Community foundation offers grant opportunities for homelessness work
Howard Lake | 9 April 2019 | News
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland will hold funding advice clinics on April 11th and 16th for organisations working with the homeless.
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (CFNI) will be holding one to one funding advice clinics on April 11th and 16th for organisations working with the homeless.
The advice clinics will focus on possible grant eligibility to apply to the Oak Fund, a fund managed by CFNI.
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Organisations who are interested in attending or applying for funding should be Belfast- based, focused on helping those experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness. This may include migrants, offenders, people with mental health needs, women or young people.
Organisations should also be addressing at least one of the following priority themes: Increasing economic well-being; Improving the supply of low-income housing and housing opportunity and preventing homelessness.
Orla Black, Grants Director at Community Foundation for Northern Ireland said: “Opening in May 2019, this will be the second round of funding from the Oak fund and grants of between £10,000 – £25,000 for internal capacity building will be available for a duration of up to 12 months.
“Successful applicants will be expected to demonstrate impacts in at least one of the following areas: An enhancement in skills or knowledge within an organisation; an expanded and/or more efficient and effective service offer, more robust organisational structures and processes and strengthened connections and/or a greater perception of your organisation locally,” she said.
The advice clinics will be held between 10am- 1pm at CFNIs’ offices in Belfast and will last for 20 minutes each. Spaces are limited and must be booked in advance by emailing ap**********@*******************ni.org or calling the Grants Team 028 9024 5927.
The Oak Foundation was funded from an interest in the Duty Free Shoppers business which Alan Parker helped to build along with Chuck Feeney who formed a separate foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies.
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