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We R Community School and Student Grant Guidelines

The We R Community program has set the following guidelines to ensure teachers and students are successful.

Participating classes or groups have $5,000 each to make grants to nonprofit organizations.

Of the $5,000 at least $4,000 must be granted to nonprofit organizations and up to $1,000 of the total may be given to your school to support in-school programs and/or projects.   Students may choose to give the whole $5,000 to nonprofit organizations.

This funding is to be used for programs that inspire change and encourage potential in either education, the promotion of healthy families, access to the arts or environmental enhancement.  Funding must be used to help people in Nevada, not animals, unless those animals are helping people, such as guide dogs.

All nonprofit organizations receiving We R Community grants must be 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located within Nevada. 

The funds must go directly to the nonprofit organization and not pass through any other organization.

Funds cannot be used for lobbying or promoting any specific religion.

Funds cannot be given to any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, religion, creed, national origin, marital status, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or color.
501(c)(3) Defined

The 501(c)(3) status is a designation assigned by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) to an organization that exists for a charitable purpose, is a nonprofit organization, and is tax-exempt.  The IRS has a number of different designations for nonprofit organizations, so when someone calls an organization a “nonprofit”, that organization could be one of a number of kinds of nonprofits.  Just like a person might be a doctor, that person could be one of a number of kinds of doctors.  It is helpful for you to know that organizations such as schools and governmental (city, county) entities are the government equivalent of nonprofit organizations and therefore eligible for funding under the We R Community program.
 
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