18 Jul 2024
State Farm® is teaming up with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) to award $500,000 in grants to local volunteer fire departments – the ultimate good neighbors.
Through the State Farm Good Neighbor Firefighter Safety Program, 50 fire departments will receive $10,000 in grants to help them obtain the equipment they need to increase responder safety and improve service to the community. The application period will be open from August 1-18, 2024, or until 500 applications are received, whichever comes first.
Eligible fire department equipment
To be eligible to apply, departments must meet the following criteria:
- This grant must be used for eligible fire department equipment.
- The person applying or department chief must be a member of the NVFC. To help departments meet this requirement and gain access to all NVFC member benefits, State Farm is providing complimentary memberships to the first 500 applicants.
- Department must be at least 50% volunteer; paid on-call is considered volunteer.
- Department must be located in the U.S. and legally organized under state law.
- Department must serve a population of 25,000 or less.
- Revenue for the department’s most recently completed fiscal year must not have exceeded $250,000.
- Department must demonstrate a need for the grant by indicating what the funds will be used for and articulating the impact this grant will have on the department and community.
- Department must be willing to share a department photo or video and publicize the grant award (NVFC will provide sample promotional tools and templates to help).
- Department must report back within four months on how the grant funds were used.