Funding events and activities to celebrate and document your community development successes
Grantees Awarded
The application process is now closed. We awarded grants to 8 communities – read more about them here: http://wvhub.org/these-eight-wv-towns-are-celebrating-community-development-wins/.
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This year, we’re celebrating communities. For 10 years, The Hub has worked alongside West Virginians in their community development efforts. In 2019, we want to celebrate the amazing successes that are happening across the state.
If you live in an area that participated in one of The Hub’s community coaching programs between 2009-2018 (Find a complete list at the bottom of this page!), consider this opportunity.
For a chance to receive up to $500 in funding for an event or activity to document or celebrate your community’s community development successes, please submit your application by Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
We recognize that communities across West Virginia have taken significant strides to build thriving, engaged, and vibrant towns through community development activities over the last ten years. We hope this funding will help you take time to create materials that document your successes, to host events that celebrate those activities, and to share your impacts and leadership with the broader public.
This must be a collaborative idea; only one application will be funded per community. Preference will be shown to applications that include multiple partners and collaborators.
Eligibility
- Communities must have participated in one of The Hub’s community coaching programs between 2009-2018 (see complete list of eligible communities below)
- Projects must be collaborative ideas – only one application will be funded per community, even if communities have participated in multiple programs
- Preference will be shown to applications that include multiple partners and collaborators
What this grant money will fund…
- Events: Community celebrations, public meetings, ice cream socials or any other event that will draw the larger community to learn about community development activities and celebrate local successes. Regular events (weekly or monthly events over a period of time) qualify. If the grant money is used for events, the grantee must demonstrate that sharing of previous and/or current community development successes with the larger public will occur (for example: setting up a table to display past photos, articles, videos, or other media around community development successes).
- Signage & Promotional Materials: To highlight community development work, attractions, and resources. Long-term signage is preferred. Graphic design, web content, video, and other materials documenting previous and current community development successes qualify. Signage for individual events does not qualify.
What this grant money won’t fund…
- Individual businesses
- Individual projects with no connection to celebrating current and past community development successes
- Events or activities that will not be completed by the December deadline
- Projects or events in communities not eligible to apply (see eligible community list below)
Key Deadlines
- July 10: Application Due
- July 31: Award Announcement
- December 31: Projects must be completed; reports will be submitted, along with 10 photos and a blog story
How to Apply
- Download the PDF version of the application to review the questions and prepare answers in advance.
Click here to download a PDF version of the application » - Fill out the online version of the application by Wednesday, July 10. Please note that you cannot save your work and return to the application later. Prepare your responses in advance.
Click here to fill out the online application »
Questions
If you have questions or comments, please email Zach Rissman at z.rissman@wvhub.org.
Eligible Communities
This funding is available for communities who have participated in a Hub program between 2009-2018, including…
Blueprint Communities
- Ansted
- Bluefield
- Fairmont
- Gilmer County
- Hinton
- Marlinton
- McDowell County
- Mullens
- Princeton
- Richwood
- Ritchie County
- Salem
- Shinnston
- Sophia
- St. Albans
- Williamson
Cultivate WV
- Cowen
- Moorefield
Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities
- Grafton
- Lincoln County
- Madison/Danville
- Wyoming County
The Hub’s Communities of Achievement Program (HubCAP)
- Ansted/New Haven
- Belington
- Buckhannon
- Chester/Weirton
- Clay County
- Doddridge County
- Fairmont
- Hinton
- Lincoln County
- Marshall County
- Martinsburg
- Matewan
- McDowell County
- Mullens
- Princeton
- Richwood
- Shinnston
- Wayne County
- Whitesville
- Williamson
Innovation Acceleration Strategy
- Alderson
- Madison
- Lincoln County
- Wyoming County
- McDowell County
Turn This Town Around
- Grafton
- Matewan
- Ripley
- Whitesville