Community Foundation Of East Central Illinois Is Offering $50000 In Grants

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The Community Foundation of East Central Illinois is putting its money where its mouth is.

The group is offering $50,000 in grants to area nonprofit organizations to help with things like "communications, data management, diversity, equity, and inclusion, financial management, fundraising, governance, leadership, mission and strategy, program delivery, and program evaluation," per a press release.

Interested parties need to be within the eight-county area ofChampaign, Piatt, Ford, Iroquois, Vermilion, Edgar, Douglas, Coles, and Moultrie counties, and have been in operation for at least two years.

"Nonprofits need to be 501(c)(3) organizations in operation for at least two years, and need to be within [the]Champaign, Piatt, Ford, Iroquois, Vermilion, Edgar, Douglas, Coles, and Moultrie counties," the release notes.

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