Harold Brooks Foundation

Deadline
November 1, 2007
Description

The Foundation will consider any request for a grant which significantly provides for the health, human services, religious, educational, environmental, recreation or cultural needs of the community, particularly in the South Shore area. Within this broad definition, the trustees have adopted a special focus on providing for the needs of low-income children and families on the South Shore and have a preference for funding programs in the areas of health, mental health, hunger, housing/homelessness and education.

Special Emphasis
The Brooks Foundation has a special preference for assisting small, community-based organizations with limited resources to establish new programs and increase their capacity to sustain them.

Geographic Focus
The Foundation makes grants to organizations located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. In special circumstances, the Foundation will make grants to organizations outside this area for programs to benefit the South Shore.

Type of Support

  • Support for new initiatives; pilot projects and capital purposes
  • Support for direct services
  • Support for technical assistance that helps small organizations to increase their organizational and fundraising capacity
  • A preference for conditional and challenge grants to leverage support from other sources

Eligibility
Applications will be accepted only from tax exempt organizations as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which qualify as non-private foundations under Section 509 of the Code. Requests are considered only from Massachusetts-based charitable organizations for purposes to be carried out within Massachusetts, preferably on the South Shore.  Requests from the same organization more frequently than once in a twelve-month period will not ordinarily be considered.

Requests for grants should be sent to: Emma M. Greene, Vice President, Bank of America - Private Bank, 100 Federal St., MA5-100-05-01, Boston, MA 02110.  Phone: 617-434-0329.  Fax: 617-434-7567.  email: emma.m.greene@bankofamerica.com

Proposal Deadlines
The Trustees meet in late June and December to consider requests and decide on distributions. A grant request must be submitted not later than the first day of May and November to be considered at the following month's meeting. However, since some requests require more investigation than others do, it may be necessary that a request submitted on time be reviewed at a subsequent meeting.