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 JOIN US IN CREATING A CULTURE OF DREAMERS

DREAM BIG PROJECTS
 

With the support of the Dane G. Hansen Foundation Solomon Valley Community Foundation was able to award not 1, but 2 Dream Big applications totaling $100,000 in grants! 

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DREAM BIG
 

Dream Big was a new initiative the Solomon Valley Community Foundation kicked off in October of 2021. SVCF wanted to know what people's dreams were for Mitchell County and we wanted to encourage our communities to Dream Big! We had $50,000 to give, here's what we were looking for:

WHAT IS 

What is Dream Big

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COMMUNITY IMPACT

TANGIBLE OUTCOME: produces outcomes that can be readily observed

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ECONOMIC IMPACT: has the potential to create economic opportunities

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COMMUNITY IMPACT: is designed to create measurable impact within one or more of the communities within Mitchell County

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INNOVATION

COLLABORATION: involves collaboration among new and unusual partners or existing partners working together in new ways

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INNOVATION: project is innovative and presents a creative solution to a community challenge or opportunity

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EXPANDING CAPACITY: project involves new activities for the organization(s) and not just a continuation of existing work

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QUALITY PLAN

LEADERSHIP: there is a defined project team that represents the collaborative partners and has the capacity to implement the project

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SUSTAINABILITY: the project has a plan to sustain the work

 

ALIGNMENT: the project builds on ideas identified through Strategic Doing or other community process

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FINANCIALS

BUDGET PLANNING: the project has a well-articulated and adequate budget to support project implementation

*Dream Big dollars can not act as a primary funding source

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LEVERAGE: the project has secured financial resource commitments already or has a well-defined plan for raising resources beyond the Dream Big grant support

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