Bainbridge Community Foundation - Washington State

Introducing the community's first area-of-interest fund for social service agencies who need a helping hand during a crisis.

The Community Response Fund began as an idea from a group of nonprofit staff and community leaders who wanted to ensure that Bainbridge residents would continue to be served by our local social and human service agencies, despite the economic crisis. 

This Fund will support services and programs that are critical to the wellbeing of our community.  Each day brings more news of layoffs, cutbacks and economic problems. Financial support for non-profit agencies is substantially lower this year, so when an unexpected funding crisis hits, there is not help readily available. This fund makes grants for services and programs that help the human and social services agencies support our island neighbors in need.

Following are frequently asked questions & answers about the Community Response Fund and the Bainbridge Community Foundation who established the Fund.

What will the Community Response Fund do?
The Fund will make urgent-needs grants to nonprofits that are experiencing an unforeseeable crisis. 

What qualifies as a crisis or urgent need in our community?
Any number of situations can cause a crisis at a social service agency, especially today with so many funding sources in jeopardy.  Perhaps a major grant is delayed for a few months and the nonprofit needs a few months of rental funding to bridge the gap; or maybe a computer crashes and an organization cannot run without a new one immediately; a group home is suddenly closed and its residents need immediate help relocating to new homes, counseling for the transition, and physical assistance to make the move, so the local nonprofits serving the residents are overloaded with unexpected service needs and costs.  These are examples of the types of services that the Fund could help fund on an urgent basis.  The Fund will make grants to stable local social service nonprofits to help them avoid a major financial crisis and continue support for essential programs and services in our community.
 

For more information and details about this new program please visit their web site.

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