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Foundation announces 2012 grant opportunities

The Kenosha Community Foundation announces that local not-for-profit organizations can now apply for 2012 grants.

Click here to for grant application guidelines and to obtain a grant application form.

According to Foundation President Ken Fellman, the area's community foundation will make grants from five of the funds it manages. The Foundation is seeking proposals to be funded from the following:

• Unrestricted Funds - Grants from this group of funds support programs that improve the general welfare and enhance the quality of life for people of all ages in the greater Kenosha community. For the 2012 grant cycle, the Foundation will give highest priority to programs that address a broad range of basic human needs that are being impacted within the Kenosha community by the current downturn in economic conditions.
• OMC Legacy Fund - Grants from this fund support programs and activities that improve the general welfare and enhance the quality of life for youth in the greater Kenosha community.
• LaFave Family Fund - Grants support programs and organizations that promote understanding, communication and a sense of tolerance between individuals and groups through education, the arts and the humanities.
• Women's Fund - Grants support programs that create opportunities for women and children through responsive philanthropy and community involvement.
• Arts Fund - Grants support programs that enhance the culture, economy and quality of life in Kenosha County; the fund is particularly interested in: a) opportunities and creative initiatives for expanding art in Kenosha; b) urgent needs which sustain fledgling organizations or efforts; and/or c) projects that have educational value.

In 2011, as in previous years, the Foundation has awarded grants between $500 and $18,000 to area not-for-profit organizations.

Applications must be received by the Foundation no later than 4 p.m. Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Information on grant criteria and application forms are available on the Foundation's website - www.kenoshafoundation.org - and click on Grant Info in the navigation bar.

For questions, send a message to email@kenoshafoundation.org or call 262-654-2412.

Archived Press Release 

• Winter 2012 e-newsletter
• Power of a Purse, Mapping your Future highlight Fall 2011
• Fall 2011 eNewsletter.pdf
• Summer 2011 eNewsletter.pdf
• Foundation Remembers Howard Brown, Awards over $73,000 to Area Programs
• Remembering Howard Brown
• Spring 2011 newsletter
• Executive Director Robert Schneider Discusses the Foundation on WGTD Radio's "Morning Show"
• Kenosha Community Foundation Creates the Susann LaFave Family Fund