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Our granting programs can help your organization break free from financial limitations and move your cause forward.
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Granting at FCI
In addition to empowering mission-driven organizations with low-cost, flexible loans, we strive to provide regular opportunities for access to grant funding.
Core to our vision mission, we commit to approaching grant making with the following in mind:
- We agree to trust, be trustworthy and practice transparency.
- We will operate from a place of humility and curiosity.
- We recognize that people and organizations have been operating in an equity space far longer than Forward Community Investments. We are committed to learning from our applicants and awardees.
- We will focus on the mission of the request.
Recent Grant Programs
2024 Racine Dominicans Mission Grants
About Racine Dominicans
The Racine Dominicans are Committed to Truth and Compelled to Justice, a mission that has been the cornerstone of their life and work. For more than 160 years, the Racine Dominicans have continued to build on the foundation started by Mother Benedicta and Mother Thomasina through their tireless work to serve those in the margins.
In addition to traditional roles in the field of education, the Racine Dominicans served as health care professionals, social workers, prison ministers, community organizers, environmentalists, counselors, administrators, cooks, pastoral ministers, artists, spiritual directors, musicians, peace activists, researchers, college professors, writers and more.
About the Program
To further this mission and the work of justice, the Sisters partnered with FCI to create the 2024 Racine Dominicans Mission Grant Program, which offered 10 one time $50,000 grants to nonprofits pursuing Wisconsin based projects tackling critical issues in the areas of:
- Immigration & Migration: Projects that will help provide services to directly support & assist the immigrant or migrant population
- Affordable Home Ownership Solutions: Projects or programs that will increase individual ownership and/or help provide pathways to ownership amongst disadvantaged persons and families
- Climate Equity: Environmental projects that mitigate damage to air, water, and soil that serve disadvantaged populations that typically challenged with accessing similar services or support
Congratulations to the 2024 Racine Dominicans Mission Grant Recipients!
Immigration & Migration
- Casa Guadalupe Education Center – Washington County
- Growing Lancaster – Grant County
- LOTUS Legal Clinic – Lower 39 Counties
- CAP Services, Inc. – Portage County
Affordable Housing
- Housing Resources, Inc. – Racine County
- Racine Revitalization Partnership, Inc. – Racine County
- Legal Action of Wisconsin – Racine County
Climate Equity
- Nearby Nature Milwaukee – Milwaukee’s North Side
- Groundswell Conservancy – Dane County
- Citizen Action of WI Education – Milwaukee County
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Previous Grant Programs
- 2022 Nonprofit Health Equity Grants made possible by the Otto Bremmer Foundation
- 2021 Nonprofit Capacity Building Statewide Grants
- 2020 COVID-19 Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants, Statewide
- 2020 COVID-19 Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants, Milwaukee
- Nan Chaney March for Justice Awards
- Forward Giving Grants
- Donor Advised Grants
Game Changer Grants
To learn more about our previous grant programs, contact us.
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We don't see the quit in equity
At Forward Community Investments, when it comes to reducing social, economic and racial disparities in Wisconsin, we are relentless.
We are a community loan fund that gets things done.
