All USA USA Territories: American Samoa (USA); Guam (USA); Puerto Rico (USA); Virgin Islands (USA); Northern Mariana Islands (USA); USA Compact Free Associations:The Federated States of Micronesia (USA) Marshall Islands (USA) Republic of Palau (USA) Canada:Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Saskatchewan; Yukon; International, Israel and Canada.
In-kind grants of creative and marketing services to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit, educational, and service organizations and government agencies to improve communications and brand value. The goal of the program is to help organizations strengthen the marketing and branding efforts of successful applicants through brand development, marketing strategies, website design, and creative services.
The Causality Brand Grant is a service grant that encompasses the full range of brand marketing and creative services. Causality offers both full (pro bono) and matching (partial, funding requirement of 50%) service grants to help nonprofits and good causes access services at no or low cost. They help build a “toolbox” of dynamic and sustainable communications elements and empower the user—elevating a brand and enhancing the ability to serve. Organizations can benefit from the following:
Campaign development (awareness, messaging, capital, membership)
WordPress web site design and build
Digital/social media graphics
Full Grant
A full (pro bono) grant provides creative/marketing services, to be performed by Causality, at no cost to the organization for the scope of services requested.
Matching Grant
A matching grant is partial pro bono with a funding requirement of 50%. Essentially, the matching grant recipient receives their requested project at half the cost. The organization must be able to contribute or raise a sum equal to the value of the match to be provided by Causality. The organization may fund their match from their own funds or may seek funding from other sources. Many grant recipients have utilized the matching grant opportunity to secure outside funding—allowing them to receive the full scope of services at no cost to their organization.
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)
Additional Eligibility Criteria
The Causality Brand Grant is open to a broad range of organizations including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, service organizations, education clients.
Grassroots, start ups and organizations who do not yet have 501c3 status may apply.
Ineligible
The grant does not cover out-of-pocket expenses such as printing, postage, web hosting, stock photography, video production, etc. nor does it cover services outside of its scope of services.
Pre-Application Information
The Winter 2023 Causality Brand Grant schedule has been finalized:
Launch – January 23, 2023
Deadline –February 17, 2023
Announcement – March 1, 2023
You may apply by completing the online application or you may download a PDF of the application to return via email. The application is a form-fillable pdf allowing you to type your answers into the PDF, save and send. Please include your organization name in the file name of your application PDF.
The Causality Brand Grant program is offered quarterly.
Applicants who have an urgent project need prior to award date, have an RFP they would like to have considered under this grant program or are needing an alternate timeline, should please contact the funding source for assistance, who will handle these requests on a case-by-case basis.
Applicants can apply for both a full and matching grant at the same time on the same application. If your application is not chosen to receive a full grant it will automatically be considered for remaining matching grants.
You can apply for a brand grant for more than one project.
Recent awards have ranged in value of services from $500 – $25,000.
Term of Contract
Typically, grant projects are expected to begin within 30 days of award notification and completed within 3 to 6 months of start date, depending on the scope of the project. The process is flexible and timeline needs will be discussed at the kick off after grants are awarded.
