Grants for Community Centers

Mission

Founded in 1943, the McKesson Foundation is a 501(c)(3) corporate foundation dedicated to advancing health outcomes for all. The Foundation’s mission is to remove barriers to quality healthcare across North America, especially for vulnerable and underserved communities.

Strategic Giving Pillars and Areas of Focus

As we celebrate our 80th anniversary this year and continue to champion health equity, we are expanding our portfolio of nonprofit partners to advance efforts aligned with our three strategic giving pillars and corresponding areas of focus.

Reducing the Burden of Cancer

The American Cancer Society estimates 1.9M people will receive a cancer diagnosis in 2022 and two in five Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. These cancer diagnoses often create both a health and financial crisis for patients and their families. Studies show factors including race/ethnicity, health insurance status and income can affect the timing of a patient’s diagnosis and treatment, as well as their survival and financial impact. Working with our partners, we aim to reduce the risk of getting cancer and address socioeconomic barriers to care.

• Prevention
  • provide education and services to encourage people to adopt healthy diets, exercise regularly, avoid tobacco, and protect their skin.
• Screening and Treatment
  • increase awareness of the importance of screenings, early detection and timely treatment among vulnerable populations; provide free health screenings for patients and connect them to care.
• Financial/Logistical Assistance
  • connect uninsured and underinsured patients to programs providing low or no-cost co-pays and social determinants of health (SDOH) interventions, e.g., transportation, childcare, healthy food, home meal delivery; reduce the economic burden of low-income patients with emergency funds for rent, utilities and other household expenses.

Preparing Tomorrow's Healthcare Workforce

Patients report that they feel more heard and are more compliant with medical guidance when they share race/ethnicity with their healthcare practitioner. Nearly a third of the U.S. population is Black or Hispanic, yet the combined Black and Hispanic representation among oncologists is 8 percent and the combined Black, Indigenous and Hispanic representation among pharmacists is 10.7 percent. Closing the gap between diverse representation among the general population and among healthcare practitioners will improve health equity and patient outcomes.

• Oncology Professionals
  • increase underrepresented in medicine (URiM) student recruitment and retention;
  • increase all health professionals’ cultural competency to better serve a diverse patient population.
• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians 
  • increase URiM recruitment and retention;
  • prepare students for broader pharmacist roles;
  • leverage pharmacists’ extensive training, community presence and public trust to serve vulnerable and rural patient populations.
• Student Engagement
  • increase students’ awareness of STEM careers;
  • support students’ financial literacy;
  • help prepare middle and high school students for higher education.

Accelerating Crisis Response

With the increased frequency and intensity of climate events, more people across North America need temporary or extended shelter, as well as food and medications, during and in the aftermath of crises. And with 10 percent of the population in both Canada and the U.S. living in food insecure households, programs to provide regular, nutritious meals to children, families and seniors can reduce chronic disease and improve long-term health.

• Preparedness
  • support relief agencies’ efforts to prepare for forecasted as well as unforeseen emergencies;
  • support relief agencies’ efforts to help people become Red Cross Ready.
• Disaster Relief and Recovery
  • mobilize resources to provide acute services, such as water, food, shelter, comfort kits, medicines, and healthcare for people affected by natural disasters or crises;
  • help families return to normalcy after a disaster.
• Medicine and Food
  • assist vulnerable individuals and communities by supporting acute and chronic care services that provide medicines and food.

Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts Florida Forever 

The Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts Florida Forever grant program was created by the 2008 Legislature and is administered by Florida Communities Trust. To fund the program, the Legislature provided 2.5 percent of the total Florida Forever program appropriation.

Grant funds will be used to acquire a parcel(s) of land directly used for the purposes of the commercial harvest of marine organisms or saltwater products by state-licensed commercial fishermen, aquaculturists, or business entities, including piers, wharves, docks, or other facilities operated to provide waterfront access to licensed commercial fishermen, aquaculturists, or business entities.

The funds may also be used for the acquisition of a parcel(s) of land used for exhibitions, demonstrations, educational venues, civic events, and other purposes that promote and educate the public about economic, cultural, and historic heritage of Florida's traditional working waterfronts, including the marketing of the seafood and aquaculture industries.

The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) will accept Fiscal Year 2021-2022 grant applications, in accordance with Rule Chapters 62-820 and 62-821, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C), from Local Governments and Nonprofit Working Waterfronts Organizations, or a partnership between a Local Government and Nonprofit Working Waterfronts Organization, requesting funding awards for the acquisition of land necessary to implement the Stan Mayfield Working Waterfronts Program (SMWW) within the Florida Communities Trust (FCT) pursuant to Sections 380.5105 and 259.105, Florida Statutes (F.S.).

