grants

Hi everyone

I just came across this foundation that supports community service organizations through grants. This is one way art therapists have developed positions at sites that have not historically had art therapy services.

Circle of Service is a private foundation that makes grants to support great organizations to enhance community, opportunity and well-being. We believe that challenge grants are powerful tools in the fundraising toolboxes of the organizations we support, and strategies from our grant recipients confirm this. Accordingly, most of our grants have a challenge component.

We welcome grant applications both for specific programs and for general operating support. Each of our grants generally can be categorized in one of our Focus Areas:

Community Giving
Our Community Giving program supports organizations in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois that help individuals become self-reliant or that help individuals who are unable to help themselves.

Education
Our Education program supports organizations that enhance educational opportunities for low-income youth in Chicago to enable them to lead productive lives.  If you are a youth development program located outside Chicago, you do not fall within our Education focus area, but please review our Community Giving focus area. We are currently not accepting applications from individual charter schools or charter management organizations.

Jewish Community
Our Jewish Community program supports organizations that honor the past and strengthen the future of the Jewish Community.  Jewish Community grants to organizations outside Cook County and Lake County, Illinois are by invitation only.

Medical Research
Our Medical Research program supports organizations that seek to advance scientific and medical research focused on the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure of cancer and other diseases.  Medical Research grants are by invitation only.

http://www.cosfoundation.org/our_focus/