Weekly Funding Opportunities Listing – December 27, 2011

Below are funding opportunities of interest that I have learned about/received RFP notifications about in the past week that I wanted to share. 

Arts

Our Town

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Through Our Town, subject to the availability of funding, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide a limited number of grants, ranging from $25,000 to $150,000, for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:

• Improve their quality of life.
• Encourage creative activity.
• Create community identity and a sense of place.
• Revitalize local economies.

Environment/Education

NFWF: America’s Great Outdoors

  

Deadline: January 27, 2012

The America's Great Outdoors: Connecting Youth to the Outdoors Initiative will leverage federal dollars with additional contributions from corporations, foundations and other non-federal sources to provide critical financial support for new conservation job training programs. The initiative is modeled on existing successful programs, such as Federal Youth Conservation Corps and Public Lands Corps, to achieve both work and environmental learning goals through hands-on implementation of habitat restoration, assessment, monitoring, and other conservation related projects.

Fire Departments

FEMA - SAFER “Get Ready” Guides

Recruitment and Retention

The purpose of the Recruitment and Retention grants is to assist fire departments and/or statewide or local volunteer firefighter interest organizations with the recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters who are involved with, or trained in, the operations of firefighting and emergency response.  These grants are intended to create a net increase in the number of trained, certified, and competent firefighters capable of safely responding to emergencies within the grantee’s geographic response area.

Hiring

The purpose of the Hiring grants is to improve or restore local fire departments’ staffing and deployment capabilities so they may more effectively respond to emergencies.

Deadline: Yet to be released

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Best wishes for continued success in your grant seeking efforts!

Diane