MAXIMUM GRANT REQUEST: A total of $5,655,904.91 is available in funding for this grant application submission period. Under the provisions of subsection 62-820.003(6), F.A.C., the total amount of any Award or combination of Awards applied for by any Applicant(s) under any Application(s) for any project(s) shall not exceed $5,000,000.00. 

Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation Grant

The difference maker in achieving good outcomes from early education is the quality indicators available to teachers and students. The preschool’s accreditation status is a critical indicator of high quality in instruction. Parents know that an accredited preschool is likely to perform better and are often willing to pay more for accredited educational settings. Fair compensation for teachers in the independent preschool world depends, in part, on their ability to charge more tuition and fees. Thus, the extra effort for a school to achieve and retain its recognized status is well worth the additional expense.

The Trustees have set aside $100,000 to assist independent schools in making the improvements necessary to obtain accreditation or retain it once they achieve it. Unaccredited schools committed to the process will be expected to have a board of trustees or directors committed to the effort and to make substantial pledges of time and money. The interested preschool must work with an educational agency that we recognize as highly desirable and dependable. These include the following: NAEYC, HAIS, WASC, NECPA, and WINHEC.

In general, the Castle Foundation grants will range from $15,000 to $25,000. The preschool is expected to match the Foundation’s donation. It is desirable that additional funding if needed, be sought from other Hawaii-based charitable foundations. Don’t hesitate to contact the Foundation’s Executive Director, Alfred Castle, to discuss your need for financing accreditation or reaccreditation before applying for funds. All proposals must be approved for submission to the Foundation by Mr. Castle.

Under the direction of Mary Josephine Hamman, the Foundation was formed on May 20, 1954. The Foundation was established to: 

• give assistance to students in the pursuit of higher education through scholarships;
• to promote the arts;
• to fund qualified institutions in the furtherance and development of scientific projects;
• to aid churches, associations and conventions of churches in the advancement of religion;
• to aid colleges and universities in both operating and capital needs;
• to provide aid for the needy;
• and to assist hospitals, medical colleges and research institutions for the study, treatment and cure of disease.

The Foundation has awarded $132.2 million in grants and scholarships over its 70 years of service to the community.

The George and Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation is a Texas chartered non-profit corporation under the Internal Revenue Code Section 509(a) and is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3).

This Challenge program consists of 50-50 matching grants (projects serving environmental justice neighborhoods are 75-25 grant match. See Environmental Justice section for details.) offered to municipalities and non-profit groups in Massachusetts communities of all sizes for the purpose of building local capacity for excellent urban and community forestry at the local and regional level.

For the purpose of these grants, Urban and Community Forestry refers to professional management (planting, protection and maintenance) of a municipality's public tree resources in partnership with residents and community institutions.

This grant program seeks to fund projects which will result in sustained improvements in local capacity for excellent urban and community forestry management. Here are some examples of eligible projects:

• Building and Strengthening Citizen Advocacy and Action Organizations: develop, strengthen or sustain citizen groups or non-profit organizations that advocate and / or act to promote excellent urban and community forestry management.
• Community Wood Bank Special Grant Opportunity: establish or expand existing community efforts to address household energy insecurity with local forests by recycling decommissioned trees into firewood and distributing this resource to residents in need of heating assistance.
• Developing and Adopting Tree and Forest Ordinances and Policies: develop, approve and implement new ordinances, zoning regulations or written policies that will result in improved tree and forest management and the preservation of tree canopy on a community scale.
• Securing or Training Professional Staff: All Massachusetts communities should have a qualified Tree Warden with professional training. Communities over 10,000 are required to do so by law. Projects that result in sustained improvements in professional staffing in a municipality's urban and community forestry program are eligible.
• Develop and Implement Urban Forestry Management Plan: development and implementation of plans that guide the strategic management of urban forest resources at the community level.
• Completing Strategic Community Tree Plantings and "Heritage" Tree Care Projects: high visibility community tree plantings that enhance environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen community involvement, and follow the principles of planting the right trees in the right places. Also projects that include professional arborist care of "Heritage" trees (those larger trees over 32" in diameter that have a documented cultural and/or historical significance) if these projects also result in enhanced public awareness and support for urban and community forestry and / or improved community tree care.
• Other Projects: well-conceived and executed projects which result in sustained improvements to urban and community forestry management in other areas.

Tobacco Disparities Request For Application (RFA) (SD)

To promote health accessibility by incorporating a long-term change aimed at reducing disparate tobacco use among the SD TCP priority populations. Focus on TCP Priority Populations including Native Americans, Pregnant and Postpartum Women, People with Low SES, and Behavioral Health populations.

