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Deadline: June 6the or September 9th
Funder: The RFK Foundation
Focus: The RGK Foundation provides awards up to $25,000 to organizations throughout the U.S. that offer innovative programs in the following areas: 1) Education, which includes programs that focus on K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education; 2) Medicine/Health, programs that promote the health and well-being of children and programs that increase access to health services; and 3) Community, which targets a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs.
Although there are no geographic restrictions to the Foundation's grantmaking program, the Foundation no longer accepts unsolicited requests for international agencies or programs. While the Foundation occasionally awards grants for operating expenses, capital campaigns, endowments, and international projects, such grants are infrequent and usually initiated by the Foundation. Multiyear grants are rare; most grants are awarded for a one-year period.
Grants are made only to nonprofit organizations certified as tax exempt under Sections 501(c)(3) or 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and are classified as "not a private foundation" under Section 509(a). Hospitals, educational institutions, and governmental institutions meeting these requirements are eligible to apply. Organizations that have completed and filed Form 1023 but not yet received an IRS determination letter are not eligible to apply. The Foundation does not make grants or loans to individuals.
Contact: http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.php
DEADLINE: June 9th
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts
Focus: The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to the goal of enabling all Americans to enrich their lives through the arts. The NEA's Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire appreciation, knowledge, and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engagement of students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. The NEA also requires that funded projects ensure the application of national, state, or local arts education standards.
The Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. Funded projects apply national or state arts education standards. All projects submitted to the Learning in the Arts category must include:
Contact:
Dance, Music, Opera: brandenburg@arts.gov or 202/682-5044
Literature, Media Arts, Musical Theater, Theater: daughern@arts.gov or 202/682-5521
Folk & Traditional Arts, Multidisciplinary, Presenting: liut@arts.gov or 202/682-5690
Design, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Visual Arts: beattied@arts.gov or 202/682-5688
DEADLINE: June 10th
Funder: DC Department of Health
Focus: The DC Department of Health is soliciting applications for qualified applicants to organize, support, and build the capacity of group recovery homes. Homes should be for those afflicted with alcohol and other drugs of abuse and residents should be committed to sobriety. Approximately $220,000.00 in funds is available. Nonprofits and faith-based organizations are eligible to apply.
Contact: http://www.opgd.dc.gov/opgd/frames.asp?doc=/opgd/lib/opgd/info/fy08grouprecoveryhomesnofa.pdf
DEADLINE: June 13th
Funder: M*A*C* AIDS Fund
Focus: Grants between $5,000 and $25,000 are available through the M*A*C* AIDS Fund to support organizations that provide basic needs, direct services, education, awareness, and prevention programs to men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Contact: http://www.macaidsfund.org/support/givingguidelines.html
DEADLINE: June 16th
Funder: The Points of Light Foundation
Focus: Nominations for awards from the Women of Worth program, administered by the Points of Light Foundation and supported by L'Oreal Paris. The company will honor 10 women for their volunteerism by donating $5,000 in each of their names to charities of their choosing, and $5,000 in each of their names to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. One of the 10 honorees will be selected through an online vote to receive an additional $25,000 donation in her name to a charity of her choice. Additional information is available on the company's Web site.
Who may be nominated: women age 18 and older who are legal residents of the United States. Nominees' volunteering activities must be ongoing and have lasted at least six months. All activities must be unpaid and cannot include court-ordered community service.
Contact: POLF P.O. Box 34115, Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 729-3216 womenofworth@pointsoflight.org; http://www.womenofworth.com/
DEADLINE: June 19th
Funder: Public Welfare Foundation
Focus: Letters of inquiry regarding grants from the Public Welfare Foundation in the areas of criminal and juvenile justice, health reform, and workers' rights. Criminal and juvenile-justice grants support groups that work to lower rates of incarceration and eliminate inequitable treatment of blacks and Hispanics. Health-reform grants support organizations that expand effective consumer advocacy for health care, especially at the state and local levels. Grants for workers' rights support groups that improve the lives of workers. Additional information is available on the foundation's Web site.
Who may apply: organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicants may request grants for general operating support. Full proposals are due August 1.
