About
The Yolo Voter Education Grant is funded by the Walter & Evalyn Haas Fund of the Yolo Community Foundation as well as Yolo County.
Application Opens
June 17, 2024Application Closes
July 17, 2024Grant Background & Criteria
Yolo Community Foundation‘s Yolo Voter Education Grant aims to increase local understanding of how to vote. This includes changes to when, where, and how voters may cast a ballot as a result of the California Voter’s Choice Act.
The team behind the Yolo Voter Education Grant recognize that nonprofits are trusted partners in local communities and have rich existing relationships and channels to share information and resources. In that spirit, they invite nonprofit partners to integrate messaging related to this grant into existing activities, rather than develop complex initiatives from scratch — though they welcome a wide range of creative ideas for delivering educational messages.
For complete background and guidance, review the full request for proposals.
Program Focus
The purpose of the Yolo Voter Education Grant is to educate Yolo County registered voters on when, where, and how to vote. The focus of the outreach should be on registered voters from low-turnout precincts, and/or voters from demographic groups with a history of lower turnout.
Eligibility Requirements and Criteria
- Grant recipients must be 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations or be fiscally sponsored by such an organization.
- Recipients must have demonstrated expertise in working with the geographic and/or demographic priority communities. All recipients should have extensive experience working in Yolo County. Geographic priority areas are available here; demographic priority communities include Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and young voters.
- Programs should be executed between early August and early November 2024.
- Voter registration activities may not be funded with this grant.
- Proposals will be evaluated based on their anticipated effectiveness and reach in delivering the voter education messaging, as well as the applicant’s demonstrated capacity for delivering it effectively.
- The total grantmaking pool for this opportunity is $75,000. Grant requests may be up to $10,000; organizations that plan to conduct outreach in multiple cities/regions within Yolo County may request up to $15,000. The grantmakers’ goal is to develop a portfolio of grantees that will collectively reach all priority geographic and demographic communities.
For questions about the grant and proposal content, please contact Yolo Community Foundation’s Jessica Hubbard. Proposals will only be accepted through our online application; no email or paper applications will be accepted. Please contact us for questions about the grant application system.
Please ensure your organization’s legal name associated with your tax ID number and mailing address are current in your grant organization profile. If you are a fiscally sponsored organization, please make sure your fiscal sponsor name and tax ID number are current in your grant organizational profile.
About the Yolo Community Foundation
Through our affiliation with the Yolo Community Foundation, we offer our expertise, pool investments for greater return, and handle the administrative aspects of community foundation work — freeing its team to focus on helping Yolo County flourish.