Grant Opportunities
Brown County United Way Grants
Welcome to the Brown County United Way Community Investment page. Brown County United Way accepts grant applications in the following investment areas during varying grant cycles. For full details related to our community investment processes and eligibilities, please review the Brown County United Way Community Investment Standard and Practices. (PDF, 130 KB)
Applicants will be required to use Brown County United Way’s online grant management system. This is a secure, protected site that holds all documentation for agencies, volunteers, and United Way staff. Through e-CImpact, organizations submit applications and provide reports and accountability documents. Community volunteers who participate on Brown County United Way’s review teams also have electronic access to organization and program information to assist in their decision-making.
Current and New BCUW Grant Partners:
Click the logo below to sign in and access the eCImpact online grant management system. If you are a new user you can create a new account from the same page.
System of Care Grants
CLOSED
The first step in creating a better community for all is ensuring individuals feel empowered, supported, and have access to the programs and people that can help them reach their goals. Our System of Care grants are focused on the pillars of education, financial well-being, community connection, and health to create a path to success in our community. Helping individuals reach their goals of stability and personal success through our System of Care grant funding, we focus on the one in three households in Brown County that are either in the ALICE or poverty population.
For more information about System of Care Grants, please contact Holly Ladwig.
Neighborhood Partnership Grants
OPEN
We Believe Place Matters!
We believe vibrant, safe, and healthy neighborhoods are built on the strengths of all who live, work, and play within them. Our vision is to help ensure that all neighborhood residents have strong systems of community support that will provide opportunities for economic growth and mobility, social connectedness, and self-advocacy.
Brown County United Way (BCUW) is accepting Neighborhood Partnership Grant (NPG) proposals! The Request for Proposals (RFP) is for non-profit agencies and/or associations interested in community development programs/projects/activities that will strengthen targeted neighborhoods in the county.
FAST FACTS
- Application period: September 16, 2024 – October 31, 2024, 11:59 p.m.
- 1 year funding cycle: March 15, 2025 – March 15, 2026.
- Requests must be between $1,000-$10,000.
- Proposal must target neighborhoods that have a higher concentration of households at or below the ALICE Threshold and poverty-level households (click on Brown County for specific information).
- Proposal must align with BCUW neighborhood priorities.
- Priority will be given to new programs/projects/activities and applicants that have not received prior NPG funding. Proposals should demonstrate collaboration with community partners and be innovative.
- Previously funded NPG grantees or organizations currently receiving United Way funding through other grant applications are eligible to apply.
BCUW NEIGHBORHOOD PRIORITIES:
- Health: mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being for all in our community.
- Examples: Beautification projects, mental health programming, screenings, navigation, etc.
- Education: pursuit and development of skills and information at all ages and stages of life.
- Examples: Literacy, GED, early childhood, senior, family programming, enrichment classes, etc.
- Financial (Economic Mobility): realization of personal potential through available resources that allow individuals and groups to prosper in an economic system. Examples: Budget classes, career development, community legal aid programs, etc.
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- Connection: a sense of belonging, social support, self-advocacy, and empowerment: Examples: cultural events, socials that foster individual connection, and/or neighborhood identity, playgroups, civic engagement and leadership programs that foster collective identity, etc.
For more information about Neighborhood Partership Grants, please contact Jill Sobieck.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Grants
In 2023 Brown County United Way began working in partnership with the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation to meet the diverse needs of our whole community by investing $50,000 and supporting the Capacity Building Grants Program of the Nonprofit Impact Initiative. Equitable efforts must be made to ensure funding will offer specific grant support to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-led organizations based in Brown County.
For more information about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Grants, please contact Holly Ladwig.
Emergency Food & Shelter Program Grants
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) was created in 1983 to supplement and expand the work of local service agencies, both nonprofit and governmental, to help people with economic emergencies (not disaster-related [i.e., fires of any kind, floods, tornadoes, etc.] emergencies). Therefore, EFSP funds are not to be used to provide emergency assistance for circumstances that are the immediate result of a disaster situation. EFSP funds may be used to provide economic assistance in the long term, even if the current circumstances may have been impacted by an earlier disaster occurrence.
For more information about Emergency Food & Shelter Program Grants, please contact Sarah Inman.