Jonesboro State Bank is accepting applications for the Pledge 10 Grant Program – Fall 2026 Cycle, supporting new and creative projects that address unmet community needs across its four-parish Louisiana service area.
Funding: $2,500 to $10,000 per project. Jonesboro State Bank awards Pledge 10 grants semiannually. The controlling guidelines do not publish a total funding pool for the Fall 2026 cycle.
Deadline: September 15, 2026. The official source does not publish an exact closing time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one.
Eligibility and geography: The program accepts eligible charitable organizations, governmental organizations, accredited schools, and qualifying church or house-of-worship projects. Projects must serve people in Jackson, Bienville, Winn, or Lincoln Parish. Applicants do not have to be headquartered in those parishes. Applicants may submit no more than two proposals per cycle.
Focus areas: Education, Youth Development, Financial Literacy, and Community Enrichment. Projects must be new and creative rather than existing or ongoing services. The guidelines exclude travel, political causes or campaigns, postsecondary scholarships, regranting, projects benefiting only one individual or family, and certain other uses. Current salaries and ongoing administrative costs are not funded.
Application requirements: Applications are submitted online during the grant cycle. Applicants must document organizational legitimacy and good standing, identify a project director and senior official, provide the project need and plan, choose project geography and focus area, state the number of people expected to benefit, submit a balanced project budget, explain how partial funding would be handled, and accept the grant agreement. The project must generally start 6 to 12 weeks after the cycle closes and finish within 12 months.
Atlas analysis: Atlas Opportunity Score 78/100. N9+ Fit Score 0/100. This is a useful Louisiana school and youth-development funding source, but the controlling materials do not establish a clinical, telehealth, remote physical examination, or medical-device objective, so Atlas does not force Nonagon N9+ into the opportunity. Lincoln Parish Schools is a realistic applicant-screening candidate because it operates accredited public schools in an eligible parish and has districtwide education and student-support priorities; any application would still require a specific new project, applicant approval, and all required documentation.