Volunteer Center Capacity Building Fund (VCCBF) Grant

State of Indiana sent this bulletin at 03/08/2016 04:05 PM EST

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Volunteer Center Capacity Building Fund (VCCBF) Grant

Serve Indiana is pleased to announce funding of the Volunteer Center Capacity Building Fund grants. Grant funds support development and strengthening of the volunteer infrastructure in Indiana through Volunteer Centers. This will be an eight month grant term, with no guarantee of future funding available

Volunteer Center Capacity Building Fund (VCCBF) grant funds support development and strengthening of the volunteer infrastructure in Indiana through Volunteer Centers. A Volunteer Center is an organization whose mission is designed to support public and nonprofit organizations (by increasing volunteer management capacity) and volunteers (by connecting them with meaningful opportunities) within an identified service area. Volunteer Centers must connect volunteers and make their services available to community organizations outside of their own and promote volunteerism among citizens.

All organizations funded under this Request for Proposals (RFP) will be expected to support functions of a Volunteer Center: a) connect people with opportunities to volunteer and serve, b) increase capacity for organizations to engage volunteers in meaningful service, c) promote volunteering and d) develop internally and/or support partners in developing local programming/projects designed to utilize volunteerism as a solution to community problems.

Grant funds should be requested only to create and support new activities or significant expansions of current activities.

Application instructions are available here

APPLICATION DEADLINES AND TIMELINE

RFP Released: March 4, 2016
Technical Assistance Webinar hosted by Serve Indiana: March 11, 2016, 3 PM Register by emailing info@serveindiana.gov.
Responses to Clarification Questions posted: March 18, 2016, 5 PM
Application Proposals due to Serve Indiana: March 31, 2016, 5 PM
Clarification/Negotiations: April 11-14, 2016
Grant Agreements sent: April 22, 2016
Start Date: May 2, 2016

Proposals and associated attachments must be submitted to Serve Indiana via email (info@serveindiana.gov) by 5:00 PM EST on March 31, 2016. All proposals that do not meet the established deadlines or application requirements will be declined and will not be considered.

Technical Assistance

For information regarding the Volunteer Center Capacity Building Fund grant process or to ask specific questions, potential applicants may participate in the following webinar on March 11, 2016, 3:00 PM.