These are other funding possibilities beyond grant opportunities at the Meyer Foundation.
Friday, November 21, 2008
FY 2009 Ryan White Part A Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA)-Wide Grant
Approximately $22 million is availabe from the DC Department of Health in conjuction with a number of metropolitan area-wide health councils. Funds will be awarded to programs that provide clinical and medical support services to indigent, uninsured and under-insured persons who are HIV-infected and affected.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Relatives as Parents Program
The Brookdale Foundation announces funds to support organizations that provide services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of being surrogate parents. Eligible programs include those that provide support groups for caregivers as well as promote the coordination of child care, family services, and health care.
Friday, December 12, 2008
HIV Prevention Programs
Awards of up to $5,000 are available from the Syringe Access Fund for programs that assist with HIV education and prevention.
Friday, December 19, 2008
District of Columbia Fatherhood Initiative
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Funds to Support Nutrition Programs
The Allen Foundation is accepting grant applications for programs that promote nutritional education for mothers during pregnancy, the training of nutritional educators, and the overall dissemination of healthful nutritional information.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Funds for Employment Skills Programs
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Big Read Community Reading Projects
Applications are being accepted by the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct month-long, community-wide reads between September 2009 and June 2010. Organizations selected to participate in the Big Read will each receive financial support of up to $20,000 to attend the orientation meeting, educational and promotional materials, and more.
Rolling Deadlines
Actuarial Foundation
Actuarial Foundation supports viable mentoring program involving actuaries in the teaching of mathematics to children, primarily grades 4-8, in private or public schools. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations.
Awards for Local Arts and Education Programs
Barnes and Noble provides in-store fundraising opportunities, sponsorships, and donations to organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or K-12 education. Applicants must be located in the communities with company stores and should serve the greater good of the local community or region. For donations and sponsorships, interested nonprofits should submit a proposal to the community relations manager or store manager at their local Barnes & Noble store.
Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional responsibility, economic and social equity, and peace and security.
Business and Communities Grants Program
The Hitachi Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for projects that enable economically-disadvantaged individuals retain employment, earn a living wage, and accumulate savings.
Child Welfare Grants
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation supports projects that contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth and can be adequately used by society.
Citigroup Foundation Grants
The Citi Foundation supports community development programs that help build and revitalize neighborhoods and education programs that prepare students for college and careers. Applicants must have IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status and a federal Employer Identification Number, or they must be a registered school, university or government entity. The Citi Foundation reviews proposals by invitation only from organizations with demonstrated successes in the areas of microfinance... Read more
Community Reconciliation
The Andrus Family Fund supports social change through a variety of programs, including its Community Reconciliation program, which addresses hate violence and police-community relations.
District At-Risk Youth and Families Grant
The Moran Family Foundation supports innovative pilot programs being initiated or expanded by organizations that promote healthy mental, physical, and emotional development of at-risk children and at-risk families in DC.
Federal Funding for After School Snacks
Nonprofits, schools, and local government agencies that serve snacks to children who attend their afterschool enrichment programs in low-income neighborhoods can be reimbursed by the federal government for the cost of the snacks.
Flashpoint Incubator Residency Program
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for Flashpoint's Incubator Residency Program. Residents are provided workstation(s) and file storage space; access to shared conference room, resource library and periodical subscriptions; access to office equipment; as well as priority use of the dance studio and theatre lab for productions and events.
Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships
Supported by the William and Eva Fox Foundation and administered by the Theatre Communications Group, the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships are designed to further an actor's artistic and professional development, to deepen and enrich his/her relationship with a not-for-profit theater, and to ensure his/her continued professional commitment to live theater.
Funding for Education and Hunger Relief
The Food Lion Charitable Foundation supports organizations dedicated to improving their community through providing primary and secondary education or feeding the hungry.
Good Capital Funds for Nonprofits
Good Capital's Social Enterprise Expansion Fund (SEEF) provides growth capital to social enterprises. Funding is available for for-profit and non-profit organizations that create new and exciting solutions to society's most challenging problems by using sustainable business models. These solutions include service businesses that hire and train disconnected youth, healthcare delivery systems that provide medical benefits to at-risk populations, and fair trade coffee companies... Read more
Grants for HIV/AIDS Awareness Projects
Cable Positive's Tony Cox Community Fund is a national grants program designed to encourage community-based AIDS organizations and cable outlets to partner in joint community outreach efforts, or to produce and distribute new, locally focused HIV/AIDS-related programs and public service announcements.
Grants to Alleviate Hunger, Prevent Disease, and Provide Youth Programs
Applications are accepting on a rolling basis for community improvement grants from the Burger King Corporation's HAVE IT YOUR WAY Foundation. Non-profit, 501(c)(3) organizations dedicated to improving education, alleviating hunger, preventing disease or supporting youth programs are eligible to apply.
