Princeton Area Community Foundation – Sep 5

Posted by Princeton Area Community Foundation on August 20, 2024

Princeton Area Community Foundation invites applications from regional organizations

The Princeton Area Community Foundation is the philanthropic nexus of central New Jersey and committed to helping the region and its residents—especially its children—thrive.

The foundation invites applications for the Bunbury Fund, which supports nonprofit organizations making significant impacts across central New Jersey, and most specifically Mercer County, to strengthen their capacity to effectively advance their missions toward sustainable, organizational maturity. The Bunbury Fund works to build relationships that are meaningful, evolving, and transparent with organizations, not simply transactional.

The fund provides one-year capacity-building grants of up to $50,000 in support of strengthening the board governance, succession planning for board and staff leadership, developing strategic partnerships and program collaborations, strategic and scenario planning, systems upgrades to improve service delivery and measurement, embracing practices that support racial equity and inclusion, supporting the strategic and capacity building needs of start-ups and newly launched initiatives, strengthening Human Resources systems, and improving technology/communications. In addition, the fund awards multiyear capacity building grants up to $150,000 over up to three years; and planning grants up to $10,000.

Applications will be accepted from organizations that operate and provide services within the geographic region covered by the Princeton Area Community Foundation, defined as Mercer County; eastern Bucks County, Pennsylvania, including New Hope, Morrisville, Washington Crossing, and Yardley; northern Burlington County, including Bordentown and Bordentown Township; southern Hunterdon County, including Lambertville, West Amwell, adjacent parts of East Amwell; southern Middlesex County, including Plainsboro and Cranbury; and southern Somerset County, including Montgomery, Rocky Hill, and adjacent sections of Franklin Twp.

To be eligible, applicants must be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code, be a publicly supported charity under section 509, and be registered with the N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs as a charity in good standing.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Princeton Area Community Foundation website.

Deadline: September 5, 2024