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What is the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF)? The primary purpose of the CCF is to help faith-based and community organizations increase their effectiveness, enhance their ability to provide social services to serve those most in need, expand their organizations, diversify their funding sources, and create collaborations to better serve those in need. The program is broken into two sections. The section we are focusing on is the Targeted Capacity Building Program. In 2005, 300 - $50,000 grants were awarded nationwide. We anticipate there to be 500 grants given in 2006. Targeted Capacity-Building Program The CCF Targeted Capacity-Building Program funds faith-based and community organizations with one- time awards to increase their capacity to serve targeted social service priority areas. The program announcement will be available in the spring. The program funds faith-based and community organizations directly with one time $50,000 awards for one year to build their capacity to deliver services to at-risk youth, the homeless, or those living in rural communities, or to provide marriage education. To be eligible an organization must serve individuals in a "distressed community." A distressed community is defined as a neighborhood or geographic community with and unemployment rate and/or poverty rate equal to or greater that the state or national rate. Critical areas to address are Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Program/Services (not direct services but rather ideas that strengthen programs), Funding, Community Engagement. You do not need to address all these areas --- just one. Some examples are ----- Board compostion and function, staff professional and career development, volunteer training and development, succession planning; board goverance, systems management, human resources, information technology, policies and procedures, fiscal controls, non-profit incorporation; program design that expands or enhances program delivery, program monitoring, evaluating program outcomes; diversified funding sources, financial sustainability, donor development; community asset mapping, level of community participation, community needs assessment, leveraging resources, collaborative relationships, website development. Click here to learn more about this fund. Our Services It is expected that the Requests For Proposals will be released in the spring. Christiangrants.com specializes in writing this specific grant and will be offering its services for a few select ministries. Tim Boling, President of Christiangrants.com, wrote this grant successfully in 2005 for a ministry in the Buffalo, NY area and has also served as a Federal Reviewer of this specific grant- reviewing 20 grants for this fund. Nearly 300 organizations and ministries in 2005 were awarded grants of $50,000 from this fund. Our Fees
* The above information is from the 2005 request for proposal.
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