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Grant Opportunities

To ensure WVPASS carries out its mission to "...support West Virginia communities by providing them with training, technical support and resources for youth and community development," we are committed to providing the latest grant opportunities available to West Virginia communities.

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Community * Education * Healthy Start

Literacy * Mentoring * Non-Profit

Grant Workshop - FREE

June 27, 2008

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

The Great Kanawha Valley Foundation

Contact: Sheri Ryder - sryder@tgkvf.org or (304)346-3620

Community

FLOW (Future Leaders of Watershed) Grants
$5,000 Ripple Grant Application - The FLOW Ripple grant provides organizations an opportunity to involve 10 or more youth who will engage in 30 hours of service--earning. Grants are available for the funding year August 1, 2008 to July 31, 2009. Grant requirements: Youth (ages 5-17) led service-learning activities focused on watershed health. Collaboration between youth-serving, watershed and/or community organizations; K-12 school connection (this could range from an involvement of a teacher to a formal partnership with a local school); Local match of 30%; Must submit volunteer opportunities and have service hours logged - www.volunteerwv.org; All grantees must implement a service event on the FLOW Day of Service on Earth Day 2009 and attend four FLOW-sponsored trainings.
Proposals due: Friday, May 23, 2008 at 5 p.m. EST.

Contact: Sherry Swint at 558-0111 or sswint@mail.state.wv.us for more information.

http://www.volunteerwv.org/nd/index_projectflow.cfm http://www.volunteerwv.org/nd/index_projectflow_funding08.cfm

Foster's Community Grants - Support for Community Programs
Foster's Community Grants, a program of the Foster's Group, a global company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, provides support to nonprofit organizations in the United States, Canada, and Australia for community-building projects. Grants are provided in the following focus areas: wellness, including both physical and mental health; culture, including artistic, sporting, and educational activities; and the environment, including all aspects of the natural environment.

Online applications will be accepted from April 7 to May 23, 2008.
http://www.fosters.com.au/about/fosterscommunitygrants.htm

Burger King Corporation: HAVE IT YOUR WAY Foundation

Funds for Community Improvement Programs
The Burger King Corporation's HAVE IT YOUR WAY Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations that have long-term positive impact on the U.S. communities served by the company. The Foundation focuses the majority of its support on organizations that alleviate hunger, prevent disease, and provide youth programs. Additionally, the Foundation funds the BURGER KING Scholars Program, and, on a limited basis, supports the efforts of nonprofit institutions that seek to improve scholastic opportunities.
Application deadlines for 2008: May 15 & September 15.
http://www.bk.com/companyinfo/community/hiywfoundation.aspx

Parent Group of the Year 2008
PTO Today, Inc. invites members of PTO, PTA, HSA, PTC, and other groups to showcase their hard work while giving their schools the chance to win $8,000 in cash and prizes.
Deadline: May 30, 2008. http://www.ptotoday.com/pgy/

Rural Leaders Program
Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College will be awarding seven citizens' groups, $1,000 grants to improve the quality of life within their local community. The grant awards are "ideal opportunities for community members, including parent organizations, teen groups, and senior citizens to lead by example, working together make a difference in their community." To qualify for a grant the anticipated project must take place in one of the following counties: Logan, Mingo, McDowell, or Wyoming. Incorporated entities and 501c3 organizations are not eligible to apply.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2008.

Application: Rural Leaders application.doc Press Release: Rural Leaders Press Release.doc

Target Local Store Grants (Community Programs)
The Target Local Store Grants support nonprofit organizations in the communities throughout the country where the company's stores are located. The Target grant program focuses on three areas: Arts, Early Childhood Reading, and Family Violence Prevention. Arts grants are awarded to programs that bring the arts to schools or make the arts accessible to children and families, such as school touring programs or field trips to the theater or symphony. Early Childhood Reading grants support programs that foster a love of reading and encourage children, from birth through age 9, to read together with their families, such as weekend book clubs and after-school reading programs. Family Violence Prevention grants support programs that strengthen families and communities by keeping them safe, such as parenting classes and family counseling.
Applications may be submitted online March 1 - May 31, 2008. http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001818

Bowerman Track Renovation Program
The Bowerman Track Renovation Program, administered by Nike's Corporate Responsibility department, provides grants to youth-oriented organizations that seek to refurbish or construct running tracks anywhere in the world. Special consideration will be given to existing running tracks in need of repair or refurbishment and tracks located in low- and moderate-income communities. Matching grants of up to $50,000 are provided. Community-based, nonprofit, or nongovernmental organizations worldwide that serve youth ages 14-18 are eligible to apply.

