GrantStation Insider: April 25, 2024

Application deadline: June 21, 2024
Grant amount: The suggested amount for new applicants is $35,000 or less.
Description: The Matching Awards Program, the National Forest Foundation's flagship competitive grant program, awards funds throughout the United States for projects connecting people to forests. The goal is to create lasting change that will allow all communities, especially underserved communities, opportunities to benefit from activities on National Forest System lands or adjacent public lands. Community engagement should be at the heart of funded projects’ goals and objectives, with stewardship activities as a secondary focus area. Eligible occasions for community engagement may include public lands days or cleanup days, field trips for schools or collaborative groups, outdoor skills training, Indigenous ecological practices, ceremonies or celebrations related to natural resources, trail or site ambassadors, and nature-based therapeutic activities. Projects must take place on U.S. National Forests or Grasslands or adjacent public lands, and demonstrate benefit to National Forest System lands. Nonprofit organizations, tribal governments and organizations, and universities are eligible to apply, and a 1:1 cash match of non-federal funds is required. There will be an informational webinar for applicants on May 20, 2024.

Application deadline: May 31, 2024, for expressions of interest
Grant amount: Up to $250,000 per year for three years
Description: Movember’s Indigenous Men’s Wellbeing Innovation Initiative will provide funding to Indigenous-led nonprofit organizations to improve social and emotional well-being among Indigenous boys and men in the United States. Organizations can apply for funding for the delivery of innovative new programming and approaches with potential as well as the delivery of existing programs and approaches that would benefit from stronger evidence of outcomes. Funded programs and initiatives should achieve one or more of the following outcomes for Indigenous boys or men: elevate connection to and pride in culture, family/kin, community, and country/land through traditional practices; embrace cultural knowledge and engagement in cultural practices; elevate social, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being; strengthen resilience; enhance health literacy; and improve access to culturally appropriate spaces and services that support social and emotional wellbeing.

Application deadline: July 1, 2024
Grant amount: Awards of $50,000, $75,000, and $100,000 are provided.
Description: The Mutual of America Community Partnership Award recognizes the important contributions that nonprofit organizations, in partnership with public, private, and other social sector organizations, make to society in the United States. Award recipients must demonstrate the difference the partnership has made, show the ability of the partnership to be replicated and to stimulate new ideas in addressing social issues, and illustrate the partnership's commitment to advancing the mission and principles of the organization. The national award-winning partnership will receive the Thomas J. Moran Award, which includes $100,000 and a documentary video about the program. The Frances R. Hesselbein Award of $75,000 is given to a partnership that is addressing social challenges in more than one community, or which demonstrates the potential to be replicated in other communities. Four other organizations are named Honorable Mention recipients for their programs, and each receive $50,000.

Application deadline: July 25, 2024
Grant amount: $20,000 in year one, renewable for $10,000
Description: The Brookdale Foundation Group works to enhance the quality of life of older adults in the United States. The Brookdale Foundation Group’s Brookdale National Group Respite Program supports community-based efforts to develop and sustain social model group respite and early memory loss programs for people with Alzheimer’s disease and their families. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and public agencies may apply for seed grants, along with training and technical assistance, to expand upon existing services or develop new dementia-specific, social model day programs.

Application deadline: May 29, 2024
Geographic scope: Arizona
Grant amount: Up to $125,000
Description: The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Foundation for Community & Health Advancement provides grants for programs and applied research to tackle Arizona’s health challenges, with a focus on chronic health conditions, health equity, mental health, and substance use disorder. The Foundation’s Mental Health Matters Grant provides support of up to $125,000 for programs and applied research that target issues such as access (provider shortages, telehealth, etc.), suicide prevention, youth mental health, intersection of mental health and substance use disorder, and COVID-19 effects. Priority is given to proposals that expand publicly-available resources, are scalable (or have the potential to increase systems-level capacity), and have a measurable impact.

Application deadline: May 24, 2024
Geographic scope: Colorado
Description: The Colorado Bar Foundation advances justice in Colorado by supporting legal services and law-related education. The Foundation provides grants to Colorado nonprofits for statewide, regional, or local projects that assist in the provision or improved delivery of legal services to the disadvantaged, promote law-related education, and improve the administration of justice. Both established programs and new or innovative projects are encouraged to apply.

Application deadlines: The remaining 2024 deadlines are June 14 and October 11.
Geographic scope: The primary focus is on the southeast U.S.
Description: Southface Institute’s GoodUse program helps nonprofits reduce utility costs and their environmental footprint by improving their energy and water efficiency. GoodUse provides technical assistance, education, and matching grants to nonprofit organizations for facility and operational upgrades that increase resource efficiency, lower expenses, and improve indoor health. Southface engineers identify areas for high-impact energy and water savings and indoor air improvements and assist with project implementation. Examples of common upgrade projects include lighting and lighting controls, plumbing and water heaters, building automation systems or wi-fi thermostats, HVAC system replacements or retrocommissioning and controls upgrades, building envelope, kitchen appliances, and solar PV. Nonprofit organizations that own their building or have a long-term lease of at least five years are eligible to apply. GoodUse works nationally, but the program’s primary focus is the southeast U.S.

Application deadline: May 13, 2024
Geographic scope: Vermont
Grant amount: Up to $10,000
Description: Music Drives Us (MDU) strives to inspire New England’s musicians of tomorrow by supporting their music opportunities today. With a focus on underserved communities, MDU seeks to ensure that children across New England have access to quality music education. Currently, in partnership with the state of Vermont, MDU is providing up to $100,000 total in grants to schools throughout Vermont to support their music programs. Public and approved independent schools located in Vermont are eligible to apply. (MDU offers additional grant programs open to organizations throughout New England that use music as an education tool.)

Grants.gov deadline: May 21, 2024
JustGrants deadline: June 4, 2024
Description: The Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth initiative seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance promising and effective interventions that provide access to high-quality arts programs with and for current or previous justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, or other problem and high-risk behaviors. High-quality arts programs are those that provide opportunities for rigorous artistic exploration, skill-building, and culminating events, and that provide youth with mentorship from artists. Arts programs may include, but are not limited to, visual arts, performing arts, filmmaking, and literary arts.

Application deadline: May 28, 2024
Description: The Fostering Access, Rights, and Equity Grant Program supports projects to assist marginalized and underserved women workers who have been impacted by gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the world of work, which includes activities that occur in the course of, linked with, or arising out of work. Grant recipients will address GBVH in the world of work by building awareness, connecting women to federal and state workplace rights and benefits, and implementing worker- and survivor-driven strategies to shift workplace norms.

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Webinar date: April 30, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
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Webinar date: May 2, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
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