Sunflower Foundation Capacity Building Grant Program
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Elizabeth Burger
785.232.3000, Ext. 112
eburger@sunflowerfoundation.org
Gabrielle Talavera
785.232.3000, Ext. 116
gtalavera@sunflowerfoundation.org
Brandon Skidmore
785.232.3000, Ext. 105
bskidmore@sunflowerfoundation.org
The Sunflower Foundation Capacity Building Grant Program will provide funding to help health-related nonprofit organizations in Kansas build their organizational capacity and, subsequently, their capacity to serve Kansans.
Organizational capacity improvements include, but are not limited to:
- Enhancing business functions such as accounting, bookkeeping, and data management
- Amplifying communications at all levels such as website design, social media, and brochures
- Diversifying revenue streams
- Increasing capacity for grant writing and grant management
- Strengthening leadership and team culture; enhancing staff/volunteer recruitment and retention
- Supporting board and staff development
- Strengthening advocacy/public policy skills
- Building and sustaining day-to-day operation
Eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and state/local governments that are working in collaboration with cross-sector partners to serve critical health and/or social issues and address community challenges to enhance local systems of care.
Examples of applicants include, but are not limited to:
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Community Health Centers
- Primary Care Clinics
- Rural Health Clinics
- Free Clinics
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- Community Mental Health Centers
- Safety Net Dental Clinics
- Critical Access Hospitals
Priority will be given to applicants that:
- Effectively demonstrate they are meeting a need that is critical to individual and/or community health in a place or space where few or no other organizations are addressing this need
- Have been historically overlooked by other grant opportunities due to lack of capacity and/or reduced access to resources or connections
- Consistently face limited options for long-term revenue streams because the services they deliver, while critical, do not fit into a service-fee model or similar method for routine reimbursement
- Do not currently have significant resources, endowments, or other assets
- Agree to participate in a Sunflower-supported learning collaborative(s) focused on capacity building
- Clearly identify their own deliverables based on the organization's unique needs; and describe how flexible funding via core operating support will help meet those deliverables
Award ceiling: $25,000
Project period: 1 year
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