Grant Guidelines
After two successful years of grantmaking and growth, the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation is proud to enter its third year of grant making and to announce the release of its 2010 Grant Guidelines.
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation is in its third year of grant making. Each year the chosen grants focus area changes. In the current cycle, the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation will only accept proposals focused on CIVIL SOCIETY: Building a Better Carlsbad--Together.
In particular, CCF is seeking to support projects that benefit Carlsbad by enhancing its identity, supporting its residents, and fostering a unifying sense of community and purpose. Such projects might address the following civic goals: volunteerism at all ages, nonprofit collaborations, consensus building, intergenerational relationships, public art, community gardens, or bringing together community leaders and residents around local issues. The intent is to support activities and efforts that unify and inspire Carlsbad residents to make a positive difference in the future of our city and region.
The deadline for grant applications is January 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm. For questions regarding the online application process, please contact Kerri Favela at 619-235-2300 or kerri@sdfoundation.org. |
2008-2009 Grantees
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Science Olympiad |
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Real World Life |
Grants Process
Each year the CCF Grants Committee selects and recommends to the Board an “area-of-interest” to focus its grant making. The committee’s recommendation is based on input from the membership, the community and research. The areas of interest include: Education, Health & Human Services, Environment, Arts and Culture and Civil Society.
Discovery:
After Board approval of the focus area, the Grants Discovery sub-committee researches relevant national and regional materials for background and context, and conducts a local level research through interviews with Carlsbad community leaders, citizens and experts in order to promote an open dialogue, collaboration and idea flow. Based on their findings, they narrow the focus area and write the Grant Guidelines. The Guidelines are then ratified by the Board and released to the community for applications.
Grant Forum:
Once the guidelines are made public, the Grants Committee begins a PR effort to encourage all relevant and interested parties to attend its Grant Seekers Forum. Here, grant seekers learn how to submit grants to the CCF, receive answers to any questions about the granting process, and meet other Carlsbad organizations/non-profits seeking funding in the focus area. During this session, the CCF actively encourages organizations to work together to find ways they might collaborate in seeking funds to more fully benefit the community.
Implementation
Proposal Reading/ Site Selection / Ballot
All grant applications are first read by the San Diego Foundation to assure thoroughness and adherence to CCF requirements.
Following grant reading training, committee members read all proposals and score them. Based on these scores, the committee determines which organizations will receive a site visit from a team of committee members. Every committee member making a site visit must undergo site visit training provided by the Grants Committee in conjunction with The San Diego Foundation.
Each site visit is rated by the site visit team and results brought back to the Grants Committee. After presentations by the teams and discussion, the committee decides which qualified organizational candidates should be placed on the final ballot. The committee makes it ballot recommendations to the Board for its approval.
Member Voting:
After Board approval of the ballot, the full CCF membership votes to determine how grant funding will be allocated for that grant year.
Winners are notified and Grant Agreement Letters are mailed. Grant monies are distributed in the second quarter of the following year.
Award Ceremony:
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation holds an awards ceremony to publicly announce the grant winners. It is an occasion for the membership to meet the grant recipients and to support the visionary role of the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation.
Impact:
The Grants Impact sub-committee follows up with each grantee at 6-month intervals to assess how grant monies are being spent and update membership on the grantees’ progress.
Assessment:
The CCF Board and Grants Committee is intent on making this grant process one that uniquely reflects Carlsbad and the CCF vision. To that end, the Grants Committee will assess the process each year (seeking representative input from all parties concerned) and submit any recommendations for change to the Carlsbad Charitable Foundation Board of Directors.
Conflict of Interest:
All Grants Committee members are required to sign a Conflict of Interest document. During the proposal reading and site visit process, any committee member holding a position of influence with an organization seeking a CCF grant is not allowed to partake in discussion or voting involving that organization.
Committee Membership:
Any member of the CCF is welcome to be part of the Grants Committee.