Community Service Projects Grants Overview and Guidelines

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Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac - Community Service Projects Grants
Overview and Guidelines
🍁 FALL 2024 🍁 
Deadline for Submission: November 15, 2024
 
The main objective of Rotary is service to the local community and beyond and the Rotary Motto is "Service Above Self".  The Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac has a lengthy history of awarding grants to local community organizations in support of specific projects designed to address the needs within the greater Kingston area. In the past, we have supported projects addressing many of today’s critical issues, including children and youth at risk, poverty and hunger, food literacy, special needs children, education and literacy, and, more recently, the environment.  
 
Twice yearly, Spring and Fall, the Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac invites submissions from local registered non-profit organizations and registered charitable organizations for grant proposals to fund innovative specific  projects that will benefit and strengthen the community. All proposed projects must be aligned with Rotary’s values, and with at least one of Rotary International’s Seven Areas of Focus:
 
  1. Peace and Conflict Resolution
  2. Disease Prevention and Treatment
  3. Providing Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
  4. Maternal and Child Health
  5. Basic Education and Literacy 
  6. Economic and Community Development (I.e., providing sustainable solutions to poverty)
  7. Preserving the Environment
Your grant application must also demonstrate the importance of our funding to the viability of your project and show that, through your project, the community would have an asset that it would not have otherwise.
 
Grant Numbers
 
There is no set number of grants to be awarded and the maximum amount of a single grant is $5,000.  The number and amount of regular grants awarded varies from year to year depending on the quality and quantity of proposed projects and funds available in any given year.
 
Application Guidelines
  • All applications must be submitted online on the digital application form.
  • Read the Application Form carefully.  If you do not provide ALL the information requested, we may disqualify your application.  However, we may request additional details or clarification from the contact person during our assessment of your application.
  • All the information required is indicated on the online application form.
  • Budget and financial data must also be submitted, in MS Excel or CSV format. The online form allows you to upload these documents.
  • Successful project applicants will be notified by email or phone by a representative of the Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac as soon as possible after the application deadline. 
  • Successful project applicants must be willing to maintain regular communication with the club about the project as it unfolds and to provide a detailed follow-up report along with a detailed financial statement to the Club not later than 12 months following receipt of the grant. A presentation to our club members may be requested.
  • Please note that failure to provide this follow-up reporting may eliminate your organization from future consideration for grants from the Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac.
  • Please give careful consideration to how the Rotary Club of Kingston-Frontenac and its members might work with your organization and its people on an ongoing basis to ensure the success of your project. We are particularly interested in developing partnerships that will extend beyond the project.
 
PLEASE NOTE:
  • Only proposals for SPECIFIC PROJECTS will be considered. 
  • We do not provide grants to fundraising campaigns.
  • We do not provide funding for operating costs.
  • We do not provide funds for gift cards.
  • Items produced with grant funds must not be sold, although voluntary donations for same are permissible.
  • Grant funds may be used only as specified in the grant proposal.
  • Applicant organizations must have a bank account in the name of their organization; grant cheques cannot be made out to an individual or individuals.
 
FAQs and APPLICATION FORMS: