Our 2014 Children, Youth & Families Capacity Building Grant Program will award grants in June and December 2014 based on three grant tracks. Click below to download the RFP, Concept Paper Outline and Application. CY&F RFP 2014CY&F Concept Paper Outline 2014CY&F Application 2014 Please join us at one of our information sessions on February 20 […]
Capacity Building
Local Learning Opportunities
Start the new year off right with some valuable learning opportunities. Tuesday, January 14, 2014Senior Safety – Panel Discussion7:00 pmGoodnow Library, SudburyNo charge(Repeated on Wednesday Jan. 15 at 10:30 am at the Wayland Town Hall.) Sponsored by the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable January 14 – February 18Powerful Tools for CaregiversA 10-week session for family caregivers9:30 […]
Local Learning Opportunities
Start the new year off right with some valuable learning opportunities. Tuesday, January 14, 2014Senior Safety – Panel Discussion7:00 pmGoodnow Library, SudburyNo charge(Repeated on Wednesday Jan. 15 at 10:30 am at the Wayland Town Hall.) Sponsored by the Sudbury-Wayland-Lincoln Domestic Violence Roundtable January 14 – February 18Powerful Tools for CaregiversA 10-week session for family caregivers9:30 […]
December 2013 Grant Awards
We like to think our grant funding opens the door to hundreds of possibilities for the organizations who receive them. Congratulations to our December 2013 grant partners: Sudbury Program Friends of the Bruce Freeman Trail, Concord, MA, $5,000To help fund the “25%” design for the northernmost, half-mile section of the Sudbury Rail Trail from the […]
Our Fall RFP is Out
Our Fall 2013 Grant Initiatives focus on both ends of the youth spectrum: Early Learning (from birth to Grade 4) and Hands-On Career Exploration (ages 16-24). We’re looking to fund capacity building projects that will strengthen organizations supporting these youth development issues. Concept papers are due August 15; proposals on September 24. Proposal review will […]
The Value of Arts & Culture
We all know that arts and culture organizations contribute much to the quality of life in our region. What some may find surprising is these organizations also contribute to the economic vitality of the communities they are located in. According to a new study by Concord-based Carlisle & Company, commissioned by the MetroWest Visitors Bureau […]
What are Capacity Building Grants?
Capacity Building grants are designed to strengthen an agency’s long-term sustainability by developing or refining skills, strategies and systems. Enhancing “organizational effectiveness” may be a better way of describing the intent of the grants. We’ve found that organizations often focus more on programming and less on management systems. But, clearly, great programs are jeopardized when management […]
Measures of Success
Grant Profile Last year, the Foundation supported a project that enabled the staff of REACH Beyond Domestic Violence to develop a Train-the-Trainer curriculum for its informative Peers Against Violence (PAVE) program. One of the first teen dating violence prevention programs in the state, PAVE combines classroom-based education, support groups, peer leadership development for students at […]
The all-important “Ask”
Last year, in partnership with the MetroWest Nonprofit Network, we brought fundraising expert Christine Graham to Sudbury to lead a workshop on cultivating individual donors. Christine is a gem and the session was a huge success. After the workshop, we got to talking about one of the most challenging aspects of fundraising, actually asking for a […]
Show Your Team the Love
Are you taking care of your staff, your board and your volunteers? Are you considering how you are developing each person on your team? Are you giving them the information and supports they need to stay up-to-speed and engaged in what they are doing? It’s worth a few minutes of time every week for nonprofit […]
