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There’s some potential help for local nonprofits in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Community Foundation of Richmond has partnered with the Emergency Management Alliance of Central Virginia and PlanRVA to create the Central Virginia COVID-19 Response Fund, which already totals about $3 million, following donations from a number of businesses, foundations and individual donors. The Community Foundation contributed $500,000 to create the fund.
It’s designed as a public-private partnership between philanthropy, government and the nonprofit sector to address the most immediate urgent needs, as well as the longer term effects of the pandemic and community recovery. Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations only, not individuals.
According to a press release, the fund initially will support
• proven community-based organizations that support the physical and emotional health of the region’s most vulnerable residents - including children and seniors; immigrants and those with limited English proficiency; the homeless.
• operating needs of safety net clinics; food access providers; child and adult care organizations; housing providers for the homeless; nonprofits that minimize disruptions for those who live in public housing communities
The fund thereafter will consider the hardships of its nonprofit organizations due to the lost income or revenue.
There’s no formal application process; rather, nonprofits interested in receiving some of the available money should simply contact the Community Foundation by completing a brief questionnaire here.
Additional donations also are being accepted; donate here or by sending a check to the Community Foundation at 3409 Moore Street, Richmond VA 23230 and note the Central Virginia COVID-19 Response Fund in the memo line.
