Foundation Awards Grants to Help Nonprofit Organizations
In the second half of 2018, The Dayton Foundation’s fund holders awarded 10,714 grants totaling $37.1 million to not-for-profit organizations locally and across the country.

Among these grants were discretionary and Greenlight Grants totaling $263,363 that were awarded by the Foundation’s volunteer Grants Committee and approved by the Foundation’s Governing Board to address emerging needs and opportunities in the region. Read more about these grants and the nonprofit organizations that received them.
Endowing Your Organization's Future Through The Dayton Foundation
Ensuring that your nonprofit organization has enough funding to carry out its important work can be a daunting and difficult task. Wouldn’t it be great to know that each year you could count on a specific amount of operating revenue?

Read how The Dayton Foundation can help your organization create a permanent source of income and ensure a charitable legacy in the years to come. 
We Help You Help Others SM - Victoria Theatre Association
Since 1976, Victoria Theatre Association (VTA) has been entertaining and educating audiences in Greater Dayton through artistic programming. As owner and operator of some of Dayton’s most impressive performance venues, including the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center and the newly opened PNC Arts Annex, VTA draws nearly half a million people to its performances and events each year.

Read more about VTA and how partnering with The Dayton Foundation has helped the nonprofit organization to ensure its past, present and future.
Help Youth Attend College Through Scholarship Connect
Does your nonprofit organization serve local high school seniors? If so, be sure to encourage them to visit The Dayton Foundation's online scholarship system, Scholarship CONNECT .

Through one application, students may be matched to any of the nearly 200 Foundation scholarships based upon educational interests and backgrounds. Links to financial aid, scholarship and loan resources, and tools like a college debt calculator, also are available on the website. If you know someone in need of assistance to further his or her education, please forward this email or direct the student to our website. The deadline to apply is March 8 at 4:00 p.m.
Join Us for Connections Live Tonight
Join us today at 2:30 p.m. for Connections LIVE! We will be taking a culinary lesson from Dayton Cooks! - a partnership between the Wesley Center and Grace United Methodist Church - that helps chronically unemployed individuals get back to work and provides food for hungry children. Click here to get a reminder when the broadcast goes LIVE! this afternoon.

If your organization has an innovative, dynamic or collaborative project that recently received a Foundation discretionary or Greenlight Grant, we want to hear from you! Contact Soteria Brown at (937) 225-9959 for more information, or view past episodes of the types of projects featured in Connections LIVE! here .
February 28
Deadline to Submit a Request for Proposa l to The Disability Foundation

March 1
Deadline to Apply for a Greenlight Grant , Cycle One

Deadline to Submit a Grant Request Form to Centerville-Washington Foundation

Rolling Applications
Greater Dayton Brain Health Foundation

Mark A. Kreusch Memorial Fund

The VISIONS Endowment Fund

For more information, click here.

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