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Better Together Grant Applications Available Now! Application Window Opens March 17!  Click Here to Learn More!

The Better Together Grant Program
for Community Improvement

Every year, ROC USA makes funds available for the program – typically $20,000 – that the ROC Association Directors use to make individual grants of up to $2,000. Most years, there are no strict categories, so anything from a building or repair project to rebranding and marketing to improving community engagement is eligible. Any ROC with a current or past technical assistance contract with a ROC USA Network Certified TA Provider is eligible to apply. Recipients of the previous year’s grants are ineligible for the current year’s funding.

Projects Eligible for Funding

Community Projects

Projects should meet a compelling community need. Examples include security lighting, safety fencing, a bus shelter, playground, speed bumps or repairs to a community center. The project should benefit your ROC in a visible way.

Rebranding Projects

Rebranding projects present a new image to the Membership and general public that is a basic change in the outgoing message. Examples include: legal name changes, new signage, new letterhead or collateral material, a website redesign or new website.

Member Engagement and Leadership Development Projects

Member Engagement and Leadership Development grants are available to ROCs looking to expand Member engagement and develop new leaders in their community.

Frequently Asked Questions

Important 2025 Dates

Applications Available / Portal Opens

Applications Due / 
Portal Closes

Winners Announced / 
Checks Sent

Project
Completion Date

Application Guidelines

N.H. ROC Creates Community Garden and Potting Shed with $2,000 Grant

Friendship Drive Cooperative in Salem, N.H., was purchased by its residents in September 2005. Nearly 80 percent of the people who live in the ethnically diverse and multigenerational co-op live below the poverty level. Friendship Drive was awarded $2,000 in 2023 to create a rolling, raised-bed community garden to make it easier for Members to grow vegetables to share with everyone living in the ROC. The grant money was also awarded to repurpose a small building to be used as a potting shed.

“It was a huge success. We fed so many residents,” said Pam Rothgaber. We made salsa and stuffed peppers and all kinds of healthy things. Everyone pitched in and next year we plan to put in water barrels and more raised beds.”


Applications

Complete and return your application. You can upload your application using the form below, or download it and send to us via email at rocassociation@rocusa.org.

We also accept physical applications. Please mail physical applications to:
ROC USA
Attn: Better Together Grants
6 Loudon Road, Suite 306
Concord, NH 03301

The application window for Better Together Grants opens March 17, 2025.

El plazo de solicitud para las subvenciones Better Together se abre el 17 de marzo de 2025.

Grants History

In October 2010, the ROC leaders who attended the Community Leadership Institute in Louisville developed a community grants program idea that would both help fellow ROCs as well as engage new leadership in the co-op. The ROC USA Board of Directors has included funding for the grants in the budget since 2010.

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Past Grant Recipients