The Prana Fund in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation seeks innovative proposals from Charlottesville area nonprofit agencies or schools.
Eligibility:
-The agency must be a 501(c) (3) public charity or government agency (such as a school) working in Charlottesville and/or Albemarle County.
-The Prana Fund will not support endowment campaigns, annual appeals, or gifts to individuals.
Emphasis:
This grant is eligible to nonprofit organizations working in Charlottesville and Albemarle that address the needs of middle and lower-income children and focus on Nature, or Animals, or the Arts, or any combination of two of those.
Amount of Grant:
$25,000 outright grant.
Proposal Deadline:
A request for proposal is sent out through CACF in October with a November 15th deadline for submitting proposals. The grant recipient is then announced in December.
Proposals must be postmarked or hand-delivered to the CACF office by November 15, 2009.
Proposal requirements:
-Maximum 3 page project narrative
-evidence of 501(c)(3) public charity status
-agency’s most recent financial statement
-one-page project budget
-list of project leaders
-list of board of directors and key staff members
Please call the Community Foundation at 434-296-1024 for more information.