• Work plan activities required in at least one of the following categories:
  • Prevention, Cessation, and Tobacco Exposure

Funding

$5,000 - $25,000

Sparkplug provides grants to start-up organizations and new projects of established non-profits in the following three areas:

Education

Sparkplug funds projects to educate or support communities, including but not limited to school-age students, that move beyond traditional classroom instruction. In keeping with our justice-oriented framework, we fund education projects that engage excluded students in new ways, projects that restore knowledge that has been marginalized through racism or colonialism, and projects that rebuild community and collective problem-solving.

We're especially interested in supporting critical and investigative thinking, and projects that address race, gender, and class disparities in education. We do fund community-based education and social justice curriculum development, For example, we have funded the development and sharing of curriculum that explores connections between Palestine and the US/Mexico border region to teach students to think critically about the impact of militarized border zones on youth, families and the environment.

Some examples of education projects that we have funded in the past include:

• A program using digital tools to educate consumers on how they can support farmworkers rights.
• A youth-led education campaign exposing and opposing militarization in their community.
• A digital platform to preserve the archives of a local black community.
• A year-long program bringing together social and environmental justice organizers to train new organizers and develop joint community projects.

Community Organizing

Sparkplug funds work by members of a community for their community -- work that aims to create justice by making systemic change and/or shifting power. Or in other words, we fund projects that are created, run by, and meet the needs of people with shared lived experience who face the same types of oppression, discrimination, violence, or barriers, who live in the same area, or who have a shared vision and aspirations for the future.

For example, We DO fund projects created and led by LGBTQ youth to change policies that affect them.

Some other examples of community organizing that we have funded in the past include:

• A farmworker-led campaign against deportations and for access to drivers licenses for undocumented people.
• Training community members as housing organizers as part of a campaign to build their leadership capacity and win local housing justice.
• Support to frontline communities in energy democracy organizing.
• A COVID-19 related mutual aid and advocacy project by and for people experiencing homelessness.

Music

Recognizing the critical importance of music in bringing communities together and building collective creativity, Sparkplug supports emerging musicians in developing new work, sharing existing work with a wider community through events or media, bringing together musicians to collaborate on creating or performing pieces, or facilitating new workshops that bring music to oppressed communities. Applicants for music grants will be asked to submit a sample of their music with their Letter of Intent form.

Some examples of music projects that we have funded in the past include:

• A music and other media production of a multi-ethnic Ottoman world, drawing on the stories and songs of Sephardic women.
• Commissioned compositions and the production of CDs in selected genres.
• The development of a musical program, using historical materials, memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911.
• A multi-media, semi-staged performance based on the life and poetry of the celebrated Italian Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso.

The Quality of Life Grants Program, created by the late Dana Reeve, strives to empower individuals with disabilities and their families by providing grants to nonprofit organizations that improve quality of life through inclusion, access, independence, opportunities for community engagement, and other life-enhancing endeavors.

As a pillar of the National Paralysis Resource Center, the Quality of Life Grants Program, pioneered by the late Dana Reeve, impacts and empowers people living with paralysis, their families and caregivers by providing grants to nonprofit organizations whose projects and initiatives foster inclusion, involvement and community engagement, while promoting health and wellness for those affected by paralysis in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

Priority Impact Grants (Tiers 2, 3, & 4)

The Priority Impact Grant Tiers (Tiers 2, 3, & 4) offer three increasing levels of grant funding. Priority Impact grants fund priority issues for individuals living with paralysis. Grantee organizations will demonstrate capacity to implement the grant without intensive technical assistance and capacity building, as well as demonstrate capacity for program development, evaluation and sustainability.

Tier 2 — Grants of up to $30,000 for the following Priority areas:

• Assistive Technology
• Disaster Preparedness
• Respite/Caregiving

Tier 3 — Grants of up to $40,000

• Rural Underserved and Unserved Populations

Tier 4 — Grants of up to $50,000

• Employment
• Nursing Home Transition

American Journalism Project

What we fund

Our primary goal is to increase the resources for local news

We invest in the business capacity of digital newsrooms so they can grow sustainably, and we provide personalized coaching and access to training on best practices.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

We believe that every community deserves access to high-quality local news. We especially encourage inquiries from organizations that are led by and serve traditionally underrepresented communities. We know there are great entrepreneurs and organizations who won’t fit everything described in our grantmaking rubric or who provide important public service to their communities that we have not considered. We welcome a conversation about your organization and how it is serving local information needs.

What to expect

Working with a venture philanthropy can be a new experience for some. Our model is built to provide bespoke support based on grantees’ biggest strategic challenges alongside our investment in organizational revenue and operations capacity. Read more about our support here.

