Grants and Funding Opportunities
Funding Guides and Resources
- “Finding Funding: A Guide To Federal Sources For Youth Programs”. It's 166 pages of lists of specific programs and funding sources that is amazingly thorough. Check it out.
- CA Dept of Education Funding --Available funding through The California Department of Education. Search for funding available through the California Department of Education
- California Afterschool Network Funding To view funding opportunities listed by deadline date, and view other funding related resources, visit California Afterschool Network Funding
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GABY focuses on giving, service, and grantmaking for “living well”
The Grants Advisory Board for Youth (GABY) supports young people to engage in their community by sparking their interest in giving and taking action on issues that are important to them. The Sacramento Region Community Foundation has launched their updated “e-learning course” for youth and request for grants proposals for “living well.”
GABY stimulates youth-led community action by providing a web-based platform to explore interests and teach skills to organize projects. Under an organizational sponsor, teams of youth can compete for small grants of $500 to support “living well” activities for their schools, communities, and neighborhoods.
GABY asks that you let us know what it takes for you and your community to live a quality life. Examples of projects may include working in a community or school garden, cleaning up the neighborhood vacant lots, or organizing a multi-cultural festival to promote understanding.
The “e-learning course” includes:
Gift of Giving: Explore ways to give to the community and discover the causes you care most about.
Learning to Serve: Inspire and build a team, commit to community service and create change through a step-by-step interactive project planning process.
Grantmaking for Living Well: Learn to articulate your vision and how to apply for grant funds.
GABY provides up to $500 grants for youth-led projects in Sacramento and Yolo counties that focus on “living well.” The deadline for grant applications is December 16, 2009. All eligible applicants are required to present their projects in person at a workshop on January 30 at Sac State University.
Registration is simple. Visit the GABY 2.0 Web site. (link to: http://gaby.sacregcf.org) You will create your own unique user account that will give you access to many of the interactive components designed just for you.
Send an email or give a call if you would like a presentation made to your group! gaby@sacregcf.org -- Information Flyer
Tel: 916.921.7723
GABY is supported by Sacramento Region Community Foundation and Sierra Health Foundation.
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Gaby Grants Advisory Board for Youth -- Gift of Giving; Learn to Serve; Grantmaking for environmental change...learn more. Visit Gaby to learn how youth can make a difference.
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Toshiba America Foundation supports science, math and science in public and private schools. Grant range:$1,000 - $5,000. Deadline: October 1, 2009
More info: http://www.toshiba.com/tafpub/jsp/home/default.jsp -
Tony Hawk Foundation funds public skateparks in low-income communities. Grant range: $1,000 - $25,000. Deadline: October 1, 2009
More info: http://www.tonyhawkfoundation.org/grant_application.asp - The Dreyer Foundation offers ice cream products, gift certificates, auction items and financial grants for your school or youth program special event. Grant range: $3,000. Deadline: Monthly.
Grants Resources Compiled by Youth Today:
Youth Today’s Grants E-Blast
Week of December 7, 2009
© 2009 Youth Today
Compiled by Erika Fitzpatrick
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Featured Grant
*Grant: Coming Up Taller - For excellence in after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs for young people.
Funder: President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Eligibility: Museums, libraries, performing arts organizations, universities, colleges, arts centers, community service organizations, schools, businesses, and eligible government entities are among the organizations invited to apply.
Deadline: Jan. 29.
Amount: Recipients receive $10,000 each, a plaque and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference.
Arts
Grant: Music Matters - For educational reform in school music programs and independent music programs.
Funder: Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation.
Eligibility: Schools and music programs.
Deadline: Feb. 5.
Amount: $1,000 to $12,000 each.
Grant: VSA arts Playwright Discovery - For youths to examine, through playwriting, how disability affects their lives and the lives of others.
Funder: VSA arts.
Eligibility: Middle and high school students.
Deadline: April 15.
Amount: $2,000 each.
Child Welfare
Grant: Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) for states - For generating new relative caregiver activities, locally and statewide, for grandparents or other relatives who serve as surrogate parents when biological parents are unable to do so.
Funder: The Brookdale Foundation.
Eligibility: Public state agencies in Alaska, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont.
Deadline: Jan. 7.
Amount: Five state agencies can win $6,000 the first year and $4,000 in the second.
Civic Engagement
*Grant:Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) - To promote mutual understanding between the United States and the countries of Eurasia by providing secondary school students from the region the opportunity to live in American society for an academic year.
