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.
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.
The program offers additional capacity building support in partnership with the Adirondack Community Foundation and Adirondack Nonprofit Network, and through Capacity Building mini-grants that can subsidize an organization’s learning to address issues not covered by the program.
To obtain the Grants Advisor program or Capacity Building application form or for additional information on the Grants Advisor program, please contact Kara at kara@cloudsplitter.org or by using the contact form below.