Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
◼ Primary geographic focus areas are Maricopa and Pinal counties, and all grants must be for programs in the
state of Arizona.
◼ Agency can apply for one category only.
Please note the following are ineligible for Season for Sharing funding:
◼ Agencies or programs that primarily support a specific disease, disability, illness or addiction and/or whose
primary mission is funding medical or scientific research.
◼ Agencies that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, medical condition,
veteran status, marital status, disability, ancestry, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by
law.
◼ Religious organizations, churches, and programs that are purely denominational in purpose.
◼ Sports teams or sporting programs or programs that are primarily recreational in purpose.
◼ Schools, including charter schools.
◼ Project cannot be a summer camp. Season for Sharing is a collaborative funder for the Summer Youth Program
Fund which solely funds summer camps.
◼ Exclusive support for salaries and capital projects
Season for Sharing, the annual holiday campaign of The Arizona Republic, and azcentral.com, in partnership with the
Arizona Community Foundation and the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, raises awareness and dollars for nonprofit 501(c)3 agencies that help the Valley’s neediest.
Specific funding priorities
Grants will be made to organizations that match the criteria:
Children & Families
◼ Support of programs that focus on preventing child abuse, protecting children from abuse, finding permanent
appropriate placements and providing support for children in the foster care system.
◼ Programs that offer access to free or low-cost food including food banks and meal programs for children.
◼ Programs that help people receive emergency short term shelter and long-term affordable housing.
◼ Programs that provide for short term emergency needs including personal care or hygiene items, clothing, rental
or utility assistance or disaster relief.
◼ Programs that help disadvantaged populations with job training and support for the under-employed and
unemployed youth and adults.
◼ Programs that help victims of domestic violence.
Arts & Education
◼ Programs that support early childhood education and quality child care for disadvantaged populations.
◼ Programs that enhance and/or improve K-12 core curriculum including tutoring and academic after school
programs.
◼ Programs that provide for school readiness (back to school clothing, supplies, school food programs).
◼ Programs that ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college or the
workforce.
◼ Programs that support adult and family literacy programs.
Season for Sharing, the annual holiday campaign of The Arizona Republic, and azcentral.com, in partnership with the
Arizona Community Foundation and the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, raises awareness and dollars for nonprofit 501(c)3 agencies that help the Valley’s neediest.
Specific funding priorities
Grants will be made to organizations that match the criteria:
Children & Families
◼ Support of programs that focus on preventing child abuse, protecting children from abuse, finding permanent
appropriate placements and providing support for children in the foster care system.
◼ Programs that offer access to free or low-cost food including food banks and meal programs for children.
◼ Programs that help people receive emergency short term shelter and long-term affordable housing.
◼ Programs that provide for short term emergency needs including personal care or hygiene items, clothing, rental
or utility assistance or disaster relief.
◼ Programs that help disadvantaged populations with job training and support for the under-employed and
unemployed youth and adults.
◼ Programs that help victims of domestic violence.
Arts & Education
◼ Programs that support early childhood education and quality child care for disadvantaged populations.
◼ Programs that enhance and/or improve K-12 core curriculum including tutoring and academic after school
programs.
◼ Programs that provide for school readiness (back to school clothing, supplies, school food programs).
◼ Programs that ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college or the
workforce.
◼ Programs that support adult and family literacy programs.
First year grants will be no more than $7,500.