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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. The name, title, address, phone and email of the contact person to whom any questions regarding the LOI can be addressed.

  4. 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