Here’s how to apply for
a Dekko Foundation Grant
1. Check to be certain that your proposal aligns with our priorities:
A. Geographic Priorities:
We consider grant proposals that benefit people in communities where our founder, Mr. Chester E. Dekko, had an interest during his lifetime. Those communities are:
- Alabama: Limestone County.
- Florida: Collier County.
- Indiana: DeKalb, LaGrange, Kosciusko, Noble, Steuben, and Whitley Counties.
- Iowa: Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold, and Union Counties.
- Minnesota: The Community of Ada.
More info on Geographic Priorities.
B. Concentration on young people:
Our grantmaking is sharply focused on projects that support the development of children ages birth through 18 years.
C. Grantmaking Priorities:
We consider grant proposals in the following four categories because they advance our mission of fostering economic freedom through education:
2. Remember that timing is everything.
Please give us about 90 days for our board to research and consider your grant request. Keep in mind that the Foundation will choose not to make reimbursements for monies expended before grants are approved.
3. Have your plan in place.
We feel strongly that a current strategic plan, prepared by the staff and board of your organization, is a first step toward readiness for participation in a grant program. When we meet with you we will want to understand how your request fits into your overall plan.
4. Help us understand the type of support
you would like to request:
- Improving Lives: Click here if you want to work directly with young people to support their development.
- Building Your Organization’s Ability to Serve: Click here if you want to strengthen your organization’s ability to make positive change in young people’s development.
- Capital Improvements: Click here if you need building or project improvements to help you support young people’s development.
- Research: Click here if you want to generate, analyze and interpret data with a goal of improving child and youth development.
- Policy Change or Advocacy: Click here if you want to educate critical stakeholders about the need to implement new policies or improve existing policies related to child and youth development.
- Innovation: Grants designed to develop and/or test new approaches that will outperform existing practices in child and youth development.
- Other: Grants designed to broadly consider all possible ways of promoting the Dekko Foundation’s mission of fostering economic freedom through education.
