COBB COMMUNITY CAPACITY Building PROGRAM

Cobb Community Foundation is pleased to make available a capacity edifice plan that can provide the integrated tools, plan, coaching, and engineering required to build the necessary fundraising capacity to diversify your revenue and sustain your programs.

Consequent with recommendations outlined in the 2019 Cobb Canton Human Needs Assessment and Asset Mapping Report, Cobb Customs Foundation (CCF) and the United Style of Greater Atlanta NW Metro Region desire to strengthen and support the county's pocket-sized to midsized nonprofit organizations that are providing social services in the communities near in need.

Eligible organizations are those that are exempt from taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, have been classified as a public charity for a minimum of 3 years, accept combined financial contributions and grants of less than $500,000 in 2018 and 2019, and have avails or income in excess of $1,000 co-ordinate to their virtually contempo publicly available 990. Eligible organizations must also provide one or more social services in or most demography tracts in Cobb County that have high levels of demand and limited admission to services.

To determine if you are eligible to apply for the program, please consummate the 4 question survey.

Funding for this program has been made possible through the generosity of contributors to the Cobb Community Impact Fund, Cobb Customs Foundation Corporate Customs Champions, and the United Way of Greater Atlanta NW Metro Region.

COBB COVID-19 Customs RESPONSE FUND

In light of the challenges that accept arisen and volition go on to ascend from the current pandemic, we have shifted our focus in 2020 from opportunity and bear upon grants to providing flexible resources to non-profit organizations serving Cobb and meeting critical needs either arising from or exacerbated past the novel coronavirus.  Our goal is to aggrandize local chapters by supporting the nonprofits helping individuals and families experiencing hardship because of the outbreak, related closures and disruptions. Unfortunately, funds are extremely limited.

Instead of accepting applications, through video conferences, conference calls and numerous emails, we are keeping our fingers on the pulse of our community: both its needs and who is doing what to serve them.  Jointly with Cobb Collaborative and United Way of Greater Atlanta'southward NW Region, we are proactively seeking guidance from community partners as well as using nerveless data to decide funding recipients and are awarding grants where we believe they can have the broadest and most firsthand bear on. We truly wish we could make grants to every non-profit providing key services right now, but funds are limited. Whatever non-profit primarily serving Cobb County is welcome to reach out to any of the three organizations to ensure awareness of the organization'due south needs and services.

COBB COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY GRANTS

In 2019, to ensure that we were deploying these dollars to make the greatest departure in the County, nosotros engaged Georgia Center for Nonprofits to perform an assessment of Cobb's needs, to map our non-profits, and to identify our gaps. With that data, our community grant-making shifted from being general in nature to existence based on hard information and focused on the community'south greatest needs.

Cobb Community Opportunity Grants are designed to back up those organizations who are providing the homo services that are most needed to the areas of Cobb where they are virtually lacking. These grants will exist bachelor for funding for general operations, specific programs or projects, as well equally tools and training for non-profit sustainability and partnership development.  The total amount awarded each year, as well equally the size and number of grants, is a function of the dollars raised.  The next grant cycle was scheduled to open in the summertime of 2020 with grants being awarded in August; withal, in low-cal of the COVID-19 crisis, Cobb Community Foundation has shifted its grant-making focus to assist those nearly impacted by the novel coronavirus.

2019 Impact Grant Recipients