The Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa (CFNEIA) held its 2023 first cycle grant awards celebration at the Waterloo Center for the Arts on March 23, announcing the distribution of 27 grants totaling $423,000 to organizations serving Black Hawk County.
“Nonprofit organizations are doing work vital to making Black Hawk County communities great places where everyone can thrive. It is a privilege to be a part of helping them fulfill their missions,” said Kaye Englin, CFNEIA’s president and CEO. “These grants are not possible without the vision of generous people who have chosen to impact their community through CFNEIA, and for that we are forever grateful.”
Grant recipient organization, what the grant will fund and grant amount is listed below by funding area.
Arts & Culture
Community Betterment
Education & Youth Development
Health
Human Service
Grants are awarded through CFNEIA’s competitive grant process. Decisions on grant awards are determined by CFNEIA’s grant distribution committee, which consists of volunteers from Black Hawk County. Committee members include: Nancy Beenblossom, Stacie Brass, Kaye Englin, Susan Entriken, Andrew Finnegan, Chawne Paige, Jeff Seamans, Eashaan Vajpeyi, Sherman Wise andReShonda Young.
Grant applicants must be a 501(c)(3) designated organization or government entity serving Black Hawk County in order to be considered for funding. Requests can be made for operations, programming, materials, equipment and capital projects. Priority is given to funding requests that align with the Foundation’s community initiatives of advancing racial equity, expanding child care, enhancing the arts, strengthening workforce readiness, and building nonprofit capacity, or address its areas of focus including arts and culture, community betterment, education and youth development, environment and animal welfare, health and human service.
The 2023 Black Hawk County second grant cycle opens May 15, 2023. The grant guidelines and application will be available when the cycle opens at www.cfneia.org/bhcgrants. For questions or to discuss a project’s eligibility prior to submitting a proposal in Black Hawk County, contact Angie Widner, vice president of community impact, at 319-243-1355 or awidner@cfneia.org.