Specific Need Community Grant Initiatives
Census 2020 Inclusion Grants: MAKING NORTH PENN COUNT
The VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn recognized that an undercount in Census 2020 would negatively impact public funding and vital programs necessary to support our quality of life in this North Penn region of Montgomery County. To ensure that nonprofit organizations were able to support efforts toward an accurate and complete count, especially within targeted, at-risk populations located in the North Penn region of Montgomery County, applications from nonprofit organizations serving North Penn residents were accepted between October 2, 2019 through November 1, 2019. For Additional information about the grants, please read the Census 2020 Grants fact sheet.
Awardees of Census Inclusion Grants totaling $45,750.00 as of 12/9/19:
ACLAMO Family Centers
PROJECT NAME: ACLAMO’s Si Nos Cuentan, Si Contamos Project, “If they count us, we count”
GRANT AWARD: $5,000.00
Ambler NAACP
PROJECT NAME: Make Your Count Matter!: Connect YOUR Dot!
GRANT AWARD: $4,500.00
Bucks-Mont Collaborative
PROJECT NAME: Educating and Assisting Nonprofit Organizations to Reach Clients for Census Inclusion
GRANT AWARD: $1,500.00
Generations of Indian Valley
PROJECT NAME: Census assistance for Homebound Meals on Wheels Clients
GRANT AWARD: $3,000.00
Inter-Faith Housing Alliance
PROJECT NAME: Census 2020 Outreach and Education Initiative
GRANT AWARD: $4,500.00
Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia
PROJECT NAME: Korean American Community Counts Census 2020 – Montgomery County
GRANT AWARD: $4,000.00
Keystone Opportunity Center
PROJECT NAME: Promoting a Complete and Accurate 2020 Census Count in North Penn Region
GRANT AWARD: $5,000.00
Lansdale Library Association
PROJECT NAME: Census Kiosk
GRANT AWARD: $2,000.00
Laurel House
PROJECT NAME: Mobile Technology Tools for 2020 Census Assistance
GRANT AWARD: $2,000.00
Manna on Main Street
PROJECT NAME: North Penn Commons Town Hall Census Promotio
GRANT AWARD: $2,500.00
North Wales Area Library
PROJECT NAME: North Penn Census 2020, It Really Does Work for YOU
GRANT AWARD: $4,250.00
Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation
PROJECT NAME: Census 2020 Inclusion Project for Korean and Chinese American Communities
GRANT AWARD: $4,000.00
The Partnership TMA of Montgomery Count
PROJECT NAME: Parallel Paths for Census Inclusion
GRANT AWARD: $500.00
VNA-Community Services, Inc.
PROJECT NAME: Partnering to Provide Targeted Census Outreach through VNA’s Personal Navigator Program
GRANT AWARD: $3,000.00
Team Recognition Grants: A Tribute to Our Partners
When, in the summer of 2021, the VNAF had to cancel our in-person annual summer breakfast (the F. Lee Mangan CommUNITY Celebration) due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, we decided to use the money we would have spent on the breakfast event and divide it up among our 40+ current grantee partner agencies in the form of small Team Recognition grants to be used at their discretion to purchase a little treat for their hardworking teams. Our grantees got creative, using the mini-grants for everything from a team recognition lunch to a hybrid holiday party, providing much-needed bonding moments during an especially challenging time for nonprofit personnel.
Responding to the COVID Crisis
In the challenging year of 2020, to maximize flexibility for our partners struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, the VNA Foundation converted all of its Spring grants to General Operating support, relaxed or waived application and reporting requirements, and increased its giving budget dramatically. We served as one of the founding partners of the MontCoPA COVID-19 Response Fund, both giving and fundraising to distribute more than $700,000 for our local providers. By the summer of 2020, the VNA Foundation launched its North Penn Unity Grants program in the summer of 2020, aimed at fast-tracking flexible funding to meet the needs of our heroic nonprofit partners, and distributing $300,000 in grants to North Penn nonprofits through that effort.