Funder: U.S. Department of State.
Eligibility: Public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofits and others.
Deadline: Jan. 19.
Amount:$7 million for 15 grants average $1.75 million each.
Grant:Get Ur Good On - For youth-led service initiatives addressing critical community needs, such as poverty, education and environmental sustainability.
Funder: Miley Cyrus and Youth Service America.
Eligibility: Youth.
Deadline: Feb. 22.
Amount: 100 grants of $500 each.
Grant: AmeriCorps planning grants - To support the development of AmeriCorps programs so applicants are better prepared to compete for an AmeriCorps program grant in the following grant cycle.
Funder: Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit organizations, Indian tribes or partnerships or consortia operating in more than one state.
Deadline: Jan. 26.
Amount: $500,000 is set aside under the AmeriCorps State and National program and an additional $250,000 is for Indian tribes. Applicants may request up to $50,000 each.
Grant: AmeriCorps state and national grants - For service opportunities across several programs in education, clean energy/environment, healthy futures, veterans and economic opportunity.
Funder: Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: Certain state commissions and multi-state organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 26.
Amount: $363 million for an unspecified number of grants.
Grant: Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge - For youth-led environmental projects.
Eligibility: Students in grades kindergarten to eight.
Deadline: Jan. 31, for elementary schools; March 15, 2010, for middle schools.
Amount: Students compete for more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Grant: Big Green - Forenvironmentally friendly projects that encourage youths to take care of the environment, be active, live healthier and engage in community service.
Funder: Nickelodeon.
Eligibility: Elementary and middle schools and after-school community-based organizations with 501(c)(3) status serving kids age 5 to 15 years.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: $2,500 or $5,000 each. The latter amount must be matched one to one.
College & Careers
*Grant: Recovery Act health information technology (IT) - The Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals in Health Care initiative is one of several recently announced health IT programs supporting the development of health IT programs at higher education institutions.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Community colleges.
Deadline: Jan. 22.
Amount: $70 million for up to five grants.
Grant: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants - To promote the ability of Hispanic-serving institutions to carry out higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences.
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Eligibility: Public or other nonprofit Hispanic-serving institutions.
Deadline: Feb. 16.
Amount: $9.2 million for 80 grants of up to $500,000 each.
Grant: Higher Education Challenge - To strengthen and enhance higher education teaching and training programs in the food and agricultural sciences, and to ensure the production of sufficient numbers and quality of graduates to meet national needs for scientific and professional expertise.
Funder: National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit colleges and universities.
Deadline: Feb. 5.
Amount: $5.2 million.
Grant: Institutional grants - To place students, either undergraduate or graduate, in film or film production internships that take place in professional environments outside of the school or organization; for student or adult craft-training workshops; and other film-related programs.
Funder: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Eligibility: Accredited academic institutions and nonprofits.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: Varies.
Grant: K-12 classroom challenge - To promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in "agriscience" and "agribusiness" to promote the existence of a qualified workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system.
Funder: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.
Eligibility: Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: $1 million for grants ranging from $35,000 to $50,000.
Education
*Grant: Indian children'seducation - To demonstrate the effectiveness of services and programs that improve the educational opportunities and achievement of preschool, elementary and secondary Indian students.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: State and local educational agencies, Indian tribes and organizations, federally supported elementary or secondary schools for Indian students, and others.
Deadline: Feb. 18.
Amount: $2 million for eight awards ranging from $100,000 to $300,000 each.
*Grant: Community action grants - For innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.
Funder: AAUW, formerly the American Association of University Women.
Eligibility: Individuals, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations and community-based nonprofit organizations.
Deadline:Jan. 15.
Amount: $2,000 to $7,000 over one year for seed money for new grants, or $5,000 to $10,000 over two years for longer term programs.
*Grant: Military-connected school achievement - To enhance student learning opportunities, student achievement and/or educator professional development in English-language arts and reading or science, technology, engineering and math.
Funder: U.S. Department of Defense.
Eligibility: Military-connected schools that serve growing installations.
Deadline: Concept papers are due on or around Jan. 27.
Amount: $20 million for grants ranging from $100,000 to $2.5 million each.
Grant: Recovery Act State Fiscal Stabilization Fund Phase II - For education and other allowable purposes as set forth in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: State governments.
Deadline: Jan. 11.
Amount: $11.5 billion.
