New - Strengthen Rural Iowa (SRI) Cycle 2 of SRI's two-cycle capacity building project will offer training, technical assistance and sub-award grants of up to $20,000 to small nonprofit organizations located in 14 southern Iowa counties: Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Keokuk, Van Buren, Wapello, and Wayne. Please refer to the project News Release for additional information.
FREE GRANT WORKSHOPS
Grants up to $20,000 Monday, August 30, 2010
Ottumwa, Bridge View Center
102 Church Street
1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Monday, August 31, 2010
W. Burlington, Southeastern Community College
Little Theater (Bldg. 400, Rm. 433, near Loren WalkerArena),
1:00 – 3:30 p.m. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
Strengthening Communities Fund – Nonprofit Capacity Building Program PAST GRANT PROJECTS Iowa Distressed Rural Communities Project During 2007-2008 Center staff members assisted small nonprofit organizations located in southern Iowa Decatur, Wayne, and Appanoose counties with capacity building training (group), and technical assistance (one on one) in areas of leadership/organizational development, revenue development, and community engagement. This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Compassion Capital Fund - Targeted Capacity Building Program. Project staff pioneered the use of M3Planning on-site and on-going electronic distance learning systems in monitoring and coaching rural nonprofit staff in the pivotal area of strategic planning. The action-oriented assessments used in this project were found to be especially effective in the evaluation and enhancement of social programs offered the region’s most vulnerable citizens. Compassion Iowa During 2005-2007 the Center’s director, Dr. Daryl VanderWilt led four partner organizations as project director of a 17-month Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Grant Program, an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to serve small, grassroots faith-based and community-based organizations across Iowa. This project, entitled Compassion Iowa, offered training and technical assistance to over 100 small Iowa FBCOs and provided 27 of them with sub-grant awards. The evaluation of this project found significant capacity growth in areas of nonprofit leadership, organizational development, programs and services, revenue development, and community engagement. In addition, seven state agencies provided invaluable consultation with FBCO project participants, and Iowa State University Extension offered 62 training classes throughout the state for 755 nonprofit staff members.
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