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All Counties
Green Pastures Fund
All Counties
Nonprofits, Public entities
The fund’s mission is to preserve and encourage small, community-based agricultural ventures, which might include, but are not limited to: community-supported agriculture; local farmers’ markets; urban garden programs; agricultural scholarships; cooperative programming; internships; grant writing; and marketing.
James C. Kapteyn Endowment Fund
All Counties
Individual
Principals and Heads of School may nominate an outstanding educator who meets the vision of the fund. The primary mission of the fund is to recognize and support educators, who offer extraordinary gifts to their students, and promote teaching excellence in the secondary schools within the Berkshire Taconic community.
Planning and Technical Assistance Grant Program
All Counties
Nonprofits
This grant provides flexible funding to allow an organization to seize an opportunity to refine their strategy, invest in board development, and evaluate and refine program delivery at a time when their missions are needed most by the communities they serve. We particularly seek projects that strengthen the governance and diversity of smaller nonprofit boards.
Berkshire County
Crane Family Fund
Berkshire County
Nonprofits
The Crane Family Fund was established at Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in 2008. The fund’s mission is to support projects that demonstrate innovation in the intersection of environmental quality and community health and well-being.
Berkshire Environmental Endowment
Berkshire County
Nonprofits
The BEE Fund supports nonprofit organizations, public agencies, schools or civic community entities for projects focused on water quality and related land issues. Grants currently focus on grassroots organizations with preference for water-related educational projects that will engage Berkshire County youth.
Pittsfield, Berkshire County
Nonprofits
To encourage and support community partners to prepare and/or update their strategic plans, the city has committed funding for the ARPA Community Partner Strategic Planning Grant Program to be administered and overseen by Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
Columbia County
Fund for Columbia County: Grants for Community Impact
Columbia County
Nonprofits, Schools, Civic Entities
This grant will support projects that further youth development, economic equity, civic and community engagement, arts and cultural programming that focuses on community engagement, education, the environment, and health and social services that directly impact the people of Columbia County.
Fresh and Healthy Food for All in Columbia County
Columbia County
Food pantries, Food distribution sites, Farmers markets, Schools, Nonprofits, Fiscally sponsored orgs
This grant supports organizations that work to ensure all people in Columbia County, especially households with limited resources, have access to fresh and healthy food. This includes providing immediate access to healthy food for the food insecure while simultaneously transforming the food system to increase long-term access for everyone in Columbia County.
Quailwood Fund
Red Rock, Columbia County
Nonprofits
This grant provides community support in the Red Rock, Columbia County, New York area for public services and improvement of the quality of life, for conservation work, public recreation facilities, fire and rescue facilities and educational scholarships.
Northeast Dutchess County
Northeast Dutchess Fund
Towns listed below in northeast Dutchess County
Nonprofits, Fiscally sponsored orgs, Municipalities
The fund seeks to support new or existing projects, programs or organizations that have a meaningful and positive impact on the residents of northeast Dutchess County, with particular emphasis on low income and/or underserved adults and children. The communities of Amenia, Clinton Corners, Dover Plains, Millbrook, Millerton, North East, Pine Plains, Stanford, Washington, Wassaic and Wingdale.
Northwest Litchfield County
Madeleine B. Wildes Fund
Town of Salisbury
Nonprofits
This fund supports projects that provide assistance to “persons residing in Salisbury, who, through sickness, misfortune, or lack of opportunity, and despite their own best efforts to support themselves and maintain their independence are in need of financial assistance for any purpose which is thought suitable.”
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