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Name: VSA arts Accepting Applications for Teaching Artist Fellowships
Sponsor: VSA arts
Deadline: 4/24/2009
Amount: $1,000
Type: Arts & Culture, Education
Description: VSA arts is seeking applications from artist-educators for the Teaching Artist Fellowship, a program to identify, engage, and support outstanding teaching artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts.
Benefits to selected Teaching Artist Fellows include program orientation and a professional development retreat designed especially for teaching artists; subscriptions/memberships within the teaching artist network (e.g., Teaching Artist Journal, Art Education, Teaching Theatre); networking and teaching opportunities in Washington, D.C. (stipend and travel costs included); and a stipend of $1,000 to support professional development or career goal objectives.
Teaching Artist Fellows will serve as facilitators for VSA arts educational efforts and will be profiled in VSA arts publications.
The program is open to artists with disabilities and experience working in pre-K-12 classrooms within the past three years. Applicants should demonstrate artistic achievement in visual or performing arts. (Note: This program is designed specifically for teaching artists. Classroom instructors are not eligible for the fellowship.)
Visit the VSA arts Web site for complete program information.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: Target Stores Accepting Applications for Arts, Literacy, and Family Violence Prevention Grants
Sponsor: Target
Deadline: 5/31/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Arts & culture, Education, Social & Economic
Description: Target offers store grants to support nonprofit programs that impact the arts, early childhood reading, and family violence prevention in the locations where the company does business.
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, field trips to the theater or symphony, or artist’s residencies and workshops in schools. Programs that make the arts accessible to school children are of particular interest.
Early Childhood Reading Grants support programs that foster a love of reading and encourage children, from birth through age nine, to read together with their families.
Family Violence Prevention Grants support programs that strengthen families and communities by keeping them safe. Target store grants support nonprofit programs that help prevent family violence, such as parenting classes and family counseling. Grants may also provide assistance for support groups and abuse shelters.
Most grants average between $1,000 and $3,000 each. Applicants may be 501(c)(3) organizations or schools, libraries, or public agencies.
Target only accepts grant applications online. Visit the company’s Web site for complete program guidelines and application.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: ING Announces Grants Program for School-Based Running Programs
Sponsor: ING
Deadline: 6/1/2009
Amount: $2,000
Type: Education, Health, Social & Economic
Description: Global financial institution ING and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education have launched the ING Run For Something Better School Awards Program. The ING Run For Something Better program is a fundraising campaign that supports community and school-based youth running programs to help fight childhood obesity and introduce young people to the benefits of running.
The new awards program will provide fifty grants of $2,000 each to U.S. public schools that desire to establish a school-based running program or expand an existing one. The grant awards are available in all states to public elementary or middle schools whose running programs target fifth- through eighth-grade students. Schools must implement a minimum of an eight -week running program with a culminating event by December 31, 2009.
Program guidelines and applications are available at the Run For Something Better Web site.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries Women’s Division Offers Funding for Youth Violence Prevention
Sponsor: General Board of Global Ministries
Deadline: 7/1/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Social & Economic, Education
Description: The Women’s Division of the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries offers grants of up to $4,000 each for projects and programs that address the needs of children and young people between the ages of 5 and 18 in the areas of violence prevention, anti-abuse, and relationship abuse.
Preference will be given to projects that significantly involve women and youth at the grassroots level, demonstrate the ability to raise additional funds from other sources, provide direct and comprehensive services to young people, promote respect for racial and ethnic diversity, and cultivate spiritual lives and values.
The Women’s Division funds small-scale, community- and church-based programs and projects. For this reason, groups affiliated with national organizations, hospitals, and organizations with budgets totaling more than $3 million do not normally receive funding. New and existing projects are eligible to apply.
Visit the General Board of Global Ministries Web site for complete program guidelines.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: Ashoka’s Changemakers Invites Entries for Champions of Quality Education in Africa Competition
Sponsor: Ashoka
Deadline: 6/3/2009
Amount: $5,000
Type: International & Border, Education
Description: Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Quality Education in Developing Countries Initiative has partnered with Ashoka’s Changemakers on a new Champions of Quality Education in Africa competition.
The goal of the QEDC Initiative is to improve learning outcomes for the very poor in India and selected countries in Africa. The initiative’s grantmaking in Africa is focused in six countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The Champions of Quality Education in Africa competition seeks to identify entrepreneurial African educators – individuals or organizations – working to ensure that primary and/or secondary education students are successfully learning reading, writing, math, and critical thinking skills.
