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Civic Ventures program matching highly experienced professionals with nonprofit organizations in the Sacramento & Sierra regions - Generosity Project
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Best Buy Community Grants Program
Youth Technology Skills Programs Funded (Posted 5/17)
The Best Buy Community Grants Program provides support to nonprofit organizations that are located within 50 miles of a Best Buy store or distribution center. Grants promote programs that provide teens with places and opportunities to develop 21st century technology skills that will inspire future education and career choices. Eligible programs must build technology skills in teens ages 13-18, deliver community-based youth programs during out of school time, and serve a diverse population. Grants average $5,000, and will not exceed $10,000.
Office Depot Foundation
Funds for Programs Enhancing Company Communities
The Office Depot Foundation supports nonprofit organizations, government agencies, libraries, and schools that bring systemic change to the communities they serve. The Foundation provides grants averaging $1,000 in three distinct categories. The focus of the “Giving Children Tools for Success” category is on activities that give young people tools to succeed in school and in life through education and inspiration.
Digital Media and Learning Competition: Project:Connect
Summer Youth Programming Competition (Posted 5/17)
The Digital Media and Learning Competition, administered by HASTAC and supported by the MacArthur Foundation, brings together youth, programmers, and educators to develop prototypes for social tools in pursuit of a better Web.
Gill Foundation: State Equality Fund
Grants Promote Statewide LGBT Equality (Posted 5/17)
The goal of the State Equality Fund, an initiative of the Gill Foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, an anonymous donor, and the Ford Foundation, in conjunction with Tides Foundation, is to promote LGBT equality at the state level.
National Alliance for Grieving Children: Grief Reach Grant Program
Support for Children’s Bereavement Programs (Posted 5/17)
The goal of the Grief Reach Grant Program, administered by the National Alliance for Grieving Children with funding from the New York Life Foundation, is to provide support for children’s bereavement programs in order to expand their reach to include underserved youth populations. A total of 50% of the children served by funded programs must be from low-income families, or 50% of the children must be from minority communities.
Tides Death Penalty Mobilization Fund
Support for Death Penalty Abolition Efforts (Posted 5/3)
The Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, an initiative of the Tides Foundation and the Advocacy Fund, supports strategic collaborations of local, regional, or national nonprofits working to abolish the death penalty at the state and/or federal levels. The State Strategies segment of the Fund provides grants to state-based activist nonprofit organizations working on death penalty reform or abolition efforts in the United States.
Bikes Belong Grant Program
Community partnership grants (Posted 3/8)
The Bikes Belong Grant Program is aimed at providing funding to those who strive to improve bicycling in America through things such as the building of trails and paths, or through promoting general bicycling advocacy and awareness. Multiple awards of $2,000 - $10,000 each will be awarded. May 24, 2013 is the deadline.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: Building Demand for the Arts
Audience Development Partnerships Funded (Posted 5/3)
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Building Demand for the Arts program supports organizations and artists in joint efforts to develop audience demand for jazz, theatre, and/or contemporary dance. Building Demand grants will promote deeper partnerships, longer relationships, and new kinds of cooperation between organizations and artists.
Farm Aid
Grants promote the family farm system
The mission of Farm Aid is to keep family farmers throughout the United States on their land. Farm Aid supports organizations that work to maintain a family farm system of agriculture and that promote solutions to the challenges facing rural communities. Grants of $3,000 to $10,000 are provided in the following categories: Growing the Good Food Movement supports programs that build local and regional food systems, connecting farmers directly to consumers and creating new value-added markets for family farmers.
United Methodist Women: Call to Prayer and Self-Denial Offering
Financial literacy efforts worldwide funded (Posted 4/9)
The mission of United Methodist Women is to foster spiritual growth, develop leaders, and advocate for justice. The United Methodist Women’s 2013 Call to Prayer and Self-Denial Offering, “Living Stewardship: Creating Financial Literacy,” will support financial literacy programs throughout the world. Grants of up to $25,000 will be provided to nonprofit groups and organizations that work to empower and educate their constituents through knowledge and development of financial literacy skills.
The Wounded Warrior Project
Grants Enhance Services for Injured Veterans (Posted 5/10)
The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) serves veterans and service members who incurred a physical or mental injury, illness, or wound, co-incident to their military service on or after September 11, 2001, and their families. WWP offers grants of $5,000 to $250,000 to support nonprofit organizations that provide direct programming and services to this generation of wounded veterans.
Placer Community Foundation
Community Wellness Mini Grants Program (Posted 4/25)
The Placer Community Foundation is currently accepting applications for its Community Wellness Mini Grants Program. Projects must work as non-traditional approaches to wellness and address the needs of unserved and underserved populations residing along the western slope of Placer County. Visit our website for the application and full guidelines. Applications will be accepted until noon on Thursday, June 6th.
