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Name: ING Run for Something Better Accepting Grant Applications for School-Based Running Programs

Sponsor: ING

Deadline: 4/15/2010

Amount: $2,000

Type: Education, Health

Description: The ING Run For Something Better program, in partnership with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, seeks to increase physical activity in students and help fight childhood obesity nationwide through the creation of school-based running programs.

The School Awards program will provide a minimum of 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.

Awards are available to programs that target grades four through eight in public elementary or middle schools. Schools must design a before, during, and/or afterschool program that will be offered (to the best of the school’s ability) to all students in eligible grades. The program must not be exclusive to participants of one gender and must have a commitment of at least twenty-five students in order to be eligible for funding.

Program guidelines and application instructions are available at the Run For Something Better Web site.

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Sponsor: Shutterfly Foundation

Deadline: 4/2/2010

Amount: varies

Type: Social & Economic, Education

Description: Shutterfly, Inc., an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has announced that the Shutterfly Foundation is accepting grant applications.

The foundation is comprised of Shutterfly employees working to help nonprofit organizations support families and children in need in Maricopa County where Shutterfly has operations.

In 2009, the Shutterfly Foundation awarded grants of $10,000 each to eight nonprofit organizations for general operating and program support.

Applicants must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations.

For further information, visit the Shutterfly Web site.

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Sponsor: got breakfast? Foundation

Deadline: 4/1/2010

Amount: varies

Type: Education, Social & Economic

Description: The got breakfast? Foundation, whose mission is to ensure that every child, regardless of background, starts the school day with a nutritious breakfast in order to learn, grow, and develop to his or her fullest potential, has announced the expansion of its Silent Hero Grant Program to participants in the federal Summer Nutrition Program.

The Silent Hero Grant Program is designed to encourage schools and nonprofit organizations to expand the reach of underutilized child nutrition programs, including the School Breakfast Program and, with this expansion, the Summer Nutrition Program.

Grants ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 will be awarded to public schools, nonprofit private schools, local governments, national youth sports programs, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations participating in the Summer Nutrition Program. Grant funds can be used for such needs as serving equipment, program staffing, and nutrition education materials.

To be considered for the summer grant program projects must be centered around creating, continuing, or expanding federal Summer Nutrition Programs. Priority will be given to organizations creating a summer program where one did not previously exist.

Visit the got breakfast? Foundation Web site for the Request for Applications.

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Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth

June 10, 2010, Application Deadline

To advance arts education for children and youth in school-based or community-based settings. This category supports in-depth, curriculum-based arts education experiences that occur over an extended period. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art. All projects must include the following components: 1) the opportunity for students and their teachers to experience exemplary works of art, in live form wherever possible; 2) study of the art experienced including the acquisition of skills for practicing the art form where appropriate; 3) the performance/making of art within the discipline(s) studied; and 4) assessment of student learning according to national or state arts education standards.

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Phoenix Suns Charities Program Grants
DEADLINE: April 1, 2010
Ranging in size from $1,000 to $10,000, Phoenix Suns Charities Program Grants are intended for Arizona non-profit organization whose programs and activities focus on helping children and families maximize their potential.
http://www.nba.com/suns/charities/grants.html

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DEADLINE: April 1, 2010
Ranging in size from $1,000 to $10,000, Phoenix Suns Charities Program Grants are intended for Arizona non-profit organization whose programs and activities focus on helping children and families maximize their potential.
http://www.nba.com/suns/charities/grants.html

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Sponsor: Motorola Foundation

Deadline: 3/1/2010

Amount: varies

Type: Science & Technology, Education

Description: The Motorola Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola, Inc., has announced that it will increase its 2010 giving to U.S. science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs to a total of $7.5 million through its signature Innovation Generation grants program.

The Innovation Generation grants program features three funding areas. Innovation Generation Grants will support targeted STEM education programs for U.S. pre-school through 12th grade students and teachers, with grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 each (Deadline: March 1, 2010.)

Innovation Generation Collaborative Grants will support medium- to large-scale STEM education collaborations between two or more nonprofit organizations, schools, and/or school districts, with joint requests ranging from $150,000 to $500,000 each. (Deadline: April 1, 2010.)

Innovation Generation University Grants will support hands-on competitions, seminars, and design competitions for undergraduate- a! nd graduate-level students at select universities, with maximum grants of $50,000 each. (Deadline: March 1, 2010 for invited applicants only.)

Funding priority will be placed on programs that engage students and teachers in innovative hands-on activities, teach STEM as well as develop innovative thinking and creative problem-solving skills, focus on girls and minorities that are currently underrepresented in the STEM disciplines, and take place in communities with Motorola employees.

At least 25 percent of total grant dollars will support new programming that has been operating for less than two years and is not simply an expansion of an existing program. At least 15 percent of total grant dollars will support environment-focused programming.

For complete details on the Innovation Generation grants programs and to apply, visit the Motorola Web site.

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Sponsor: American Academy of Dermatology

Deadline: 4/12/2010

Amount: varies

Type: Social & Economic, Environment

Description: The American Academy of Dermatology’s Shade Structure Program awards grants in the amount of $8,000 each for the purchase of permanent shade structures designed to provide shade and ultraviolet (UV) ray protection for outdoor areas. AAD also provides a permanent sign to be displayed near the shade structure that promotes the importance of sun safety. This is the tenth year AAD has offered the program to nonprofit organizations seeking permanent shade structures for outdoor locations that are not protected from the sun (e.g., playgrounds, pools, eating areas etc.). AAD receives support for the program from Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company.

To be considered for grants, applicants must be a nonprofit organization or public school that primarily serves children and teens 18 and younger; demonstrate an ongoing commitment to sun safety and skin cancer awareness by having a sun safety/skin cancer awareness program in place for at least one year prior to application; and be sponsored by an AAD member dermatologist.

AAD awards thirty to thirty-five grants each year, depending on the availability of funding.

Visit the AAD Web site for guidelines and application instructions.

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Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Deadline: 2/25/2010

Amount: varies

Type: Health, Environment, Social & Economic

Description: Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color. The program is designed to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015 by supporting diverse, community-based organizations and federally chartered tribal nations in the development and implementation of effective, culturally competent policy initiatives to address childhood obesity at the local level.

Eligible applicants must have a track record of at least two years of successful community organizing and policy advocacy to address health-related problems in communities of color. Both the leadership and membership or constituencies of any applicant organization should reflect the communities they seek to serve. Youth-led organizing groups and community-based groups with youth-organizing components are strongly enco! uraged to apply.

Applicants must secure a cash match of at least 10 percent of RWJF funding for the grant period. Organizations that currently receive funding from an entity or subsidiary that markets low-nutrition food and/or beverage products to youth are not eligible to apply.

Awards will be up to $250,000 per site for up to ten communities nationwide. Grants are for a three-year period scheduled to commence in October 2010.

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