Grant: Recovery Act Race to the Top - To encourage and reward states that are creating the conditions for education innovation and reform.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Deadline: Aug. 2.
Amount: $4 billion will be awarded in two phases; grants range from $20 million to $700 million each.
Grant: NEA Foundation Teaching Improvisation - For public educators' work to teach improvisation to middle- and high school music students.
Funder: NEA Foundation and MENC: The National Association of Music Education.
Eligibility: Public school educators.
Deadline: Feb. 1 (applications accepted on a rolling basis until this date).
Amount: Up to $5,000 each.
Grant: Toyota TAPESTRY - For innovative projects that enhance science education in schools and/or in school districts.
Funder: Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. and National Science Teachers Association.
Eligibility: K-12 science teachers.
Deadline: Jan. 18.
Amount: $550,000 dispensed through 50 large grants and at least 20 mini-grants.
Grant: For innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.
Funder: AAUW, formerly the American Association of University Women.
Eligibility: Individuals, AAUW branches, and AAUW state organizations and nonprofits organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: $2,000 to $10,000.
Grant: ING Unsung Heroes for 2010 - For innovative classroom projects.
Funder: ING.
Eligibility: Full-time educators, teachers, principals, paraprofessionals or classified staff with effective projects that improve student learning.
Deadline: April 30.
Amount: 100 finalists will receive an award of $2,000. From that group, three winners will receive $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000.
Contact: www.ing-usa.com/us/aboutING/CorporateCitizenship/Education/INGUnsungHeroes/index.htm.
Funder: ING.
Eligibility: Full-time educators, teachers, principals, paraprofessionals or classified staff with effective projects that improve student learning.
Deadline: April 30.
Amount: 100 finalists will receive an award of $2,000. From that group, three winners will receive $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000.
Contact: www.ing-usa.com/us/aboutING/CorporateCitizenship/Education/INGUnsungHeroes/index.htm.
Health
*Grant: Children's health insurance outreach - To enroll Indian children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: Indian Health Service, tribes and tribal organizations.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: $10 million.
Contact:www.cms.hhs.gov/CHIPRA/downloads/CHIPRAOutreachGrantSolicitationIndianChildrenFinal11162009.pdf.
Grant: Samuel Harris Fund for Children's Dental Health - To prevent childhood caries (tooth decay) and promote children's oral health. Grants are for prenatal and postnatal oral health instruction for mothers/caregivers.
Funder: ADA Foundation.
Eligibility: Community-based, nonprofit oral health and early childhood caries prevention education groups.
Deadline: Jan. 8.
Amount: $50,000 for eight to 10 grants of around $5,000 each.
Grant: Champions for Healthy Kids - To develop creative ways to help youth adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyle.
Funder: General Mills Foundation, the American Dietetic Association Foundation and the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
Eligibility: Community-based groups.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: 50 grants of $10,000.
Grant: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Demonstrations - To establish and evaluate a national quality system for children's health care that encompasses care provided through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility: State Medicaid agency or the state CHIP agency, or a multi-state collaborative of these agencies. Grantees must partner with other entities, such as state agencies, child health providers, private foundations and/or academic institutions.
Deadline: Jan. 8.
Amount: $20 million for 10 grants of up to $5 million each.
Juvenile Justice
*Grant:Juvenile treatment drug courts - To expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment services in problem-solving courts that emphasize alcohol and drug treatment, among other efforts to reduce recidivism among juvenile defendants/offenders.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Existing juvenile treatment drug courts or their tribal, state or local governmental proxies.
Deadline:Feb. 23.
Amount:$8.8 million for 27 grants of up to $325,000 per year.
Grant: Offender reentry - For substance abuse treatment and related recovery and reentry services to sentenced juvenile and adult offenders returning to the community.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 2.
Amount: $13 million for 16 grants focused on juveniles and 17 grants focused on adults.
Grant: Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence - To decrease violence in specific communities, such as those defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Applicants are nominated by a diversity-focused funder concerned with the specific population. Additional partners may include independent and private foundations, family and community foundations, and corporate and other philanthropies.
Deadline: Jan. 5.
Amount: Eight matching grants of between $50,000 to $200,000 each.
Life Skills
Grant: Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification - To train youth seeking employment, or to train youth already employed, in the work of agricultural production.
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Eligibility: Public and private institutions of higher education, including Cooperative Extension at 1890 Land-Grant Institutions.
Deadline: Jan. 21.