What we look for

In addition to the core criteria listed, which must apply to all our grantees, we consider strength in core organizational areas as outlined in this rubric. We do not expect organizations to be strong across all pillars but we do expect our grantees to have a compelling track record, and demonstrate the commitment and capabilities to strengthen in each area.

The Aging and Disability Services Division (ADSD) is seeking partner organizations to provide Services and Supports for Nevada’s older adults, persons with disabilities (homemaker services), and family and informal caregivers. ADSD has multiple funding streams for the provision of services to help the populations served live independently and to remain active within their communities.

This funding opportunity is in line with the ADSD mission:

• To ensure the provision of effective supports and services to meet the needs of individuals and families, helping them lead independent, meaningful, and dignified lives.

Special consideration for funding will be given to applicants evidencing service priority to low income populations (300% of FPL or lower); individuals who are frail, homebound, or isolated; and/or individuals age 60 or older, particularly in the following categories:

• Individuals in a minority group;
• Individuals with limited English proficiency;
• Individuals at risk for institutional placement;
• Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction (and caregivers of such individuals);
• Individuals with the greatest economic or social need; and
• Individuals residing in rural areas.

We support high-quality food & nutrition programs that address malnutrition by helping to ensure access and use of nutritious foods. Our portfolio includes high-impact programs/projects that use comprehensive, sustainable approaches to increasing access and use of nutritious foods, striving towards long-term behavior change to address obesity and food security.

 The food & nutrition programs we support target under-served communities, rural communities, and families with children under the age of five.

What kinds of programs will be considered for funding?

We support malnutrition programs which have a comprehensive approach to undernourishment that results in long-term behavior change towards healthy eating and nutrition. In addition, we support high quality programs that address hunger alleviation by providing access to nutritious food.

What kinds of Food & Nutrition programs does Bayer Fund support?

• Education and behavior-changing programs focused on healthy eating and nutrition
• Food security programs that provide access to healthy food for the hungry (food pantries, school backpack programs, soup kitchens, community gardens, food distribution programs).

Funding Amounts

In the US, Grant award amounts in the Food & Nutrition category vary, depending on the size of the community, the type of programming, and the reach of the organization. Bayer Fund typically will not support grants that are larger than 25% of your organization’s operating budget. Internationally, the smallest grant we will consider is US $25,000.

What is the Arts in Society Grant?

Arts in Society is a collaborative grant-making program that fosters cross-sector work through the arts by supporting the integration of arts and culture into multiple disciplines critical to the health and well-being of Coloradans.

Administered by RedLine Contemporary Art Center and funded through a cohort of Colorado foundations and government agencies, the program provides grants to individuals and organizations seeking to implement projects that utilize the arts as an integral element in promoting social justice and community welfare. 

The program supports projects that engage a wide range of issues and media. 

Whether it be a dancer working within a hospital system to bring awareness to nurse burnout and compassion fatigue, a coalition of community organizations using art to engage neighbors in participatory budgeting, or The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment working with artists to communicate the priorities of its public health improvement plan, the Arts in Society grant program funds projects that engage arts organizations and artists as partners in illuminating and finding solutions to a wide array of civic and social challenges faced by Colorado communities.

Grants are determined by a selection panel, which seeks projects that best illustrate artistic excellence, broaden the understanding of the role arts play in society, demonstrate cross-sector work, exhibit cultural relevancy, foster community engagement, and present opportunities for shared learning. . 

In addition to receiving financial support, Arts in Society grantees participate in a learning community program through which they share expertise and learn with like-minded practitioners from across the state.

About Arts in Society Support

Arts in Society provides both financial and organizational support. In addition to receiving project funding, Arts in Society grantees benefit from the following resources:

Learning Community Meetings

Arts in Society grantees participate in a learning community program through which they meet three times with their annual cohort of grantees throughout the first year following funding. Through these meetings they share resources and learnings, and build a coalition of support.

Evaluation Support

Through a collaboration with University of Colorado Denver's School of Arts and Media, Arts in Society grantees are provided an evaluation toolkit to aid in collecting program feedback and data.

Mini-Documentaries

All Arts in Society grantees will get assistance in filming a 2-minute documentary so that they can share their work with the world.

Marketing and Communications

Grantees receive marketing and communications support through various Arts in Society marketing channels, including the Arts in Society Facebook page, Instagram, and by contributing blog posts to the Arts in Society blog. 

About the Vermont Community Foundation

The Vermont Community Foundation was established in 1986 as a permanent source of support for the state. We are a family of hundreds of funds and foundations created by Vermonters to serve their charitable goals. We provide the advice, investment vehicles, and back-office expertise to make your giving easy and inspiring. Together, our funds and programs put more than $60 million a year to work in Vermont and beyond, through grants and investments.

