ALL ABOUT GRANTS

Ujima Legacy Fund seeks to support nonprofits that empower youth through education related initiatives.

Funding may be used for program support or specific projects. Consideration will also be given to capacity building requests to strengthen the infrastructure and increase the program capacity of start-up or established organizations that serve the target demographic.

Capacity building requests may include:

  • Planning activities: e.g, organizational assessments; strategic planning; or business planning for social enterprise

  • Improving financial management or fund development

  • Training for staff and/or volunteers

  • Techonology improvements that will have a significant impact on internal efficiency and allow for new ways of doing business

Grant Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for an Ujima Legacy Fund grant, an organization must be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that serves residents of the City of Richmond and/or the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Goochland, and Powhatan.

The Ujima Legacy Fund cannot accept applications from individual religious institutions, private foundations, colleges or universities, or individuals, including scholarship applicants.

Additionally, the Fund does not support requests for debt reduction or operating deficits, endowments or memorials, bridge funding or interim financing, or partisan, political, or legislative activities.

 

UJIMA’S PHILANTHROPIC FOCUS

Areas of work may include, but are not limited to:

  • After-school and out-of-school time programming

  • Career development

  • College Preparation

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Financial literacy

  • Literacy

  • Mentoring

  • Technology training

  • Tutoring

  • Sports

GRANT RECIPENTS

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