Creating Synergy for a Stronger Future Grant
Creating Synergy for a Stronger Future Grant provides capacity-building support for nonprofits’ organizational health, vitality, and sustainability. In the ever-evolving world, nonprofits need support to manage an organization’s culture and climate; employee transitions and succession planning; and collaborations that increase operational efficiency and/or improve program services. This grant aims to support nonprofits to grow stronger and live out their missions for their respective communities.
This grant provides support for out-of-pocket costs incurred toward the exploration or implementation of the activities that support a nonprofit’s overall capacity. The overall allocation to support any approved grant request is $1 million.
- Virtual Grant Overview| June 24 at 2 pm. Register at https://bit.ly/UWCapacity2025
- Application Opens | July 1, 2025
- Application Closes | Aug 12, 2025, by 12pm ET
- Notifications of Grant Award Period | October 2025 to December 2025
Community Impact Multi-Year Program Grant
Community Impact Multi-Year Program Grant provides support for impact-driven multi-year community programs that engage one or several impact areas. For the region, impact-driven multi-year programs engage the complexities of their communities to understand the critical issues and participate in creating solutions for transformative change.
Applications open in 2026
Shifting the Norm: Seeding Great Innovations Grant
Shifting the Norm: Seeding Great Innovations Grant provides support for an innovation program (planning, feasibility effort, or idea) that engages one or several impact areas that have the potential for continual funding via the Community Impact Multi-Year Program Grant for sustainable impact. Overall, this grant is offered for programs that demonstrate interest in addressing the complexities of their communities to understand the critical issues and participate in creating solutions for transformative change.
Powered by United Way’s Community Impact Fund, this grant opportunity is a one-time effort with funding in 2025. Funding is not available annually for this grant opportunity.
More information about this grant is forthcoming within the first quarter of 2025. We are building additional funds within The Community Impact Fund.
We All Grow: Summer Program Grant
We All Grow: Summer Program Grant program provides support for summer programming grants for out of school youth. A common application has been developed to support summer programs for the region. The common application is powered by several funders—Out of School Time Funders Group—to support the region. Funders supporting the common application are United Way’s Community Impact Fund, City of Rochester, ESL Charitable Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation’s Greater Rochester Afterschool and Summer Alliance, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, William and Sheila Konar Foundation, and many more.
Applications open early 2026