IndyStar Our Children Fund

SEASON FOR SHARING 2022 GRANT APPLICATION

THE SHARED MISSION OF INDYSTAR’S OUR CHILDREN INITIATIVE AND ANNuAL SeASON FOR SHARING CAMPAIGN IS TO HARNESS THE POWER OF JOURNALISm TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CENTRAL INDIANA YOUTH.

The IndyStar Our Children initiative cordially invites your organization to apply for support. Grant applications should focus on one of the following areas:

Building capacity: Improving or developing programming, systems or operations to ensure long-term stability of the organization.
Enhancing services: Enhancing the quality of services provided to youth and families by providing additional staff training and education or improving facilities.
Supporting families: Providing wraparound support to families in underserved Indianapolis communities, such as basic needs assistance and/or connecting families to additional community resources.

Criteria:

Requests for funding should not exceed $15,000
Completed applications are due Friday, January 13, 2023, at 11:59 p.m.

IndyStar Our Children Fund

Organization Information

Organization Name

Organization contact person

Title

Phone

Approximately how many youth/families do you serve?

What is the size of your board of directors?

Please indicate how many of your board members identify as the following:

Asian

Black/African American

Hispanic/Latinx

Middle Eastern/North African

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

White

Please indicate what proportion of the youth you serve identify as the following:

Asian

Black/African American

Hispanic/Latinx

Middle Eastern/North African

Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

White

Did your enrollment change as a result of the pandemic? If so, how?

Proposal

Proposal Title

Organization Mission Statement

Requested amount to the IndyStar Our Children fund

Select the focus area(s) that apply:

Building capacity

Enhancing services

Supporting families

Total number served by the proposed activities

Estimated percentage of low-income youth served

Case Statement

What is the opportunity, problem, or need that your proposal addresses?

Proposal Summary

Briefly describe your proposal. Include the need(s) addressed and who will be served

COVID-19 Challenges

What challenges or barriers has the COVID-19 pandemic presented your organization and how have you overcome those issues? Did you add, eliminate, or adapt programming to meet the needs of the youth and families you serve? How?

Outcomes

Briefly describe the proposed outcomes. We want to know what your organization hopes to accomplish related to the proposal. Describe what will change, increase, decrease or be different as a result of the proposal concept.

Budget

Briefly describe how grant funds will be spent

Optional Question

What could the community be doing to better support Central Indiana youth and families? (Your response will not be considered related to grant scoring.)

IndyStar Our Children Fund

SEASON FOR SHARING 2022 GRANT APPLICATION

THE SHARED MISSION OF INDYSTAR’S OUR CHILDREN INITIATIVE AND ANNuAL SeASON FOR SHARING CAMPAIGN IS TO HARNESS THE POWER OF JOURNALISm TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CENTRAL INDIANA YOUTH.

Organization Information

Please indicate how many of your board members identify as the following:

Please indicate what proportion of the youth you serve identify as the following:

Proposal

Case Statement

Proposal Summary

COVID-19 Challenges

Outcomes

Budget

Optional Question

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