Our Mission

Better Together: Inspiring giving and bringing together people and resources to make a difference in Vermont.

Origins of the Vermont Women's Fund

The Vermont Women's Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, was established in 1994 as an enduring resource for Vermont women and girls. The Fund remains the first philanthropic resource in the state dedicated exclusively to this mission. A council of women from around Vermont advises the Fund and participates in its grantmaking, fundraising, and leadership work.

The Women’s Fund works to improve the lives of young women and girls in Vermont by targeting philanthropic giving, forging statewide strategic partnerships, funding research, and supporting programs that address their fundamental economic, educational, and social needs.

Grant Size

Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded.

How We Give

The Weinberg Foundation fulfills its mission of meeting the basic needs of people experiencing poverty by providing grants across five focus areas that serve a range of populations, primarily within the Foundation’s priority communities. Grant requests should align with one of these areas:

• Housing,
• Health,
• Jobs,
• Education, or
• Aging.

Health

Good health is essential to help people move and remain out of poverty. Poor physical or mental health can prevent or complicate the pursuit of education, employment, and other opportunities for economic mobility.

Priorities

• Health Care Access: The Foundation supports organizations that provide access to health care, as well as those striving to improve patient health.
  • Examples of appropriate projects:
    • Capital projects that expand access to primary care. Grantees are typically federally qualified health centers and other community health centers that provide a range of services in one place. Please note that the Foundation does not fund hospitals or free clinics.
    • Oral and behavioral health programs that increase access to care through the construction of new facilities as well as operating support that leverages billing revenue.
    • Health care transition programs that ensure young adults with developmental disabilities have access to qualified primary care providers as they move into adulthood.
• Nutrition and Food Access: The Foundation supports organizations and programs that increase food security and access to nutritious food.
• • Examples of appropriate projects:
    • Meal service programs that ensure people who are homebound and living with severe, chronic illnesses have access to nutritious food.
    • Food delivery programs, including nonprofit grocery stores, which increase access to healthy foods in food deserts.
    • Food bank expansions and other capital projects that increase warehouse space, add cold storage and handling, and make other modifications necessary to serve more people. Please note that the Foundation focuses on regional food banks and not on food pantries or feeding programs.
• Trauma, Abuse, and Safety: The Foundation supports programs that promote family safety and that reduce the long-term traumatic effects of abuse and neglect, sexual assault, intimate partner or family violence, and exposure to community violence.
  • Examples of appropriate projects:
    • Domestic violence programs that provide safe shelter, counseling, legal assistance, and other support services.
    • Prevention and treatment programs that strive to reduce and alleviate the effects of child sexual and physical abuse, child trafficking, and child neglect.

Program Grants

Program grants fund specific programs within an organization.

What is the Urban Agriculture Program?

The purpose of the MDAR Urban Agriculture Program is to advance Commonwealth goals and objectives, leverage collective resources, and support commercial projects designed to increase the production, processing, and marketing of produce grown and sold in urban centers across the Commonwealth. Expenditures will promote strategies to address food insecurity and to increase access of fresh, local produce in urban neighborhoods with a high concentration of low-moderate income residents.

Urban agriculture encompasses a wide variety of activities related to the growing of plants and the raising of animals for food including but not limited to: production techniques such as land-based outdoor and greenhouse cultivation, rooftop open air and greenhouse production, hydroponics, aquaculture, aquaponics, beekeeping and egg-producing poultry. Each project proposal must represent long-term, capital investments such as infrastructure improvements, building upgrades, purchase of computer software and systems, land procurement, and purchase of farm equipment. Projects will also foster youth development, small business development, and job training directly related to commercial urban farming.

This program does not fund backyard produce or livestock raised for personal consumption.

MDAR’s Urban Agriculture Program seeks proposals that demonstrate strategies for municipalities to increase access to affordable, fresh food for urban residents address the challenges of small scale farming in densely populated centers, and create direct markets in low-moderate income neighborhoods.