ADA Foundation: Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health
Grants Promote Oral Health Programs for Babies and Toddlers (Posted 5/10)
The American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation provides grants for sustainable programs in dental research, education, access to care, and also provides assistance for dentists and their families in need. The Foundation’s Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health provides grants of up to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations whose oral health promotion initiatives are designed to improve and maintain children’s oral health through primary prevention and education.
Lois Lenski Covey Foundation
Funds for Children’s Book Acquisitions (Posted 5/10)
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation is dedicated to advancing literacy and fostering a love of reading among underserved and at-risk children and youth. The Foundation provides grants to school libraries, non-traditional libraries, and bookmobile programs throughout the country for the purchase of books published for young people preschool through grade 8. The focus of the grant program is on libraries that serve economically or socially at-risk children, have limited book budgets, and demonstrate real need. Grants for 2013 will range from $500 to $3,000.
The EQUUS Foundation
Horse welfare and service programs funded (Posted 4/26)
The EQUUS Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life of horses, promoting the use of horses to enrich the lives of those in need, and educating the public about the horse’s unique ability to empower, teach, and heal. The Foundation provides grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations that impact the well-being of horses, and/or that are improving the quality of life of people through their interactions with horses.
The Foundation’s two funding priorities including the following:
Public Health Institute: Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects
California Projects Addressing Climate Change and Public Health Supported (Posted 5/10)
The Public Health Institute (PHI), with funding from the Kresge Foundation, will provide support to nonprofit organizations in collaboration with local health departments in California through the Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects initiative.
The Rite Aid Foundation
Funds for Health and Wellness Programs in Company Communities (Posted 5/3)
The Rite Aid Foundation is dedicated to helping people in the communities the company serves lead happier, healthier lives. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations focused on the health and wellness of individuals, children and youth, and families in Rite Aid communities in 31 states. Grants ranging from $1,000 to $20,000 are provided for specific programs and projects. Requests are reviewed quarterly. The remaining deadlines for 2013 are July 15 and October 15. Grant submission guidelines are available on the company’s website.
The California Wellness Foundation
Funds for direct services in disease prevention, health promotion, and wellness education (Posted 4/10)
The California Wellness Foundation’s Responsive Grantmaking Program seeks to balance a Foundation-directed approach with responses to unsolicited letters of interest. This approach allows the Foundation to respond to changing circumstances within the nonprofit sector.
Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People
Grants promote community organizing for the disadvantaged (Posted 4/26)
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) participates in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people who are seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression, and injustice.
Surdna Foundation: Sustainable Environments Program
Support for sustainable urban infrastructure systems (Posted 4/26)
The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities throughout the United States. The Foundation’s Sustainable Environments Program works to overhaul our country’s outdated and crumbling infrastructure with an approach that will foster healthier communities.
Union Bank Foundation
Support for bank communities in the West (Posted 4/9)
The Union Bank Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in the communities in which the bank has major operations, primarily in the states of California, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. The Foundation’s areas of interest include affordable housing, community economic development, education, and the environment.
Wells Fargo Housing Foundation
Homeownership Grant Program (Posted 4/9)
The Wells Fargo Housing Foundation is committed to increasing homeownership through the development of affordable housing in the United States. The Foundation’s Homeownership Grant Program supports local nonprofit housing organizations nationwide that help create sustainable homeownership opportunities for low- to moderate-income families. The program focuses on construction/rehab, home buyer education and counseling, foreclosure counseling and prevention, subsidies, and home repairs.
Saucony Run for Good Foundation
Grants to promote running and healthy lifestyle programs for youth (Posted 3/12)
The Saucony Foundation’s objective is to inform the public about the cause and prevention of childhood obesity and provide funding to optimize the impact and success of community organizations that promote running and healthy lifestyle programs for youth. Eligible programs are nonprofits whose participants are 18 years of age or less and can demonstrate that their program positively impacts the lives of participants through their increased participation in running.
Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation
Family, Children, and Pet Programs Funded (Posted 3/2)
The Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in the United States and Canada that enhance the quality of life for children, families, and pets. The Foundation’s grant categories include children’s health and wellness, literacy and education, and domestic pets. Individual project grants as well as organization program grants are provided. Priority is given to nonprofit organizations located near Build-A-Bear Workshop stores.
American Humane Association
Care Grants for Abused and Neglected Animals
The American Humane Association provides financial assistance to animal welfare organizations and breed-specific rescue groups responsible for the temporary care of animals before they are put for adoption into permanent homes.
