Altrusa International of Madison, Inc.
Altrusa International of Madison, Inc. is a women's
service
club that provides direct service and funding for community organizations,
having done so since it was established in 1923.
Altrusa established a donor advised fund with the Madison Community
Foundation in 1986 to further its aim of providing service to the community.
Grants from the Altrusa Fund are made in the area of literacy
and
education broadly defined including:
- Projects to
help children and youth meet their full educational potential.
- Projects
designed to expand opportunities for people returning to school or the
workforce or for retraining.
- Projects
for people who need assistance to succeed in school so that they are able
to be self-supporting.
- Projects
that foster parental involvement with their children's schooling.
- Projects
that focus on lifelong
learning.
The Altrusa Fund will consider grant requests from $1,000 to
$10,000. The average grant is
$1,200.
Two copies of the application, one electronic and one signed hard copy,
must be submitted on or before the application
deadline. The electronic
copy of the application should be emailed to Vice President, Grantmaking and
Community Initiatives,
Tom Linfield. Please include the name of
your organization in the subject heading of your email submittal.
The signed hard copy of the
application should be sent to: Madison
Community Foundation, P.O. Box
5010, 2 Science
Court, Madison, WI
53705
Grant
announcements are made in writing by March 31 of each year. Grant
recipients may be asked to make a brief presentation about the
project
to Altrusa International of Madison.
The Grant application deadline is February 1.
The Altrusa
International Grant
Guidelines and Application
can be obtained here.
Please contact
Tom Linfield, Vice
President, Grantmaking and Community Initiatives, at (608) 232-1763, for
more
information.
Information about the
Altrusa
International of Madison, Inc.
scholarship can be obtained through this link.