Strowd Roses, Inc. is a private charitable foundation which was established in 2001 under the will of Mrs. Irene Harrison Strowd of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Significant additional funding was provided by the estate of Mrs. Strowd’s sister, Gladis Harrison Adams. In endowing the foundation, Mrs. Strowd wished to honor the memory of her husband, Fletcher Eugene Strowd, by providing in perpetuity for the maintenance and care of the Community Rose Garden which he founded, and by funding projects and organizations which would improve the quality of life for citizens of the greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro community.

Out of those foundation assets not required for maintenance of the Community Rose Garden, the Board of Directors of Strowd Roses, Inc. makes grants to qualified tax-exempt charitable, educational, religious and public organizations that are based in Chapel Hill or Carrboro, or are devoted primarily to benefiting the citizens of those communities. Grants may also be made to individuals engaged in projects designed to enhance the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community.

Grants may, at the Board's discretion, include support for operating as well as capital expenditures, seed money and matching grants. Grants to individuals may be used for scholarships or fellowships; to produce a report or similar product; or to improve or enhance a literary, artistic, musical, scientific, teaching or similar capacity, skill or talent which will be used to benefit the life of the community.

In general, Strowd Roses makes grants for one year only. Grants will not exceed $10,000 except in very unusual circumstances. The Board may entertain an application for renewal of funding at its discretion, but all such renewal applications must be submitted on the appropriate form, and no such request will be considered prior to receipt of an accounting for the use of the previous grant.

LIMITATION ON FREQUENCY OF REPEAT APPLICATIONS: In an effort to extend its resources to new programs created to meet emerging community needs, Strowd Roses limits grants to no more than one per year and no more than two in any 36-month period. Thus, for example, an applicant having received a grant in August of 2007 and another in November of 2008 would not be eligible to apply again until August of 2010.

Applicants should submit the following:

1. appropriate application form (see below)
2. a proposed budget
3. (for first-time applicants) evidence of their tax-exempt status (IRS determination letter or comparable documentation)

Submission address:

Board of Directors
Strowd Roses, Inc.
P.O. Box 3558
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3558

Applicants may include any other supplemental materials that they believe would be of help to the Board in its initial review.  Contact information should be clearly indicated in the letter, in case additional information is needed.

Procedure for applicants affiliated with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools: Beginning in May 2005, Strowd Roses will make an annual bloc grant to cover funding requests from programs operating under the auspices of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.  This grant will be administered by the Public School Foundation of Chapel-Hill Carrboro.

For additional information, contact:

 Executive Director, Public Schools Foundation

P. O. Box 877
Carrboro, NC 27510
968-8819
email: psf@chccs.k12.nc.us.

Strowd Roses will no longer entertain any other individual grant requests from City Schools-related programs.

Please select the file format of your choice, shown below, to access the Application form.  For best results, you should save the MS Word or WordPerfect Application file to your own computer.

Before completing and submitting your application to Strowd Roses, please read the Application Procedures above.

»  First Time Application. PDF - Requires Acrobat Reader
     (Download Free Acrobat Reader Here)

»  First Time Application .doc (Microsoft Word Document)

»  First Time Application .wpd (Word Perfect Document)

Please select the file format of your choice, shown below, to access the Application form.  For best results, you should save the MS Word or WordPerfect Application file to your own computer.

Before completing and submitting your application to Strowd Roses, please read the Application Procedures above.

»  Repeat Application. PDF - Requires Acrobat Reader
    (Download Free Acrobat Reader Here)

»  Repeat Application .doc (Microsoft Word Document)

»  Repeat Application .wpd (Word Perfect Document)

The Board of Directors meets quarterly to consider grant requests.  The following are deadlines for submission for applications:

To be considered in:    Deadline for Application is:     February January 31     May April 30     August July 31     November   October 31   THESE DEADLINES ARE FINAL - NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE Applications received after these deadlines, or any applications which are incomplete, will be held over for consideration at the next scheduled quarterly meeting.  No emergency or other special requests will be considered outside of the regular cycle set forth above. Applicants will be notified within 30 days from the date of the meeting of the Board's action on their requests.

All grant recipients shall at the end of one year submit a report to the Board of Directors describing the uses to which the funds have been put in light of the purposes set forth in the grant request. A form for this purpose will be provided to the grant recipient. No repeat application will be considered until the applicant has submitted an accounting for use of the previous grant.

Sydenham B. Alexander, Jr.
Frederick H. Black
Jennifer B. Boger
Stephen B. Miller
Edward A. Norfleet
Rosemary I. Waldorf

For additional information, email Jennifer Boger at jboger@strowdroses.org

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