Alliance Gives Back

Grant Application

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Join us and support a better life for all in Lakewood Ranch!

Apply for an Alliance Gives Back Grant Today!

As a nonprofit member of the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance, YOU are what the mission of the Alliance Give Back is all about. Every donation received toward this initiative goes toward funding grants for worthwhile causes like yours to help you achieve your goals, begin new or complete existing projects, enhance your resources and support anything that moves your mission forward. Grant recipients will be recognized and awarded at the Lakewood Ranch Community Business Alliance luncheon on December 14, 2022.

Getting started is easy, and it’s all right here!

*Complete and submit the application by the deadline – March 1, 2023

Eligibility:

The Grants Committee of the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund will consider requests for needs and opportunities for organizations:

Located in or providing services to the general Lakewood Ranch geographic area (including, but not limited to, Lakewood Ranch and Eastern Sarasota and Manatee counties).

Impacting the citizens of the general Lakewood Ranch geographic area in the areas of arts & humanities, community development, education, animals & environment, or health & human services.
With a current 501(c)(3) exemption as a charitable organization.
With a current profile in The Giving Partner (www.thegivingpartner.org).
Submit a completed application by the deadline: October 30, 2022.

Note: Please review all the application questions below and required documents that need to be included. For longer answers, you may want to copy and paste text from another document into this form. Please try to limit responses to no more than 300 words.

Documents you will need to attach with your submission may include the following:

BUDGET – a line-item budget sheet for the project for which you are applying. If your program/project will cost more than you are requesting, indicate how you will fund the balance. Show any in-kind support, other grants applied for, and/or funds already received on your program/project budget (required).
If your organization received a grant from the Fund in a prior year, describe how the funds were used including, but not limited to, a detailed breakdown of the uses of the funds, description of the people/communities impacted and documentation demonstrating that the funds impacted the lives of the residents of the Lakewood Ranch geographic area (there is a question included in the application addressing this, but additional documents may need to be attached).

If you need any assistance with this online application or have any questions, please contact Adrienne Bookhamer at 941-208-6799 or email at adrienne@lwrcf.org.

1 General Information

Legal Name of Organization:

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City

State / Province

Postal / Zip Code

Country

Contact Name for this request:

First Name

Last Name

Contact E-mail:

Contact Phone Number:

Alternate/Cell Phone Number:

Website:

Does your organization have a current profile in The Giving Partner (www.thegivingpartner.org)?

Yes No

Are you a member in good standing of the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance?

Yes No

2. REQUEST FOR FUNDING

Amount of funding requested from LWRCF
(up to $2,000)

Total cost for this specific need
(if amount is more than requested)

Using no more than 5 sentences, describe how the funding will be used to support your organization or support people in the Lakewood Ranch/east county area

Number of clients in the Lakewood Ranch and east Sarasota/Manatee County area who will be served by this grant:

The gains or outcomes expected for these clients as a result of the grant. Please be specific using measurable outcomes:

Specific ways you will know if the gains/outcomes described above will be achieved. Please list your measurable outcomes:

Timetable and/or work plan for the project (please include project/program start and ending dates, if applicable):

In an effort to better inform the community about the efforts of the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund, The Fund, Inc. is asking what action items your organization will commit to in order to publicize this possible grant to your constituents and the broader community.

Will you be willing to send a testimony and/or video to the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund for our social media pages? Please list:

Any other information you feel will be helpful for the advisory committee to consider when reviewing your application:

REQUIRED FOR ALL GRANT APPLICATION SUBMISSIONS - I certify that I have read this complete grant application and authorize it to be submitted to the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund:

First Name

Last Name

Title

Please email to adrienne@lwrcf.org a line item budget sheet for the project for which you are applying. If your program/project will cost more than you are requesting, indicate how you will fund the balance. Show any in-kind support, other grants applied for, and/or funds already received on your program/project budget.

**Grant applications will be accepted from 10/10/22 – 10/30/22 and must be received before midnight on 10/30/22. Grant winners will be recognized at the Lakewood Ranch Community Fund Alliance luncheon on 12/14/22.

Alliance Gives Back

Grant Application

make a difference.

Join us and support a better life for all in Lakewood Ranch!

Apply for an Alliance Gives Back Grant Today!

Eligibility:

1 General Information

2. REQUEST FOR FUNDING

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