Workforce Grants

Competitive Grant Program

Each year the Albuquerque Community Foundation facilitates a competitive grant process for organizations providing services benefiting people in the Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan. The Foundation’s Competitive Grant Program is comprised of 71 endowment funds. In order to respond to the community’s needs, distributions from the funds are pooled and aligned directly with the Foundation’s fields-of-interest. 

Common Grant Theme: Access to Economic Opportunities

The Foundation believes our ongoing work in grantmaking, asset development, and community leadership must be aimed at addressing systemic inequities rather than treating their symptoms repeatedly.

As a result, in 2016, the Foundation identified a common theme throughout all fields-of-interest in the Competitive Grant Program. The theme, providing access to economic opportunities, is the result of 12 months of research, community convenings and open communication with donors and nonprofit partners. Like any major city, Albuquerque faces many complex issues. The root cause of many of these issues is the lack of economic opportunities. By integrating this theme into our grantmaking, the Foundation aims to move the needle towards prosperity for more Albuquerque residents.    

What does this mean?

Access to economic opportunities could apply (but is not limited) to the following areas:

• Providing and supporting economic opportunities for individuals living in the four-county Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area.This may include life-skills and career development programs; educational opportunities; and/or social services programs that create opportunities for underserved community members.
• Providing and supporting opportunities that will bolster the economic growth of Albuquerque. This may include strengthening access to art and culture; increasing workforce development and job creation to bolster economic growth; and/or ensuring Albuquerque’s proximity to the natural environment remains a preserved, protected and valued aspect of the city.     

This two-pronged approach to providing access to economic opportunities holistically addresses economic inequities and supports our city’s collective economic growth and development.

 Grantmaking Fields-of-Interest:

Economic and Workforce Development: Economic & Workforce Development grants will support intentional, inventive efforts to ensure a strong local economy. This field promotes social, economic and environmental growth by supporting innovative support systems for entrepreneurs and the state’s workforce.

Health: Health grants have two focus areas; 1.) meeting the mental and behavioral health of individuals in the Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area and 2.) supporting dental health needs of at-risk individuals. Populations served through mental/behavioral and dental health programs may range from early childhood to seniors.

Human Services: Human Services grants aim to create supportive systems for individuals to thrive in the Greater Albuquerque area. Special focus will be given to organizations and programs that support one or more of the following: parental or guardian skills training, job training, independent living and teens aging out of foster care.  

Scope of Funding

The range for grant requests is based on the organization’s total income from the most recently completed fiscal year.

• If your total income was under $500,000 you may apply for up to $10,000 in funding.
• If your total income was $500,000 or more, you may apply for up to $15,000 in funding.
• Grant requests must be a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $15,000
• For Mental Behavioral Health grants only! If your total organizational income was under $500,000 you may apply for up to $15,000 in funding. If your total organizational income was $500,000 or more, you may apply for up to $20,000 in funding. This only applies in the Health field-of-interest.
• As a short-term funder providing relatively small grants, the Foundation recognizes the goals and outcomes discussed are likely to be initial or intermediate in nature and the long-term goals may be beyond the scope of a one-year grant.

Types of Grants – Operating Grants 

In an effort to ensure our nonprofit partners have as much flexibility to respond to the changes COVID-19 has created (and continues to create) in our community, all grants in the 2021 Competitive Grant Program will be general operating grants. This means, funding will be unrestricted and grantees may use the funds as needed throughout the year. Program-based grants will not be accepted in 2021.

Operating Support Grants 

The Foundation considers requests for General Operating Support to be awarded as core support or unrestricted grants. Organizations may use operating grants to cover day-to-day activities or ongoing expenses such as administrative salaries, utilities, office supplies, technology maintenance as well as for project costs, capital, technology purchases and professional development.

Wyoming Foundation Grants

Tackling Community Needs, One at a Time

The Wyoming Foundation was established in 1974 by Dr. James MacCallum as a means to improve the quality of life in Wyoming County. Since 1977, the Foundation has actively supported a wide variety of cultural, educational and human service organizations.

Members of the Wyoming Foundation Council represent the whole of Wyoming County. In 2012, the Council worked with community and nonprofit sector to develop the Wyoming County Needs Assessment which still guides its work to this day. 

Grant Opportunity

As a result of the 2012 Needs Assessment, the Wyoming Foundation identified two priorities for its work:

• To provide educational opportunities to youth, which equip them for future careers.
• Support and promote arts/cultural opportunities in Wyoming County.
• The Foundation will support initiatives and programs that can show maximum positive impact on Wyoming County.

Healthcare providers are reporting that youth are in need of additional supports due to conditions exacerbated by the pandemic, such as isolation, disruptions to daily life, academics, etc. Therefore, in addition to the above priorities, for its 2021 competitive grants process, the Wyoming Foundation is encouraging innovative, collaborative requests that address youth (defined as 18/under) mental health.

NOTE: Applications should be submitted by 5 p.m. submitter's local time.

This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering research and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security.

The goals of this solicitation are to:

• Ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; and
• Integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven science and engineering into the Nation’s educational curriculum/instructional material fabric spanning undergraduate and graduate courses for advancing fundamental research.

Pilot and Implementation projects may target one or both of the solicitation goals, while Large-scale Project Conceptualization projects must address both goals. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, methods, and services for advanced computation, large-scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large-scale systems that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental research. This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials—targeting one or both of the solicitation goals—to address the emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in scientific and engineering research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, will lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-terms. As part of this investment, this solicitation also seeks to broaden CI access and adoption by

• Increasing or deepening accessibility of methods and resources of advanced CI and of computational and data-driven science and engineering by a wide range of scientific disciplines and institutions with lower levels of CI adoption to date; and
• Harnessing the capabilities of larger segments of diverse underrepresented groups.

Proposals from, and in partnership with, the aforementioned communities are especially encouraged. There are three project classes as defined below:

• Pilot Projects: up to $300,000 total budget with durations up to two years;
• Implementation Projects: Small (with total budgets of up to $500,000) or Medium (with total budgets of up to $1,000,000) for durations of up to four years; and
• Large-scale Project Conceptualization Projects: up to $500,000 total budgets with durations up to 2 years.

Welcome

Farmington Bank Community Foundation, which continues the 167 year legacy of the former Farmington Bank, provides financial support to non-profit organizations and community programs that help create opportunities for a better life by focusing on economic opportunities, health, and basic needs for the residents of sixteen communities in Central Connecticut.

Economic Empowerment and Sustainability: Workforce Development and Self Sufficiency

Requests to support workforce development, enhance or improve opportunities for quality employment and career prospects. Work that increases a household’s financial security/self sufficiency through adult education, completion of secondary education or school readiness.

One of the major challenges facing any organization is talent management—recruiting, training, and retaining the people who work to execute the organization’s mission. That challenge can be especially daunting for nonprofits, which rely heavily on restricted funding that too often fails to account for HR needs and essential employee development. To address this challenge, the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation developed the Talent Management Grant to provide Cornerstone’s talent management software and talent management strategy support to qualifying nonprofits to help them build a more collaborative and effective workforce.

Selected nonprofits receive a three-year grant of Cornerstone’s Learning and Performance modules along with implementation and consulting resources. In the first year, grantees are awarded unlimited use of the software along with no-cost system implementation and support services. In years 2 and 3, grantees earn significant discounts on all software and continue to receive all services and technical support at no cost.

To qualify, organizations must provide programs in the areas of disaster relief, education, or workforce development and must demonstrate how the talent management software will be used for employee development and organizational capacity-building.