Whenever you see this icon, you know we've added more grants to our site. Of course, there are many more funding opportunities out there, but we just wanted to highlight a few for you here. Just give us a call and let us know what your goals are. We'll do the research and find the funders you're looking for, then plan out the venue best suited for your needs.Save Our History Grant Applications Posted for 2009/2010
Deadline – June 5, 2009
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
The History Channel will award a total of $100,000 in grants of up to $10,000 this year. Applicants may apply for up to $10,000 in project funds.
All applications must be completed and submitted online. Hard copies of the application will not be accepted without prior written permission from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Applications must be submitted online no later than 8:00 PM EST on June 5, 2009.
Grant funds will be distributed with 50% being released upon receipt of a signed grant agreement, and the remaining 50% upon receipt of a final financial and narrative report.
Grants will support projects scheduled to occur between September 8, 2009, and June 29, 2010.
ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Eligible applicants are required to be nonprofit 501c 3 history organizations such as a museum, historical society, preservation organization, historic site, library, archive, or other history organization. Applicant organizations must be located in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. Other eligible applicants include local government agencies such as a parks and recreation commission, historic commission, department of local history, or other local government agency that owns and/or operates a historic site or property.
Eligible applicants must partner with a local elementary, middle, or high school, or an organization that provides educational programming for children of similar ages. Applicants may partner with multiple schools or educational organizations. Eligible applicants must submit the application on behalf of their partner school(s) or educational organization(s) as the school(s) or educational organization(s) are not eligible to be the applicant; and
Organizations that have received a Save Our History grant in the last three years are not eligible to apply.
CRITERIA
Applicants must design a project in partnership with a local school(s) or youth group(s). To view descriptions of Save Our History projects funded in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 please visit http://www.saveourhistory.com.
The Save Our History Grant Review Panel will judge submitted applications based on the following three key criteria:
1. Proposed projects must focus on exploring and preserving a significant aspect of community history.
Projects might focus on the history and/or efforts to help preserve a neighborhood, building, cemetery, historic site, historic collections, or an historic event or tradition that is important to the local community. The project could include primary research, physical preservation or clean up efforts, historical documentation, archaeological or architectural studies, oral histories, exhibits, efforts to register or advocate for a site for national, state, or local historic landmark status, etc.
Highly-rated applications will:
- Provide a clear explanation of the subject's historical significance; and
- Demonstrate the connection/relationship between the subject and the local community.
2. Proposed projects must raise awareness among students and community members about the significance of their local heritage and the importance of preserving it.
Highly-rated applications will:
- Explain how the project will make a meaningful and lasting contribution to raising awareness for the exploration and preservation of local heritage; and
- Include creative ideas and techniques for sharing the project with other students, community organizations, community members, government officials, local business leaders, and/or the media. Assistance from partners (i.e. press, funding, project management, etc) is not required, but is encouraged.
3. Proposed projects must include a tangible resource that captures students' effort to learn about and preserve their local history in a unique, creative way.
While applicants can include multiple tangible resources, one resource that creatively captures the project objective is sufficient. Resources can include an exhibit, a notebook, research documentation, a photo or video documentary, a map, pamphlet, walking/driving tour, oral history, historical marker, podcast, etc.
Highly-rated applications will:
- Include a tangible resource that is clearly relevant to the project;
- Demonstrate how students will play an integral role in the research, development, and creation of the tangible resource;
- Indicate efforts to publicize, provide access to, or share the tangible resource with the community at large, especially the media; and
- Explain how the tangible resource could be used to motivate other teachers, students, and/or community members to explore and preserve their local history.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 5, 2009 –
DEADLINE for completed grant applications.
Applications must be received by 8:00 PM EST.
Sept 8, 2009 –
Save Our History projects begin.
May 2010 –
Save Our History National Honors Event in Washington D.C.
June 29, 2010 –
Save Our History projects complete.
PROGRAM PARTNERS
The History Channel has retained Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), a non-profit philanthropic services organization, to provide programming, grant administration, and monitoring services for the Save Our History Grant Program. RPA will be working in partnership with The History Channel and The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to ensure that applicants receive the information they need to submit responsive applications and that the applications are properly and objectively reviewed and considered.
