COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NSV 2025 GRANT CYCLE

CFNSV OPENS OUR 2025 COMPETITIVE SPRING GRANTS

The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley would like to personally invite nonprofits of the
City of Winchester, Frederick County, Warren County, and Clarke County to apply to this year’s 2025 Spring
Grants. CFNSV is combining five competitive grants into one grant process named "2025 CFNSV Competitive
Grants." Just one application needs to be submitted to be considered for funding from all five of the
participating funds. The funds included are the Cochran Family Youth Fund, the Paul and Martha Rees Fund, the
Boxley-Fox Endowment Fund, the Community Future Fund, and Chain of Checks. (To learn more about these
funds, follow this link: https://cfnsv.org/receive/grant-opportunities/)

The CFNSV conducted a Grant Training Workshop which was led by Kim Herbstritt, Executive Director of Blue
Ridge Habitat for Humanity to explain our grant process. In the past this has been very helpful for those
who attended. Attendance at this training is a factor taken into consideration when grant applications are
reviewed. (Watching the training through the following video link is accepted as attendance.) This year's training
occurred on Monday, April 14th, 2025. A copy of the training is now available on CFNSV’s YouTube channel,
with the following link: https://youtu.be/5v6XoyyGteI For access to the resources that was used in the
training, please follow this link HERE. The link will bring you to a Google folder that has the Grant Application
Tool and the 2025 CFNSV Grant Writing PowerPoint. Both tools were graciously provided to us by Kim Herbstritt,
the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Habitat for Humanity.