Capacity Building Grant – Oct 8

Posted by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation on September 17, 2024

Kauffman Foundation invites applications for capacity building grants

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, aims to provide access to opportunities that help people achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity—regardless of race, gender, or geography.

Together with community, the foundation believes we can shift the landscape in three strategies—college access and completion, workforce and career development, and entrepreneurship—prioritized because of their anticipated power to advance economic mobility.

The foundation invites applications for its Capacity Building Grant program. Capacity Building grants are designed to address explicit organizational capacity needs that would strengthen, deepen, or scale impact in the foundation’s focus areas of essential competencies and skills, education and employer connection, participation and belonging, and equitable access. Though not exhaustive or prescriptive, examples of projects include leadership development (an executive leadership team to build stronger leadership-level communications, accountability, collaboration structures), financial sustainability (build a development plan, a revenue model, and/or a business plan for a new program offering, evaluation capacity (develop and execute on a plan to build an evaluation unit in the organization, adopt or build data systems, and/or develop dashboards and scorecards), develop a talent strategy (build a recruitment, retention, and development strategy with an aligned compensation analysis and model; bring in a marketing consultant to develop a branding/marketing strategy), investing in new software or infrastructure, and operational systems (evaluate operational systems for scalability and efficiency, design operating model, build or adapt systems (human resources, information technology, marketing, finance, etc.).

Grants of between $100,000 and $250,000 will be awarded.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation website.

Deadline: October 8, 2024