Grants

All FCP Grants are awarded only to non-profit human service organizations serving children, youth and families in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Types of Grants:

1. Partnership in Youth Services Program - Community Action Grants:
   Awarded in the fall of each year. Applications will be mailed to eligible organizations each spring.
2. Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grants (BIIG):
   Development Grants: Rolling application and review process. Grants awarded in the fall and spring of each year.
3. Emergency Action Grants:
   (Limited & determined on a case by case basis.)

Site visits will be made and the due-diligence process recommended by the Council on Foundations (www.cof.org) will be followed.

FCP does not fund the following:

• For-profit organizations
• Deficit financing/debt reduction
• Advertising publications
• Religious or Political Activities
• Umbrella funding organizations/pass through organizations
• Stand-alone research

Applications for funding may only be made once every twelve months, regardless of the FCP decision on previously submitted applications.

Applications should be received in the Foundation office at least 60 days prior to the deadline for the grants (excludes Emergency Action Grants).

All decisions as to the final award of or the amounts of grants shall be at the sole discretion of Foundations Community Partnership, whose decision shall be final.