Emerging Latino Communities Grant Application 2008-2009

Date:	Apr 3, 2008
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Topic:	Advocacy and Electoral Empowerment
Program:	Emerging Latino Communities Initiative
Region:	Southeast, Midwest, Far West

Summary

The Emerging Latino Communities Initiative (ELC) is now accepting applications for its 2008-2009 grant cycle. Please see below for description of focus areas and grant information. Please find the downloadable Request for Proposal to the right of this summary.

Description

The ELC program is the focus of NCLR’s Advocacy Capacity Building Initiatives, which seeks to build the advocacy capacity of organizations in areas of the country where the Latino community is growing rapidly and the infrastructure to support that growth is limited. The ELC program focuses on two key components: 1) well defined programmatic goals associated with community organizing, advocacy, and community leadership development, and 2) organizational development including board, fundraising, and strategic planning development. The geographic targets for the ELC program are the Southeast, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest, although consideration will be given to organizations outside these regions that can demonstrate a Latino population growth of 150% or more annually for consecutive years.

The deadline for submission is Friday, May 30th, 2008, 5:00pm EDT. Proposals submitted after the deadline will not be considered. The ELC grant year runs from August 1, 2008 to July 31, 2009. Grants range from $5,000 to $20,000 (note that the average grant amount is $10,000). All proposals must be electronically submitted to Sun Hee Choi at schoi@nclr.org.

If you have any questions, please contact Sun Hee Choi at schoi@nclr.org or Catherine Montoya at cmontoya@nclr.org, or call us at (202) 785-1760.