Saucony Run For Good Foundation Offers Funding for Children's Running Programs
Deadline - June 13, 2009
Established to help end childhood obesity by providing financial support to nonprofits across the United States that support children's running and fitness programs, the Saucony Run For Good Foundation is accepting applications for its grant program. The grant program is open to nonprofit organizations that initiate and support running and fitness programs for kids.
Eligible applicants administer programs whose participants are 18 years of age or younger, have 501(c)(3) status, and can demonstrate that their program positively impacts the lives of participants through increased participation in running. Grants are in amounts up to a maximum of $10,000 each.
Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation
Requests are accepted from January 1 through August 31 of each year.
The mission of the Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation is to provide support for quality special-needs children's programs throughout the United States. The Foundation's focus is on nonprofit organizations dedicated to developing innovative programs, disseminating ideas, or providing direct care or services for children with special needs, acute illnesses, or chronic disabilities. Grant requests of up to $5,000 are considered. Preference is given to small organizations that might not otherwise be helped.
The Mockingbird Foundation
Deadline - August 1, 2009
The Mockingbird Foundation is a nonprofit organization of Phish fans, founded to raise money for charity. The Foundation offers competitive grants of up to $5,000 to schools and nonprofit organizations that focus on music education for children in the United States, with an emphasis on geographic diversity throughout the country.
The Foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage creative expression in all musical forms, as well as projects that foster self-esteem. The target age is children eighteen years or younger, but the Foundation will also consider projects that benefit college students, teachers/instructors, or adult students, especially from disenfranchised groups.
Grants Promote Needle Exchange Programs
Deadlines - March 1, July 1, and November 1, Annually
The Comer Foundation strives to create and maintain health in the U.S. population by supporting nonprofit organizations nationwide that are focused on needle exchange and other harm reduction strategies within the drug using community.
Grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 are provided to organizations that provide needle exchange and other direct services addressing health-related to drug use; are grounded in harm reduction principle and practice; and are actively developing community, financial, and local political support. Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time.
Nature of Learning Grant Program
Offers Support for Outdoor Classroom Programs
Deadline - Ongoing
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is accepting applications organizations from interested in initiating a Nature of Learning program in their communities. The Nature of Learning is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System's community-based environmental education initiative. The program uses National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms to promote a greater understanding of local conservation issues, encourage an interdisciplinary approach to learning, and utilize field experiences and student-led stewardship projects to connect classroom lessons to real world issues.
The program also involves a partnership among local schools, community groups, natural resource professionals, and local businesses. Schools or nonprofit organizations, including "Friends" groups, Cooperative and Interpretive Associations, Audubon Chapters, etc., are eligible to apply for funding. Programs must involve a partnership among a local school(s), community group (e.g., Refuge Support Group), and National Wildlife Refuge. Projects must be completed within eighteen months.
First year start-up grants are available for up to $10,000. Second year follow-up grants of up to $5,000 are available to support continued implementation of the Nature of Learning program. Matching contributions are not required; however, strong preference will be given to applications that leverage the grant award with contributions from project partners.
Local Teen Programs Funded:
Best Buy Children's Foundation - Community Grants Program
Deadline - June 15, 2009
The Best Buy Children's Foundation strengthens communities through the support of national, regional, and local grantmaking programs. The Foundation's Community Grants Program, led by employee committees in each of the company's eight territories across the United States, provides support to local nonprofit organizations that work to build social, academic, leadership, and/or life skills in early adolescents (primarily ages 13-18). Grant amounts average $5,000 to $7,000, and do not exceed $10,000. Eligible organizations must be located within 50 miles of a Best Buy store or distribution center.
Bikes Belong Coalition
Deadlines - August 24 and November 23, 2009
The goal of the Bikes Belong Coalition, sponsored by the American bicycle industry, is putting more people on bicycles more often. The Bikes Belong Grants Program provides support for projects that leverage federal funding and build momentum for bicycling in communities across the U.S. These projects include bike paths, lanes, and routes, as well as bike parks, mountain bike trails, BMX facilities, and large-scale bicycle advocacy initiatives.
