About
The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund (”NRF”) encourages and supports formal sustained collaborations between and among nonprofit organizations. It also assists individual nonprofits as they navigate restructuring and planful wind-down and dissolution processes. Through this work, NRF seeks to have a catalytic impact on the capacity, effectiveness, and financial health of the Greater Philadelphia Five County nonprofit sector.
NRF provides two grant pools designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofit organizations: (1) Collaboration Grants and (2) Restructuring and Transition Grants.
Collaboration Grants
Collaboration grants support nonprofits that are exploring or implementing formal long-term collaborations. These collaborations can range from voluntary back-office consolidations to programmatic joint ventures, to mergers and acquisitions. NRF makes collaboration grants to nonprofits to identify and engage experienced technical assistance (TA) providers who can support the exploration or implementation of a sustained collaboration.
The Fund makes three types of collaboration grants:
Seed awards of up to $2,500, for organizations to assess readiness or begin the process of alignment
Exploratory grants
to conduct due diligence and assess feasibility of potential collaborations (average grant size – $25,000)
Implementation grants
to support one-time costs associated with the implementation of a collaboration (average grant size – $35,000)
Restructuring and Transition Grants
Restructuring and Transition grants help organizations in navigating restructuring, dissolution, and wind-down considerations. These grants will usually range in size from $40,000 – $75,000 and are designed to enable nonprofits to stabilize operations in the short-term, restructure, or wind down; and to engage experienced consultants who can provide specialized legal, financial, and strategic guidance in these processes.
Leadership
Lindsay T. Kijewski, Director
Lindsay is a Partner at SeaChange Capital Partners, where she leads its collaboration-related grantmaking activities. Before joining SeaChange, she served as a Social Impact Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for High Impact Philanthropy and as Assistant Director for Alumni Interest Groups at the University of Virginia Alumni Association.
Lindsay is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, where she teaches graduate coursework in nonprofit governance and serves on the School’s Standing Committee on Race and Social Justice. She serves on several boards and committees, including the University of Virginia IDEA Fund (Charlottesville, VA), the HealthSpark Foundation’s Grants & Programs Committee (Colmar, PA), and the Advisory Board of the Sustained Collaboration Network (National). She holds a Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.
Grant Deadlines
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To begin the application process, please contact Lindsay Kijewski, NRF Director, at lkijewski@seachangecap.org.