Requests are reviewed quarterly and accepted on an ongoing basis through May 31, 2009. http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=26&item=bowerman

RGK Foundation
The RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of education, community, and medicine/health. 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 classified as "not a private foundation" under Section 509(a). Foundation staff reviews electronic letters of inquiry on an ongoing basis and typically responds within two days, but allow up to two weeks for a response. The foundation will send an e-mail message to each organization either declining its request or inviting it to submit a formal application packet for further consideration. Deadlines: February 8, 2008; June 6, 2008; September 5, 2008. http://www.rgkfoundation.org/guidelines.php

The History Channel: Save Our History Grant Program
The Save Our History Grant Program, developed by the History Channel, provides funding to support collaboration between history organizations and schools or youth groups on projects that teach children about their local heritage and actively engage them in its preservation. For example, projects might focus on the history and/or preservation of a building, historic site, historic collections, or an historic event that is important to the local community. Funds are provided for primary research, physical preservation or clean-up efforts, historical documentation, archaeological or architectural studies, oral histories and efforts to register a site for local, state, or national landmark status.

Deadline: June 6, 2008. http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=51650&display_order=3&mini_ id=51103

Saucony Run For Good Program
The Saucony Run For Good Program encourages active and healthy lifestyles in children and offers grants to communities and non-profit organizations that initiate and support running and fitness programs for kids.
501©3 youth organizations with programs that increase participation in running in order to positively impact the lives of participants are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: June 13, 2008. http://www.sauconyrunforgood.com/

United Methodist Church: A Brighter Future for Children and Youth
A Brighter Future for Children and Youth, a grant program of the United Methodist Church, supports projects which help children ages 5 to 18 handle one or more of the following issues: abuse, relationship violence, bullying of any type, or gang violence. Funded projects should involve women and youth at the grassroots level as well as promote respect for and appreciation of racial/ethnic diversity. Grants of up to $4,000 are provided for small-scale, community and church-based projects. (Groups affiliated with national organizations, hospitals and organizations with budgets totaling more than $3,000,000 are not normally funded.)
Application Deadline: July 1, 2008.
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umw/money/grants/a-brighter-future-for-children-and-youth-2005-2008/

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Local Funding Partnerships
Local Funding Partnerships (LFP), a collaborative program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and local grant makers, supports innovative, community-based projects throughout the United States that aim to improve health care for vulnerable populations. Through LFP, a local grant maker proposes a funding partnership with the Foundation to provide seed money for a new project that addresses the health or health care problems of people who are not reached by traditional health and social services or for whom existing services are insufficient. LFP provides grants of $200,000 to $500,000 per project, which must be matched dollar for dollar by local grant makers such as community foundations, family foundations, corporate grant makers, etc.
Proposals due: July 8, 2008. http://www.lifp.org/

Motorola Abraham Lincoln Grants Program - Grants Encourage Civic Involvement
The Motorola Foundation, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth through the Motorola Abraham Lincoln Grants Program. The program will provide grants to projects developed by U.S. civic, educational, and cultural organizations that actively engage the public in the lessons from Lincoln's life. Funded projects should focus on one of the following three themes: bringing history into the future, engaging in current events, or leadership skills. Eligible applicants include schools and school systems; community organizations; arts and culture organizations; museums; universities; and, other nonprofit organizations with programming on diversity, freedom, history, and leadership.
Application Deadlines: April 30, 2008 & July 30, 2008.
http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=8772

Skoll Foundation: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in people and organizations who apply innovative solutions to pressing social problems. The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support nonprofit organizations whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional responsibility, social and economic equality, and peace and security. Programs submitted for consideration should have a track record of at least three years.
Application Deadline: March 18, 2008 & August 5, 2008. http://www.skollfund.org/skollawards/index.asp

Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation: Champ - A Champion Fur Kids Grants
The goal of the Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation is to support specific programs with measurable outcomes that are working to make the world a healthier and happier place for kids. The Foundation offers Champ - A Champion Fur Kids Grants in the areas of health and wellness to childhood disease research foundations, child safety organizations, and organizations that serve children with special needs. Priority is given to organizations located near Build-A-Bear Workshop stores.

Application deadline: February 29 and August 30.
http://www.buildabear.com/aboutus/community/grants/default.aspx

Reader's Digest Foundation: Make It Matter Grants Honor Community Volunteers
The Reader's Digest Foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities and promoting efforts that encourage individuals to make a positive difference in their communities. The Make It Matter program, the Foundation's newest initiative, honors individuals who are taking action and giving back to their communities in a significant way. Each month, through 2008, Reader's Digest magazine will profile an individual who has made a significant contribution to his or her community. Considering the subject of the selected story, the Foundation will select an appropriate nonprofit organization and grant $100,000 to that organization in honor of the person featured in the story.

