City of Joondalup’s Post

The 90 day federal grants freeze will be devastating to many of us in the arts and culture sector, but the chaos is the point. I heard some grounding advice on Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D.'s Zoom discussion this morning: 1. Take a deep breath and try to move past fear and into problem-solving. 2. Write down all the ways that federal grants impact your organization: how they specifically make exhibitions, arts education programs, or collections work possible, and how those activities have a measurable impact in your community. 3. Reach out and talk about this impact with your donors, stakeholders, and foundation funders. Work towards strengthening those relationships. 4. Edited to add: file for reimbursement of expended funds and commitments today. Every day brings new information, and this onslaught is intended to instill fear and fatigue. I'm here for anyone who needs help moving into problem-solving mode.

🚨 Members: take our short survey 🚨 As we continue to hear from our members about increased demand on open grant rounds, we’d like to get under the skin of these headlines and understand how funders are reacting to changes in the sector. Furthermore, we would like to understand how funders might be adapting to help manage demand. We already know that civil society spends an estimated £900m on fundraising each year: nobody wants to see this level of resource being spent on applying for funds, especially if increased competition makes a positive outcome less likely. Over the next few months we will be bringing together funders to understand how applications and demand from funded organisations is changing and effective strategies to adapt to this. To help facilitate this, we’re asking members to answer this quick survey, so we can better understand the current situation, and what’s on the horizon. Any practical examples you’re able to share will be collated and shared back out with our networks. Please take a look and share what you can by 8th November. Link to survey: https://lnkd.in/e-dxGWPi

The Avadian Foundation was delighted to award its third round of grants yesterday. Navigate Affordable Housing Partners, Inc., received a grant for $20,000, and Junior Achievement of Alabama and Small Magic both received grants for $10,000. The Foundation partners with organizations in Alabama that are addressing needs in these four key areas: affordable housing, financial health, small business development, and education.

Grants due 7/14 Grant Program Overview: For the 2024-2025 cycle, our Community Impact Grants Program seeks to support projects within the following Impact Areas: Behavioral Health Supports (including mental health and substance use) Children, Youth, & Families Housing & Homelessness

Missed out on the Grants Fair? The program guide has everything you need to catch up on the latest funding opportunities and their deadlines. Head to our site and download the program to learn more about these valuable funding opportunities: https://bit.ly/4dxBj85

Students in this course will consider the possibilities and pitfalls in various tasks of ministry, including governance versus ministry, stewardship and fundraising, creating and managing budgets, and more. Learn more about our upcoming courses at https://bit.ly/intspring25.

Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) recently approved 25 grants totaling $200,000 to support small towns of 10,000 or less in SMIF’s 20-county region. Each grant seeks to impact the culture, education, economy and/or social aspects of a town by investing in collaborative initiatives that help make the community more welcoming. Check out the award recipients! https://lnkd.in/gGidgszF

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What happens when around £1m in non-prescriptive funding is provided to 150 communities across England that need it most? Our new research, conducted by the Stop Collaborate and Listen Agency, identifies a web of nine interconnected components showing how access to, and spending of, non-prescriptive funding can generate and sustain community power. Explore the findings at: https://lnkd.in/d_T_CCAP

In our research, we focused on adapting our approach to meet the unique needs of each community we worked with. One of the most rewarding aspects was supporting communities to reflect on their achievements and successes using participatory inclusive evaluation methods like the River of Life and Ripple Effect Mapping. In long programmes like Big Local (10-15 years!), it’s easy to lose momentum, but revisiting both big and small wins can reignite motivation and progress and help with planning for the future.   Our findings emphasise how flexible, non-prescriptive funding can generate an interconnected web of power to: - expose limiting or facilitating power structures that can be navigated and negotiated by community members, - build responsive resilient resident networks that are there for people when it’s most needed, - strengthen organisational connections for a collective voice in decision-making.   We hope these insights will guide future community-led initiatives and funding strategies.   Read more about how community power can be grown when given resources and opportunities to learn, grow and flourish! https://bit.ly/Big_Local   #CommunityPower #BigLocal #ParticipatoryResearch #SCLAgency #NonPrescriptiveFunding #CommunityLeadership #CollaborativeResearch #Empowerment