For information about the city of Greenbelt, Maryland, visit the Greenbelt Citylink pages. Greetings,
Thank you for your interest in the Greenbelt Community Foundation.
The Greenbelt Community Foundation’s mission is to maintain, improve, and enrich the quality life in the City of Greenbelt. The Foundation promotes cooperative endeavors and undertakes projects that celebrate, respect, and build upon the legacy and ideals of Greenbelt: citizen involvement; collaborative self-sufficiency; community participation. We collaborate with government agencies, public and private organizations, and individuals on projects that are consistent with our mission
The Foundation is especially interested in new initiatives and specific projects that will enhance the cultural, artistic, recreational, social, or environmental vitality of Greenbelt.
The Greenbelt Community Foundation is an advised fund within the Prince Georges Community Foundation, a subsidiary of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, Inc with overall assets of over $325,000,000. The Foundation's Advisory Board is co- chaired by Sylvia Lewis and Emmett Jordan, its treasurer is Bill Duncan, and its secretary is Keith Chernikoff. Its other board members are Dan Hamlin, Melissa Hines-Rodriguez, Kap Kapastin, Sandy Lange, Eulalie Lucus, Leta Mach, Barbara Simon, Alan Turnbull, and Tom White.
For the current funding round, the Foundation is accepting grant applications for amounts ranging from $500 to $4,000 to fund projects in Greenbelt. Please note that the Foundation is primarily interested in funding projects that can be completed in one year. The Foundation will generally not grant funds for organizational operating support unless it is directly related to a project.
Organizations that can apply for funding include non-profit corporations and not-for-profit cooperative organizations. The Foundation wishes to encourage associations or working groups that do not meet these categories, but are organized to pursue projects consistent with the mission of the Foundation, to identify a qualifying organization to act as fiscal agent for their project. A qualified fiscal agent is an organization that is already a 501c3 non-profit or not-for-profit cooperative that could receive donated funds and will act as a financial sponsor (or overseer) of the grant. The fiscal agent should be an organization whose mission is relevant to the mission of the organization applying for the grant.
Proposals are to be sent to the Greenbelt Community Foundation, at P.O. Box 234, Greenbelt, MD 20768, no later than April 15, 2010. Complete proposals will be reviewed by the Proposal Committee of the Foundation and decisions will be made by the full Advisory Board. Awards will be made in July, 2010. To request an application, please email info@greenbeltfoundation.net.
Thanks to the generosity of the people of Greenbelt, the Foundation is pleased to have funds available to invest in the community.
Very sincerely yours,
The Proposals Committee
For information about the city of Greenbelt, Maryland, visit the Greenbelt Citylink pages.
March 2009