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Fast, Flexible Funding with Quick Response Grants
Photo credit: Kalkaska Area Interfaith Resources
Image description: KAIR volunteers standing together with food pantry shelves filled behind them with packaged goods.
The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation has launched Quick Response Grants, a new monthly funding opportunity that provides flexible, responsive grants to organizations in Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
“Many of our grant partners have shared with us that having access to rapid, flexible grants to meet smaller dollar needs would be an important way to support their missions,” said Steve Wade, Vice President for Community Impact at the Community Foundation. “We used their feedback to inform the creation of our new Quick Response Grants. We’re excited to offer these grants to organizations across the region as another funding resource they can tap into.”
The Community Foundation’s quick response grants are open to nonprofit, educational, governmental, and Tribal entities in the five-county region. The grants are designed to support smaller dollar needs, including program operational needs, direct services, capital, equipment, and more.
Grant requests for up to $2,500 will be considered, and organizations can apply for up to $2,500 per request. Community Foundation staff will review and make grant decisions monthly, with grant awards planned to be paid out around the 15th of each month. The Foundation has $60,000 total available to award as Quick Response Grants in 2025.
“Our goal is to support a fast response to community needs and opportunities,” said Gina Thornbury, Senior Community Impact Manager at the Community Foundation. “We see these grants as one way to address smaller dollar funding gaps and to quickly get money back out into the community.”
To learn more about Quick Response Grants, visit: https://www.gtrcf.org/grants/apply.html.