Gas South is committed to giving 5% of our profits to children in need in the areas of basic needs, education and illness/disability. If you are a 501c3 non-profit organization that serves children age 0-21(ish), in one of the areas above, we would like to invite you to apply for funding. The application will be available on our website March 11, 2024. Scroll down the page to the Impact Investment Application button in ORANGE. The application opens March 11th and closes (5pm) April 19th, 2024. Applications are reviewed and vetted by a committee of trained employees. Two organizations in each area (basic needs, education, illness/disability) will be selected as finalists for funding. Gas South employees, along with the public, will vote for their favorite non-profit. The top 2 organizations overall will be awarded funding. Finalists will be notified in May and winners will be announced in early July.*If your organization received an impact investment in 2022, or 2023, you are not eligible to apply. Organizations that receive funding in 2024 are not eligible to apply again until 2027.A few tips for applying:
These applications are reviewed by a committee of employees. Remember who your audience is when you are filling out the application. The more concise, the better. More story and less data. This is not a traditional foundation or grant application.
Direct, clear and specific information around what you will use funding for has typically been more successful in the past. (i.e. our organization needs $40k to a purchase a van to transport food. This van will allow us to expand our service territory to 2 new counties and roughly 200 families.)
Be transparent and honest – if your organization needs funding for operations/overhead, that is fine! Just tell the story of why it is needed and what the impact would be if you received that operational support. If your organization does not have capacity for volunteers, that is fine! Explain other ways employees can engage (attend events, provide in-kind donations, leverage social media, serve on your board, etc.).
Things to Note:
Organizations can apply for any amount of funding – requests can range from $1k - $100k+. Last year we awarded $100k investments.
Gas South invites the public to vote for the winners. We open it up as a social media campaign. Our team creates the content and finalists are encouraged to use this content to share with their own networks.
Funding is unrestricted and can be used over the course of multiple years.
Organizations may submit up to 3 separate applications. If you have initiatives/programs that impact more than one focus area (basic needs, education, illness/disability), you may submit separate applications for each.
The applications can be saved and returned to – you do not have to fill it out all at the same time. After you complete the application, a pdf copy will be emailed to you.
The application is roughly 2 pages. The first page is your contact information, and the second page is around 8 questions. It should not take you hours to complete.
If you currently receive funding from Gas South outside of this process and you are awarded funding, any current funding will not be impacted.