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Grants
Agency Capital Region Community Foundation
Contacts Joyce McGowan
517-485-1630
Types of Projects Funded/ Funding Priorities

Patrons Fund

Purpose: Grade school and high school playgrounds and equipment, and athletic fields and equipment.

Range: $500-$7,000


Oldsmobile Classic Youth Charities Fund.

Purpose: Youth programs in the tri-county

Range $500-$7,000


Lugnut Charities Fund

Purpose: Support existing and create new programs for youth in the greater Lansing area

Range $300-$4,000


Unrestricted Funds

Purpose: Board charitable purposes in the fields of humanities, education, environment, health care, human services, and public benefit

Range $300-$20,000

Grant Guidelines Projects are given funding priority that:
  • Reach a broad segment of the community
  • Encourage matching gifts or additional funding
  • Assist those citizens whose needs are not being met by existing services
  • Meet emerging needs, are innovative and have a high probability of leading to new solutions to community challenges
  • Are collaborative, comprehensive, promote cooperation among organizations within the region, and have the potential for ongoing community impact
Agency Prevention Network
Michigan Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking
Contacts 800-968-4968
Types of Projects Funded/ Funding Priorities MCRUD minigrants are awarded to carry out projects or activities which address underage alcohol use, and incorporate community participation in planning and delivery services
Grant Guidelines
  • Project must be compatible with MCRUD goals
  • Must take a primary role in preventing underage alcohol use
  • Must use credible, researched-based prevention strategies or proven approaches
  • Must be age, culture, and audience appropriate
  • Must establish collaboration
  • Ongoing commitment is preferred
Agency Prevention Network
Contacts 800-968-4968
Types of Projects Funded/ Funding Priorities Minigrants are awarded to support ATOD and other drug prevention projects which are initiated, implemented, carried out , and followed up by grassroots, volunteer-based community groups.
Grant Guidelines
  • Must be primarily ATOD prevention approaches
  • Must have a broad community involvement component
  • Must be age, culture, and age appropriate
  • Projects are replicable
  • Ongoing commitment is preferred