entities:

* Individuals
* Arts and culture
* Postsecondary scholarships
* Debt reduction
* Colleges and universities
* Religious institutions and facilities (including churches, congregations, mosques, synagogues, and temples)
* Think tanks
* Endowments
* Political action groups
* Annual appeals (in most cases)
* Publications
* Academic or health research
* Fundraising events