Sponsorships
Focus Areas
- Affordable Housing, Shelters and Transitional Housing
- Food Insecurity
If a sponsorship request is approved, we may sponsor up to $2,500 per nonprofit, per calendar year.
We’ve Gone Paperless!
Cambridge Savings Bank and the Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation have implemented web-based applications for non-profit organizations to request charitable donations, which include grants, sponsorships, or in-kind donations. The online applications streamline the review process by replacing paper, phone and email requests. All requests must be submitted via the Sponsorship Or Other Contribution Application below for consideration. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact us at communityrelations@cambridgesavings.com.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
- Must serve low-to-moderate income residents in the following counties: Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex, or Norfolk
- The request must be program/project specific
- If a donation request is approved, we typically make up to a maximum of one donation or sponsorship per non-profit per calendar year
Funding Requests That Will Not Be Considered
- Requests for sponsorships which support operating funds or annual appeals
- Requests from entities or initiatives operating for less than one year
- Requests that benefit/support a single individual or family/families
- Requests by organizations or for sponsorship of events which are not open to members of the general public
- Requests from political, advocacy, governmental, fraternal, labor groups
- Requests from religious organizations, unless the program supports, and is open to, the community
- Requests for sponsorship of trips and tours by groups or individuals, or traveling teams, including transportation costs
- Requests by organizations with the primary purpose of raising funds to distribute to other organizations or as secondary education scholarship funding
- Requests by organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, gender identification, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, veteran status, disability, or other characteristic protected by law
*The Foundation reserves the right to reject any application for any reason and to make exceptions.
Submission Deadlines
Online applications should be completed 60 days before:
- Event Date
- Deadline for including the CSB name on any promotional items, such as Save the Date or other pre-event announcements
- Nonprofit’s deadline for funding
- Or whichever comes first
Required Information Needed To Complete Application
- Organization's mission
- Annual organization budget
- Percentage of your beneficiaries who are low-to-moderate income individuals or small businesses
- The amount of low-to-moderate income individuals—and/or small businesses who would benefit from the requested amount
- Most recent Form 990
- Nonprofit W9, signed within the last 12 months
- List of sponsorship levels and corresponding benefits available
- List of organization's Board of Directors
To apply for a sponsorship, please complete the application below:
Make sure you have all the required information listed above before filling out the application.