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The Norcal Dream Fund Training Program
Grants of up to $10,000 are being made available to new business owners. The Norcal Dream Fund Training Program is seeking eligible small businesses/NONPROFITS to join our program. Eligibility requirements are available here, and are verified upon application for the grant. In short: Must be formally registered to do business in our service area. Business […]
Free
Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Program Webinar
Abbott Square 725 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Are you a California nonprofit that employed 26-49 staff (at any one time) during either 2021 or 2022? Applications are only being accepted through June 30. Did you pay COVID sick pay? If you can answer yes to those two questions, you are probably eligible to receive a $10,000-$50,000 grant from the State of California. CalNonprofits […]
Free
Recover California Home-hardening Mitigation Grant Virtual Town Hall
On Zoom
Santa Cruz, receive grants to protect your home from future disasters! Are you a low-to-moderate-income homeowner in Santa Cruz County that would like to upgrade your home to the Wildlife Urban Interface standard? Join us on Tuesday, February 27th from 6:30 to 8 PM for a virtual public meeting to learn about the ReCoverCA Owner-Occupied […]
Free
Proposal Prep Session 1: Proposals as Projects
Virtual Via Zoom
Join us for the first in a three-part grant-writing series. In this session, we’ll focus on the preparation that can be done before an RFP is released. Even before you know the details, you can start thinking about community and organizational strengths, needs, partnerships, and capacity to be as prepared as possible for new funding […]
Free
Proposal Prep Session 2: Making Your Case
Virtual Via Zoom
In this second session of a spring grant-writing series, we’ll review some specific tools that help place your proposed projects in a broader context, such as a Theory of Change and Logic Model. While these are not always required as part of a proposal submission, they can be really helpful in articulating what you want […]
Free
Proposal Prep Session 3: The Magic of Metrics
Virtual Via Zoom
We’ll wrap up our grant-writing series by exploring some ways that you can “think like an evaluator.” Using tools like the CORE Continuum of Results and Evidence, we’ll consider the different ways that projects can shed light on questions about what works, how, and for whom—and how you can incorporate these ideas into your proposal […]
Free