As of 2020, the Crested Butte Rotary Club has returned to an annual cycle for issuing community grants to local 501c3 non-profit organizations.
2024 funding requests will be accepted soon. Please stay tuned for more information.
The Crested Butte Rotary Club provides community grants to deserving nonprofit organizations as well as the public schools. Funding is generated by CB Rotary Club’s annual Duckie Race. Grants prioritize education programs, health & human services, youth programming, and arts & culture. The Community Grants Committee will review all applications and submit recommendations to the Rotary Club Board of Directors for their approval.
Please review the following important information below, if you are interested in applying for a community grant.
CURRENT GRANT CYCLE: 2024
Application deadline to apply: stay tuned for 2024 date
Announcement of awarded grants: late July
Download Community Grant Application (application will be available soon). Please submit your grant application by email in PDF format to grants@crestedbutterotary.org by the due date.
GRANT PRIORITIES & ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Education
- Health and human services
- Youth programming
- Arts and culture
Projects and services must address a local need, be available to the community as a whole and/or target a specific in-need segment of the community. The higher the number of people served, the better. If a program, project , or service is valley-wide, Rotary will encourage the requesting organization to seek funding from the Rotary Club of Gunnison as well. CB Rotary Club prefers to provide seed-money for new, unique and innovative projects and services or for the purchase of specific capital assets. Organizations are encouraged to apply in the category that matches their primary mission statement or the primary purpose of their community service/project.
Recipients of Rotary Grants are required to announce, advertise, or otherwise publicly recognize Rotary as a donor.
The Community Grants Committee applauds opportunities for matching grants although the Committee will not take responsibility for monitoring, tracking and auditing to assure grants are matched.
Organizations may only receive one grant during the Rotary Club’s fiscal year, September-August.
An organization is not required to present their application before the club. Those requesting grants are no longer required to make a presentation at Rotary Club meetings but must make a formal written request to the Community Grant Committee. This will allow all organizations that meet the Rotary Community Grant criteria an equal opportunity to request grant funds.
A representative of the grant recipient must make a presentation at a meeting regarding the expenditure of grant funds they received and the results of the project upon completion of the project. Presentations need to occur no later than the application deadline for the next grant cycle.
Please note that any information provided in the grant application may be used in Rotary press releases, reports, research or other published matters unless confidentiality is requested in writing.
GENERAL EXCLUSIONS
In general, the Rotary Club does not grant funds to the following types of organizations or projects:
- Religious activities or projects that serve, or appear to serve, the doctrine of a specific religious group or denomination. If a proposal submitted by a church-based or similar organization is intended to serve a broad segment of the population, as would a project of a comparable non-religious organization, the committee will consider the proposal on the same basis as proposals from other nonprofits
- Political lobbying, political campaigns or legislative activities
- Debt retirement or deficit financing
- Operating Expenses
- Individuals
- Endowments
- Development Funds or Foundations
- Organizations that received a Rotary Foundation Grant the prior year
- Multi-Year Requests
EVALUATION
The Rotary Club Community Grants Committee will evaluate each proposal on, but not limited to:
- Response to community issues
- Financial and community need
- Availability to the community as a whole or to a large in-need segment of the community
- Ability to improve community members’ lives
- Measurable results
Decisions not to fund particular applications are more likely to result from limited resources than to reflect upon the merits of the applicant or the worthiness of the proposal.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please contact us at grants@crestedbutterotary.org
2018-2023 GRANT RECIPIENTS
| CB Arts Festival | Gunnison Valley Health Foundation |
| CB Mountain Theatre | Gunnison Valley Mentors |
| CB Museum | Imagination Library |
| CB Music Festival | KBUT |
| CB Nordic | Living Journeys |
| CB Search & Rescue | Mountain Roots |
| CB Snowsports Foundation | Mt. Kids Film |
| CB Wildflower Fest | Paradise Place Preschool |
| CBCS PTSA Afterprom | Project Hope |
| CBCS-Enrichment | RMBL |
| Celebrate The Beat | Safe Harbor Ranch |
| Coldharbour Institute | Scout Troop 476 |
| Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley | Six Points |
| GCSAPP | Stepping Stones |
| gO Initiative | Sustainable CB |
| Gunnison Confidential Advoc | Tough Enough to Wear Pink |
| Gunnison Food Pantry | Trailhead Museum |
| Gunnison Library | West Elk Soccer |
| GV Health Coalition | |
Nondiscrimination Policy: Organizations are considered only if they do not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status or any other basis prohibited by law in any of its activities or operations.