About Training Scholarships

The Grassroots Fund’s Training Scholarship Program provides scholarships to help Grassroots Fund grantees attend trainings to develop organizational skills such as fundraising, bookkeeping, communications, board development, personnel management, computer skills and IRS 501(c)(3) issues like lobbying.  All grantees of the Grassroots Fund are eligible.  We hope that boosting your group’s “back office” capacity will help you achieve greater success in all your programs.

Any grantee organization is eligible to receive up to $300 of training scholarships per year.  The scholarships cover 80% of the registration costs of the training, and require a 20% match from the grantee.  (For example, if the training cost is $100, the Grassroots Fund would pay $80 and the grantee would pay $20.) Approval of the scholarship request is automatic for all grantees up to the $300 per year cap. Additionally, those traveling more than 75 miles round trip to attend a training will receive a modest travel stipend.

A grantee can send more than one person to a training, or send a representative to multiple trainings, but the most that will be awarded to any one group is $300 per year, not including travel reimbursements.  Being awarded a scholarship does not change your group’s eligibility for regular grants from the Grassroots Fund.

We hope that you will be able to take advantage of the training scholarship program. Please feel free to contact us  if you have any questions. And, please give us feedback about how well the program works, or does not work, for you.  Telling us about your experiences will help us improve the program to make it better for everyone.