Grants
2019 Grant Cycle
Focus Area: Health & Human Services
For its 2019 grant cycle, CCF will be accepting proposals for programs that focus on youth and seniors interacting and mutually benefiting from connecting with one another. A few examples may include: setting up pen pal relationships, providing computer/electronics support and counseling for seniors by youth, or creating effective programs that target a specific group such as youth and senior musicians. Intergenerational collaborative efforts are preferred.
Projects will build and/or strengthen one or more of the following elements:
- Program must encourage, support and strengthen intergenerational community ties in Carlsbad
- Program must have specific goals
- Applicant must outline the strategies and approaches for achieving the goals
- Program must include evaluation procedures and measurable outcomes to monitor success
- Program must demonstrate plans for long-term sustainability (future funding viability, etc.)
- Applicant may act as the lead in a collaborative project that brings together a variety of stakeholders such as: other nonprofits, the City of Carlsbad, first responders and faith-based organizations
CCF will accept requests in the range of $10,000 to $50,000.
Deadline: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
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Grants Awarded
2018 – 2019
Carlsbad Charitable Foundation granted a total of $90,000 at its 11th Annual Grant Awards Celebration. The 2018 grants focused on programs that combat poverty and homelessness.
Carlsbad Family Self-Sufficiency Program
Interfaith Community Services
$15,000 Grant
Solutions University
Solutions for Change
$60,000 Grant
Transitional-Age Teens & Homelessness Prevention Program
Voices for Children
$15,000 Grant2017 – 2018
Carlsbad Charitable Foundation granted a total of $60,000 at its 10th Annual Grant Awards Celebration. The 2017 grant focused on a program that addresses drug and alcohol addiction issues.
Interfaith Recovery and Wellness Center
Interfaith Community Services
$60,000 Grant2016 – 2017
Carlsbad Charitable Foundation granted a total of $70,000 at its 9th Annual Grant Awards. The 2016 grants focused on programs that enhance local services and promote healthy lifestyles for Carlsbad families and residents.
Basic Needs Program
Interfaith Community Services
$20,000 Grant
musicLIFE
Museum of Making Music
$20,000 Grant
Triple Play-Gardening
Boys & Girls Club of Carlsbad
$7,500 Grant
No More Breast Cancer / No Mas Cancer de Mama
Champions for Health
$7,500 Grant
Feeding Seniors in Carlsbad
Meals on Wheels Greater San Diego, Inc.
$7,500 Grant
Crisis Intervention
Trauma Intervention Programs of San Diego, Inc.
$7,500 Grant2015 – 2016
The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation granted $102,000 to six nonprofit organizations that promote healthy lifestyles, and connect, protect or increase access to nature in Carlsbad.
Adopt a Stairway
Friends of Cardiff and South Carlsbad State Beaches
$7,500 Grant
Carlsbad Science in a Satchel
Carlsbad Educational Foundation
$17,900 Grant
Kids and Conservation in the Great Outdoors
I Love a Clean San Diego County, Inc.
$13,500 Grant
Pickleball in the Village
St. Michael’s By the Sea Episcopal Church
$23,400 Grant
Recycling Education & Infrastructure for Carlsbad Schools
Carlsbad Educational Foundation and CUSD Grant Writing Collaborative
$29,900 Grant
Reptile Researchers
Zoological Society of San Diego
$10,000 Grant
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Grants Awarded
2014 – 2015
In its seventh year of grantmaking, The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation granted $104,000 to seven deserving organizations. The 2014-2015 Carlsbad Charitable Foundation grants will help to catalyze greater leadership, engagement and voluntarism within the Carlsbad community.
Rotational Shelter Program
Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego
$10,000 Grant
CHSTV
Carlsbad High School Television Booster Club
$10,200 Grant
Friends Helping Friends
Kids for Peace, Inc.
$11,900 Grant
STEM Education & Career Exploration
Encuentros Leadership
$20,000 Grant
Carlsbad Science Day
Carlsbad Educational Foundation
$20,000 Grant
Clean Beach Coalition
I Love A Clean San Diego
$20,000 Grant
ENGAGE CARLSBAD! Connecting Commerce and the Community
Sustainable Surplus Exchange
$20,000 Grant
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