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SCW 2025
COMMUNITY GRANTS APPLICATION
Opens July, 2024
For 2024, the SCW Community Grants Committee made 15 new Community Grants totaling $62,250, with individual grant amounts ranging from $500 to $7000.
2025 applications are due on Friday, September 27, 2024.
The 2024 SCW Community Grant Committee includes Tom Brookshire, Mary Jane Mikuriya, Athena Papadakos (Chair), Bick Simpson and Melvin Starks
You can email us at scw-communitygrants@uusf.org
Society for Community Work Community Grants: Text
COMMUNITY GRANTS
In keeping with our mission, the Society for Community Work gives grants to organizations in the community who provide services in keeping with our values. The SCW Community Grants Committee is responsible for choosing these organizations.
From Athena Papadakos Chair, 2024 SCW Community Grants Committee
The SCW Board met in November and approved the SCW Community Grant Committee’s recommendations for 15 new Community Grants totaling $62,500, with Individual grant amounts ranging from $2000 to $7000.
The following organizations were awarded grants:
Film: Kirana Productions
Theater: Oakland Theater Project, The San Francisco Mime Troupe
Unhoused People: Home Away from Homelessness
Community Engagement: League of Women Voters of Oakland, City Guides
Environment: 350 Bay Area, CA Interfaith Power & Light
Prisons: Project Avary
Children & Youth: Daly City Youth Health Center, Greenlight Clinic, The Practice Space, Children’s Book Project
Immigrants: Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Upward Scholars
The 2024 SCW Community Grant Committee included Tom Brookshire, Mary Jane Mikuriya, Melvin Starks, and Bick Simpson. I want to thank each and every member of the 2024 SCW Community Grants Committee for agreeing to participate in this work. Each member brought important skills and knowledge that made this year such a success. I am particularly proud of our efforts to locate and support organizations with smaller budgets where our grants make more of an impact. From Athena Papadakos, Chair, 2024 SCW Community Grants Committee.
In the current schedule, the Committee receives grant requests in the early fall and the team will approve proposed grants in October or November. The grants will be distributed the following year, usually starting in January.
Every organization, which applies for a grant must provide certain documentation:
proof of their nonprofit status,
annual budget and expenditure reports, and
annual report or a detailed description of their activities.
The Committee seeks to provide funding to organizations addressing several categories of issues, such as services for women and children, disability and aging issues, homeless services, support for high school students reaching towards college education, prison rehabilitation, and ecology. In making our selection, we consider the need for the services provided, the uniqueness of the service, and the amount of difference receiving a small grant would make to the organization.
If you are interested in proposing an organization for support or if you yourself are an organization interested in applying for a grant, you may currently contact scw-communitygrants@uusf.org.
Please send paper mail to:
SCW Community Grants Committee
Society for Community Work
1187 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Society for Community Work Community Grants: What We Do
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