The Victory Lap Community Fund was established by the West Michigan Sports Commission to enhance our community through sports programming. This fund focuses on community projects or programs that feature underserved populations or ensures access to sports for all.

In alliance with Project Play the WMSC believes that sport helps build a healthy community and helps encourage children to have a play based childhood. We aim to remove barriers and fill gaps in greater Grand Rapids to encourage youth and adults to stay socially active.

The fund has two application cycles. Programming occurring between Jan – June is in the first cycle, and programming occurring between July-December are in the second cycle. Download the application or complete it online.

Criteria:

• Funds are dispersed during your programming semester (January-June or July-December).

• An organization can only apply once a year with a maximum of 3 years in a row.

• You do not need to be a 501c3.

• Organization/group applying needs to be involved in sports/recreation.

• Team/event/facility must be within Kent County.

• Must fall into one of the areas of funding as requested on the application (see button below).

• Award recipients must provide a recap of the event or group that used the funds. Failure to do so may result in ineligibility for future funds.

• First time event awards will not be disbursed until proof is shown that the event/project will take place.