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Current Community Foundation of Greater Flint (CFGF) competitive grantmaking priorities include:
CFGF serves as a catalyst and convener to provide citizens and community leaders with collaborative opportunities to make positive changes around significant community issues. Priorities include proposals that address: building a local infrastructure to sustain civic engagement work throughout the community; supporting integrating efforts around economic vitality and a more regional approach to creating Genesee County’s future; and revitalizing downtown Flint.
Addressing Systemic Change – CFGF endeavors to work with other major funders to provide significant resources to multi-year projects that address systemic issues facing the greater Flint community. Priorities include proposals that address: building nonprofit sector capacity, early childhood development/parent education, literacy, persistent and pervasive poverty, racism and other forms of systemic discrimination, and youth development/teen pregnancy reduction strategies.
CFGF participates with other community foundations in the region to catalyze innovations within the human services sector. Programs in this area are initiated at the regional -- rather than the local -- level.
CFGF seeks to positively impact the community’s health in a broad and varied fashion. A broad array of proposals are considered that address: improving the health status of the community.
In order to ensure that resources are available for a broad spectrum of community organizations, CFGF sets aside funds for initiatives that are smaller in scope than those in the Community Leadership and Community Collaborations priorities. Proposals are generally funded in the $2,000 - $10,000 range, and priority is given to proposals that:
- bring people who are typically separated by barriers (e.g., race, economic status, disability, age) together, creating a stronger sense of cohesion and inclusiveness within the community;
- improve community health;
- benefit populations (e.g., people of color, children in poverty) that have historically had challenges accessing resources; and support community-building events that are open to the entire community and build a sense of community pride and identity; and improve the health status of the community.
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