ECHO Community Outreach Fund Guidelines and Criteria

ECHO Community Outreach Funds are special funds in select communities with large employee populations. ECHO accepts grant requests from local nonprofits to meet critical needs in these communities. Led by employee volunteers, a committee from each community reviews and awards grants based on available funds. Employees can select to allocate some or all of their ECHO funding to a local outreach fund, which in turn is pooled with other employees’ funding.

Community Outreach Fund locations include:

Huntsville, Alabama
Los Angeles/Orange County, California
Sacramento/San Jose, California
San Bernardino, California
San Diego, California
Colorado
Metro D.C. area
Rolling Meadows/Greater Chicago, Illinois
Florida
Maryland
North Texas

ECHO Community Outreach Fund Guidelines and Criteria

To be considered for an ECHO grant, the organization must be registered as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) with the IRS and make their services available to all without prejudice. Applications will only be accepted once in any 12-month period.

ECHO does not fund these types of requests:

General operating costs
Memberships
Multiyear commitments
Fundraising events
School-sponsored athletic events or athletic organizations
School-affiliated events including, but not limited to, orchestras, drill teams, drama groups, clubs
Grant-making organizations
Memorials, endowments, foundations, capital campaigns
Religious activities, in whole or in part, for the purpose of furthering religious doctrine

Requests should be submitted using the applicable invitation code below to one of our Community Outreach Funds in your local area. At this time, we are unable to consider requests from areas that do not have a Community Outreach Fund.

Community Outreach Fund Committee Location	Invitation Code	Submittal Due Date for Current Year	Funding Distribution

Huntsvile, AL	NGECHOH	Dec 15	Annually

Los Angeles / Orange County, CA	NGECHOL	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

San Bernardino, CA	NGECHOB	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

San Diego, CA	NGECHOD	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

San Jose/Sacramento, CA	NGECHOS	Dec 15	Annually

Colorado Region	NGECHOCO	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

Greater Metro DC	NGECHOM	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

Maryland Region	NGECHOBAL	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15

Chicago/Rolling Meadows, IL	NGECHOCHI	Dec 15	Annually

North Texas	NGECHOTX	Dec 15	Annually

Florida Region	NGECHOFL	Mar 15	Quarterly
		Jun 15
		Sep 15
		Dec 15