The Northern California Tennis Foundation
In August 2009 USTA Norcal formed an independent nonprofit charitable foundation, the Northern California Tennis Foundation, to assume USTA Norcal's existing grants programs. The Foundation will operate in close cooperation with, but will be legally and operationally independent from, USTA Norcal. USTA Norcal has agreed to donate $1 million to fund the Foundation's initial endowment, and grant funds that were previously available through the USTA Norcal grants program are being transferred to the new Foundation. The guidelines, schedules and grants and scholarship processing procedures for the new Foundation will be made public in the coming weeks.
In addition to its grant and scholarship programs, the Northern California Tennis Foundation will have a dedicated fundraising function that will sponsor and co-sponsor tennis-related events and activities to raise money to help support its objectives. Those objectives, like USTA Norcal's, are to help expand, improve, and diversify recreational and competitive tennis programs throughout the Northern California region.
Please watch the USTA NorCal website for further developments.
USTA National Grants
The deadline for 2009 USTA National Grants has passed. 2010 applications will be made available in the fall at www.usta.com/grants.
USTA Community Tennis Associations (CTA), USTA National Junior Tennis League (NJTL) Chapters and Programs, Parks and Recreation Agencies, Schools(K-12)/School Districts, Military Base organizations, non-profit community based organizations are eligible to apply.
The USTA Recreational Tennis Division awards grants to non-profit community based organizations that support tennis programming and infrastructure in their local community. The USTA seeks applicants that are well established community based organizations or agencies committed to: increase tennis participation, support tennis programming, and foster diversity with both participation and programming. The USTA will award grants to selected organizations that present a clear vision for establishing community based partnerships to meet these objectives.