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Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
Guidelines
The DeCamp Foundation was established in 1970 by Elizabeth DeCamp McInery in memory of her late husband Ira W. DeCamp. Over the past 20 years, the DeCamp Foundation’s grantmaking has supported a wide array of organizations within three major program areas: community-based health, workforce development and foster care. Grants exclusively support work in the New York metropolitan area.
Funding Interests:
The foundation’s grantmaking currently focuses on three areas: community-based health care, foster care, workforce development.
Community Health grants will support community health centers (primarily federally qualified health centers) and select primary care providers in the metropolitan area. The contact person for this initiative is Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com.
Funding will be provided for:
- capacity building (e.g., leadership development, staff training and improving fundraising or other key resources);
- organization improvement activities (e.g., strategic planning; markets, operations and systems analysis; performance measurement and process improvement); and
- capital projects (e.g., renovations, new space acquisition and development, information technology and infrastructure enhancements).
The foundation’s Foster Care Grants Program seeks to support programs in the metropolitan area that address one or more of the following:
- Programs designed to support service linkages and partnerships with different service providers within the child welfare community (e.g., substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health and housing).
- Training and strategies to recruit and retain qualified caseworkers and front-line staff at foster care agencies.
- Recruitment, training, and support for caregivers, including foster parents and kinship caregivers.
- Services for older and transition age youth, including education, job training, and independent living skills, with a focus on innovative and youth-driven programming.
- Services for special populations such lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
- Policy and advocacy efforts around issues such as (but not limited to) housing for youth in foster care, legal support for youth in care, updating the foster care rate-setting methodology and sustaining quality-assurance programs.
The contact person for this program is Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com
Workforce Development grants will support workforce development organizations (including intermediaries) in the metropolitan area. The contact person for this initiative is Jennifer Kim, jennifer.x.kim@jpmorgan.com.
Funding will be provided for:
- Capacity building (infrastructure investments that enable the organization to expand, sustain and manage its services more effectively).
- Program development (investments in new aspects of the program that will enhance the training and placement experience.
- Research and evaluation (to understand the impact of job training programs and of public policy in this area). Note: preference will be given to job training organizations that offer hard skills and life skills training; have support services available to trainees; focus on placing adults in full-time competitive employment; provide post-placement support; and collect data about graduation, placement, starting salaries and retention.
- Organizations receiving two or more consecutive years of funding are required to take at least one year off before reapplying (Only applies to Workforce Development applicants).
Geographic Focus:
New York City
Restrictions:
No grants are made to individuals, private foundations, or for matching gifts or loans. No grants are made to endowments, scholarships, or fellowships.
Eligibility:
Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as public charities and tax-exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Grant Cycle:
The annual submission deadline for all program areas is July 15. Decisions are made in October, with notifications sent out by the first week of November.
Type of Support:
Capacity-building, project, and capital (see guidelines for each program area).
JPMorgan Chase Relationship:
Sole Trustee
How to Apply:
If after reading the Funding Interest guidelines you find a fit with your organization, please review our application procedures and submit your application online.
Application
Please include the following items in your organization’s request:
1. Proposal (maximum of three pages, 12 pt font, normal margins) which includes:
a. Overview of the organization (i.e., primary goals, needs or problems being addressed, population served)
b. Description of the project for which you are seeking support
i. Statement of purpose and the needs being addressed by the project
ii. Population served and how they will benefit from the project
iii. Project timeline/anticipated project duration
c. Brief biography of the executive director and key project staff
2. Project budget
a. If it is a two-year request, please include a two-year projected budget
b. Include a list of foundation, corporate and other support applied to the budget
3. Current fiscal year organizational budget
a. Also include a projected budget for upcoming year (if available)
b. Indicate if the organization has an endowment
i. Quote the most recent value of the corpus
ii. Indicate if the funds are permanently restricted or board restricted
4. List of foundation and corporate supporters
a. Include a list of funders for the current fiscal year
b. Also provide a list from the most recently completed fiscal year
c. Include foundation and corporation names and amounts
5. Most recently completed audited financial statements.
6. List of board members
a. Include professional affiliations (employer)
b. Include length of board service
Please note:
All applications to the
Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
must be submitted online.
