Spark Positive Change In Your Community With a Spark Grant

If you've got an idea to make your community a better place, you may be able to get $1,500 to make it a reality. The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation's Spark Grants are designed to help everyday people spark positive change.

The program leverages $1,500 “micro-grants” to fuel go-getters, grassroots organizers and connoisseurs of community who have great ideas on how to make their neighborhood a better place. Projects funded by this program are inspiring, actionable, and relevant to their local community. 

Past Spark Grant funding has gone to the Hilltop Street Fair, the Orting Valley Farmers' Market, the Tacoma (253) photography project, Willo Celebrating the Voices of Women & Girls, and many others.

The grants are awarded for a truly wide range of projects, but priority is given to those ideas that bring together diverse people, build on community strengths, or address community challenges in exciting new ways. Projects also win points for offering realistic and achievable strategies, inspiring community action, having recognized and trusted leaders, and providing matching resources. That said, this is a great opportunity for creative thinking.

One condition, however, is non-negotiable:

GRANT REQUIREMENT:
You must use this grant to do something great for your community.

Do you have a great creative idea for positive change in Tacoma?

Learn more and apply for your Spark Grant at gtcf.org/sparkgrants. Applications for this round of Spark Grants are due by Wednesday, March 4.