Examples of Project Priorities:

• Soil Management: Initiatives that address the issues of soil quality in urban environments with particular emphasis on improving soil fertility in blighted areas;
• Land: Proposals for acquisition of land for food production in urban settings;
• Equipment: Mobile market vehicles, small farm equipment or hand tools;
• Green Infrastructure: Demonstrations of greenhouse, hoop house, cold frame and other technologies to help urban farmers scale up the volume, quality and enable year round production or to manage energy and water usage, or allow for more intensive and efficient food production in urban environments;
• Climate Change Infrastructure: Compost tumblers and water conservation methods such as drip irrigation or rainwater recovery systems.
• Community Urban Farming Projects: Capital infrastructure to support non-commercial urban food production, via partnership with municipality or non-profit organizations for community benefit and distribution; must have a minimum of 0.5 acres in food production.
• Innovative Growing Technology: Demonstrate practical/economically viable approaches to urban aquaculture/aquaponics and vertical farming and other innovative growing methods to make available local sourced food and products to low-moderate income communities;
• Marketing, Distribution, Transportation: Improve the transportation and distribution of locally grown products from farm to customer such as food hubs sourced from local urban farms or other innovative technologies designed to aid/improve cost-effective distribution of food produced on urban farms to urban residents;

The Campaigns and Elections Department has resources available to assist state affiliates facing ballot measures that will impact our members. NEA’s CAO Ballot Measure Department will be awarding grants to affiliates to design and implement student-centered initiatives through collective bargaining or other forms of advocacy.

The grants are designed to:

• assist affiliates with their student-centered contract campaigns; or
• help them create new programs; or
• refine existing practices that demonstrate a commitment to improving learning conditions that are sustainable beyond the term of the grant.

See additional guidelines here.

Program Area: Child & Family Well-being

We fund implementation support for public and private child- and family-serving agencies to adopt and sustain evidence-based and evidence-informed programs shown to prevent or treat child maltreatment.

Challenge

Several programs in the United States regularly gather and share evidence of their positive impact and outcomes for children. Historically, replication of these evidence-based programs in communities has failed to reproduce the outcomes or local capacity to sustain the programs. We believe that failure often can be traced to inadequate implementation support and inattention to continuous improvement.

Approach

Child and Family Well-Being has adopted the implementation framework developed by the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) to sustain and scale evidence-based programs for preventing and treating child abuse and neglect. Implementation support consists of activities designed to help put defined programs into practice.

Strategies

Support Implementation for Tested Programs: We fund implementation support for projects that adopt and sustain evidence-based or ‑informed models shown to prevent or treat child abuse and neglect and enhance well-being. ​“Implementation” refers to activities that are designed to put defined programs into practice. An active implementation framework answers the questions of what needs to be done (effective interventions), how to establish what needs to be done in practice, who will do the work to accomplish positive outcomes and where will effective interventions and implementation thrive. Rather than letting change happen, we work with organizations and agencies to make change happen for children and families of all races and ethnicities.

Commit to Innovation: We recognize the lack of evidence-based or ‑informed models for the range of issues children and families face and the diverse populations served. If we did not commit to innovation, we would miss opportunities to identify programs that improve outcomes. We support grantees in developing and testing innovative, tailored, data-driven approaches. We encourage models that specifically look at risks and solutions through the lens of race.

Advocate for Improvement: Many dedicated, knowledgeable professionals work in the child welfare system, but systemic challenges can inhibit their effectiveness. We use our resources and relationships to support advocacy and communications strategies that speed improvement of the prevention, early intervention and foster care systems. We believe that by working closely with government agencies and nonprofit organizations that reflect the communities served, we can enhance the spread of information and facilitate conversations within communities.

Vermont Humanities Council

A statewide nonprofit organization founded in 1974, the Vermont Humanities Council seeks to engage all Vermonters in the world of ideas, foster a culture of thoughtfulness, and inspire a lifelong love of reading and learning.

A state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Vermont Humanities believes that engagement with the world of ideas, in interaction with others, contributes uniquely to richer lives, stronger communities, a more humane society, and a better world.

Vermont Humanities has developed a broad range of programs that serves Vermonters of all ages and backgrounds. In 2019 we sponsored 882 talks, book discussions, literacy programs, and other humanities events in 149 Vermont towns, including communities in every county.

Programs include book discussions, speaker events, conferences, a statewide one-book community reading program, and a grants program that supports humanities projects of other nonprofit organizations.

These programs and events strengthen Vermont’s communities not only by their character and design, but also by happening in the facilities of key town organizations such as libraries, museums, community centers, and schools. And humanities-based literacy programs reach childcare providers, middle school students, teen and underserved parents, incarcerated adults, and adult basic education students.

The humanities are those subjects that help us understand the human experience. They are the tools of self-reflection. The humanities include history, literature, ethics, philosophy, archaeology, linguistics, comparative religion, jurisprudence, and the history, criticism and theory of the arts.

Project Grants

Vermont Humanities’ traditional Project Grants support nonprofit organizations offering Vermont audiences an opportunity to engage with the humanities in their communities. This grant funds community projects and curriculum development. 

