WHEN YOU’RE READY TO APPLY

Online applications are now available for submission in 2007. 

Eligible organizations that fit the Foundation’s current grant making strategies are welcome to apply.

Please note that when you click on a link below to be directed to an application, a new browser window will open and you will leave the Francis Family Foundation website.

Lifelong Learning

Organizations are eligible for general operating support (i.e., unrestricted funds) or for support for a specific program/ initiative that:

• Improves and strengthens the quality and capacity of the local early education system. (For our purposes, this means one that affects the overall metro-wide childcare system, not a specific center.) Click here to be directed to the application. >>

      OR

• Provides parents, family members and other caring adult community members the skills that instill lifelong learning in all children. (For our purposes, this means efforts to increase parents’ skills in supporting their own child’s or children’s early development, especially in the area of literacy and language development.) Click here to be directed to the application. >>

Application due:            April 4, 2007
Board decisions:           May 2007

Arts & Culture

Arts and culture organizations (defined as organizations whose core mission is arts and culture) with budgets greater than $300,000 are eligible for general operating support (i.e., unrestricted funds) or support for a specific program/ initiative that:

• Promotes excellence in artistic and creative expression; and/or
• Enables greater access to arts and culture for children, families and the underserved (with a concerted effort at the urban core of greater Kansas City). Click here to be directed to the application. >>

OR

Arts and culture organizations (defined as organizations whose core mission is arts and culture) with budgets of less than $300,000 are eligible for support through the Foundation’s Small Arts Grant Program which accepts requests from $2,000 - $10,000. Click here to be directed to the application. >>

OR     

Any organization (e.g., community center, school, senior center, etc.) — regardless of budget size — that has an arts and culture program is eligible for support through the Foundation’s Small Arts Grant Program which accepts requests from $2,000 - $10,000. Click here to be directed to the application.>>

Application due:      August 29, 2007
Board decisions:     November 2007

Capital Campaigns

The Foundation occasionally may consider support for capital campaigns that show community-wide interest and impact. Ideally, capital campaign requests should fall within the Foundation’s local areas of interest. (Refer to our Strategic Plan for local areas of interest.)

Two-Phase Submission Process

In lieu of sending a letter of intent or full proposal to the Foundation, we ask that interested organizations respond to a few questions on an online ‘Intent to submit form’. Your responses will provide basic information to help the Foundation consider your project. Capital campaign Intent to Submit Forms are reviewed twice a year, in March and September. After such review, you will be notified whether the board of directors requests that you submit a full application for consideration. If you have any questions, please contact the Foundation’s program officer, Lyn Knox, at 816-531-0077.

Click here to be directed to the ‘Intent to submit form' to provide basic information regarding your organization and capital campaign request. >>

Note: Submitting close to the due date is recommended so all information — particularly fundraising information — is as current as possible.

If you are returning to this site to complete an application already in process for the 2007 grant cycle, the link you need is:  https://www.grantrequest.com/SID_531.

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