Below are funding opportunities of interest that I have
learned about/received RFP notifications about in the past week that I wanted
to share.
A few formatting updates that you can expect to see in the
weekly Funding Opportunity Listing:
1 – We’re moving the weekly posts to Monday instead of
Tuesday. What better way to start your
week, than with a new list of interesting grant funding opportunities to peruse
and think about as sources for program growth or expansion?!
2 – You’re going to begin to see more local/regional
opportunities from throughout the country mixed in throughout the post. Often we’ve left local and regional
opportunities off unless they were great broad opportunities in the interest of
keeping the post as applicable to as many of you as possible. By including these it will make the post a
bit longer to read through, but I’m hopeful you also end up with some
additional relevant opportunities to pursue as a result of the change.
I’d appreciate your feedback on the new formatting changes
as they are roled out. Thanks! Now on to this week's opportunities….
Aging
Deadline: February
1, 2012
AFA’s Bi-Annual Grant offers
funding to AFA’s nonprofit member organizations for new or existing programs
and services that improve the lives of those living with Alzheimer’s disease or
a related dementia, and their families.
This grant is offered during the spring and fall of each year and if you miss the February deadline, you can apply in their fall cycle which has an August 1st deadline.
This grant is offered during the spring and fall of each year and if you miss the February deadline, you can apply in their fall cycle which has an August 1st deadline.
Deadline: February
17, 2012
*Note, you MUST
be a current NCCA Organizational Member in order to be
eligible.
The NCCA-MetLife Foundation Leadership Award recognizes three
state-of-the-art programs in creativity and aging. Programs can take
place in a variety of settings including: healthcare, arts institutions, or
communities providing exemplary arts programming to the demographic they
serve. There will be three Leadership Awards awarded annually, one in
each of the following categories:
1. Health and Wellness
2. Lifelong Learning
3.Community Building
2. Lifelong Learning
3.
To be considered for this award
programs must be:
- In existence for three years.
- A non-profit or government
organization located within the
- Involve the older adult
participant as the creator in age appropriate, high-quality creative
expression programming.
- Describe how the art program
impacts the health and wellness of the older adult participant; improves
upon educational objectives; or builds community using the arts.
Bicycling
Deadline: February
29, 2012
The Bikes Belong Grants Program has two application categories:
1.
Facility
2.
Advocacy
For the facility category, Bikes Belong will accept
applications from nonprofit organizations whose missions are bicycle and/or
trail specific. They will also accept applications from public agencies and
departments at the national, state, regional, and local levels, however they
encourage these municipalities to align with a local bicycle advocacy group
that will help develop and advance the project or program.
For the advocacy category, Bikes Belong will only fund
organizations whose primary mission is bicycle advocacy.
A key goal of the Bikes Belong grants program is to support bicycling in
as many places as possible. Because of our limited funds, we rarely award
grants to organizations and communities that have received Bikes Belong funding
within the past three years.
Education
Deadline: April 15,
2012
The Foundation currently has two separate grant cycles open
and accepting applications through the April 15th deadline.
1. Academic
Enrichment Grants
The McCarthey Dressman Education
Foundation offers Academic Enrichment Grants designed to develop in-class and
extra-curricular programs that improve student learning. The Foundation
considers proposals that foster understanding, deepen students’ knowledge, and
provide opportunities to expand awareness of the world around them.
The Academic Enrichment Grants
provide funding for programs that nurture the intellectual, artistic and
creative abilities of children from low-income households. The McCarthey
Dressman Education Foundation awards grants to individuals in amounts up to $10,000
per year for a maximum of three years, provided the eligibility requirements
continue to be met.
2. Teacher Development Grants
The Teacher Development Grants
provide funding to individuals or small teams of teachers in the formation and
implementation of groundbreaking k-12 classroom instruction. The grants provide
opportunities for teachers to integrate fresh strategies that encourage
critical inquiry and to observe their effects on students. Teachers have the
opportunity to reflect and write about their projects, as well as to share
their results with other teachers. The Foundation awards grants to individuals
in amounts up to $10,000 per year for a maximum of three years, provided the
eligibility requirements continue to be met.
Environment
Deadline: March 10,
2012
EcoStar Grants are available to
projects that fit into one or more of five stewardship categories: pollution
prevention, education and outreach, energy efficiency, conservation and
community activism.
Projects must fit into at least one of five environmental
focus areas:
1 – Pollution Prevention
2 – Education
3 – Energy Efficiency
4 – Conservation
5 – Community Activism
Health
Deadline: March 1,
2012
Recently, the AstraZeneca
HealthCare Foundation launched the Connections for Cardiovascular
Health program with the mission of improving cardiovascular health
within the United States
.
To qualify for a Foundation
grant, nonprofit organizations based in the United
States
·
Addressing cardiovascular health
issues within the Unites
States
·
Recognizing and working to
address an unmet need related to cardiovascular health in the community
·
Responding to the urgency around
addressing cardiovascular health issues including cardiovascular disease or
conditions contributing to cardiovascular disease
·
Improving patients’ lives in
connection with the services provided
Intergenerational
Deadline: March 16,
2012
The Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence is a
$100,000 cash award given annually by The Eisner Foundation. The Eisner Prize
is designed to recognize excellence by an individual or a non-profit
organization in uniting multiple generations, especially seniors and youth, to
bring about positive and lasting changes in their community.
Nonprofit Capacity/Innovation
Deadline: March 1,
2012
The Skoll Foundation presents the
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select few social
entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll
Award includes a core support grant to the organization, to be paid over three
years, and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur presented at the Skoll
World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship every spring.
Awards criteria: Winners have a
tested and proven social innovation that addresses an issue of critical
importance and is positioned for large-scale impact.
Skate Parks
Deadline: February
1, 2012
Tony Hawk Foundation grants are
available for the construction of free, quality public skateparks serving
at-risk youth in low-income communities in the U.S.
New eligibility requirements will
encourage applicants to aim for higher quality skateparks. Ramp-style parks
made from wood, steel, or polymer structures will no longer be eligible for a
grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation. Previously, these structures offered a
less expensive, though temporary, solution to the immediate need to create
skateparks. But a wider range of more durable concrete solutions has recently
made the option of a permanent concrete skatepark possible with even the most
modest skatepark budget.
Beginning with the Winter 2012
grant season, skatepark projects must feature cast-in-place concrete
(shotcrete) or permanent precast concrete designs (that do not feature steel
transition plates) to be eligible to apply for Tony Hawk Foundation grants.
Furthermore, the previous
foundation policy of only allowing each community to apply for a grant a total
of two times has been rescinded. Communities that have not previously been
awarded a Tony Hawk Foundation grant may now continue to apply.
**Please feel free to pass this listing along to your
colleagues. It may also be viewed by visiting Grantwriter's Blog directly or in
your email inbox by subscribing to the email feed. If you have any funding
announcements that you think would be helpful to colleagues and would like to
have listed in the weekly update, please pass them along!
Best wishes for continued success in your grant seeking efforts!
Best wishes for continued success in your grant seeking efforts!
Diane
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