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Our Innovation Grant Program: An Overview.
The Peninsula Endowment’s Innovation Grant Program awards one-time non-recurring grants to qualifying nonprofit applicants which develop a new special project to fund during a grant cycle. The Innovation Grant Program is not designed to fund the capital funding, infrastructure, facilities, operational, equipment, or routine programs of applicants. Rather, the Innovation Grant Program has been created to fund special, one-off projects which align with the funding priorities of the Peninsula Endowment which focus on supporting special projects demonstrating innovations enabling access to written materials for persons with visual disabilities. These are referred to as “Innovation Grants” AND RANGE IN AMOUNT FROM $5,000 TO $50,000. Please see our Frequently Asked Questions document for additional information on the types of special projects we have funded in the past and for illustrations of other projects we cannot fund with an Innovation Grant.
Grant cycles are typically on a calendar year basis, starting with the circulation of a grant cycle announcement in January, submission period through the end of march, evaluation and selection process through May with funding in June or July.
The Peninsula Endowment may award several or no Innovation Grants in any given grant cycle, in its sole discretion, depending on the quality and quantity of Innovation grant Applications (IGA) submitted during that grant cycle
Qualifying nonprofit organizations may request an Innovation Grant Program document set for the current grant cycle which will include an IGA, FAQ document and a template budget spreadsheet by emailing us a request for such documents at peninsula.endowment@gmail.com. Alternatively, you can go to our Innovation Grant Program Documents – PENINSULA ENDOWMENT Page to download the current grant cycle documents. If requesting a current grant cycle package via email, be sure to include in the email request the name of your organization and the name and contact information of the person who will be handling the submission of the IGA for the organization. It is that simple. If an email request is received, an Innovation Grant package for the current grant cycle will be sent via email to the contact person who may complete the simple IGA and attach the necessary documents to the submission email to finish the application process.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Please see our Innovation Grant Program: frequently asked questions – PENINSULA ENDOWMENTpage for additional information about our Innovation Grant Program and how qualifying nonprofit organizations may request grant funding for their innovative projects.
Innovation Grant Program Documents:
You can request an Innovation Grant Program document set for the current grant cycle which will include an IGA, FAQ document and a template budget spreadsheet by emailing us a request for such documents at peninsula.endowment@gmail.com. Alternatively, you can go to our Innovation Grant Program Documents – PENINSULA ENDOWMENT Page to download the current grant cycle documents.