Online Applications Accepted until November 1st
New London-Spicer Minn. – The New London-Spicer Area Fund (NLSAF) announced today that they are now accepting grant applications. NLSAF wishes to fund projects/programs in the focus areas of arts (performing, crafts and fine arts), healthy communities, environment, large scale and sustainable initiatives and special collaboration initiatives involving two or more organizations working together in new ways. To learn more, visit www.communitygiving.org/grants. Online grant applications will be accepted September 1st through November 1st. Direct questions to [email protected] or call (320) 257- 9715.
Nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations, schools, and government entities are eligible to apply for funds to support services they provide or for a special project they wish to pursue within the townships of Arctander, Burbank, Colfax, Dovre, Green Lake, Harrison, Irving, Lake Andrew, Mamre, New London, Norway Lake and Roseville.
“Making investments into projects and programs that are having an impact on the way our community lives, works and plays is important to the board of the New London-Spicer Area Fund and we are excited to see how we can support what is happening already and what new ideas might be percolating,” says Sara Carlson, executive director of the Willmar Area Community Foundation.
The New London-Spicer Area Fund (NLSAF) was established in 2014 through the work of a citizen Blue Ribbon Planning Committee that helped develop the fund’s geographic service area and grant making priorities. The fund is now guided by a citizen advisory committee that makes recommendations on grants to be awarded and was the recipient of an anonymous cornerstone trust gift to aid in its creation. NLSAF is a fund of the Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF).
The Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF), in affiliation with CommunityGiving, is a public charity that attracts and administers charitable funds for the benefit of the local community. Since 1998, WACF has grown to over $17 million in assets and awarded $5.2 million in grants to local nonprofits. CommunityGiving is a collaboration of community foundations united under a single framework to create efficiencies that maximize the impact of our donors. The core foundations working with CommunityGiving include the Alexandria Area Community Foundation, the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation, the Central Minnesota Community Foundation and the Willmar Area Community Foundation. Collectively, CommunityGiving administers more than 650 funds totaling more than $123 million. Learn more at CommunityGiving.org/Willmar.