Contact: (202) 965-1800; fax (202) 265-8851; email: info@publicwelfare.org; http://www.publicwelfare.org/ApplyGrant/Guidelines.aspx
DEADLINE: June 27th
Funder: Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Focus: The 2008 Local Heroes program, administered by the Bank of America Charitable
Foundation. A total of 225 community leaders, whose neighborhoods have been positively affected by their achievements, will each have a $5,000 donation given in their honor to a charity of their choice. Who may be nominated: people who have made contributions to their neighborhoods and who live within one of Bank of America's markets.
Contact: BACF, NEI 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, N.C. 28202; (800) 218-9946 http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/index.cfm?template=fd_neighborexcell
DEADLINE: June 27th
Funder: The Youth AIDS Media Institute Community Outreach Grant Program/Cable Positive
Focus: The Youth AIDS Media Institute Community Outreach Grant program, administered
by Cable Positive, with support from the Motorola Foundation. Grants of $5,000 each
will be given to youths age 15 to 24 for collaborations with community-health organizations that serve people with AIDS.
Outreach projects must focus on one of three areas: coalition and community building; education and awareness; or peer mentoring. Additional information is available on the institute's Web site. Who may apply: organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that are directly associated with HIV/AIDS. Projects must be initiated and led by youths. Grants will not support capital costs, endowments (unless they provide direct services to people with HIV/AIDS), general operating expenses or deficits, individuals, lobbying, or research.
Contact: Jennifer Medina, Cable Positive 1775 Broadway, Suite 433, New York, N.Y. 10019; (212) 459-1504 jennifer@cablepositive.org; http://www.cablepositive.org/yami.php
DEADLINE: June 28, 2008
Funder: Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders Program
Focus: Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders Program will award $200,000 in general
operating support to two nonprofit organizations serving Washington, DC and its metropolitan area. The award will also include a leadership training program consisting of workshops and sessions for both executive directors and emerging leaders.
Contact: http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/index.cfm?template=fd_neighborbuilders
DEADLINE: June 30th
Funder: Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation's Shelter Grants to Aid Victims of Domestic Violence
Focus: Grants of up to $20,000 are available for operating support for organizations that aid the victims of domestic violence. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation has a goal to eliminate domestic violence. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
Contact: http://www.mkacf.org/PDF/Shelter_Grant_App_2008.pdf
DEADLINE: July 2nd
Funder: The Brookdale Foundation Group's National Group Respite Program
Focus: The Brookdale Foundation Group's National Group Respite Program. Grants of up to $7,500 each will help up to 40 groups develop respite day-care programs for people with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers, with the possibility of a $3,000 grant extension after the first year.
Who may apply: organizations that are classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public-service agencies. Proposals should be sent to the foundation's headquarters in New York; questions should be directed to its technical-assistance office in California.
Contact: Evelyn Yuen, BFG Technical-Assistance Office, 2320 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94704; (510) 540-6734; fax (510) 540-6771 ey@brookdalefoundation.org; http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/respiteprogram.htm
DEADLINE: July 8th
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Focus: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announces funds for promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Projects should address factors outside the health care system, such as poverty, violence, inadequate housing or education that contribute significantly to poor health for many Americans. Projects must be new, innovative, and collaborative. Up to 14 grants of between $200,000 and $500,000 will be awarded. Applicants may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations.
DEADLINE: July 15, 2008
Funder: The Mattel Children's Foundation
Focus: Mattel and the Mattel Children's Foundation are pleased to continue our Domestic Grantmaking Program. Through this effort, unsolicited applications for funds for organizations benefiting children in the United States are accepted, pending the eligibility requirements and guidelines listed below. Charitable organizations that demonstrate they directly serve children may be eligible for grants of $5,000 up to $25,000. Funds may be applied to programs or general operating costs.
Eligibility Requirements:
Focus: The RGK Foundation provides awards up to $25,000 to organizations throughout the U.S. that offer innovative programs in the following areas: 1) Education, which includes programs that focus on K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science, and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education; 2) Medicine/Health, programs that promote the health and well-being of children and programs that increase access to health services; and 3) Community, which targets a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs.
Although there are no geographic restrictions to the Foundation's grantmaking program, the Foundation no longer accepts unsolicited requests for international agencies or programs. While the Foundation occasionally awards grants for operating expenses, capital campaigns, endowments, and international projects, such grants are infrequent and usually initiated by the Foundation. Multiyear grants are rare; most grants are awarded for a one-year period.
