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Grants and Funding Opportunities

United Way’s grantmaking supports programs and initiatives in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, and Howard counties.

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United Way of Central Maryland promotes equity, creates opportunity, and improves lives.

Our nearly 100 years of service to the people of Greater Baltimore has taught us what it takes to change our region for the better. We are proud to be a source of support, compassion, and hope for people who work hard but still can’t make ends meet. We strengthen families and communities by taking on systemic challenges and increasing access to basic needs – in health, housing, economic advancement, education, and more.

United for Good Nonprofit Resiliency Grant

United Way of Central Maryland’s United for Good Nonprofit Resiliency Grant is an opportunity for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that support the basic needs of individuals and families in Central Maryland to receive grants ranging from $2,500 to $25,000. Organizations who are facing urgent challenges, and who have total annual operating budgets of under $5,000,000, may apply for funding directly aligned with one of following priorities:

Support for organizations facing funding cuts or delays, to sustain projects and/or operations, and prevent disruptions in crucial basic-needs services
Funding to allow organizations to expand/accelerate assistance to meet rising critical needs in our communities
Projects/strategies to increase organizational resiliency and sustain critical services through multi-organization collaboration, consolidation, or merger

Application Deadline

The application is now closed.

Application Access and Materials

The Request for Proposals (RFP) can be found here: United for Good Nonprofit Resiliency Grant RFP (PDF)

Application Support

Nonprofit Resiliency Grant Information Session:

Information Session Video

Information Slide Deck

Agencies wishing to apply are strongly encouraged to watch the session. View here.

Nonprofit Resiliency Grant Q&A

Technical Support: If you need assistance accessing or using United Way’s grant application portal, please submit questions/requests for support via email to [email protected] with the subject line RFP Technical Assistance. We will make every attempt to respond, up to the submission deadline.

2025 Neighborhood Grants

Applications are now closed. The Neighborhood Grant is not available this year. Please consider our new United For Good Nonprofit Resiliency Grant funding opportunity.

The 2025 Neighborhood Grant provides funds to organizations with total annual operating budgets of $500,000 or less.

Grants focus on community-centered projects that are:

resident-driven
connect community members
create impact in Central Maryland.

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2024 Changemaker Challenge

The United Way of Central Maryland Changemaker Challenge is a social innovation competition to highlight and award ideas in Central Maryland. Changemaker Challenge is not available this year. Please consider our new United For Good Nonprofit Resiliency Grant funding opportunity.

See the 2024 Grantees