Funded by: The Tofias PC Charitable Foundation
Deadline: Rolling (Letters of Intent)
Summary: The Tofias PC Charitable Foundation provides grants designed to strengthen the capacity of nonprofit organizations. Grants are intended to support projects that allow charitable nonprofit organizations to run more efficiently and encourage organizational growth, thus increasing their ability to achieve their mission and service their target population.
For 2002, the foundation will focus on strengthening the organizational skills of health-focused not-for-profit groups. The foundation seeks to provide grant support for organizational skills — including performance management, financial planning, fundraising and revenue generation, external relationship building and management. To be eligible, organizations must be committed to improving mental or physical health. Organizations can be working to accomplish this goal through various ways, including education, research, awareness, advocacy, and/or direct service. In order to be considered for a grant in 2002, organizations must identify how a grant could help strengthen their organizational skills and enhance their ability to improve people’s health.
The foundation will provide one-year project grants in the
range of $2,500 to $10,000. Proposals will be considered from organizations
in the
following
Massachusetts counties: Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk,
and Worcester. The foundation is particularly interested in organizations
with annual budgets up to $15 million; strong, financially stable organizations
where a small grant could address a specific need; proposals with clearly
defined infrastructure goals and achievable implementation and evaluation
plans; and organizations with strong leadership and an active volunteer network.
For further information, contact the foundation’s offices.
Contact:
Susan Borst, Grants Administrator
Tofias PC Charitable Foundation
350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 761-0637
E-mail: sborst@tofias.com