Nominations may be submitted online at any time during the next ten months. (posted 3/'08)
http://www.rd.com/jsp/rdcom/makeItMatterLanding.jsp

Pioneer Hi-Bred International: Community Investment Program Grants Target Rural Areas
Pioneer Hi-Bred International's Community Investment Program supports efforts to improve the quality of life in the communities where the company's customers and employees live and work throughout the United States. The company focuses its grantmaking in the following areas: education, with an emphasis on science; agriculture; and farm safety. Priority is given to nonprofit organizations located in Pioneer facility communities or rural agricultural regions. Organizations with active Pioneer employee participation and company-related expertise receive priority consideration.

Applications are accepted throughout the year. http://www.pioneer.com/web/site/portal/menuitem.bb020a6d93d9d318bc0c0a03d10093a0/

Southern Poverty Law Center: Mix It Up Grants Program - Funds Promote Youth Activist Projects
The Mix It Up Grants Program, administered by the Southern Poverty Law Center, provides $500 grants to youth-directed activist projects that focus on identifying, crossing, and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Funded projects must promote collaboration across social boundaries — different youth groups, clubs, or community groups working together. Ideally, the project should be created and implemented by youth; however, various adults and community volunteers should also be invited to participate.

Applications are accepted throughout the year. http://www.tolerance.org/teens/grants.jsp

CIGNA Foundation Grants
As part of its overall commitment to support innovative programs addressing the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, the CIGNA Foundation makes targeted grants to organizations working in five core concern areas. These concerns, and representative activities, are: the health of women, children, and families; obesity awareness and prevention;
patient/doctor communications and health literacy; elimination of gender and ethnic disparities in health care; and the connection between a healthy mind and a healthy body.
Application Deadline: Introductory applications - the first step in the application process - are received and reviewed throughout the year.
http://www.cigna.com/about_us/community/targeted_grant.html

Farm Foundation
The Farm Foundation works to improve the economic and social well-being of U.S. agriculture, the food system, and rural communities. The Foundation provides support to private and public organizations to present multi-state or national conferences and workshops that address economic and policy issues critical to agriculture and people in rural communities. The Foundation seeks project proposals that specifically address one of the following priority areas: Consumer Issues, Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Issues, Globalization, New Technologies, Role of Agricultural Institutions, or Rural Community Viability. Applications may be submitted at any time. http://www.farmfoundation.org/guidelines.htm

Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Ben & Jerry's Foundation provides support to nonprofit, grassroots organizations throughout the United States that facilitate progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems. The Foundation doesn't prioritize any particular issue area for funding; the focus is on the types of activities and strategies an organization uses for creating social change in any number of areas. Grant applicants need to demonstrate that their projects will lead to societal, institutional, and/or environmental change; will address the root causes of social or environmental problems; and will lead to new ways of thinking and acting. Requests are accepted throughout the year.

http://www.benjerry.com/foundation/guidelines.html

MetLife Foundation (Community Development)
Grants usually fall within the following broad areas of concern: health, civic affairs, education, culture, and public broadcasting. The MetLife Foundation makes contributions only to organizations that have been granted exemption from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Application Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,1674,P296,00.html

Dollar General School Library Relief Fund Beyond Words
Dollar General, in collaboration with the American Library Association (ALA), the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the National Education Association (NEA), is sponsoring a school library disaster relief fund for public school libraries in the states served by Dollar General. The fund will provide grants to public schools whose school library program has been affected by a disaster. Grants are to replace or supplement books, media and/or library equipment in the school library setting. Grants will be awarded to public school libraries that have incurred substantial damage or hardship due to a natural disaster (tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood, avalanche, mudslide), fire or an act recognized by the federal government as terrorism. The goal is to provide funding for books, media, and/or library equipment that support learning in a school library environment. The impact can be through direct loss or through an increase in enrollment due to displaced/evacuee students. Initially, priority will be given to school libraries impacted by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Deadline - Ongoing. http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslawards/dollargeneral/disasterrelief.cfm

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
LISC provides technical and financial resources to help community development organizations become strong and stable neighborhood institutions characterized by effective and responsible fiscal management and capable of carrying out a range of community revitalization activities. Through LISC local program offices, we provide grant funding to assist organizations develop affordable housing, commercial and retail space, and community facilities, as well as other community development activities. Deadline: Ongoing
http://www.lisc.org/section/products/loans/grants/

Singing for Change (SFC) Charitable Foundation
Singing for Change offers competitive grants to progressive, community-based, nonprofit organizations that address the root causes of social and environmental problems. SFC areas of interest include: Children and families; The environment & Disenfranchised groups. Grants range in size from $500 to $10,000 and are made on an annual basis. Application Deadline: Proposals are by invitation only. If you think your project fits the foundation's guidelines, please submit a one-page letter of interest describing your organization and your project. http://www.margaritaville.com/index.php?page=sfcprop

