Woods Charitable Fund Announces New Breakthrough Initiative Grants

Woods Charitable Fund (woodscharitable.org/breakthrough-grants/), a private foundation that seeks to improve opportunities and life outcomes for all people living in Lincoln, is announcing a new grant program. Breakthrough Initiative Grants will be offered beginning in 2017 and will support promising and groundbreaking new programs, collaborations and/or organizational best practices in Lincoln. These highly competitive grants ranging from $150,000 to $500,000 per year will be awarded one time per year to one or more selected projects, with multi-year funding possible. Applying for a Breakthrough grant will not exclude a nonprofit organization from also applying for WCF’s traditional funding awards during its regular grant cycles in May and November.

Nonprofit organizations with a 501(c)(3) status located in Lincoln, or with a proposal directly benefiting Lincoln, are eligible to apply. The proposed project must fit within WCF’s traditional funding interest areas: Arts & Culture, Civic & Community, Education and Human Services. Nonprofits interested in applying for a Breakthrough grant must first complete an electronic Letter of Intent by September 15. Organizations receiving these grants will be notified in May 2017. To learn more about WCF’s new Breakthrough grants, please visit woodscharitable.org/breakthrough-grants/. For further details or to request to submit a Letter of Intent, call Woods Charitable Fund at (402) 436-5971.