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A little is enough if enough people do it.
The goal of Inspire Giving is to cultivate and celebrate civic-minded leadership, volunteerism, and philanthropic giving in the Sacramento region.
Every year Inspire Giving provides a $10,000 grant to help fund a specific project for a local nonprofit. Inspire Giving also provides in-kind services, donations, and support depending on the project needs. To date, Inspire Giving has awarded over $100,000 in grants and over $1,000,000 in in-kind support and services.
Application Opens
November 11, 2024Application Closes
December 2, 2024Grant Criteria & Application
This grant applications serves as the avenue for the endowment’s award of a monetary contribution (up to $10,000), in-kind services, and/or volunteer support. This year, Inspire Giving is supporting an organization that advances Youth Development, in alignment with the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s Four Point Business Promise to create a more vibrant community.
Competitive applications will contain at least one if not multiple of the following components:
- Improves the quality of life of residents in the Sacramento region.
- Empowers and supports residents to act on local concerns and issues.
- Supports affordable housing initiatives or helps build affordable housing.
- Builds on current assets to stimulate the economy.
- Focuses on activities and actions that are centered on economic progress within the community.
Inspire Giving is committed to advancing Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging (DIEB) no matter the Priority Giving Area. The grant application materials and review process will evaluate how each organization advances DIEB through its programming.
Inspire Giving believes that Sacramento is one of the most diverse cities in our nation, and as a region, we will truly thrive when all our communities have equal access to opportunities to be successful. Achieving this goal requires attention and investment, and Inspire Giving wants to do its part to catalyze that support.
While there are many definitions for Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging, the following definitions will be used for purposes of this year’s grant application process:
- Diversity: Refers to the variety of personal experiences, values, and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance.
- Inclusion: Creating environments in which any individual or group can be and feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued as a fully participating member.
- Equity: The guarantee of fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all individuals while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented the full participation of some groups. The principle of equity acknowledges that there are historically underserved and underrepresented populations and that fairness regarding these unbalanced conditions is needed to assist equality in the provision of effective opportunities to all groups.
- Belonging: An inclusive and welcoming climate embraces differences and offers respect in words and actions for all people.
To be eligible, your organization must:
- Have 501(c)3 status;
- Serve within at least one of the six counties (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba) covered by the Sacramento Metro Chamber Foundation;
- Have a proven track record and demonstrated success in the focus area listed above;
- Have at least two years of operational history with an annual operations budget in excess of $250,000; and
- Must not have been the recipient of an Inspire Giving grant or Leadership Sacramento project since 2016.
- For fiscally sponsored organizations:
- Both the applicant agency and fiscal sponsor must have at least two years of operation history;
- Applicant agency must have a current, annual operations budget in excess of $100,000. Fiscal sponsor must have a current, annual operations budget in excess of $250,000; and
- One designee must commit to representing the organization throughout the year and partner with Inspire Giving.
Please contact us for questions about the grant application system. For questions regarding eligibility requirements and criteria, please contact sfox@metrochamber.org.
Grant applications will only be accepted through our online application; no email or paper applications will be accepted.
The only submitted item needed for this grant opportunity is a grant application. Applicants are encouraged to identify their specific need for cash, in-kind services, skilled or unskilled volunteer support, and be as descriptive as possible as to how best to match your organization’s needs with resources provided by Inspire Giving.
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.
- Downtown Streets Inc.
- Saint John’s Program for Real Change
- Improve Your Tomorrow
- Glynis Butler-Stone
- Child Abuse Council of Sacramento, Inc.
- GRID Alternatives
- Lilliput Children’s Services
- River City Food Bank