Amount: A total of $466,650 is available.
Grant: Recovery Act conservation projects - To preserve and create jobs through conservation projects that enhance students' classroom learning by providing them with opportunities to gain experience, learn about public lands, understand and appreciate natural and cultural resources, and stimulate their interest in natural resource careers.
Funder: U.S. Interior Department (Utah Bureau of Land Management).
Eligibility: Qualified youth or conservation corps groups.
Deadline: March 31.
Amount: $2.13 million for up to 12 grants.
Grant: The Big Read - To encourage literary reading.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Arts Midwest.
Eligibility: Public agencies and private nonprofits, including youth groups, partner with a library, choose certain literary works and meet other criteria. See notice for details.
Deadline: Feb. 2.
Amount: Grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 will be awarded to as many as 75 organizations.
Grant: Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries - To provide books to the school libraries and students that most need them.
Funder: Laura Bush Foundation.
Eligibility: Individual schools, with a preference for schools where 90 percent or more of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches.
Deadline: Dec. 31.
Amount: Up to $6,000 each.
Grant: Assets for Independence - For supports and services that enable individuals and families with low incomes to become economically self sufficient.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Public agencies and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Jan. 15.
Amount: $19 million for 55 to 65 awards.
Management
Grant: Scaling Social Impact Competition - To develop a strong pipeline of growth-ready organizations and provide them with the resources to take the next steps.
Funder: Social Impact Exchange.
Eligibility: U.S.-based nonprofitsin youth development and other areas.
Deadline: Round I submissions are due Dec. 18.
Amount: $50,000 to early-stage growth winner; $100,000 to mezzanine-stage growth winner.
Media/Technology
Grant: Wireless Innovation Project - To promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless-related technology that addresses critical social issues around the world.
Funder: Vodafone Americas Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 1.
Amount: $600,000 split among three projects.
Race/Ethnicity
Grant: Preferred Communities - To support the resettlement of newly arrived refugees and to address the needs of special populations.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: 12 awards of $100,000 to $300,000.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41208
Grant: Ethnic Community Self-Help - To connect newcomer refugees and their communities with community resources.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: 25 grants of $50,000 to $200,000.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: 12 awards of $100,000 to $300,000.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41208
Grant: Ethnic Community Self-Help - To connect newcomer refugees and their communities with community resources.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: 25 grants of $50,000 to $200,000.
Grant: Supplementary services for recently arrived refugees - For communities not sufficiently prepared in terms of linguistic or culturally appropriate services.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 4.
Amount: $4.3 million for 10 to 20 grants.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41228.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 4.
Amount: $4.3 million for 10 to 20 grants.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41228.
Recreation
*Grant: Finish Line Youth Foundation youth grants - For youth athletic programs, such as community-based programs addressing active lifestyle and team-building skills; and camps, particularly those emphasizing sports and serving children who are disadvantaged or have special needs.
Funder: Finish Line Youth Foundation.
Eligibility:501(c)(3)s.
Deadline:March 31.
Amount: From $1,000 to $5,000 each.
Substance Abuse
*Grant:Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) urban communities - To expand community-level access to effective, urban AI/AN methamphetamine and/or suicide prevention and treatment programs.
Funder:Indian Health Service.
Elibility: Urban Indian organizations that operate a Title V Urban Indian Health program.
Deadline:Jan. 5.
Amount:$3.3 million for five grants average $220,600 each.
*Grant:Juvenile treatment drug courts - To expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment services in problem-solving courts that emphasize alcohol and drug treatment, among other efforts to reduce recidivism among juvenile defendants/offenders.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Existing juvenile treatment drug courts or their tribal, state or local governmental proxies.
Deadline:Feb. 23.
Amount:$8.8 million for 27 grants of up to $325,000 per year.
Grant: Substance abuse treatment - To address gaps in drug treatment capacity by supporting person-centered and self-directed approaches for substance abuse treatment and recovery services in communities with serious drug problems.
Funder: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit entities.
Deadline: Jan. 14.
Amount: $14.4 million for as many as 12 grants totaling up to $400,000 per year over three years.
Youth Development
*Grant: Community action grants - For innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls.
Funder: AAUW.
Eligibility: Individuals, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations and community-based nonprofit organizations.
Deadline:Jan. 15.
Amount: $2,000 to $7,000 over one year for seed money for new grants, or $5,000 to $10,000 over two years for longer term programs.
