FBB announces Compassionate Impact Grant – Natural World and Human Interaction with the environment

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Since 2014, we have been fortunate to award three substantial grants for increasing the impact of innovative non-profits through program capacity building grants. Once again in 2017, FBB seeks to support organizations that are developing or broadening potentially transformative evidence-informed social innovations that solve critical community problems related to the problems faced between people and the natural world. The Compassionate Impact Grant Program is designed to provide a capacity-building grant for one such non-profit with potential multi-year support to greatly increase their impact on a critical community problem.

Foundation Beyond Belief will make a capacity building grant in the amount of $33,000 to $40,000 to one innovative organization. This is an open, competitive process with applicants assessed on their ability to provide evidence-driven, innovative solutions that reach different or larger numbers of constituents.               

Only charitable organizations with a U.S. 501(c)3 IRS designation will be considered.

Foundation Beyond Belief will give priority to organizations that can establish that their approach targets one or more of the following focus areas within low-income communities:

  • Educational development – Providing education regarding natural environments, climate change, species protection, and local environments.  This educational development can be targeted to any age group.
  • Economic opportunity – Increasing economic opportunities through the development of small business or techniques to increase productivity using native, natural environments, or environmental technologies.
  • Healthy futures – Promoting healthy lifestyles, improving health infrastructures.  Programs should concentrate on improving connections between populations and local ecosystems, and concentrate on improving the health of a population.

Letter of Intent Release Date:  January 2, 2017

Informational phone call will be held on Thursday, January 12 at 11 am CST. Email humanistgiving@foundationbeyondbelief.org for more information.

Deadline for applications:  February 23, 2017, 12 pm Central Time

Applications only accepted through our online portal. Applications can not be saved, so please have all materials ready.

Please direct any questions to AJ Chalom at humanistgiving@foundationbeyondbelief.org