Fundable projects include:

• Community programming that invites participation in humanities discourse
• Curriculum development with plans to share the work to increase access to the humanities
• Humanities experiences designed to support a specific affinity group or to encourage interaction among more than one affinity groups

Review Criteria

While reviewing grant proposals, a small committee consisting of Vermont Humanities staff and community reviewers will consider:

• Are the humanities central to the project?
• Who is the intended audience and how will the project benefit them?
• Has the organization created a plan to include diversity, equity, and inclusion principles?
• Is the project ADA accessible?
• How will the project evaluate its success?
• Does the organization have the capacity to implement the proposed project successfully?

Mission

The Charles F. Bacon Trust was established in 1928 to support and promote quality educational, human services, and health care programming for underserved populations. Special consideration is given to charitable organizations that serve the needs of elderly women.

Waste Reduction and Recycling Education Grants

Ecology’s new Waste Reduction and Recycling Education (WRRED) Grants Program is a competitive grant program that provides funding to qualified local governments and non-profit organizations for local or statewide education programs designed to help the public with litter control, waste reduction, recycling, and composting or for the development and implementation of a contamination reduction and outreach plan (CROP).  This competitive grant program provides up to $60,000 in state dollars, plus 25 percent matching funds from the recipient, for a project maximum of $80,000.

The projects must be stand-alone projects completed during the grant period. Projects may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Environmental workshops and educational activities.
• Development and/or implementation of a contamination reduction and outreach plan (CROP).
• Community-wide outreach or information campaigns.
• Information hotlines.
• Special materials collection events targeting common recycling contaminants. Special events (county fairs, Earth Day, etc.).

Funding

Ecology anticipates approximately $500,000 for the WRRED grant program for the current biennium.

The grant projects must primarily focus on the products taxed under chapter 82.19 RCW, Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Litter Control Account (WRRLCA). Items taxed under RCW 82.19.020 are:

• Food for human or pet consumption
• Groceries
• Cigarettes and tobacco products
• Soft drinks and carbonated waters
• Beer and other malt beverages
• Wine
• Newspapers and magazines
• Household paper and paper products
• Glass containers
• Metal containers
• Plastic or fiber containers made of synthetic material
• Cleaning agents and toiletries
• Nondrug drugstore sundry products

What We Want to Encourage

Our core belief is that smartly guided exposure to the arts will positively impact an individual’s intellectual and social skills and ultimately contribute to improving our global home.

We want to encourage and will take a chance on new, yet-to-be-tested initiatives based on a broad range of artistic expressions.

The goal is that with GKV first-year funding enough measurable results will be achieved to attract sustaining funding from other sources.

Programs of Interest to GKV

How innovative?

Something untried but with exciting possibilities grabs our interest. But a program that is an extension of a current program into a new area or will include a creative but impactful new wrinkle will be seriously considered.

How broadly do you define “arts”?

Very broadly. Someone once asked if GKV would consider a Culinary Arts program. We debated that for a bit, and then decided “why not.” All depends on the specifics of the proposed program.

What’s your ideal grant size?

Somewhere between $25,000 and $50,000.

Can I request multi-year funding?

Extensions of grants into subsequent years are part of our plan, but the extension will be a fraction of the first year grant and then only if other grantors can be convinced that the program is worth their “investment” given first year results.

This purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is for FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity's (OMHHE) Health Equity Innovation Award: Racial & Ethnic Minority Acceleration Consortium for Health Equity (REACH). The consortium will consist of multiple cooperative agreement (U01) recipients that will strengthen and advance minority health and health equity focused research, outreach, and communications as well as support training and mentoring of diverse students, fellows, and/or researchers.

True Inspiration Awards

The True Inspiration Awards® program was created in 2015 to honor the legacy of Chick-fil-A® founder S. Truett Cathy. Through these annual grants, it is our pleasure to celebrate and support nonprofit organizations making an impact in their local communities.

S. Truett Cathy Honoree

One organization will be selected as the S. Truett Cathy Honoree. The S. Truett Cathy Honoree embodies the generous, innovative spirit of Chick-fil-A’s late founder — pioneering new ways to solve problems and serve others.

Category winners

In 2025 we will continue to support nonprofits with a total commitment of $6 million in grants ranging from $30,000-$350,000.

Sixteen organizations will be awarded for their work in these areas.

Caring for People (four winners): Programs or projects supporting educational initiatives, including fostering character and leadership development, academic excellence and community involvement in underserved youth.

Caring through Food (four winners): Programs or projects focused on addressing hunger and food insecurity facing children and their families.

Community (four winners): Programs or projects focused on providing housing and other direct services to support young people and their families.

Caring for our Planet (four winners): Programs or projects that show care for our environment and our planet, or that demonstrate environmental stewardship through initiatives directly related to our other True Inspiration Awards categories of food, community and people (i.e., community beautification, education opportunities, community gardens, outdoor classrooms, etc.) 

