The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this limited submission call for funding from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
Internal Deadline: May 18, 2023
Funder: Monterey Peninsula Foundation
Program Guidelines: Program Awards
UCSC Contact: Almut Wolf | FR | awolf2@uscc.edu
Award Amount & Terms: up to $150,000 (all UCSC projects combined)
Overview
Monterey Peninsula Foundation (MPF) operates a place-based, responsive grantmaking strategy that spans a broad range of ages and community needs. The community focus is the primary strategy to strengthen the web of services, programs, and supports that contribute to healthy, vibrant communities.
MPF’s focus areas include:
- Arts and Culture
- Community and Environment
- Education
- Health and Human Services
- Youth
Monterey Peninsula Foundation places a priority on applications that offer creative responses to the community’s most pressing, unmet needs and show promise of building ongoing local support for needed services. Monterey Peninsula Foundation is interested in projects that serve youth and K-12 education. The Foundation is interested in supporting projects that might not be possible without their grant support.
Programs seeking funding should have a broad base of funding support, management capacity to effectively execute the project, a clear plan for project evaluation, outcome measurement, and collaboration among other service providers. Programs seeking funding for a specific project should showcase a significant funding gap or critical opportunity, a long-term impact, preventive intervention and education, and produce measurable results.
Award Amount & Terms
- UCSC’s application to MPF includes funding requests for several programs, with each grant amount up to $50,000, inclusive of 15% indirect costs.
- The decision on how many programs to include in a given grant application is determined each cycle.
- The amount requested from the MPF must include income from other sources (internal and external).
- The FR office will provide guidance on request amounts and budget questions.
- Total award(s) to UCSC with 15% indirect costs will not exceed $150,000.
Award Terms
Eight months, October 2023 – June 2024. Funds must be spent down or encumbered by April 30, 2024; extensions are not allowed. Narrative and expense reports will be due to FR in early May.
Eligibility
- The proposed effort must principally benefit residents of Santa Cruz, Monterey and/or San Benito Counties.
- Proposals focused primarily on research will be not be considered.
- The MPF prefers that campus efforts that are inter-community, i.e., those that serve both UCSC and members in/across one or more of the three counties; intra-community projects are not competitive.
- Proposals will be submitted through OSP. As such the applicant(s) will need to be able to meet the expected OSP’s internal deadlines: Budgets must be completed by June 15.
To apply
Complete and submit the following form and 1-page proposal by May 18, 2023. (See attached)
Email to Almut Wolf in FR: awolf2@ucsc.edu
Timeline
- May 18, 2023 Internal Submission Due by 5pm PST.
- June 1, 2023 Projects selected
- June 16, 2023 OSP Submission deadline
- July 1, 2023 Proposal due at MPF
- October/November 2023 Review and notification
Special Instructions
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). If you are selected as a campus candidate through the UCSC internal selection process, please submit a proposal intake form prior to UCSC’s internal Institutional Deadlines. For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.
The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits. For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding