StrengthenND invites applications for Creative Community Solutions grant program

StrengthenNDin Souris, North Dakota, invites applications for its Creative Community Solutions grant program, which funds the most promising ideas, across issue areas, that have the potential to make North Dakota and the Native Nations sharing the geography better for everyone. Through this program, StrengthenND aims to develop, test, and spread great ideas. Grants will invest in efforts to develop and test ideas that solve problems and create opportunity, and then spread the best ideas across communities in the state. Creative Community Solutions is a program that supports solutions to community problems or issues, it does not support organizational operating support.The Creative Community Solutions Grantmaking Committee will entertain financial requests of up to $300,000 for up to six years. Grant requests of less than $300,000 and on a timeframe shorter than six years will also be considered.Eligible applications include religious institutions for non-religious purposes, 501(c)(3) organizations, and government agencies. StrengthenND will not make grants to individuals or organizations that are not tax-exempt; however, it will support any interested individuals and/or organizations without tax-exempt status to build collaborative partnerships with tax-exempt entities in order to apply.For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the StrengthenND