Grant Opportunities

Community Grants

Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Application available: 7/1/2024
LOI Application Deadline: 8/15/2024
Full Application Deadline:10/1/2024
Award Notification: December

The Community Foundations Community Grant Program is an annual opportunity to provide nonprofits with unrestricted General Operating Support (GOS). GOS grants are flexible and allow funds to support an organization’s ongoing administrative and infrastructure costs and to provide support to maintain existing, effective programs, organizational development and capacity building in Dutchess, Putnam and Ulster County.

To help you work on your grant application, we have created a Word version of the questions. You can use this document to formulate the answers, along with spell check, character count, etc. However, you must still use the online grants portal to submit your application and provide attachments.

Click here for the letter of inquiry working copy:  Community Grant Letter of Inquiry

Click here for the full application working copy: Community Grants Full Application

Jeanette F. Schlobach Grant Program

Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Application available: 7/1/2024
LOI Application Deadline: 8/15/2024
Full Application Deadline:10/1/2024
Award Notification: December

The Jeannette F. Schlobach grant program is open to nonprofit organizations serving residents of Dutchess County, New York who are impacted by poverty.

Organizations involved in providing programs and services to individuals, families and their pets to support and improve economic stability, health and educational opportunities, are encouraged to apply.

To help you work on your grant application, we have created a Word version of the questions. You can use this document to formulate the answers, along with spell check, character count, etc. However, you must still use the online grants portal to submit your application and provide attachments.

Click here for the letter of inquiry working copy: Jeannette F. Schlobach LOI – Working Copy

Click here for the full application working copy: Jeannette F. Schlobach Full Application – Working Copy

Ulster County Emergency Wireless Access Program

This project is being supported in whole or in part, by federal award number 21.027 awarded to the County of Ulster by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

In collaboration with Ulster County funding will focus on proposals that effectively address one or more of the following: 

• Increase wireless access to the internet during emergencies;
• Utilize locations well known to the public and with access either exterior to the building and/or interior if open during emergencies;
• Leverage existing resources where possible and expand existing emergency wireless access;
• Provide equipment or space to increase capacity or extend the reach of wireless services; and
• Seek to ensure sustainability of organizations chosen and address critical geographic areas where wireless access is limited.

Eligibility: Municipalities, public schools, libraries, 501c3 nonprofits or tax-exempt organizations (including faith-based organizations) located in or providing services to Ulster County.