Community Development Funding

ROLLING DEADLINES

Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program | U.S. Department of Agriculture
Provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and / or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses. 

T-Mobile Hometown Grants Program | T-Mobile

Funds up to 100 towns a year with project funding to help build stronger, more prosperous small towns and rural communities. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations. 

Truist Foundation Grants | Truist Foundation
Supports sustainable development of programs focused on building career pathways to economic mobility and strengthening small businesses. Capital campaign requests may be considered if in alignment with foundation priorities.

Community Possible | US Bank Foundation 
Grants to nonprofit organizations in 25 states served by the Bank that advance the following funding priorities: artistic and enrichment learning, workforce education and economic prosperity, and focusing on neighborhood stability and revitalization. 

Seed Grant Program | Community Heart & Soul
Provides $10,000 in startup funding for resident-driven groups in small cities and towns with populations of 2,500 to 30,000. Requires a $10,000 cash match from the participating municipality or a partnering organization.

Fund For A Just Society | Unitarian Universalist Foundation
Supports groups that meet all 3 criteria: 1) use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society; 2) mobilize those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power and the right to self-determination; 3) have an active focused campaign to create systemic change.

Resourcing Communities | Emergent Fund
Provides monthly, open-access, low-barrier, no-reporting grants to impacted communities for rapid response and emergent organizing.

Community Organizing Grants | Peace Development Fund
Provides small general operating grants to organizations in the US, Mexico, and Haiti that are organizing for social, economic, and/or environmental justice. 

De Colores Rapic Response Fund | Peace Development Fund
Supports organizing in U.S. grassroots communities, with a focus on communities of color, poor and working class, and the effects of in-the-moment issues.

Community Giving Grants | Wells Fargo
Funding priorities: financial opportunity, housing access and affordability, small business growth.

Technology Grant Program | Cisco
Donates networking technology to qualified nonprofit organizations to help them realize significant gains in productivity, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Grants prioritize these social investment areas: critical human needs, access to education, and economic empowerment.

Citizens Bank Corporate Giving | Citizens Bank Foundation
Programs focused on one of three funding areas: reducing hunger, financial literacy, and local economic development. Available to nonprofits in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, upstate New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.