Now through January 16, 2024, the Kenosha Community Foundation is accepting
applications for 2024 awards from its CBK Small Grant program for projects and
initiatives in one or more of the following areas: the arts, culture, nature, and the
environment.
A link to the online grant application form can be found at https://bit.ly/CBK2024
More information about the CBK Small Grant program can be found at
Not-for-profit organizations, government agency, and/or educational institution can
apply for the 2024 CBK Small Grant program. The award can be used as a contribution
to an existing project/initiative or to help start a new initiative.
The Foundation plans to award several grants of either $500 or $1,000 – the total
number of grants to be awarded is dependent on any additional donations received from
the community.
Again this year, the Foundation invites donors from the community to contribute.
Interested donors should contact the Foundation at email@kenoshafoundation.org. One
hundred percent of all community donations received will be distributed as a 2024 CBK
grant.
Since 2020, the Foundation has awarded CBK Small Grants to a wide variety of
programs, including plein air painting, music festivals, outdoor story walks, planting of
pollinator patches, garden classrooms, special museum events for kids, and geocaching
at a county park.
For the 2024 CBK grant program, the Foundation wants to continue to support
interactive cultural and environmental programs that members of our community can
enjoy either indoors or outdoors.
More about the CBK Small Grants Program
The CBK Small Grants program was created in 2019 by the donors of two of the
Foundation’s field of interest endowment funds:
● The Clark-Barber Family Fund endowment, established in 2017 by Kenosha
residents Tom and Ruth Barber Clark.
● The Kubasiewicz Family Trust endowment, established in 2012 by Salem Lakes
resident Tom Targos in honor of his late mother Irene Kubasiewicz Targos.
As defined by the donors, the purpose of the CBK Small Grant program is to provide
funds “to groups offering programs in the arts or the understanding of our natural
world.” CBK Small Grants will support “cross-cultural and multi-generational programs in
both areas, whenever possible.”
Note that “CBK” stands for Creativity by Kids (of all ages) – the letters CBK are also the
first initials of each donor’s last name.
Attachments;
● Photo – from left to right, CBK Small Grant Program donors Tom and Ruth Clark
(Clark-Barber Family Fund) and Tom Targos (Kubasiewicz Family Trust).
● Logo of the CBK Small Grant Program
● Image – Venn diagram that describes the focus of the CBK Small Grant Program.
The Kenosha Community Foundation, organized in 1926 as a tax-exempt public charity,
actively manages permanent endowments established by individuals, families, and
business organizations. The Foundation manages over $1 3 million in endowment funds
and each year awards over $7 00 ,000 in grants and scholarships to Kenosha area non-
profit organizations and students.