Funding for Engagement

External Funding Opportunities

Check recent issues of the Outreach and Engagement Newsletter for information on more external grants.

American Academy of Pediatrics Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Program provides grants for pediatricians to plan innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to medical homes or specific health services not otherwise available. Planning project activities must lead to sustainable, community-based child health initiatives that increase access to care, especially for underserved children, and address health disparities among children. These community-based projects should lead to the development of sustainable projects that can be replicated in other communities. Community-based projects develop broad-based collaborative community partnerships. A community-based pediatrician must lead the project and be significantly involved in proposal development and project activities. Deadline: July 31, 2009. http://www.aap.org/catch/planninggrants.htm

Farm Aid Grants. (1) Farm Policy Grants: Taking Action to Change the System. Grants in this category fund organizations or projects that promote fair farm policies and grassroots organizing campaigns to defend and bolster family farm-centered agriculture. These grants enable advocates to strengthen the voices of family farmers and promote their interests on a local, regional and national level. (2) Food Systems Grants: Growing the Good Food. Grants in this category fund organizations or projects that seek to strengthen what Farm Aid calls the Good Food Movement, the growing number of Americans reaching for and demanding family farm-identified, local, organic or humanely raised food. These grants build connections between farmers and consumers, creating new markets for family farmers. (3) Grants for Helping Farmers Thrive. Grants are awarded to organizations that work to maintain a family farm system of agriculture. Farm Aid supports projects developed by and for family farmers that help farm families stay on their land and promote solutions to the challenges facing rural communities. For the Farm Action grants, organizations mount educational campaigns in their communities and states, conducting outreach to family farmers and consumers regarding the benefits of family farm produced foods. Deadline: August 1, 2009.http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.2739785/apps/s/content.asp?ct=3851603

Lego Children’s Fund provides grants quarterly for collaborative programs, with a special interest in providing matching funds to leverage new dollars into the receiving organization. The foundation awards grants to organizations with specific, identifiable needs primarily in these areas of support: (1) early childhood education and development, (2) technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities, and (3) sport or athletic programs that concentrate on underserved youth. Deadline: August 1, 2009. http://www.legochildrensfund.org/Guidelines.html

GE Healthcare Grants for Youth Education, Healthy Lives, and Diversity and Service fund programs focused on youth education, healthy lives, and diversity and service. Youth education: proposals that address underserved communities with low graduation rates, support core competencies, focus on arts in education, and support early childhood development programs. Healthy lives: proposals that address childhood obesity, cardiac care, oncology, neurology, women’s health care, diabetes, or other health-related issues that address a need for increased awareness and/or community outreach. Diversity and service: programs that affect minority populations or address local community issues, such as poverty, homelessness, disadvantage, food programs, and training. Deadline: August 1, 2009. http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/about/commitment.html

The Retirement Research Foundation seeks innovative solutions to the challenges facing older persons in the United States. It supports programs that improve services and care for the elderly; seek answers to diseases prevalent in the older population; educate policymakers about the needs and capacities of America’s seniors; attract and train skilled professionals to serve older adults; expand employment and volunteer opportunities for older persons; and identify and address concerns of older persons in the United States. The foundation is particularly interested in innovative projects that have the potential to change practice, policy, or delivery systems. These programs seek to improve the availability and quality of community-based and institutional long-term care programs; expand opportunities for older persons to play meaningful roles in society; support selected applied and policy research into the causes and solutions of significant problems of the aged; and increase the number of professionals and paraprofessionals adequately prepared to serve the elderly. Deadline: August 1, 2009. http://www.rrf.org/forapplicants/programguide.html

GE Healthcare Grants for Youth Education, Healthy Lives, and Diversity and Service. In the area of youth education: proposals that address underserved communities with low graduation rates, support core competencies, focus on arts in education, and support early childhood development programs. Healthy lives proposals should address childhood obesity, cardiac care, oncology, neurology, women’s health care, diabetes, or other health-related issues that address a need for increased awareness and/or community outreach. In the area of diversity and service: programs that affect minority populations or address local community issues such as poverty, homelessness, the disadvantaged, food programs, and training. Deadlines: August 1, November 1.http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/about/gehealthcare_americas_charitable_giving_guidelines_02_08.pdf

National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. NSF’s MSP program coordinates its effort with the Mathematics and Science Partnerships program of the U.S. Department of Education in the expectation that effective innovations in mathematics and science education will be disseminated into wider practice. The two programs are significant components of the America COMPETES Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-69). 1. Targeted Partnerships focus on studying and solving teaching and learning issues within a specific grade range or at a critical juncture in education, and/or within a specific disciplinary focus in mathematics or the sciences. 2. Innovation through Institutional Integration projects enable faculty, administrators, and others in institutions to think and act strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards. Deadline: August 20, 2009, for Targeted Partnerships; and August 25, 2009, for Innovation through Institutional Integration. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09507/nsf09507.htm?govDel=USNSF_25

