The
Community Foundation is Pleased to Announce our 2008 Grants Program
General Letters
of Inquiry
The Foundation's Grants committee
reviews grant inquiries as they are received at their monthly meetings.
Please send Letters of Inquiry in hard copy and electronic format to Janet
Cotraccia, Program Officer, at jcotraccia@communityfoundationoftc.org.
Letters of Inquiry
should be no more than three pages and include the following:
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A description
of your organization and its mission as well as the specific program
or project for which you are requesting funding. Please clarify
whether the program/project is established and ongoing.
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A description
of the need that you are planning to address and how you hope to meet
this need. What do you expect to happen as a result of this
intervention?
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The name,
title, address, phone and email of the contact person to whom any
questions regarding the LOI can be addressed.
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Total project
cost and amount requested from the Foundation.
Howland
Foundation
The Community Foundation
of Tompkins County is the administrative agent for the Howland Foundation
— a trust established by Helen T. Howland in her will to benefit
Tompkins and Broome Counties. The Howland Foundation supports grants in
the areas of aging, youth, animal welfare, and the environment. Grants
are limited to qualified nonprofit organizations that provide substantial
benefit to these areas.
2008
Guidelines 2008
Howland Application
Crime
Victims and Sexual Assault Fund
The
Community Foundation of Tompkins County is now soliciting grant applications
from non-profit organizations seeking to provide services to crime victims
and sexual assault survivors in Tompkins County.
Interested applicants must provide an electronic Letter of Inquiry (LOI)
of no more than three pages outlining need, goals, services, organizational
capacity, outcomes and evaluation strategy no later than 5pm on
Friday, September 26, 2008. In past years, the average grant
size has been $5,000. Please send LOIs, both in the text of the email
as well as an attachment, to gferrari@communityfoundationoftc.org
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