Grants are made only to nonprofit organizations certified as tax exempt under Sections 501(c)(3) or 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and are classified as "not a private foundation" under Section 509(a). Hospitals, educational institutions, and governmental institutions meeting these requirements are eligible to apply. Organizations that have completed and filed Form 1023 but not yet received an IRS determination letter are not eligible to apply. The Foundation does not make grants or loans to individuals.
Contact: http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.php
DEADLINE: June 9th
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts
Focus: The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to the goal of enabling all Americans to enrich their lives through the arts. The NEA's Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire appreciation, knowledge, and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engagement of students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. The NEA also requires that funded projects ensure the application of national, state, or local arts education standards.
The Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth category offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. Funded projects apply national or state arts education standards. All projects submitted to the Learning in the Arts category must include:
- Experience: Students and their teachers will have the chance to experience exemplary works of art -- in live form where possible.
- Study: Through the guidance of teachers, teaching artists, and cultural organizations, students will study works of art in order to understand the cultural and social context from which they come, and to appreciate the technical and/or aesthetic qualities of each work. Where appropriate, study will include the acquisition of skills relevant to practicing the art form.
- Performance: Informed by their experience and study, students will create artwork. In the case of literature, the primary creative activities will be writing and/or recitation.
- Assessment: Students will be assessed according to national or state arts education standards. Where appropriate, projects will employ multiple forms of assessment including pre- and post-testing.
Contact:
Dance, Music, Opera: brandenburg@arts.gov or 202/682-5044
Literature, Media Arts, Musical Theater, Theater: daughern@arts.gov or 202/682-5521
Folk & Traditional Arts, Multidisciplinary, Presenting: liut@arts.gov or 202/682-5690
Design, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Visual Arts: beattied@arts.gov or 202/682-5688
DEADLINE: June 10th
Funder: DC Department of Health
Focus: The DC Department of Health is soliciting applications for qualified applicants to organize, support, and build the capacity of group recovery homes. Homes should be for those afflicted with alcohol and other drugs of abuse and residents should be committed to sobriety. Approximately $220,000.00 in funds is available. Nonprofits and faith-based organizations are eligible to apply.
Contact: http://www.opgd.dc.gov/opgd/frames.asp?doc=/opgd/lib/opgd/info/fy08grouprecoveryhomesnofa.pdf
DEADLINE: June 13th
Funder: M*A*C* AIDS Fund
Focus: Grants between $5,000 and $25,000 are available through the M*A*C* AIDS Fund to support organizations that provide basic needs, direct services, education, awareness, and prevention programs to men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Contact: http://www.macaidsfund.org/support/givingguidelines.html
DEADLINE: June 16th
Funder: The Points of Light Foundation
Focus: Nominations for awards from the Women of Worth program, administered by the Points of Light Foundation and supported by L'Oreal Paris. The company will honor 10 women for their volunteerism by donating $5,000 in each of their names to charities of their choosing, and $5,000 in each of their names to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. One of the 10 honorees will be selected through an online vote to receive an additional $25,000 donation in her name to a charity of her choice. Additional information is available on the company's Web site.
Who may be nominated: women age 18 and older who are legal residents of the United States. Nominees' volunteering activities must be ongoing and have lasted at least six months. All activities must be unpaid and cannot include court-ordered community service.
Contact: POLF P.O. Box 34115, Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 729-3216 womenofworth@pointsoflight.org; http://www.womenofworth.com/
DEADLINE: June 19th
Funder: Public Welfare Foundation
Focus: Letters of inquiry regarding grants from the Public Welfare Foundation in the areas of criminal and juvenile justice, health reform, and workers' rights. Criminal and juvenile-justice grants support groups that work to lower rates of incarceration and eliminate inequitable treatment of blacks and Hispanics. Health-reform grants support organizations that expand effective consumer advocacy for health care, especially at the state and local levels. Grants for workers' rights support groups that improve the lives of workers. Additional information is available on the foundation's Web site.
Who may apply: organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicants may request grants for general operating support. Full proposals are due August 1.
Contact: (202) 965-1800; fax (202) 265-8851; email: info@publicwelfare.org; http://www.publicwelfare.org/ApplyGrant/Guidelines.aspx
DEADLINE: June 27th
Funder: Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Focus: The 2008 Local Heroes program, administered by the Bank of America Charitable
Foundation. A total of 225 community leaders, whose neighborhoods have been positively affected by their achievements, will each have a $5,000 donation given in their honor to a charity of their choice. Who may be nominated: people who have made contributions to their neighborhoods and who live within one of Bank of America's markets.
