For years, the Community Foundation has been making a significant impact in the lives of area residents through our grant making process. Arts and culture, green spaces, human rights, economic stability for women, sports opportunities, and leadership development are just a few of the ways that the Community Foundation works to improve quality of life across our region.

The Community Foundation distributes 5% of its endowment funds annually to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and public entities throughout the area. Nonprofits can apply for funding from select funds held at the Community Foundation through a competitive grant-making process.
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Community Foundation Opportunity Funds

Community Foundation grants support improving the quality of life in our region in the following areas:

• Arts & Culture: Provide exposure and access to artistic and cultural experiences which generate artistic growth and creativity for all ages.
• Community & Human Services: Support programs, projects, and activities that promote community or human services to all.
• Education: Assist individuals in gaining knowledge and developing life-long learning skills through educational programs, projects, and activities.
• Green Spaces: Improve, benefit, or make use of public accessible green spaces and natural environment along the Greenway through programs, projects, and activities. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, maintenance and permanent capital improvements, support for public use awareness, marketing, environmental education, and related activities.
• Human Rights: Support efforts that raise awareness and promote understanding and respect for human rights among all through education, mediation and conflict resolution, celebrations, and intervention program, projects, and activities.

Amount: $500 - $3,000

​Applications will NOT be considered for the following: non-program operating expenses, individuals, annual appeals, membership drives, endowments or capital campaigns, religious organizations for religious purposes, or projects of organizations with discriminatory employment or program practices.

2019 Application Opens: July 15, 2019 at 9:00 AM
​Online Application Deadline: August 16, 2019 by 5:00 PM
​Grant Announcements: No later than September 30, 2019

Registration for the online portal is strongly required well in advance of application submission.

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Women's Fund

The mission of the Women’s Fund is to provide ideas, energy, and resources so that girls and women are empowered to achieve economic, social, and political equality.  
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The vision of the Women’s Fund is to:

• raise awareness of challenges, concerns, and opportunities facing girls and women today
• support opportunities that build leadership skills and confidence among girls and women
• encourage women to become philanthropists

Preference may be given to new projects or programs and/or new grant applicants. Finalists will be invited to give a short presentation before the Women's Fund Grant Review Committee.
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Applications will NOT be considered for the following: non-program operating expenses, individuals, annual appeals, membership drives, endowments or capital campaigns, religious organizations for religious purposes, or projects of organizations with discriminatory employment or program practices.

Amount: Up to $5,000

2019 Application Opens: July 15, 2019 at 9:00 AM
​Online Application Deadline: August 16, 2019 by 5:00 PM
​Grant Announcements: No later than September 30, 2019
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Registration for the online portal is strongly required well in advance of application submission.

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Arts Regrant Program

The City of Grand Forks Arts Regrant Program provides funding to nonprofit arts- and/or culture-based organizations in the City of Grand Forks that facilitate the creation of art for the benefit of the public. Funds are provided by the City of Grand Forks and administered by the Community Foundation.

Online Application Opens: February 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM
Online Application Deadline: February 28, 2020 at 5:00 PM
Grant Announcements: No later than March 31, 2020

​Registration for the online portal is strongly required well in advance of application submission.
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CF Knight Foundation Fund

The Knight Foundation Fund supports the success of our communities through investments that attract, retain and harness talent; that expand opportunity by increasing entrepreneurship and economic mobility; and that support civic infrastructure to accelerate the growth of ideas and bring people from diverse social and economic backgrounds together.

Promoting civic innovation and robust engagement will enable our communities to succeed in a rapidly changing world. We want our investments to inspire the actions of residents in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks and help us build a better democracy and a successful future.

• Talent: Knight Foundation invests in residents, immigrants and entrepreneurs as economic growth, job creation and neighborhood revitalization drivers. 
• Place: Knight Foundation invests in places that are primed to accelerate talent and opportunity.
• Civic Innovation: Knight Foundation invests in innovation in governance and civic capacity.

​Places that accelerate talent and opportunity:

• Connect assets and people
• Attract and retain talent
• Foster economic integration
• Result in a change that can be felt in the near term
• Incorporate quality design and new tools or technologies
• Respond and are authentic to the community
• Are sustainable
• Leverage public and private partners and enhance market potential

​Critical Questions
Does this investment:

• Represent a true innovation? Have the ability to be breakthrough or transformative?
• Accelerate learning and the exchange of ideas?
• Have a champion equipped to execute?
• Have a path toward sustainability or completion?
• Promote retention and attraction of talent?
• Enhance opportunity and economic mobility?
• Incorporate opportunities for robust citizenship and/or engagement?
• Result in a change that can be seen or felt in the near term?

Organizations and initiatives interested in applying for funding from the CF Knight Foundation Fund may submit a letter of inquiry and proposed budget to Becca Bahnmiller at bbahnmiller@gofoundation.org. Letters are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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Greenway Takeover Festival Grant Program

The Greenway Takeover Festival Grant Program provides funding to organizations and individuals that seek to present a community engagement program or activity at the 2019 Greenway Takeover Festival, taking place on September 5-8, 2019. Funds are provided by HB Sound & Light and administered by the Community Foundation.

Live music and entertainment is our passion and sharing that with the community is the reason we exist. HB Sound & Light, Altru Health System, and Happy Harry’s Bottle Shops want to give you the opportunity to show your creativity at the Greenway Takeover Festival. Performance, community involvement, art, or collaboration - your imagination is the limit. We provide the space and let you “takeover.”

Three grants will be awarded - $1,250, $1,000, and $750.

Online Application Opens: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Online Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 5:00 PM

​Because this opportunity is open to organizations and individuals alike, find the Greenway Takeover Festival Grant Application on the portal under Individual Applicants - Available Grants. If you have an organizational profile on the portal, ensure that you have also requested access as an Individual Applicant on your profile dashboard in order to access this specific application.

​New registrations for the online portal is strongly required well in advance of application submission.
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