Due to the overwhelming number of abuse cases nationwide, Second Chance Fund grants are offered only in select cases of animal abuse or neglect. Funding may be used only to cover medical procedures for animals that have been victims of abuse or neglect and require medical treatment before being placed for adoption
Christopher Reeve Foundation
Quality of Life Grants
The Christopher Reeve Foundation is accepting applications from nonprofit origanizations for programs that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries.
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Grants Enhance Community Programs Worldwide
The Coca-Cola Foundation partners with nonprofit organizations worldwide that address community needs and priorities in a meaningful way. The Foundation supports programs that focus on one of the following four categories: Water Stewardship promotes access to clean water and sanitation, watershed protection in water-stressed regions, utilization of water, and water conservation.
Disabled American Vets Charitable Service Trust
Funding for programs offering direct assistance to sick and injured veterans and their families
The Trust supports U.S.
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Adult Literacy Grants
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation’s Adult Literacy Grants program annually awards funding to nonprofit organizations that provide direct service to adults in need of literacy assistance.
Organizations must provide help in one of the following instructional areas: adult basic education, general education diploma (GED) preparation, or English language acquisition.
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Youth Literacy Grants
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation provides grants to qualifying nonprofit organizations in the forty states where Dollar General stores are located. The foundation’s Youth Literacy Grants provide funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations working to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading.
eWomenNetwork Foundation
Grants for Small Organizations
The eWomenNetwork Foundation is accepting grant proposals from nonprofit organizations working to improve the emotional and financial well-being of women and children.
The foundation awards individual grants of $6,000 to small entrepreneurial organizations working to address the health, wellness, and/or safety of underprivileged women and/or children. Eligible organizations must have been in existence for more than three years and have an annual budget between $25,000 and $1 million.
Fender Music Foundation
Guitar Donations to Nonprofit Music Instruction Programs
the Fender Music Foundation provides instruments and equipment for eligible nonprofit music instruction programs. Awarded items are lightly used, blemished, or otherwise imperfect and have been collected by the foundation from manufacturers and retailers.
Home Depot Community Impact Grants Program
Support for Volunteer Projects That Serve Vets
The Home Depot Community Impact Grants Program provides support to nonprofit organizations, public schools, and public service agencies in the U.S. that are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their communities.
Jamba Juice
All About the Fruits and Veggies Grant Program
In celebration of the National Gardening Association’s fortieth anniversary, Jamba Juice has announced that it will award grants to forty youth and school garden programs in the United States.
The All About the Fruits and Veggies grant program will provide youth garden initiatives with $500 in gardening supplies, curriculum, soil amendments, and plants to help create engaging nutrition and gardening experiences.
Maddie’s Fund
Medical Equipment Grants for Adoption-Guarantee Shelters
Maddie’s Fund, a family foundation established to help fund the creation of a “no-kill nation,” is offering grants for medical equipment to any adoption-guarantee shelter that is located in the United States and employs at least one full-time veterinarian. Adoption-guarantee shelters save all the healthy and treatable animals under their care, with euthanasia reserved only for unhealthy and untreatable animals.
Norcross Wildlife Foundation
Support for grassroots wilderness protection efforts
The Norcross Wildlife Foundation provides support to local grassroots organizations throughout the United States that work to protect wild land. Priority is given to organizations that have difficulty raising the modest funds they need to do their critical work in the trenches of environmental conservation. Grants averaging $1,000 to $5,000 are primarily provided for program-related office and field equipment, and public education and outreach materials.
Surdna Foundation
Funding Youth Artistic and Cultural Programs
The Teens’ Artistic and Cultural Advancement program, an initiative of the Surdna Foundation, aims to help young people achieve their educational and career goals and catalyze change in their communities through art and culture. The program supports organizations that connect teens to artistically rigorous and culturally relevant programs that equip them with practical and life-enhancing skills and help prepare them to be creative and innovative leaders in their communities.
Toyota U.S.A. Foundation
Support for Math and Science Education Programs
The Toyota U.S.A. Foundation is committed to improving the quality of K-12 education throughout the country by supporting innovative programs and building partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of mathematics, science, and environmental science.
Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
Social Change Programs Supported
The Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock supports programs throughout the United States that foster the growth and development of the denomination and that increase the involvement of Unitarian Universalists in social action. The Veatch Program also supports non-denominational nonprofit organizations nationwide that are committed to social change and whose goals reflect the principles of Unitarian Universalism. Grant categories include civil rights and sustainable communities, capacity building for social justice, economic equity and fairness, and making democracy work.