Goals & Objectives

The Hazardous Fuels Reduction Grant focuses on reducing the risk of wildland fire and catastrophic losses to resources and property in high-priority areas; which may result from a wildland fire encroaching from adjacent National Forest System (NFS) lands. Landowners are encouraged to be proactive to address hazardous fuel conditions on their property, reduce the ignition potential within their home ignition zone, and employ wildfire resilient principles to sustain a fire adapted home, property, and community.

Project funding is intended for work on non-federal lands to protect communities when hazardous fuels reduction activities (prescribed fire) are planned on adjacent NFS lands. This is accomplished by reducing the volume of hazardous fuels within a defined project area; through thinning, pruning, slash disposal, pile burning, and other conventionally accepted methods of fuels reduction. Public education and outreach about risks and responsibilities of living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) may be carried out in support of the primary goal of reducing hazardous fuels.

Criteria

Projects funded under this program must meeting the following intent:

• Projects shall be located within an average fire weather single-day burn window of NFS treatments units; generally interpreted to be 3-5 miles in western and central Montana and 10 miles in eastern Montana, subject to forest conditions.
• Project initiation must be in advance and within three years of planned hazardous fuels reduction activities on adjacent NFS lands.Accomplishing the intent of this program may require working with landowners, communities, local organizations, and the National Forests.
• Awarded projects will be selected on how well they meet the criteria and align with DNRC priorities.

What does this program do?

This program is designed to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses. Small means that the business has fewer than 50 new workers and less than $1 million in gross revenue.

What kind of funding is available?

There is no maximum grant amount; however, smaller requests are given higher priority. There is no cost sharing requirement. Opportunity grants are limited to up to 10 percent of the total Rural Business Development Grant annual funding.

How may funds be used?

Enterprise grants must be used on projects to benefit small and emerging businesses in rural areas as specified in the grant application. Uses may include:

• Training and technical assistance, such as project planning, business counseling and training, market research, feasibility studies, professional or/technical reports or producer service improvements.
• Acquisition or development of land, easements, or rights of way; construction, conversion, renovation of buildings; plants, machinery, equipment, access for streets and roads; parking areas and utilities.
• Pollution control and abatement.
• The capitalization of revolving loan funds, including funds that will make loans for start-ups and working capital.
• Distance adult learning for job training and advancement.
• Rural transportation improvement.
• Community economic development.
• Technology-based economic development.
• Feasibility studies and business plans.
• Leadership and entrepreneur training.
• Rural business incubators.
• Long-term business strategic planning.

Opportunity grants can be used for:

• Community economic development.
• Technology-based economic development.
• Feasibility studies and business plans.
• Leadership and entrepreneur training.
• Rural business incubators.
• Long-term business strategic planning.

What does this program do?

Provides grants to qualified organizations to help them carry out local self-help housing construction projects. Grant recipients supervise groups of very-low- and low-income individuals and families as they construct their own homes in rural areas. The group members provide most of the construction labor on each other’s homes, with technical assistance from the organization overseeing the project.

What is an eligible area?

Utilizing the USDA Eligibility Site you can enter a specific address for determination or just search the map to review general eligible areas.

How may funds be used?

• Give technical and supervisory assistance to participating families
• Help other organizations provide self-help technical and supervisory assistance
• Recruit families, help them complete loan applications and carry out other related activities that enable them to participate

Community Project Grants

New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grants provide grant funds to support public humanities programs across New Hampshire. The public humanities bring the insights and knowledge of humanities disciplines – history, literature, philosophy, ethics, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, geography, the law or legal theory, classics, and cultural or religious studies – to bear on public life. Public humanities programs offer people the opportunity to interpret, question, and debate new ideas while learning about the world in which we live. Through such programs, the public humanities strengthen civic discourse and foster an informed citizenry, and, therefore, fundamentally support both our local communities and national democracy.

In 2020, we awarded grants totaling just over $62,000 to eligible non-profits and tax-exempt organizations that developed such public humanities programs. Award recipients included cultural and civic organizations, museums, colleges, libraries, historical societies, theaters, and other nonprofits around the state. Programs ranged from an exploration of the shifting relationships between Abenaki and European settlers in eighteenth-century New Hampshire to discussions focusing on ways the railroad’s construction impacted towns and communities across the country.

Mini Grants

Mini Grants provide up to $2,000 in funds. New Hampshire Humanities accepts Mini Grant applications on a rolling basis. We recommend applying at least six weeks before your program begins. We do not require a draft proposal, but we do encourage you to contact the program officer before submitting your application.