The focus of the facility grant category is to connect existing facilities or create new biking opportunities. The advocacy grant category seeks to build the strength of bicycle advocacy organizations that have the potential to increase bicycle ridership and form coalitions with the bicycle industry.
CVS – CVS Caremark Community Grants
Deadline: October 31, 2009
The CVS Caremark Community Grants program awards funds to nonprofit organizations targeting children with disabilities, projects focusing on health and rehabilitation services, public schools promoting greater levels of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular activities, and projects that increase access to physical activity.
Proposals focusing on administering healthcare services to uninsured communities are also accepted. Selected organizations meeting the above criteria will be eligible for receiving award amounts up to $5,000.
Baseball Tomorrow Fund
Deadline - Ongoing
The mission of the Baseball Tomorrow Fund, a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association, is to promote the growth of baseball in the United States and throughout the world by funding programs that encourage youth participation in the game. Grants may be used to finance a new program, expand or improve an existing program, undertake a new collaborative effort, or obtain facilities or equipment necessary for youth baseball or softball programs. Letters of inquiry may be submitted throughout the year. Invited grant applications are due January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1, annually.
KaBOOM! –
KaBoom Community Partnership Grants
Deadline - Ongoing
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit that envisions a place for children to play within walking distance to local residences in North America. In order to achieve this, KaBOOM! has created ongoing opportunities for community organizations to build a new playground or. Ideal community partners are usually child-serving non-profit organizations, but can be community development organizations, neighborhood coalitions, schools or any organization that can mobilize a volunteer work force and is in need of new play places. Selected applicants will be awarded a project that will sustainably, but not completely cover the costs of building a new play space. Therefore, eligible applicants include community partners that are able to raise additional funding towards the cost of equipment. After planning and support from KaBOOM! the community will be able to build the play space in one day with the help of community support.
Former Talk Show Host Jenny Jones Announces Continuation of Community Grant Program
Deadline - Open
Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny's Heroes community grant program. The Jenny's Heroes program awards grants to individuals who submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects. Jenny's Heroes provides grants of up to $25,000 each to fund projects that promise long-term community benefits. Through the fifty grant recipients so far, funds have been used to provide items and services such as library books, school computers, firefighting gear, nursing home upgrades, sports equipment, free dental services, wheelchairs, coats for children in domestic violence shelters, and a running track at a women's prison. The program's focus is primarily on smaller communities where fundraising can be difficult. For more information on Jenny's Heroes and grant guidelines, visit the program's Website.
Grants Enhance Company Communities: Regal Foundation
Deadline - Open
The Regal Foundation supports a wide range of nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Grants are provided to both local charities based in the communities the company theatres serve and to national projects that have a multiplier effect by benefiting local groups across the country. The Foundation is primarily interested in supporting organizations that benefit persons suffering economic, social, physical, or educational hardship or disadvantage, or who are otherwise in need of assistance.
Examples of funded programs include food banks, children and youth services, and K-12education. Requests may be submitted at any time, and are reviewed three times per year.
GE Healthcare -- Grants for Youth Education, Healthy Lives, and Diversity and Service
Applications reviewed quarterly with deadlines are February 1 for review in March; May 1 for review in June; August 1 for review in September; and November 1 for review in December.
Grants fund programs focused on youth education, healthy lives, diversity, and service. In the area of youth education, GE Healthcare is interested in proposals that address underserved communities with low graduation rates, support core competencies (such as math, science, reading, and writing), focus on arts in education, and support early childhood development programs.
Healthy lives proposals should address childhood obesity, cardiac care, oncology (such as general and specific cancers), neurology (such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease), women's health care, diabetes, or other health-related issues that address a need for increased awareness and/or community outreach. In the area of diversity and service, GE supports programs that impact minority populations or address local community issues such as poverty, homelessness, the disadvantaged, food programs, and training.
Funding Amount - $1,000 to $25,000. Only registered, nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations that focus on youth education and/or promote healthy lives may apply.
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