Georgetown, Texas, July 29, 2024. Today, the Anna+Anton Olson Legacy Foundation (Anna-Anton) initiated their 2024 Grant Program, emphasizing nonprofit sustainability. This year’s grant cycle is set to allocate up to $150,000 for nonprofits’ unforeseen operational demands and organizational capacity building initiatives within the Georgetown, Hutto, and Taylor communities.

Nonprofits supporting these three communities are encouraged to apply at www.ctxcf.org/anna-anton, and the deadline for submission is September 22, 2023.

The shift in focus is the result of feedback from nonprofit organizations expressing the limited availability of financial support for operations. Larry Olson, founder of Anna-Anton, indicated that “as we continue to learn how to better improve our effectiveness in supporting nonprofits, it became apparent that as community needs continue to expand, nonprofits were receiving little outside donor funding to strengthen internal organizational capacity and operations.”

Given this shift in focus of Anna-Anton, a Question and Answer session has been scheduled for Thursday, August 8, 2024, 10-11 am. To register for the virtual Q&A, go to www.ctxcf.org/anna-anton.

Nonprofits are eligible to apply for funding to address unforeseen operational needs or to support organizational capacity-building initiatives, provided they align with one or more of the following areas:

  • Give underserved children more opportunities to grow and thrive;
  • Foster a spirit of entrepreneurship with youth and young adults in underserved areas; and/or
  • Provide independence and dignity to seniors trying to live at home.

 The Anna+Anton Olson Legacy Foundation honors the lives of two pioneers who separately emigrated from Sweden as teenagers – Anton in 1902 from Skåne and Anna in 1907 from Värmland.   They met in Chicago and married in 1909.  They moved to Texas in 1911 and eventually settled on a farm outside Taylor, Texas in 1916.

For more information about their journey and The Anna+Anton Olson Legacy Foundation, visit anna-anton.org.