The Beaufort Fund offers $500,000 in grants to non-profit organizations
The Beaufort Fund offers $500,000 in community grants
The Beaufort Fund of Coastal Community Foundation now has 2009-2010 grant applications available for $500,000 in total funding. The deadline for applying for a grant is August 21.
The Beaufort Fund is a permanent funding resource managed by Coastal Community Foundation that benefits charitable programming in Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper Counties. Grant requests of up to $15,000 each will be accepted from any nonprofit organization so long as its work benefits citizens in the four-county area served by the fund.
Begun in 1998 with a multi-million dollar gift by an anonymous Beaufort-area family, The Beaufort Fund has awarded more than $3.5 million in grants to nonprofit organizations working in the fields of education, basic human needs, conservation, health, community development and the arts. In those eleven years of Beaufort Fund grantmaking, 463 awards have been made, impacting 142 grantee organizations. This year, the Fund expects to award $500,000 to area nonprofit organizations.
Decisions about grants from the Beaufort Fund will be made by the Foundation with recommendations from an advisory committee of four-county area residents.
The deadline for applying is August 21. Computer-friendly applications are available: http://www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/pdf/beaufort_application.doc
Charitable organizations may also request a copy of the complete application guidelines by calling the Community Foundation at 843-723-3635 or by e-mail at Richard@CoastalCommunityFoundation.org.
Related posts:
- TCL foundation offers more than $70,000 in scholarships
- Coordinates blood drives for local hospital
- Main Street Beaufort elects new officers
- Beaufort County sheriff’s office offers Citizen’s Police Academy
- Verdier house undergoing renovations