Contributions
Total Grantmaking in 2021: $4,042,500
Beacon Christian Community Health Center Inc., Staten Island, NY
$90,000 to expand behavioral health services by developing a counseling center at their Forest Avenue location in Staten Island
Betances Health Center, Inc., New York, NY
$250,000 for the renovation of the lobby/reception area and physical training room
Care for the Homeless, New York, NY
$112,500 as a first installment to hire a consultant to build fundraising capacity for service sustainability and growth
Community Health Care Association of New York State, Inc., New York, NY
$100,000 as a first installment for infrastructure upgrades and improved technology
Friends Of Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY
$100,000 for staffing of the Harlem Hospital Simulation Center
Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc., New York, NY
$75,000 as a first installment to support the hiring of a bilingual Digital Associate, website upgrades, and marketing materials
East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), New York, NY
$80,000 as a first installment to expand behavioral therapy treatment capacity
New York School-Based Health Foundation, Albany, NY
$85,000 for the Data Hub project
Primary Care Development Corporation, New York, NY
$100,000 to further expand capacity and reach by developing a new project model for providing direct evaluation and analytics support for CHCs through a pilot with Urban Health Plan (UHP), a FQHC
United Hospital Fund of New York, New York, NY
$100,000 to develop partnerships between CBOs and PCPs
Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for a Helpline Coordinator, Per Diem Hourly Staff, and paid outreach/advertising
Advocates for Children of New York, Inc., New York, NY
$87,500 as a first installment for continued support of Project Achieve
CASA-NYC (Fund for the City of New York), New York, NY
$87,500 first installment to hire a Director of Advocacy
Center for Family Representation, New York, NY
$60,000 for general operating support
Children’s Aid, New York, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for the Fostering Youth Success Alliance
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, New York, NY
$50,000 for general operating support to improve child welfare services in NYC
Community Foundation of New Jersey, Morristown, NJ
$75,000 for the Foster Care Excellence Fund
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies, New York, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for “Stronger Together”, a project to retain front-line foster-care workers
Forestdale, Inc., Forest Hills, NY
$95,000 as a second installment for general support
Fostering Change for Children, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as a second installment for general support
Graham Windham, Brooklyn, NY
$87,500 as a first installment for the Family Success Initiative
Hearts to Homes Furnishings, Yonkers, NY
$20,000 to support furnishings for youth that age out of the foster care system
Lutheran Social Services of New York, New York, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for implementation of a trauma-informed model among staff and parents
Mobilization for Justice, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 as a first installment to support the Kinship Caregiver Law Project
Rising Ground, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for the Co-Parenting Program
The Door – A Center of Alternatives, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for legal services and advocacy for foster-involved youth
The New School, New York, NY
$50,000 to the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School for the Child Welfare Watch
You Gotta Believe! The Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement, Brooklyn, NY
$87,500 as a first installment for a strategic partnership expansion with a mental health provider
Youth Communication New York Center, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 as a first installment for Youth Communication’s foster care initiatives
Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (ACE), Long Island City, NY
$75,000 first installment for the expansion of the Therapeutic Support Initiative
CAMBA, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
$150,000 for Workforce Development for Low-Income Communities Disproportionately Impacted by COVID-19
Coro New York Leadership Center, New York, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for the Chestnut Commons Kitchen Incubator Project
Emma’s Torch, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support
Hot Bread Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Investing in Breadwinners
JobsFirst NYC, New York, NY
$75,000 as a second installment for general support of career readiness and workforce development programs
New York City Employment and Training Coalition, New York, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support
New York on Tech d/b/a America on Tech, New York, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Increasing the Capacity of AOT’s Alumni Workforce Fellowship
NPower Inc., Brooklyn, NY
$100,000 for enhancing virtual and hybrid workforce development training for New York City’s under-resourced young adults
Paraprofessionals Healthcare Institute, Bronx, NY
$75,000 as a second installment for general support
Per Scholas, Bronx, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support
Phipps Neighborhoods, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support of career readiness and workforce development programs
Pursuit Transformation Company Inc., Long Island City, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Capacity Building for Pursuit Programs: Core and Employment
Queens Community House Inc., Queens, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Young Adult Food Sector Employment Initiative
Red Hook Initiative, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Strengthening the Impact of RHI’s Workforce Development Program for Young Adults in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 for Improving INCLUDEnyc Capacity for Youth Engagement
Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc., New York, NY
$50,000 for the Food Service Industry Training Program
The Andromeda Community Initiative, Long Island City, NY
$75,000 as a second installment for the Masonry Restoration Project
The Marcy Lab School, Brooklyn, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for the software engineering fellowship program
The New York Community Trust, New York, NY
$150,000 for The New York City Workforce Development Fund
Wall Street Bound, New York, NY
$50,000 as a second installment for general support
WIN (Women In Need, Inc.), New York, NY
$75,000 as a first installment for Building Win’s Capacity to Better Address Family Needs through Person-Centered Planning
Workforce Professionals Training Institute, New York, NY
$75,000 as a second installment for general support
Contact Information
All application materials must be submitted online.
Grant recipients should address receipts and reports to: The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, grant.reports@jpmorgan.com.
Contacts for the specific initiative are:
- Community-based healthcare: Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com
- Foster Care: Lindsey Crane, lindsey.s.crane@jpmorgan.com
- Workforce Development: Jennifer Kim, jennifer.x.kim@jpmorgan.com
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