Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation Community Grants

Patti Biera
405.606.2935
p.biera@occf.org

Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation provides grants for projects in eligible rural Oklahoma counties in the areas of:

• Health and safety
  • Programs that provide direct health services
  • Programs that improve healthcare infrastructure, strengthen public health workforce, or expand service availability
  • Programs to improve the safety and security of community members
• Economic development
  • Projects that contribute to workforce development
  • Projects that sustain and grow small business
  • Projects that improve critical infrastructure such as transportation networks, broadband access, and other community needs
• Libraries and literacy
  • Activities that seek to strengthen the role of rural libraries as hubs for learning and community engagement
  • Programming that takes place outside the traditional classroom to address literacy gaps
• Arts, culture, and history
  • Projects that foster public engagement, expand educational opportunities, and improve access to arts and cultural resources
  • Projects that preserve and celebrate the unique cultural and historical legacies of rural communities

Eligible applicants are nonprofit organizations and state/local government entities providing services in communities with populations under 6,000 in rural Oklahoma counties of Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Johnston, Kiowa, Latimer, McCurtain, McIntosh, Okfuskee, and Pushmataha.

Up to $40,000

Links to the application instructions and the online grant portal are available on the program website when applications are being accepted.