Strategic Grants

The Community Foundation Board of Trustees, in conjunction with the release of the Human Needs Assessment report findings in August 2011, identified three areas of focus:

• Affordable Health Care, with emphasis on persons who are uninsured, under-insured and without financial means to pay for health care, and a secondary focus on mental health services.
• Youth Needs, with emphasis on positively impacting services to children birth to five years of age to ensure they are ready to learn when entering Kindergarten.
• Housing (basic human needs), with emphasis on those who are precariously housed, those who are newly homeless, and those who are transitioning from shelters and crisis situations to more permanent housing.

In November 2012, the Grants Committee provided strategic funding totaling $219,000 to the following grantees:

• Affordable Health Care: a total of $118,375 was provided to six nonprofits that provide health care services:
  Frederick Community Action Agency
  Frederick County Health Care Coalition
  Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church
  The Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs
  Seton Center
  Way Station

• Youth Needs: a total of 50,625 was provided to five nonprofits that provide youth programs supporting school-readiness:
  The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center
  Family Partnership of Frederick County
  Frederick County Public Schools - Lucas Village
  Mental Health Association of Frederick County
  YMCA of Frederick County Head Start

• Housing: a total of $50,000 was provided to six nonprofits that assist the community with housing:
  Advocates for Homeless Families
  Frederick Rescue Mission
  Hope Alive
  Interfaith Housing Alliance
  Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church
  The Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs

In November 2011, the Grants Committee provided strategic funding totaling $185,617 to the following grantees:

• Affordable Health Care: a total of $121,443 was provided to seven nonprofits that provide health care services:
  Catoctin Community Medical Fund of the Thurmont Ministerium
  Frederick County Health Care Coalition
  Mental Health Management Agency
  Mission of Mercy, Inc.
  Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church
  Seton Center, Inc.
  Way Station, Inc.

• Youth Needs: a total of $24,174 was provided to one nonprofit in support of the Head Start program:
  The YMCA of Frederick County

• Housing: a total of $40,000 was provided to four nonprofits that assist the community with housing:
  Advocates for Homeless Families
  Hope Alive, Inc.
  Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church
  The Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs

In addition, the Board of Trustees created three new community funds to support each of these strategic grant areas:

• The Health Care Strategic Initiatives Fund

• The Youth Strategic Initiatives Fund

• The Basic Human Needs Strategic Initiatives Fund

Tax deductible gifts to these funds are accepted at any time. Click on the fund name for an online payment option. Checks may also be mailed to the Community Foundation office at 312 East Church Street, Frederick, MD 21701.

The next strategic grants will be made in the fall of 2013. For more information about the grant application process, visit the Grants section of this website.

Details about the study can be found in the Human Needs Assessment Executive Summary and the complete Human Needs Assessment Report. Links to both documents are below.

This project would not have been possible without our funding partners. Because of their commitment to creating positive and lasting change in Frederick County, this project has come to fruition.

Human Needs Assessment Executive Summary PDF document- Click HERE to download

Human Needs Assessment Full Report PDF Document - Click HERE to download

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