Healthy Communities
The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, livable communities through two programs. Its Healthy Community Trees Program supports projects that incorporate trees and landscape into the community development plans of neighborhoods as part of the infrastructure to control storm water runoff, create a sense of place, and provide shaded recreational opportunities.The Foundation's Affordable Housing Built Responsibly Program supports projects that result in the production,... Read more
Hello Tomorrow Fund
Avon Products, Inc. provides funds to assist individuals in realizing a program, project, or idea that will empower women in one of the following areas: business development, community service, or awareness and outreach.
Improving Outreach and Services to Crime Victims
The US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, provides funds of up to $10,000 to improve outreach and services to victims, through support of program development, networking, coalition building, and service delivery. Funds may be used to develop program literature, train advocates, produce a newsletter, support victim outreach efforts, and recruit volunteers.
Kresge Foundation Capital Grants
Kresge Foundation works to strengthen organizations that advance the well-being of humanity. The Foundation offers funds to nonprofits that address one of its six fields of interest - health, the environment, arts and culture, education, human services, and community development.
Literacy, the Arts, and K-12 Education
Barnes & Noble's corporate contributions program supports nonprofit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or education.
Loans for Community Organizations
The Calvert Social Investment Foundation offers below-market interest rate loans to more than 200 community organizations in the United States and abroad, including loan funds, micro-finance institutions, affordable housing developers, and social enterprises.
Maryland Small Grants Program
The Baltimore-based Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has announced its new Maryland Small Grants Program, which involves a simplified and expedited process.
Pathways Out of Poverty Program
The Herb Block Foundation supports programs in the Greater Washington metropolitan area that focus on helping young people and adults gain a quality education. The Foundation supports projects that focus on improving student achievement and development for young people (middle school age and above); and adult-serving projects that provide literacy education, GED preparation, vocational training, and job placement. Awards ranging from $5,000-$25,000 are available.
Prudential Financial Social Investment Program
Prudential Financial's Social Investment Program makes socially responsible investments in the areas of economic development and education. The program will only consider proposals that do not qualify under mainstream investment guidelines.
Reducing Poverty and Empowering Low-income Families
The Moriah Fund supports programs that address the social and economic obstacles facing low-income families, particularly those headed by single women. The fund seeks to assist parents to increase their income and provide healthy environments for children and youth in DC.
Renovating Running Tracks
The Bowerman Track Renovation Program, a philanthropic initiative of Nike, Inc., provides matching grants of up to $50,000 to community-based, youth-oriented nonprofit organizations to refurbish or construct running tracks. The application deadline is rolling. Organizations applying for the grant must demonstrate a need for running track refurbishment or construction. Grant recipients will provide track access to neighboring communities.
Social Change Program Grants
The JEHT Foundation supports organizations in the United States that address social change. Applicants should focus on the criminal justice process, programs that promote fair and participatory elections, the strenghtening of palliative care in a variety of health care settings, the expanding of the constructive role the United States can play in promoting international justice.
Staples Foundation Job Skills and Education Grants
The Staple Foundation for Learning works to teach, train, and inspire by funding national and local charities that provide educational opportunities and job skills for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000.
Support for Criminal Justice Issues
The Open Society Institute (OSI) aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. The Gideon Project, a program of the OSI U.S. Justice Fund, works to improve the fair administration of criminal justice in the United States. The project awards grants in three areas affecting youth and adults in the criminal justice system: improving public defense services, death penalty reform, and racial profiling. Letters... Read more
Sustainable Housing Design Projects
The Oak Hill Fund supports educational initiatives that promote and encourage sustainability and affordability in residential design, and initiatives that focus on the incorporation of the principles of sustainability in the construction of affordable residential housing. The Fund makes grants of varying size. Grant requests should be made, therefore, on organizational need. Interested organizations should submit a letter of inquiry. All letters will be answered... Read more
Virginia Neighborhood Assistance Program
The Virginia Department of Social Services' Neighborhood Assistant Program emphasizes partnerships between the private and public sector to assist the economically deprived. State tax credits are provided as an incentive for businesses and individuals to contribute directly to an approved nonprofit organization designed to benefit impoverished people.
Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofits
The Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management is an annual award presented to a Washington, DC, metropolitan-area nonprofit organization for outstanding achievement in organization management.
Wealth-Creation Strategies
The F.B. Heron Foundation supports organizations that help low-income people to create wealth and take control of their lives. The Foundation makes grants to programs in urban and rural communities engaged in wealth-creation strategies, including home ownership, enterprise development, access to capital, quality child care, and community development.
Youth Literacy Programs
The Starbucks Foundation awards grants of up to $20,000 to fund programs for youth that integrate literacy with personal and civic action. Specifically, applicants should work with underserved youths in the fields of arts literacy and environmental literacy.