Contact: BACF, NEI 100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, N.C. 28202; (800) 218-9946 http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/index.cfm?template=fd_neighborexcell
DEADLINE: June 27th
Funder: The Youth AIDS Media Institute Community Outreach Grant Program/Cable Positive
Focus: The Youth AIDS Media Institute Community Outreach Grant program, administered
by Cable Positive, with support from the Motorola Foundation. Grants of $5,000 each
will be given to youths age 15 to 24 for collaborations with community-health organizations that serve people with AIDS.
Outreach projects must focus on one of three areas: coalition and community building; education and awareness; or peer mentoring. Additional information is available on the institute's Web site. Who may apply: organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that are directly associated with HIV/AIDS. Projects must be initiated and led by youths. Grants will not support capital costs, endowments (unless they provide direct services to people with HIV/AIDS), general operating expenses or deficits, individuals, lobbying, or research.
Contact: Jennifer Medina, Cable Positive 1775 Broadway, Suite 433, New York, N.Y. 10019; (212) 459-1504 jennifer@cablepositive.org; http://www.cablepositive.org/yami.php
DEADLINE: June 28, 2008
Funder: Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders Program
Focus: Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders Program will award $200,000 in general
operating support to two nonprofit organizations serving Washington, DC and its metropolitan area. The award will also include a leadership training program consisting of workshops and sessions for both executive directors and emerging leaders.
Contact: http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/index.cfm?template=fd_neighborbuilders
DEADLINE: June 30th
Funder: Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation's Shelter Grants to Aid Victims of Domestic Violence
Focus: Grants of up to $20,000 are available for operating support for organizations that aid the victims of domestic violence. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation has a goal to eliminate domestic violence. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
Contact: http://www.mkacf.org/PDF/Shelter_Grant_App_2008.pdf
DEADLINE: July 2nd
Funder: The Brookdale Foundation Group's National Group Respite Program
Focus: The Brookdale Foundation Group's National Group Respite Program. Grants of up to $7,500 each will help up to 40 groups develop respite day-care programs for people with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers, with the possibility of a $3,000 grant extension after the first year.
Who may apply: organizations that are classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public-service agencies. Proposals should be sent to the foundation's headquarters in New York; questions should be directed to its technical-assistance office in California.
Contact: Evelyn Yuen, BFG Technical-Assistance Office, 2320 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94704; (510) 540-6734; fax (510) 540-6771 ey@brookdalefoundation.org; http://www.brookdalefoundation.org/respiteprogram.htm
DEADLINE: July 8th
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Focus: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announces funds for promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Projects should address factors outside the health care system, such as poverty, violence, inadequate housing or education that contribute significantly to poor health for many Americans. Projects must be new, innovative, and collaborative. Up to 14 grants of between $200,000 and $500,000 will be awarded. Applicants may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations.
- Projects must be new, innovative, collaborative and community-based. Significant program expansions—into new regions or to new populations—may also be considered. Please note that this program does not fund existing projects.
- Projects must be nominated by a local grantmaker interested in participating as one ofthe funding partners.
- Local funding partners must be willing to work with grantees to obtain sufficient dollar-for-dollar matching funds throughout the grant period. These funders may include independent and private foundations, family and community foundations, and corporate and other philanthropies.
- Matching funds must represent new funding specifically designated to support the proposed project. In-kind services may not be used to match foundation funds.
- Applicants may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Private foundations as defined under Section 509(a) are not eligible to apply.
DEADLINE: July 15, 2008
Funder: The Mattel Children's Foundation
Focus: Mattel and the Mattel Children's Foundation are pleased to continue our Domestic Grantmaking Program. Through this effort, unsolicited applications for funds for organizations benefiting children in the United States are accepted, pending the eligibility requirements and guidelines listed below. Charitable organizations that demonstrate they directly serve children may be eligible for grants of $5,000 up to $25,000. Funds may be applied to programs or general operating costs.
Eligibility Requirements:
- 501(c)3 Public Charity organizations - if an organization is a project under a fiscal sponsor, that sponsor must have a valid tax exemption status.
- Organizations must serve children in communities within the U.S.
- Organizations must not discriminate against a person or a group on the basis of age, political affiliation, race, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
- Preference is given to organizations that have an annual operating budget of less than $1 million.