Funds Available Only to Current Grantees

Organizational Effectiveness Fund Reimbursements
The Fund for Nonviolence will reimburse current grantees up to $250 per year for board or staff training, event fees, and/or for purchase of publications to assist with training, planning, evaluation, fundraising, and organizational development.  Simply submit a one-paragraph description and the invoice(s) to us for reimbursement. For more extensive organizational effectiveness activities, utilize the process described below.

Organizational Effectiveness Fund Grants
Grant range: $300 to $5000

Available for a wide range of organization improvement needs including program and organization evaluation, board training and development, staff training, fundraising, etc.  Emphasis is on building organization capacity, not exclusively for contracted support to complete a project.  Priority will be given to proposals for organization reflection and planning and further organizational work that emerges from such planning.

To Apply: Write a letter, up to two pages, describing need, proposed activity, time frame, and simple budget.  A decision will be made within 30 days of receipt of the letter.  Please indicate a date we can expect a brief narrative and financial report on the grant, if funded.

Special Requirements: Qualifications of consultants involved in technical assistance work funded by Fund for Nonviolence must be provided in the application, in the form of a bio or resume, along with a brief scope of work prepared by the proposed consultant.  If requested, we will work with you to find a suitable consultant. This grant is not to pay for salaries of regular employees.

Examples of previous Organizational Effectiveness Fund grants:

• Funds to hire a consultant to conduct an organizational assessment and follow-up to increase staff capacity.
• Travel and meeting expenses for organization members to participate in a strategic planning meeting or to meet at a time of difficult transition.
• Funds for strategic plan development, especially the first time an organization has done this and when there is significant follow-up to an initial meeting.
• Funds to organize and plan leadership transitions including significant turnover of the Board of Directors.
• Funds to attend a training or hire a consultant to provide communications, fundraising, media, organizing, or other trainings. Note: we do not accept proposals to pay a consultant to do fundraising.

Unique Opportunity Fund Grants
Grant range: $300 to $5000

Available for unique opportunities, unknown at the time of the organization’s original grant proposal, for which a small, supplemental grant will enable the grantee to significantly enhance their work.  A priority is collaboration, such as to convene people working on similar issues to move the overall work forward.

To apply:  Contact your program officer.  If appropriate, and funds are available, a letter up to two pages describing need, proposed activity, time frame, and simple budget will be requested.

A decision will be made within 30 days of receipt of letter.

Special requirements:  This fund is not for activities that are recurring budget items or to pay for salaries of regular employees.

Examples of previous Unique Opportunity Fund grants:

• Funds to develop and implement advocacy campaigns after unexpected events or in response to proposed legislation.
• Funds to support current advocacy work at a time of unexpectedly heightened media attention
• Funds to jump-start an advocacy campaign following consultation of several FNV grantees and others in the field.
• Funds for media communications in response to a court hearing, for which an organization filed an amicus brief.