State Farm Companies Grants Program
The State Farm Companies Grants Program is committed to meeting the needs of company communities in the U.S. and Canada. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies working in the areas of safety, community development, and education The Safe Neighbors category focuses on roadway safety, protecting homes, disaster preparedness, and personal financial security. The Strong Neighborhoods category focuses on affordable housing, homeownership, and sustainable communities. The K-12 Public Schools category focuses on teacher quality, service learning programs, and educational reform. Grant requests are accepted at any time.
http://www.statefarm.com/about/part_spos/grants/cogrants.as

AT&T Foundation
The AT&T Foundation provides grants to organizations and programs that enrich the quality of life, with an emphasis on improving education, advancing community development, addressing vital community needs and enhancing unique cultural assets. The AT&T Foundation funds programs designed to: enhance education by integrating new technologies and increasing learning opportunities; improve economic development through technology and local initiatives; provide vital assistance to key community-based organizations; support cultural institutions that make a community unique; and advance the goals and meet the needs of diverse populations. Ongoing deadline.
http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=7736&DCMP=att_foundation

Bank One Corporate Contributions
Bank One Corporate Contributions philosophy is to "think globally but act locally." Contributions strategy and policy are determined on a centralized basis for the entire corporation, contribution decisions and implementation are carried out autonomously at the local level. Central to their history and culture is the principle of working to improve the communities they serve. To maximize the impact of their contributions, they concentrate on issues where they, as a financial services institution, can build capacity and have the greatest long-term effect, particularly in the areas of Community Development, Civic Leadership and the Arts, Education and Human Services. Grant sizes vary. Ongoing deadline. http://www.jpmorganchase.com/cm/cs?pagename=Chase/Href&urlname=jpmc/community/grants

Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health. The Foundation only considers organizations defined as a public charity and tax exempt under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Annenberg Foundation accepts letters of inquiry at all times during the year and there are no deadlines. After review of the inquiry by Foundation staff, the applicant will be contacted within 6 to 8 weeks as to the status of the request. Ongoing deadline.
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/grants/grants_show.htm?doc_id=210575

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Education

LIVE GREEN Teacher Grant Program
The LIVE GREEN Teacher Grant Program challenges middle school teachers to develop ideas for furthering environmental and energy sustainability. Forty grants worth $1,000 will be awarded to teachers for the most forward thinking ideas.
Deadline: May 15, 2008. http://livegreen.discoveryeducation.com/

Newspaper Association of America Foundation: Student/Newspaper Partnership Grant Program
The Newspaper Association of America Foundation strives to develop engaged and literate citizens in our diverse society through investment in and support of programs designed to enhance student achievement through newspaper readership and appreciation of the First Amendment. The Foundation's Student/Newspaper Partnership Grant Program provides support to partnership proposals between middle and high schools and their local newspapers to create a school newspaper where none exists, or to stabilize and strengthen struggling student newspapers. Schools are also encouraged to seek a university or a college as an additional partner. Applications from minority-majority, urban, and rural schools and their local newspapers are of special interest.

Application deadline: May 16, 2008.
http://www.naafoundation.org/Home/NAAFoundation/ScholasticPress/PartnershipGrants.aspx

Project Ignition

Project Ignition, grants target teen driver safety, sponsored by State Farm and coordinated by the National Youth Leadership Council, is a chance for students and teachers to work together to address the issue of teen driver safety. Support is provided for innovative public awareness, service-learning projects based on teen driver safety developed by students enrolled in grades 9-12 at U.S. public schools. Students must create this project with the support of a teacher or advisor. Twenty-five semi-finalists will receive $2,000 to help put their plan into action in the fall of 2008. Ten finalists will then receive a stipend of up to $5,000 for travel to the National Service-Learning Conference.

The application deadline is May 16, 2008. http://www.sfprojectignition.com/00home/

AT&T High School Success Special Grants Program (High School Retention Programs)
The AT&T High School Success Special Grants Program, an initiative of the AT&T Foundation, will provide support to high schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations across the United States. Existing high school retention programs with a successful track record are eligible for project grants of $50,000 to $100,000 per year for up to four years. New high school retention programs that need additional resources are eligible for planning/capacity-building grants of $25,000 to $35,000 per year for one year only.
Applications deadline: May 19, 2008. http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=11520

Creation Nation - LEGO - Creativity Awards
The Second Annual LEGO Creativity Awards will give $5,000 to five children 6-13 years old who wish to enhance their creativity and talent with guitar lessons, art supplies, a personal invention, or finding an innovative solution to a community problem.
Deadline: May 23, 2008. http://www.legocreationnation.com/

Contact: Sherry Swint at 558-0111 or sswint@mail.state.wv.us for more information.

http://www.volunteerwv.org/nd/index_projectflow.cfm http://www.volunteerwv.org/nd/index_projectflow_funding08.cfm

NEA Foundation: Student Achievement Grants
To improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should improve students' habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection. Proposals for work resulting in low-income and minority student success with honors, advanced placement, or other challenging curricula are particularly encouraged. Maximum award amount is $5,000. Applicants must be practicing U.S. public school teachers, public school education support professionals, or faculty or staff at public higher education institutions. Deadline: June 1.

