Brief Description:

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Description:

Grants will be targeted for projects that improve the quality of life of the citizens of Orange County and fall into the following categories.

- Arts and Cultural
- Civic and Historical
- Community Development
- Education
- Health and Human Services
- Recreation
- Youth

Grants that fund the following are HIGHER PRIORITY

- Higher percentage of population reached
- Services Orange County as a whole
- Prevents rather than remediates
- Increases individual access to community resources
- Promotes independence
- Examines and addresses the underlying causes of local problems and issues
- Attracts volunteer resources and support
- Strengthens the non-profit sector
- Encourages collaboration among organizations
- Builds the capacity of the organization
- Offers services not already available in the community
- Creates new job(s)

Grants that fund the following are LOWER PRIORITY

- New or routine maintenance or construction projects (except renovations of existing facilities that enable the organization to provide a better quality of service to Orange County)
- Annual giving or capital campaigns
- Normal operating expenses (except start-up expenses)
- Computer hardware equipment purchase
- Provided multi-year funding to organizations that have received an OCCF grant in the previous year (however, the grants committee reserves the right to fund a program more than once within a year if committee members determine that the program is sufficiently beneficial to Orange County)
- Organizations having an existing tax-base of support

The Following are absolutely not funded

- Advocacy or political purposes
- Promotion of the teachings of a particular church, denomination, or religion
- General group or individual travel expenses
- Debt, new or existing
- Individuals, except in conformance with the purposes of the Foundation as set forth in the Articles of Incorporation
- Re-granting (funds earmarked to grant to another organization)