GrantStation Insider: May 9, 2024

Application deadline: June 23, 2024
Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories
Grant amount: Up to 100 grants of $1,000 each will be awarded.
Description: The We Serve to Remember 9/11 Day of Service Grants, an initiative of Youth Service America, support organizations, schools, and youth changemakers—aged 5 to 25—to lead service projects on or around September 11, 2024. Supported service projects must be youth-led and engage at least 100 youth as volunteers in planning and implementing the service activities. At least 80% of youth volunteers must identify as youth who are not usually asked to serve and who face systemic barriers to participation. In addition, projects must include elements to honor and pay tribute to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, their families, and those who rose in service in response to that tragedy. 

Application deadline: June 26, 2024, for registrations
Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories
Grant amount: Up to nine finalists will receive $100,000 each. Following an acceleration period, up to three $1 million awards will be made.
Description: The Robin Hood AI Poverty Challenge seeks to identify breakthrough solutions using artificial intelligence to fight poverty and expand upward mobility in the United States. The aim is to showcase a range of new and existing solutions that leverage the power and capabilities of AI technology for good. Solutions, which can include, but are not limited to, products, services, technical infrastructure, and training and capacity building, must focus on one of the following categories: education, financial empowerment, and workforce. Up to nine finalists will receive $100,000 each and then have up to a three-month acceleration period to further refine and strengthen their solution. After the acceleration period, up to three solutions will receive a $1 million award. Nonprofit and for-profit entities located within the United States and U.S. territories are eligible to apply as lead applicants.

Application deadline: June 12, 2024
Grant amount: At least 100 newsrooms will receive around $100,000 each over two years in unrestricted funds.
Description: Press Forward, a national movement to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news, is accepting applications through its first open call. The Open Call on Closing Local Coverage Gaps seeks to address the longstanding inequalities in journalism coverage and practice in the U.S. by investing in small, local newsrooms that provide original reporting in underserved communities. In order to ensure that local coverage meets the needs of communities of color, linguistically diverse communities, low-wealth rural communities, and others not adequately served or represented, the open call will fund smaller news organizations that are providing the hyperlocal, original reporting people need to make important decisions. Applicants must have an operating budget of less than $1 million for 2024, have been in operation and publishing since at least September 1, 2023, and have a commitment to editorial excellence, editorial independence, and transparency. Applicants can be 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, or university or college student newsrooms producing original reporting that is community-facing.

Application deadline: The fall deadline for letters of inquiry is August 2, 2024.
Description: The Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation is dedicated to the fight against HIV and AIDS. Grants are made semi-annually to nonprofit organizations in the United States for HIV/AIDS care and direct services, education, and research. Grants support developing or established programs, with emphasis on direct benefit to clients or target audiences. While requests from throughout the U.S. are considered, the Foundation has a particular interest in smaller communities and rural areas.

Application deadline: September 9, 2024
Geographic scope: Indiana
Grant amount: The Endowment expects to award approximately 125 teacher creativity grants, each totaling up to $15,000.
Description: Lilly Endowment is currently accepting applications for its Teacher Creativity Fellowship program. This program supports K-12 educators throughout Indiana by providing resources for them to take time for meaningful renewal. The Endowment believes that through new experiences, exploration, and reflection, educators can generate renewed energy in their careers, innovative approaches to teaching and educational leadership, and thoughtful ways to encourage students’ creative thinking. Full-time education professionals employed in Indiana’s traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools are eligible, including K-12 classroom teachers of all subjects, principals and assistant principals, librarians and media specialists, school counselors and psychologists, school social workers, and instructional coaches. Four information sessions will be held in 2024 on May 16, May 30, August 8, and August 13. To learn more or register for one of these sessions, visit the Endowment's website.

Application deadline: May 31, 2024
Geographic scope: North Carolina
Grant amount: Game Changer Grants are $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000.
Description: The Carolina Hurricanes Foundation strives to meet the health and education needs of children in North Carolina, with a focus on underserved populations, and seeks to strengthen youth hockey. Support is provided to local nonprofit organizations in North Carolina through two programs: Game Changer Grants of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000 assist organizations making a positive impact at the grassroots level. Organizations must directly serve children, with a focus on health or education. Future Canes Grants provide support to strengthen and grow youth hockey programs in North Carolina, ensuring that hockey is accessible for everyone.

Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: Florida, New York, Connecticut, and Washington, DC
Description: The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation provides support in Florida, New York, Connecticut, and Washington, DC, to assist organizations seeking to promote the arts or create programs that inspire, engage, and teach. The Foundation provides grants through three specific programs focused on arts education, writing careers, and college test prep and career pathways, as well as a general application process that supports visual and performing arts programs, veterans initiatives, environmental ingenuity, and medical research. 501(c)(3) organizations are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: Requests are considered monthly.
Geographic scope: Washington State
Grant amount: Generally $1,000 to $5,000
Description: Arcora Foundation advances oral health across the state of Washington. The Foundation seeks to support nonprofit organizations working to reduce barriers to oral and overall healthcare and prevent disease. Organizations working to elevate and advance community-identified and community-led efforts to reduce inequities and promote health equity are of particular interest. Through sponsorships, the Foundation provides funding for event-specific or other time-bound activities, such as community and culturally specific gatherings, meetings, conferences, and fundraisers.

Application deadline: June 10, 2024
Description: The Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Technical Assistance Grant Program aims to provide technical assistance to employers (which may include public sector entities) and labor unions in the United States and its territories to encourage employment of women in both apprenticeable occupations and nontraditional occupations. Applicants with experience working with or as an equity intermediary are encouraged to apply, as well as applicants with a proposed focus on expanding outreach/recruitment to historically underrepresented communities, including, but not limited to, women of color, women with disabilities, women at or below the federal poverty line, formerly incarcerated women, immigrant women, transgender women, and women who live in rural geographic areas.

Application deadline: June 10, 2024
Description: The Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants program supports the development of comprehensive plans to revitalize severely distressed public housing or HUD-assisted housing and the surrounding neighborhoods. Communities will undertake certain activities that lead to the creation of a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan. The Transformation Plan will become the guiding document to carry out subsequent implementation of the plan to achieve the program's three core goals: housing, people, and neighborhood.

Are you looking to incorporate evidence-based practices into your organization’s work? If so, you may want to check out the Campbell Collaboration. This evidence-based registry provides systematic reviews of evidence on the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral, and educational arenas. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, aging, children’s and young persons’ well-being, crime and justice, disability, education, international development, knowledge translation and implementation, and social welfare.

Webinar date: May 14, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Do you have the resources to actually run a successful campaign? Before you start to raise funds, it is important to assess what your organization should build and what it can sustain. For most organizations, this means completing a needs assessment followed by a feasibility study. During this webinar, Kevin Wallace and Melissa Sais of CampaignCounsel.org will show how you can determine your current and future capacity and demand, the external factors that will impact both, and what you need to do to understand the financial capacity of your organization and its donor prospects. (This webinar is part of the Power of 3: Preparing for a Successful Capital Campaign.)

Webinar date: May 16, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Cultivating relationships with all of your funding partners and supporters can feel daunting. It can be time-consuming, especially for program staff who are “on the ground” or involved in the day-to-day work of your programs. It’s tough to know what to say, what to share, or what funders are looking for. So how can you consistently get the resources you need to fulfill your mission? By seeing philanthropic organizations as partners, not funders. During this webinar, Alix Rosenfeld of Elevate will lead you through the relationship-building stage of the grant cycle, including who to cultivate at philanthropic organizations and how to do it.

Webinar date: May 20, 2024, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: Working collaboratively with local and state governments could be a win-win situation for your organization. These entities tend to have larger sums of money to distribute, so their support can be an avenue to sustaining your organization. However, partnering with any level of government can feel intimidating to nonprofit organizations, especially those without much experience. During this TargetED, GrantStation President Alice Ruhnke will show you the steps and resources you need to create these impactful relationships and grow your organization.

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Have you visited our homepage this week? Additional local, national, Canadian, and international funding opportunities are featured there weekly! Current opportunities include Youth Justice Action Month (U.S. national), the Water for Wildlife Foundation (U.S. local: AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, NV, NM, OK, SD, TX, UT, and WY), ABC Life Literacy Canada (Canada national), and the Moleskine Foundation: Creativity Pioneers Fund (global).