Application - www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htm

Staples Foundation for Learning
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Eligible organizations must have a nonprofit tax-exempt classification under 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and align with Staples Foundation for Learning's mission and give focus on job skills and education. Proposals must be submitted between June 2 - June 16 by 11:59 pm ET to be considered for review at the September 2008 meeting. Proposals submitted between October 10 - October 24 by 11:59 pm ET will be considered for review during the January 2009 meeting.
http://www.staplesfoundation.org/foundapplication.html

Deadline: June 6, 2008. http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=51650&display_order=3&mini_ id=51103

Lowe's, International Paper & National Geographic Explorer

Outdoor Classroom Grants to help schools create and enhance outdoor learning environments.
Some outdoor classrooms will be small gardens for growing flowers and vegetables. Other outdoor learning spaces will include a butterfly garden, a small pond or bog, a nature trail, animal tracking boxes, or a bird sanctuary. More elaborate outdoor learning environments include a laboratory for testing water and soil quality, a greenhouse, wetlands, an arboretum, or a shelter. Teacher and students should work together to create an outdoor classroom plan, including illustrations, video footage, and photos, if applicable. Most grants will be in amounts of $2,000 or less, although some larger grants may be awarded for major projects. All K-12 U.S. public schools are eligible to apply.

Deadline: December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2008
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=AboutLowes/outdoor/apply2.html

Mockingbird Foundation (Funds for Children's Music Education Programs)
The Mockingbird Foundation, created to celebrate the music of Phish and the spirit of their fans, offers grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that provide music education for children. The geographic focus is on the United States, with an interest in geographic diversity. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage creative expression in all musical forms, including composition, instrumentation, vocalization and improvisation. The Foundation gives priority to projects serving children eighteen years or younger, but will also consider projects that benefit college students, teachers/instructors, or adult students, especially disenfranchised groups.

Online letters of inquiry are due February 1 and August 1, annually.
http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/funding/

Greenworks! Grants
Project Learning Tree® (PLT) is an award-winning national environmental education program for educators and their students in grades PreK-12. GreenWorks! is the service-learning, community action program. GreenWorks! blends service activities with the academic curriculum and addresses real community needs as students learn through active engagement. GreenWorks! environmental action projects link classroom learning and the real world. GreenWorks! projects should address an environmental issue and involve students from pre-school to high school in hands-on community action. The GreenWorks! program also encourages participants to form partnerships with groups, businesses, or organizations within their communities to help implement and sustain their GreenWorks! projects. GreenWorks! grants are awarded in the spring and fall of each year in the following two funding categories: $250 to $1,000 GreenWorks! Grants and $1,001 - $5,000 GreenWorks! Grants.

Deadlines for submitting proposals are: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 for the Spring 2008 Funding Cycle and Friday, October 31, 2008 for the Fall 2008 Funding Cycle.
http://www.plt.org/cms/pages/21_22_18.html

The Lawrence Foundation
The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environmental, educational, health, human services, and other causes. Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or public schools and libraries, are eligible for contributions or grants.

Grants are awarded twice a year. Deadline: April 30th or October 31st.
http://www.thelawrencefoundation.org/grants/index.php

Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program
Wild Ones gives cash awards ranging from $100 to $500 for projects in K-12 classrooms that use native plants to increase students' knowledge and awareness of natural landscaping.

Deadline: November 15, 2008. http://www.for-wild.org/sfecvr.html

Captain Planet Foundation Grants
The Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) annually gives $250 - $2,500 to schools and non-profits that propose projects promoting understanding of environmental issues. These projects must include children and young adults (aged 6 - 18).

Deadline: December 31, 2008. http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/grants.html

Actuarial Foundation: Advancing Student Achievement Funds for Mathematics Mentoring
Advancing Student Achievement, an initiative of the Actuarial Foundation, awards grants to schools and groups throughout the United States and Canada for programs that involve actuaries in the teaching of mathematics. The initiative brings together actuaries and educators in local classrooms (grades 4-12) with the belief that interaction with real-world mentors will boost students' interest in math. Applicants for grants will be given wide latitude in designing programs that create a "love of math" in each student. The Foundation can provide a local network of actuaries ready to participate, as well as suggestions on how to integrate math concepts from the workplace into the classroom.

