Emergency Grants are intended for sudden, unanticipated and unavoidable challenges that, if not addressed immediately, could threaten an organization's stability and/or ability to achieve its mission. Emergency proposals can be considered at any program meeting, but it takes approximately 45 days to process requests for trustee review.
MMT's Emergency Grants are not intended to address failure of an organization to comply with legal requirements or problems that can be attributed to organizational neglect; failure to plan for likely contingencies, such as the breakdown of aging equipment; or to replace a gradual loss of organizational funding. Compelling reasons to shorten and simplify the review process must exist. If you're not sure if your proposal idea would qualify, you can ask us about it.
For example, Emergency Grants might include assistance for recovery from fire, flood and other acts of nature.
Here's a real world emergency scenario that MMT funded:
A truck crashed into the leased building housing a community service organization, damaging the building, disrupting operations and displacing most staff members. Emergency Grant funds from MMT helped the organization relocate so it could resume operations as quickly as possible.
Examples of projects that have been determined NOT to qualify for an emergency grant:
- Replacing or repairing aging equipment (which should have been addressed earlier)
- Legal claim against an organization
- Problem resulting from an organization's failure to adequately plan or exercise duty of care
- Gradual loss of funding/declining donation income
- Loss of government funding
- Paying back taxes
- Interim funding while waiting for government reimbursement for services performed or other contractual payments due
- Construction contingencies that should be covered by a contingency allowance.
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