Community Events Grants

The Heartland Hospice Memorial Fund supports community awareness events that communicate the importance of hospice and end-of-life care issues to the general public.

The event must be educational in nature and must be focused on issues related to hospice and/or end-of-life care.
The term “event” includes but is not limited to educational seminars, in-services, conferences, community memorial services, support groups, bereavement camps, HFA Teleconference, community projects such as memorial gardens, prayer shawls, etc.
The event must be open to and available to the general public. The applicant must present documentation of the communications plan as part of its grant application to ensure that it is open to and available to the general public.
The grant application must include a complete event budget with reasonable expenses.
The Fund will not support event grant requests that should more appropriately be considered for support through the agency’s marketing or advertising budget. Inappropriate requests include events whose primary intention is to generate referrals or provide publicity or direct benefit to any specific hospice.
50% of the event budget must be obtained from a source other than the Heartland Hospice Memorial Fund. If the hospice agency does not intend to support the remaining 50% of the event budget with their own operating funds, applicants are encouraged to find community partners to share in the financial support of events. The Heartland Hospice Memorial Fund will fund community event grant requests up to 50 percent of total costs.
If food is to be served, all reasonable consideration should be given to obtaining the best catering cost possible. The Fund will not consider more than one food request per event.
A complete grant application must be submitted at least 45 days prior to the event to ensure that there is time for any questions/clarifications about the application and to provide the applicant with adequate time to secure an alternate source of funding if needed.

Community Events Grants

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