Applications may be submitted at any time. http://www.actuarialfoundation.org/grant/

Applications are accepted throughout the year. http://www.pioneer.com/web/site/portal/menuitem.bb020a6d93d9d318bc0c0a03d10093a0/

Carls Foundation
The principal purpose and mission of the foundation is to support children's welfare efforts that emphasize healthcare facilities and programs and the prevention/ treatment of hearing impairment. The foundation was founded by Bill Carls, who created Numatics, a leading worldwide manufacturer of industrial air valves. Other focus areas include recreational, educational and welfare programs, especially for children who are disadvantaged, and preservation of natural areas, open space, historic buildings and areas having special natural beauty or significance. The Carls Foundation has no formal application for grant requests. A letter of inquiry is not required and phone calls are welcome. In the past, all grants have been made to non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

Ongoing deadline. http://www.carlsfdn.org/

Coryell Family Foundation
The Coryell Family Foundation was incorporated in 2000 to grant support to charitable, literary, scientific and educational based organizations. The Foundation will support the following types of organizations: affecting change in the lives of the disadvantaged; support the disadvantaged; and assist in the support of medical recovery. The Foundation has not established maximum dollar amounts, but rather look at the amount needed for each specific project based on the scope of the work proposed.

Ongoing deadline. http://www.coryellfamily.com/index.cfm

McKenzie Foundation
The purpose of the McKenzie Foundation is to encourage and support nonprofit programs, primarily in the areas of education, health, human services and cultural and environmental concerns. Faced with the task of translating these broad-reaching goals into a more focused set of grant guidelines, the board has selected four initiatives that will shape its grant-making for the next few years: early childhood development; education; the environment; arts and culture. The foundation makes grants to tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations. The foundation reviews letters on a continuous basis, and they may be submitted at any time during the year. http://www.mckenziefoundation.us/grants.php

Bonnie Plants: 3rd Grade Cabbage Program
Third-grade teachers or FFA advisors may register to receive free cabbages for their students to help children learn to love gardening while they learn about nature.
Deadline: Following registration registrants are contacted by the company.
http://www.bonnieplants.com/3rdGradeCabbageProgram/tabid/58/Default.aspx

Verizon Foundation: Education Grants
To support initiatives that focus on one or more of these priority areas: literacy, domestic violence, and technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility. Grants average between $5,000 and $10,000. Programs that receive support will not duplicate or significantly overlap the work of public agencies on the federal, state, or local level. Funded programs will serve the community without discrimination on the basis of age, color, citizenship, disability, disabled veteran status, gender, race, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, military service or status, or Vietnam-era veteran status. (Verizon also offers support in the form of volunteers; information on this program is available at http://foundation.verizon.com/05001.shtml .)
Deadline: Ongoing. http://foundation.verizon.com/02008.shtml

The American Family Life Insurance Company (AFLAC)
AFLAC's philanthropic efforts in the community can be seen in four areas: health, education, youth, and the arts. From contributing to the John B. Amos Cancer Center to helping underwrite the creation of a new library. AFLAC grants range from $1,500 to $2 million. Ongoing deadline. http://www.aflac.com/us/en/aboutaflac/communityinvolvement.aspx

National SMART Grant

The National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant, also known as the National Smart Grant is available during the third and fourth years of undergraduate study to full-time students who are eligible for the Federal Pell Grant and who are majoring in physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, technology, or engineering or in a foreign language are eligible to receive an additional grant of up to $4,000 a year. Secretary of Education recently said that they have awarded less than half of the funds allocated to these grant. The student must also have maintained a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 in coursework required for the major. Ongoing. http://www.studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/SmartGrants.jsp

Free Classroom Materials from Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance provides free educational materials to people working with youth that promote respect and appreciation for diversity in the classroom and beyond. Free materials include VHS videos, DVDs, a magazine subscription, and posters available to K-12 classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of home school networks, youth directors at houses of worship, and employees of youth-serving non-profit organizations. Their magazine and curriculum kits have earned Oscar nominations, an Academy Award, and more than a dozen honors from the Association of Educational Publishers.

Ongoing deadline. http://www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp

Airborne Teacher Trust Fund
The Airborne Teacher Trust Fund invites elementary and middle school teachers from public and private schools throughout the country to submit proposals for art and music programs that their schools are unable to fund. A panel of judges will then review and select proposals quarterly, and awards will be announced monthly. Teachers and their schools will receive grants from $200 to $10,000 to be used to implement their programs. At the conclusion of a program, the selected teacher/s will supply Airborne with a recap, which will then be posted on their website. Ongoing deadline. http://www.airbornetrust.com/

