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Global Impact Cash Grants

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Max Funding

Up to $75K

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Application Due Date

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Rolling

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Funder Details:

Funder Type:

Corporate

Funding Frequency:

Rolling Basis

Use of Funds:

Programs/Projects

Funding Duration:

Not Disclosed

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Application Type

Pre-Application Quiz

Eligibility:

✅ 501(c)(3) Organizations

Program Areas:

Education, Technology, Disaster Relief, Human Services, Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture, Homelessness, International, Youth, Leadership, Food Security, Community Outreach, Climate Change, Women's Shelter, Homelessness Shelter, Family Shelter, Advocacy, Water, Job Training, Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Foster Care, Community Development, Employment, Housing, Literacy

Locations:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Puerto Rico, Washington DC

About The Grant

Global Impact Cash Grants


We identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. We're looking for programs that fit within our investment areas, serve the underserved, and use technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. We accept applications year-round from eligible organizations. An Initial Information Form (IIF) is used to determine whether your organization will be invited to complete a full application.


Your program must operate within one or more of our priority investment sectors. While we welcome programs that span multiple sectors, we ask that you identify the single sector with which you are most strongly aligned:


  • Climate Impact and Regeneration: Efforts stewarding regeneration and restoration, decarbonization, ecosystem & community resilience, education & advocacy to build a more resilient and regenerative climate future.


  • Crisis Response: Addresses critical human needs of underserved communities including food, water/sanitation/hygiene, shelter, and disaster relief, to help people overcome the cycle of poverty and dependence and achieve a more sustainable future.


  • Economic Empowerment: Equitable access to knowledge, skills, opportunities and resources people need to support themselves and their families toward resilience, independence, and economic security (including skills training for employment and career development, entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion).


  • Education: Overcome barriers to accessing education with enhanced teaching and learning that build STEM proficiency, introduce computational thinking, develop literacy proficiency, encourage climate and sustainability actions by youth, and guide youth toward career pathways in STEM and sustainability.


Cisco looks for grant proposals in which concrete measures of success can be used to assess performance. Organizations that receive funding will be required to use our online grant platform to customize performance metrics for their project and measure their progress over the life of the grant award. Meaningful participation in this process is a requirement for continued funding eligibility.


Accepts Letter of Inquiry.

Requirements

  • Organizations within the United States must be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and classified by the IRS as a public charity. 


  • Organizations from outside the United States must provide information and documents to determine whether the organization is the equivalent of a U.S. public charity.


  • Organizations to be funded must serve an audience greater than 65 percent economically underserved relative to the average standards of the target geography. 


  • Organizations and programs must focus on at least one of our social investment areas: crisis response, education, economic empowerment, and/or climate impact and regeneration. 


  • For education, crisis response, and economic empowerment proposals, we will also consider proposals that address environmental sustainability within the context of that investment area. For example, we would consider funding an economic empowerment program that specifically focuses on creating green jobs. 


  • An organization's overhead is not to exceed 25 percent. (Organizations are occasionally exempt from this requirement; however, they must be exceptionally aligned with Cisco's values and criteria, and they must clearly explain and justify their overhead costs. Exemptions to the requirement on overhead expenses are determined on a case-by-case basis.) Cisco Foundation does not tend to make grants to colleges and universities. In the case that such a grant may be made, Cisco Foundation does not support additional institutional overhead rates for colleges and universities. 


  • The maximum request amount for first-time grant recipients is US$75,000.

Grantor Information:

Restrictions:

Requires reports and detailed use of grants. Restricted.

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