COLLEGE BOUND BROTHERHOOD GRANTS - HOW TO APPLY
How would you use $25,000 to help prepare young black men for college?
Through our College Bound Brotherhood, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation is offering $25,000 grants to up to 15 nonprofit organizations that work on college readiness with young black men in Bay Area public high schools, particularly in Oakland and San Francisco.
While we recognize and appreciate the importance of mentoring, we will support programs that also provide information and services that directly and explicitly prepare students for college: academic enrichment, meeting A-G requirements, tutoring, admissions and financial aid advising, test preparation, etc.
Our goal is to help build a strong college bound culture among black men in the Bay Area.
Selection Criteria
Applicant organizations should:
- Be a 501(c)3 organization (or have an appropriate fiscal sponsor) based in one of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. San Francisco and Alameda County organizations are highest priority.
- Work with self-identified black male youth who attend public schools.
- Have an explicit program focus on college preparedness, academic enrichment, meeting A-G requirements, tutoring, admissions and financial aid advising, test preparation, etc.).
- Demonstrate evidence of organizational stability and program rigor.
- Commit executive/program staff to help build a college bound movement for Bay Area black men.
- Present a solid, sustainable, and culturally competent plan for reaching and working with young black men in the college bound pipeline.
Strong programs have:
- rigorous, interactive learning opportunities
- high quality instruction and guidance
- consistent and frequent interactions with students
- an adequate number of trained and experienced adult staff
- a culturally and age appropriate program design
- a progressive and positive program culture
Timeline
The College Bound Brotherhood grant application deadline for 2010 has passed. We will notify all applicants by Wednesday, September 15, 2010. Please let us know if you have questions. If you missed the annual deadline, we will most likely open up another round in May, 2011.
Submit a Request
Before submitting a request, be sure to upload a profile for your organization on our public database, collegeboundbros.org. Then return to this page and click on the "Submit a Request" button below to start the application. (Unfortunately we couldn't link the two databases, so you'll have to complete some of the information twice - sorry!) We have a paper-free process, so all grant requests must be submitted using our online application.
The first few questions of online process will ask you about eligibility. You'll also need to create an account with a user name and password. Once you're logged in, you can begin the online application. You may want to type the answers in a Word document first, and then cut and paste them into the appropriate fields. We have an electronic sample application that you can use to craft your application responses prior to online submission. However, we will not accept email submissions of grant requests!
If at any point you have questions about the online application, please contact us or online support at CyberGrants.
Note: If you are grantseeker from a university-related or public entity and have trouble with the 501(c)(3) identification in CyberGrants, please contact online support directly!
The College Bound Brotherhood grant application deadline was June 15, 2010. Sign up for our mailing list (collegebound AT lists DOT mkf DOT org) to hear about grant opportunities in 2011.