Actuarial Foundation
The Actuarial Foundation through its Advancing Student Achievement Mentoring program awards monetary grants to schools and groups throughout the United States and Canada. The basic requirement for schools or groups seeking funding is that they develop a viable mentoring program involving actuaries in the teaching of mathematics to children in private and public schools. Advancing Student Achievement is a grant program that brings together actuaries and educators in local classroom environments with the belief that interaction with real-world mentors will boost students' interest and achievement in math. The Actuarial Foundation can provide a local network of actuaries ready to participate, as well as suggestions on how to integrate math concepts from the workplace into the classroom. Groups applying for grants will be given wide latitude in designing programs that enhance learning and create a "love of math" in each student. Ongoing deadline. http://www.actuarialfoundation.org/grant/what.html

Annenberg Foundation

The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health. The Foundation only considers organizations defined as a public charity and tax exempt under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Annenberg Foundation accepts letters of inquiry at all times during the year and there are no deadlines. After review of the inquiry by Foundation staff, the applicant will be contacted within 6 to 8 weeks as to the status of the request. Ongoing deadline.

http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/grants/grants_show.htm?doc_id=210575

Free Ayn Rand Books for Teachers!
The Ayn Rand Institute is providing classroom sets of Ayn Rand's novels, along with teacher's guides and lesson plans, to high schools in the US and Canada. Teachers should complete the request form on the web site. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_classroom_books

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Ms. Foundation - Social Justice for Women
The Ms. Foundation supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. The Foundation has just issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will award grants to groups working in the US, Puerto Rico and U.S. territories in the following areas: U.S. Women and AIDS Policy; Reproductive and Sexual Rights, Health and Justice; Child Sexual Abuse Prevention; and Katrina Women's Response/Gulf Coast Recovery. In all of the grantmaking areas, the Foundation prioritizes programs that increase the number of women and girls, especially those from marginalized communities, engaged in movements for social justice.
Proposals must be submitted by May 14, 2008. http://www.ms.foundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=544

Project Ignition

The application deadline is May 16, 2008. http://www.sfprojectignition.com/00home/

American Masterpieces: Dance-College Component
The American Masterpieces: Dance-College Component, a grant program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by Dance/USA in collaboration with the New England Foundation for the Arts, is designed to foster appreciation for the best in American dance history and creativity. The program brings classic American dances of the past century to college students and audiences in communities across the nation. Awards of up to $10,000 will provide support for colleges and universities to bring in artists to reconstruct or restage works by master American choreographers of the 20th Century using student dancers. For all projects, public involvement within and/or beyond the academic community is critical.
Application deadline: May 19, 2008.
http://www.danceusa.org/programs_publications/American_Masterpieces.htm

Great American Bake Sale Grant
The Great American Bake Sale Grants ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger. Grants will be awarded to organizations that propose projects that increase participation in the organization's USDA summer and afterschool meal programs. Grants will also be awarded to organizations that propose projects that increase participation in afterschool and summer meal programs through advocacy. Grant awards will range from $1,000 - $10,000.
Deadline: May 30, 2008. http://gabs.strength.org/site/PageServer?pagename=GABS_grants

Target Local Store Grants (Community Programs)
The Target Local Store Grants support nonprofit organizations in the communities throughout the country where the company's stores are located. The Target grant program focuses on three areas: Arts, Early Childhood Reading, and Family Violence Prevention. Arts grants are awarded to programs that bring the arts to schools or make the arts accessible to children and families, such as school touring programs or field trips to the theater or symphony. Early Childhood Reading grants support programs that foster a love of reading and encourage children, from birth through age 9, to read together with their families, such as weekend book clubs and after-school reading programs. Family Violence Prevention grants support programs that strengthen families and communities by keeping them safe, such as parenting classes and family counseling.
Applications may be submitted online March 1 - May 31, 2008. http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001818

Presbyterian Hunger Program
The Presbyterian Hunger Program provides grants to programs addressing hunger and its causes in the United States and around the world. Priority is given to organizations that attempt to change the root causes of hunger. Grants are provided in the following five categories: Direct Relief grants support programs that provide food relief to poor people. Development Assistance grants focus on developing a multi-faceted approach to development and the empowerment of poor people. Influencing Public Policy grants encourage activities that advocate for political and/or economic policy changes which provide food for the poor. Lifestyle Integrity grants target programs that assist the church to move toward sustainable lifestyles sensitive to the reality of the earth's limited resources. Education and Interpretation grants promote activities to educate the church and the public at large about the root causes of hunger. Applications deadline domestic: May 31st and October 31st, annually. International any time. http://www.pcusa.org/hunger/grants.htm

Requests are reviewed quarterly and accepted on an ongoing basis through May 31, 2009. http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=26&item=bowerman

Application deadline: June 13, 2008. http://www.sauconyrunforgood.com/

Lowe's, International Paper & National Geographic Explorer

Deadline: December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2008
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=AboutLowes/outdoor/apply2.html