The competition is open to individuals and organizations (charitable organizations, private companies, or public entities) from all countries. Teachers, administrators, and education organizations are invited to submit their innovative and effective instructional methods, materials, or curricula. Nominations of education innovators are also invited.
Projects should be located in or have operations in Africa. Individuals or organizations from non-African countries must have local operations or African partners on the ground. Projects must indicate progress beyond the stage of idea, concept, or research. The competition seeks programs that have had a demonstrated impact on learning. At a minimum, entries should be at the demonstration stage and indicate success.
Entries may be submitted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Online competition submissions will be accepted until June 3, 2009. Entries that are submitted early may benefit from comments, questions, and insights from the Changemakers community. Submissions may be edited before the final deadline. A panel of expert judges and a team of Ashoka staff will select up to fifteen competition finalists. The Changemakers community will then vote online to select the three winners from these finalists. The three Changemakers Collaborative Competition winners will each receive a cash prize of $5,000.
Visit the Changemakers Web site for complete program information.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: Dollar General Accepting Applications for Youth Literacy and Back-to-School Grants
Sponsor: Dollar General
Deadline: 5/22/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Education
Description: Dollar General annually offers support for youth literacy and school programs in areas served by Dollar General stores.
The Dollar General Youth Literacy Grants provide funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help with the implementation or expansion of literacy programs for students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. Grants range in amounts up to a maximum of $3,000 each.
The Dollar General Back-to-School Grants provide funding to assist schools in meeting some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs or purchasing new equipment, materials, or software for their school library or media center. Grants range in amounts up to a maximum of $5,000 each.
Applicants must be located in Dollar General’s 35-state operating territory and must be within twenty miles of the nearest Dollar General Store. (A store locator is available at the Dollar General Web site.)
Visit the Dollar General Web site for program information and application.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: FINRA Investor Education Foundation Invites Applications for General Grant Program
Sponsor: FINRA Investor Education Foundation
Deadline: 5/6/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Education, Social & Economic
Description: Through its general grant program, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation funds research and/or educational projects that support its mission of providing underserved Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary for financial success throughout life.
In 2009, the foundation is especially interested in applications that focus on using behavioral finance to improve saving and investing, meeting the financial and investor education needs of underserved audiences, creating new marketing and distribution channels for financial and investor education, and helping Americans manage their finances and investments in retirement.
The foundation places high priority on reaching and engaging a well-defined target audience, and encourages collaboration and strategic partnerships that facilitate effective marketing and distribution efforts. Successful education projects must have measurable impact and reach large audiences in a cost-effective manner. Preference will be given to projects that can be replicated and sustained beyond the term of the grant funding. For research projects, the foundation is especially interested in work that has practical applications in the financial and investor education field.
There is no set minimum or maximum grant amount. Projects should be completed within thirty-six months of the grant award.
Eligible applicants are nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and state and other public colleges and universities.
Visit the foundation Web site for complete program guidelines, application procedures, and examples of successful grant proposals.
Website: Link to RFP
Name: Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration Invites Nominations of Open Source Software Projects
Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Deadline: 5/15/2009
Amount: varies
Type: Science & Technology, Education, Arts & Culture
Description: The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2009 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration.
The program is designed to encourage collaborative, open source software development within traditional Mellon constituencies – higher education, with a special emphasis on the arts and humanities; libraries and scholarly communications; the performing arts; the environment; and museums and art conservation.
The MATC awards recognize not-for-profit organizations that are making substantial contributions of their own resources toward the development of open source software and the fostering of collaborative communities to sustain open source development. To be eligible, a software development project must be in public release (not just development) as an open source project, with source code actually available. Project must include the development of intellectual property that is freely available to the academic community under one of the approved open source licenses.
Awards are given at two levels – $50,000 awards to recognize important organizational contributions to open source projects that currently or potentially provide significant benefits to at least one traditional Mellon constituency; and $100,000 awards to recognize highly significant contributions to open source projects offering larger benefits to more or larger constituencies. Multiple awards may be bestowed at each level.
Any organization that satisfies the Mellon Foundation’s criteria for receiving grants is potentially eligible, including qualifying non-U.S. organizations.
Visit the Mellon Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines.
Website: Link to RFP
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