Cloudsplitter Foundation Grants Advisor Program
The Cloudsplitter Foundation offers a Grants Advisor program to help nonprofits of the greater Adirondack region professionalize their grants work and become more stable and sustainable over time. We provide one-to-one support geared to where your organization is, over the course of a year or more together.
For a PDF downloadable 1-page summary of the program, please click here
Our goals include:
- Working with you to improve grant research, tracking, writing, budgets, reporting, and cultivation, from private family foundations to government grants
- Considering best practices in related organizational issues that make your group appeal to funders, such as sharing impacts, external communications, board strengths, administrative management, partnerships, and funding diversity
- Building the long-term capacity of “greater Adirondack region” nonprofits to serve the community
- Increasing the number and size of grants coming into the region from outside the Blue Line
Cloudsplitter Foundation accepts applications from eligible nonprofits (501c3 public charities) to participate in the Grants Advisor program, which as free technical assistance, is equivalent to being awarded a significant grant. Nonprofits addressing core needs in the region, and those with one to two staff members, or working volunteers where the organization is moving toward hiring staff, will be the best fit.
Selected organizations then commit to spending the time required to work with the Cloudsplitter Grants Advisor to apply for grants, focusing mainly on more competitive and larger grants than these groups would have the time or capacity to complete without the help.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
We also support additional capacity building in partnership with the Adirondack Community Foundation and Adirondack Nonprofit Network.
Additionally, we offer Capacity Building grants to subsidize expanded learning, to do planning, to work with experts and to stabilize/expand current and future capacity (for more information you can download the one-pager here) or visit our Grants Page for more information on all of our grants.
To inquire about the Grants Advisor program or about the Capacity Building grants or for any additional information on our programs, please contact Kara (kara@cloudsplitter.org) or by using the contact form below.