Grant Opportunities
Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund Now Accepting Letters of Inquiry
By admin | January 27th, 2012 | No Comments »DEADLINE MARCH 15 by 5pm
The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund was established in 2003 to provide grants for non profits in good standing in their governing states.
The program must support informed and engaged communities with innovative approaches, participants, leaders and spaces to foster community engagement. Journalism excellence in the digital age, through an array of media innovation projects and other initiatives. Projects that lead to transformational, sustaniable change. The recipients must be based or do work in the 6 lower counties.
Maximum Grant amount is $10,000
APPLICATION PROCESS
The application process for the Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund has a two-stage process. The first stage consists of submitting a Letter of Inquiry outlining your project and funding request. The purpose of this letter of inquiry is to avoid the time and effort in presenting a full application for requests that are simply out of the scope of our grant program. All recipients must be based or do the work funded by a grant from the Knight Fund, in the Donee’s primary geographic area (6 lower counties) and otherwise meet the Donee’s standards for recipients of it’s grants.
After you have carefully reviewed the guidelines, submit your Letter of Inquiry via email to rdellenger@mgccf.org or mail to Knight Foundation, C/O Gulf Coast Community Foundation, 11975 Seaway Rd, Suite B150, Gulfort, MS 39503.
Your letter will need to include the following information:
- Introduction to your organization, history, mission, etc (include Fed Tax ID & MS State reg. numbers)
- Statement of the issues or community priorities that the project will address
- Concise description of the activities to be undertaken
- Start-up and completion dates
- Project budget identifying all funding sources and itemizing all potential expenditure
Deadline is March 15 by 5pm
