Box Impact Fund to transform Child Welfare, Crisis Response, and the Environment

Deadline Date: December 09, 2024

 Donor Name: Box

 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://www.box.org/impact-fund

Do you know a nonprofit that’s focused on making a difference in crisis response, child welfare, or the environment? Box is excited to tell you about a grant opportunity for organizations working in these areas.

Areas

• Advancing child welfare
  • Angels Foster Family Network, CASA of San Mateo County, Foster Nation: These are just a few Box customers doing amazing things in the child welfare space. They want to amplify the impact of nonprofits working in child welfare systems around the world. Your application might include projects for foster care programming, legal services or those aging out of the foster care system.
• Supporting crisis response
  • When you’re coordinating critical services, secure collaboration across every device is a must. The crisis response category covers nonprofits in emergency and disaster relief services, including refugee support (think Oxfam and the International Rescue Committee). Applications for this category could tackle challenges like gathering topographic data or enabling mobile hotspots.
• Protecting the planet
  • Digital transformation leads to planet-saving outcomes — just look to Box customers like The Nature Conservancy and charity: water. This category covers areas such as environmental protection, energy conservation, renewable energy, nature conservation, and biodiversity. Application examples include projects like improving environmental research or calculating your impact from going paperless.

Funding Information

• The Box Impact Fund will award a total of $150K to six different nonprofits pursuing digital transformation projects. Each selected organization will receive a $25K grant to put towards expanding their tech capacities — with a goal of empowering teams to focus on their mission-driven work.

Eligibility Criteria

• Organization Eligibility
  • As a Grant applicant, you hereby confirm to Box that you are a nonprofit organization with recognized legal status in your respective country. If you are based in the United States, you must have 501(c)(3) status under the United States Internal Revenue Code. If you are based outside of the United States, you must have equivalent recognized charitable/nonprofit status in your respective country.
    • Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) approval is required for organizations based in India.
    • Previous Box Impact Fund grantees are not eligible to apply.
    • An organization that is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) is eligible to apply.
    • In compliance with OFAC sanctions, organizations based in OFAC countries are not eligible to apply.
• Mission Eligibility
  • They’re looking to support nonprofits with strategic technology needs, digital transformation projects, and creative solutions to enhance organizational efficiency and productivity. Projects solely funding the purchase of hardware or software will not be considered for this grant.
  • Your organization’s project must support digital transformation projects in one of three areas, either
    • a project promoting child welfare, such as foster-care programming and services, legal services supporting children and young people separated from their parents, or services for orphaned children and young people; or
    • a project supporting crisis response, such as providing up to date topographic data to resources on the ground or setting up mobile hotspots to enable communications in an area in the aftermath of a natural disaster; or
    • a project focused on environmental protection, such as leveraging technology in the field for environment research, digitizing environmental records, or calculating the environmental impact from going paperless and moving to the cloud.

Criteria

• Applications are evaluated on four criteria:
  • Alignment
    • Demonstrate clear alignment with a digital transformation focus in child welfare, crisis response, or the environment
  • Impact
    • Show potential for impact and the difference this project will make for your organization, and those you help
  • Inclusion
    • Include a plan for inclusion of key stakeholder voices, buy-in and support
  • Scale
    • Share your plan for achieving scale, including possible challenges and how you will address them

For more information, visit Box.