Upcoming Funding Opportunities
Great Ideas Initiative
Sometimes, a little extra money is all it takes to launch a great idea. Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County (CSC) is releasing funds (up to $40,000 per grant) to encourage local nonprofits to:
Inspire young people to pursue their passions, truest intentions and daring ideas,
Embrace community-inspired approaches that support parental engagement and empowerment,
Improve/expand upon an existing innovation that addresses a community’s wants or needs,
Create pathways to help families and communities courageously work to address racism, or
Fuel innovative partnerships that help families leverage community resources.
Thus, a Great Ideas Initiative project should do more than fill a gap. It should be driven by the wants and needs expressed by families and communities. It should be an innovative new idea, a creative enhancement to an existing project, or an opportunity to broaden the organization’s community footprint or deepen its ability to effectively carry out its mission
In-kind Funding
Engage Forward for Nonprofits Only:
If your nonprofit is chosen, your organization will actively collaborate with Engage Forward class members to find solutions to issues facing your organization or the community you serve. Your organization (and those you serve) will be the beneficiary of this infusion of manpower, creativity, connections, and efforts. In the past year alone, Engage Forward class members gave more than 1,000 hours of their time and expertise.
The request for proposals begins by you attending our informative workshops to better understand this opportunity, learn best practices for participating in Engage Forward, create project ideas from your supplied issues, and learn how to generate successful project proposals The following contains various ways to attend and learn more about this great opportunity!
Ways to Get Involved
BeWellPBC, launched in 2019, is creating a movement and a mission to advance behavioral health and wellness in Palm Beach County. Our three focus areas: Stewardship Coordination & Alignment, Workforce Pipeline, and Community Solutions are united through BeWellPBC’s Lofty Goal. We envision a community in which every person in Palm Beach County feels hopeful, supported, connected, and empowered.
BeWellPBC’s mission is to bring together stewards from every corner of our community—residents, system leaders, providers, businesses, faith-based organizations, youth, and parents—to lead the change they want to see in their families, their schools, their workplaces, and their cities.
Birth to 22: United for Brighter Futures (Birth to 22) supports the healthy growth, development and education of our children and youth prenatally through young adulthood, so that they can graduate from high school and succeed in life. Committed to a common agenda, Birth to 22 is an alliance of Palm Beach County community partners that engages and aligns existing coalitions, networks, systems and youth-serving organizations, as well as connecting families, community members, and most importantly, with local young people directly. This cradle to career alliance has grown from five organizations in 2013 to over 300 in 2019.
Healthier Together began as a community-led solution to improve health disparities in diabetes, behavioral health and family caregiving in six Palm Beach County, Florida communities.Launched by Palm Health Foundation in 2014, Healthier Together puts residents at the core of developing health solutions around their own needs rather than force-fitting a system that doesn’t always recognize the complexity, culture, context and circumstances of diverse communities. For Palm Health Foundation, Healthier Together represents a departure from traditional responsive grant-making, embracing the social determinants of health to implement a truly resident-led initiative viewed through a health equity lens.
Leadership Development
Nonprofits First, Rising Leaders Program
Leading a cause and solving complex issues takes determination, discipline, and know-how. Nonprofits First created the Rising Leaders program in 2005 to launch aspiring leaders toward their highest level of impact and success. Rising Leaders is the only local training of its kind, transforming emerging talent into the sector’s new generation of leaders.
The comprehensive eight-month experience focuses on skills needed by those who are relatively new to leading teams or managing groups of individuals. Participants learn effective strategies to handle significant leadership and organizational challenges.
The multi-session format includes an engaging variety of training techniques including panel discussions with community leaders, group exercises and stimulating activities. The Rising Leaders experience fosters interaction, discovery, dialogue and servant leadership as participants increase their skills to lead the nonprofit field.
Why Leadership Palm Beach County?
LPBC’s programs set us apart. Our Engage, Focus and Grow programs offer:
backstage access to Palm Beach County’s “movers and shakers” as well as significant sites
hands-on experience with major industries and community issues
in-depth exploration of topics including civics & government, tourism, and agriculture
Our fourth program, Aspire, is the educational arm of Leadership Palm Beach County and consists of workshops and community initiatives focusing on various topics.
Catchafire Registration for Nonprofits Only:
Skills-based volunteering is a powerful resource for driving operational growth, which ultimately helps you achieve your mission.
This program connects you with talented professionals looking to give back, allowing you to access expertise in areas such as marketing, web development, operations, strategy, and more.
Catchafire's menu of 150+ pre-scoped projects, each with specific deliverables and project steps, makes it easy to find what you need and match with a volunteer with the right skills for the job. And if you aren't sure where to begin, start by talking to a volunteer to get advice and explore ideas.