Apply Now: Dairy’s Foundation® Grants for Dairy Education and Community Engagement

The Dairy’s Foundation is now accepting purposes for its biannual grant program supporting revolutionary, instructional initiatives that serve the dairy trade and neighborhood. Through beneficiant contributions from people and teams, Dairy’s Foundation offers monetary help to initiatives that intention to construct skilled excellence, improve public belief, and develop the following era of dairy producers.

If your venture addresses a essential want inside the dairy sector and aligns with the muse’s mission of schooling, management, and neighborhood engagement, now’s the time to apply.

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What the Grant Supports

Dairy’s Foundation grants are designed to strengthen the dairy neighborhood by way of initiatives that:

• Raise up the following era {of professional} dairy producers.

• Growing and sustaining public belief in our individuals and merchandise

• Build the skilled expertise of dairy producers.

Unlike many funding packages, Dairy’s Foundation doesn’t help constructing initiatives or present initiatives. Instead, it seeks to empower one-of-a-kind, instructional ventures that fill gaps and spark significant trade change.

Each grant is as much as $10,000, and every group can obtain funding for a most of three consecutive years (one grant per 12 months).

See Past Grantees

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Grant Cycle Timelines

The grant program runs in two annual cycles:

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Eligibility Criteria

The Dairy’s Foundation Selection Committee will weigh the standard of proposals towards any or all the following concerns:

1. Industry Leadership—Will this grant be a catalyst for change or additional schooling alternatives? Like a tugboat, our funds can be utilized to guide the trade into uncharted waters, making an attempt new concepts.
2. Shareability—Does this grant align with the mission of Dairy’s Foundation? Our mission is “To share ideas, resources and experiences about important issues surrounding the dairy industry through educational opportunities for dairy producers and the public.” Therefore, we need to work in partnership with organizations that align with our mission. We look for methods to advance promising packages and share “what works” with others within the trade.
3. Leverage—Will this grant make use of already confirmed options? We encourage organizations to leverage our grant with different sources to realize instructional targets.
4. Impact—Is the making use of group able to demonstrating measurable influence? When we ask donors to present to the Dairy’s Foundation, we ask them to spend money on the way forward for the dairying in our communities. Therefore, we glance for a demonstrable return on the grants we make. Applications ought to embrace ways in which you plan to speak and publicize your program’s outcomes and findings.
5. Commitment to Partnership—Is the making use of group able to serving to the Dairy’s Foundation develop its affect and capability sooner or later? Our imaginative and prescient is “a professional, proactive and prepared dairy community, united through education initiatives.” We ask our grant recipients to assist us construct consciousness and help for the Dairy’s Foundation amongst key audiences, so we are able to construct our fundraising capability and proceed to fund education schemes.

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How to Apply

If your group meets the eligibility standards and your venture aligns with the Foundation’s mission, put together the next paperwork in a single e mail submission:

• Cover Page

• Copy of IRS Determination Letter

• Grant Proposal Application (not more than 10 pages, 12-point Arial font sort), which should embrace:

  • Who: An outline of your group and a quick abstract of your group’s previous achievements in relation to the issue or want you’re addressing in your proposal
  • Capacity to efficiently facilitate the proposed actions.
  • What and How: An announcement of the issue or want you propose to handle and an evidence of how your group will reply to it. Include a abstract of what you count on to realize by way of your efforts.
  • When: Explain the timeframe for the proposed actions.
  • Budget: Estimate the price of your complete venture or exercise and embrace the particular quantity requested from the Dairy’s Foundation in a whole venture funds. If you’re leveraging funds out of your or one other group to assist help your proposal, embrace that data as effectively.

Email your full application as a single doc with the topic line “Grant Application” to:
information@dairyfoundation.org

For a printable model of the Grant Guide, obtain the total grant proposal and application information.

Download Grant Guide

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Grant Recipient Evaluation & Results Report

According to the timeline offered on the time the grant was awarded, use the next Evaluation and Results Report to stipulate your program/venture outcomes.

All grant recipients are required to:

• Submit progress stories and a closing Evaluation and Results Report

• Participate in periodic updates and communication with Dairy’s Foundation

• Demonstrate this system’s success and shareable influence on the broader neighborhood

Please bear in mind that oblique prices usually are not allowed, and all funded actions should align with the Foundation’s mission of advancing dairy schooling.

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Be a Changemaker in Dairy Education

Whether you’re a longtime nonprofit or a small neighborhood group with a strong concept, Dairy’s Foundation invites you to apply and assist form the way forward for dairy schooling and management.

For detailed steering, obtain the total grant information or attain out to the Foundation immediately. Let’s construct an expert, proactive, and ready dairy neighborhood—collectively.

Learn extra: Dairy’s Foundation Official Website

Don’t miss your probability—apply earlier than June 1, 2025 (Spring cycle)!

For extra alternatives, please go to Opportunities For Youth.

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