Community Foundation for NI: Enabling Growth Fund
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Overview
Enabling Growth Fund Priorities
- They will prioritise those that have a clear plan and can evidence potential growth in terms of number of beneficiaries, impact, service delivery and income generation.
- They are keen to see innovative approaches to growth putting your charity or social enterprise in a stronger position.
- They will not be prescriptive about the theme or issue your organisation will be trying to address. They will, however, want to ensure that the support is to meet a charitable purpose.
They expect projects to include:
- An innovative, expanded, and/or more efficient and effective service offer
- Strong leadership and governance
- Improved management systems and/or determine that this is already in place
- Sound impact measurement systems
- Thoughts around future strategic planning and direction
- Strengthened networks
What they can fund:
They are relatively flexible with what they can fund, including but not limited to, scaling up a current product or service, piloting a new product or service, core or central overhead costs, consultancy and strategic planning, providing it is clear that is necessary to enable this growth; particularly in terms of earned income.
They do not anticipate spending significant amounts of funding on capital costs, however, they will consider some costs associated with the project in relation to capital items, providing it is clear that this will enable growth.