Mini Grants for Local Community Demonstration Projects

Community Philantropy Incentive Grants

• CVC Philanthropy Success Story Achievement Awards. The Community Vitality Center will make up to four $1000 awards for success stories, lessons learned, and best practices related to activities for building endowments, encouraging bequests and other end-of-life planned gifts, and creating a culture for wealth transfer gifts to enhance community vitality
  

Community Entrepreneurship Challenge Grants

The Community Vitality Center Board has approved several programs that provide matching funds typically up to $10,000 for community demonstration projects that (1) involve implementation of innovative concepts for generating community vitality, or (2) help to extend the lessons learned from existing innovative models to other communities.  All Iowa communities are eligible. Projects are typically selected so as to provide geographic diversity and the widest variety of institutional circumstances so as to enhance discovery, analysis, and lessons learned from the proposals submitted.

The 3 items below are designed to assist applicants in the proposal submission process.  Various programs have various additional criteria and deadlines that are reported publicly in the monthly CVC Newsletter: Community Vitality Update.

• Request for proposals (.pdf file, New for 2009)
• 2-page Project Proposal Form (.pdf file, New for 2009)
• CVC Mini-Grant Guidelines (.pdf file, New for 2009)
• Sample mini grant budget spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel file, shows the level of budget detail required for USDA approval)