The purpose of the Compassion Capital Fund grant is to build capacity of faith-based and community organizations by:

• Increasing their effectiveness and sustainability
  
• Enhancing their ability to provide social services
  
• Diversifying their funding sources
  
• Creating collaborators to better serve those most in need

Program design:

There are three components to this program:

• Workshops/group trainings (offered at no charge)
  
• These will consist of one hour, half day and full day trainings. We anticipate offering a total of 50 of these among the 4 counties served.
  
• Technical assistance (offered at no charge)
  
• 30-40 organizations will be assisted (24 of these will be sub-awardees)
  
• Financial assistance (See Sub-awards below): $180,000
  
• There will be 2 sub-award cycles, the first with 10, the second with 14 awards.
• Awards will range from $2500 -- $15,000.
  

Sub-awards:

• Priority for sub-awards will be given to programs which serve:
• Low-income individuals seeking to gain greater access to state and Federal benefits and tax credits
• Low income individuals seeking to secure and retain employment, earn higher wages, and obtain better quality jobs
• Low income individuals and families in need of financial education, credit counseling and access to IDA accounts and other asset building strategies
• The homeless; elders in need; at risk youth, including Native American youth; families in transition from welfare to work