Mattel Children's Foundation
The Mattel Children's Foundation's mission is to better the lives of children in need. Through the Domestic Grantmaking Program, support is provided to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States that directly serve children. Grants are available to local organizations that use creative methods to address the needs of children from birth to 12 years of age. Funded programs must address one of the following issues: the health and well-being of children, with emphasis on promoting healthy, active lifestyles; increased access to education for underserved children, in particular, innovative strategies to promote literacy; and the self-esteem of girls up to age 12.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2008.
http://www.mattel.com/About_Us/Philanthropy/ci_mcf_philanthropy_grantmaking.asp

ADA Foundation: Samuel Harris Fund for Children's Dental Health
The ADA Foundation has a permanent endowment fund dedicated to the prevention of childhood caries and oral health for children. The Harris Fund will award competitive grants of up to $5,000 to applicants whose oral health promotion programs are designed to improve and maintain children's oral health through community education and outreach programs. The grant program's main objective is to help children whose socio-economic status impacts on their access to professional oral care and adversely affects their oral health habits at home. The program philosophy seeks to increase access to, and education on, oral health care by encouraging volunteerism in the health professions community. By also encouraging synergy between community based applicants and awardees, the grant program seeks to pool limited resources within dentistry, industry and public charities to significantly reduce the level of children’s oral disease through education. Through this effort, the program assists in the dissemination of oral health promotion activities to aid those children most at risk.

Applications deadline: July 17, 2008. http://www.ada.org/ada/adaf/grants/harris.asp

Women's Sports Foundation: GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards Awards Encourage Physical Fitness
The GoGirlGo! Ambassador Team Awards program, sponsored by Gatorade and administered by the Women's Sports Foundation, is designed to inspire teams to help fight the disturbing physical and psychological health risks affecting America's youth. School, amateur, community and nonprofit affiliated teams whose members are females enrolled in 9th-12th grade are eligible to participate in the program. Applying teams must lead their own project that will get girls in their communities physically active and submit a detailed essay describing the project. Twenty $2,500 grants will be awarded in recognition of the outstanding efforts of teams throughout the United States.

Application Deadline: July 18, 2008.

http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/funding/featured.html?record=34

Public Welfare Foundation (Social Change Programs Funded)
The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. The Foundation looks for carefully defined points where funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people throughout the United States. The Foundation's 2008 funding priorities include Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Health Reform, and Worker's Rights.

Deadlines are March 21 and August 1, 2008; letters of inquiry should be submitted at least six weeks before the proposal deadline.

http://www.publicwelfare.org/

Online letters of inquiry are due February 1 and August 1, annually.
http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/funding/

Warhol and Creative Capital Support Arts Writers
Letters of inquiry are being accepted for the 2008 Arts Writers Grant Program. This program provides project-based grants ranging from $3,000 to $50,000 to individual arts writers whose work addresses contemporary visual arts. The program aims to support the entire continuum of contemporary visual arts writing, from general audience criticism to academic scholarship. A wide variety of projects are supported through this program, including book-length works, individual articles, short-form writing, and blogs/new and alternative media. Applicants for book projects must submit letters of inquiry by May 5, 2008.

Letters of inquiry are not required for shorter length projects.

The 2008 full application period opens August 4 and closes September 22.
http://www.artswriters.org/home.php

Application deadline: August 30.
http://www.buildabear.com/aboutus/community/grants/default.aspx

WHO Foundation: Women Helping Others
The WHO Foundation: Women Helping Others® nationally supports grass-roots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and children. Grants are provided to organizations serving women and/or children in the United States and Puerto Rico. Specific projects and programs addressing health and social service needs are their priority. The Foundation recognizes the value of new programs created to respond to changing needs and will consider funding projects of an original or pioneering nature within an existing organization. To qualify for funding, an organization must have 501©3 nonprofit status and be qualified to receive deductible charitable contributions. Organizations must be at least three years old. Preference will be given to organizations with an operating budget of $3 million or less, those not dependent on government grants and those with greater organizational program costs than personnel costs. September 9, 2008 is the application deadline. http://www.whofoundation.org/WHO_Funding.htm

Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation
The ELA Foundation has a vision of "Changing the Face of Disability on the Planet". They accomplish this through their grant and scholarship programs. The ELA Foundation grant funds for established programs in the areas of arts and advocacy to nonprofit US 501(c)(3) organizations, which are led by or support adults with disabilities who are 22 or older. They encourage distinctive, cutting edge programs that impact the lives of people with disabilities by changing the face of disability in a community. Program grants from the ELA Foundation range from $1,000 to $5,000 and must demonstrate support by other foundations, corporations and individuals in the local community.

Applications must be submitted by March 15 for the May 1 deadline or September 15 for the November 1 deadline (annually). http://www.ela.org/grants/grants.html

Grants are awarded twice a year. Deadline: April 30th or October 31st.
http://www.thelawrencefoundation.org/grants/index.php