Compton Foundation Population and Reproductive Health Grants. The foundation links population stabilization with peace and environment issues, and as such with broader social development and environmental goals. The foundation recognizes that many complex factors pose a threat to human and ecological security. The goals for this program are to achieve a healthy planet, ensure and improving access to family planning and reproductive health services. Deadline: September 1, 2009. http://www.comptonfoundation.org/population.html

Moyer Foundation funds nonprofit organizations that help children in severe distress: children with life-threatening illnesses or physical limitations, children who are coping with the loss of a loved one, and children who are victims of abuse or neglect. Deadline: September 1, 2009. http://www.moyerfoundation.org/grants/application.aspx

The Heineman Foundation provides seed money to start-up projects and new projects within existing organizations for a maximum of 3-5 years. The foundation's general areas of interest are the following: environmental research that will help prevent, reduce, or eliminate large-scale water degradation; music as education and a preserver of culture; research into prevention, education, and treatment for childhood illnesses; programs that enable youth to think, create, and communicate effectively; and programs that enable economically challenged women to enter and remain in the workplace, such as onsite day-care centers, job-training programs, or language and leadership skills programs. Deadline: September 1, 2009. http://www.heinemanfoundation.org/guidelines

William T. Grant Foundation Field-Initiated Grants Program is accepting Letters of Inquiry. The foundation’s current research interests are understanding how social settings such as families, schools, peer groups, and organizations work; how they affect youth; and how they can be improved. The foundation’s interests also focus on when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved. To be eligible for consideration, applicants must be employed at a nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution, either in the United States or abroad; submit a project that is consistent with the foundation’s current research interests; address issues that have compelling relevance for theory, policies, and/or practices affecting the settings of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States or a vulnerable sub-population of those youth; reflect high standards of evidence and rigorous methods, commensurate with the proposal’s goals. Deadline: September 9, 2009. http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url5243/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=646398

Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation supports established programs in the arts or advocacy that must serve adults with disabilities who are age 22 or older. A program grant request must be for a program in the area of arts or advocacy and must serve adults with disabilities. Programs in the arts must support professional artists with disabilities or encourage a professional environment while enhancing creativity among people with disabilities who are not professional artists themselves. Programs in advocacy must promote change in legislation, or provide education that will enhance knowledge and action to create laws and policies that will result in better lives for people with disabilities. Deadline: September 15, 2009. http://www.ela.org/grants/grants.html

Chase Community Development Competition for Students and Not-for-Profits is a real-estate design competition that matches the practical design ideas of college students working in partnership with local nonprofits with the real-life community needs of low- to moderate income families in New Orleans. The winning teams will receive predevelopment grants for the sponsoring nonprofit to assist in the implementation of the student design. Any project completed during the 2009 academic school year will be eligible to compete. Project proposals must focus on New Orleans, and teams must partner with a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. A university can have no more than two teams participating in the competition. Deadline: September 18, 2009 (project abstract). http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/local_work/gulf_coast/

Captain Planet Foundation funds and supports hands-on environmental projects for children and youths. The objective is to encourage innovative programs that empower children and youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. All projects must promote understanding of environmental issues; focus on hands-on involvement; involve children and young adults 6 18, promote interaction and cooperation within the group; help young people develop planning and problem solving skills; include adult supervision; and commit to follow-up communication with the foundation. Deadlines: September 30, 2009, December 31, 2009. http://www.captainplanetfoundation.org/default.aspx?pid=3&tab=apply

Columbus Foundation Small Grants Program is interested in funding charitable organizations to support social services programs in the following areas: (1) character and leadership development in youth; (2) community planning for human services; (3) domestic violence; and (4) parent education. Deadline: October 2, 2009. http://www.columbusfoundation.org/gogrants/targeted_needs/small_grants.aspx

The Pentair Foundation has two major areas of focus: (1) The Education initiative concentrates on organizations and programs that provide school-to-work initiatives including business concepts and their applications; work readiness; career development; and guidance on postsecondary education options; offer alternative education methods and instruction that provide opportunities for students to excel and advance; and support and enhance arts education by introducing students to art concepts, processes, and applications. (2) The Community initiative funds organizations that provide resources to strengthen and enhance the lives of individuals. Programs of specific interest offer job training, education assistance and resources, and affordable housing. Deadline: October 1, 2009. http://www.pentair.com/About-Us/The-Pentair-Foundation.aspx.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children is designed to stimulate research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. For purposes of this initiative, health disparities apply to children who have limited access to resources and privileges that affect their health: ethnic and racial minority children and populations of underserved children to include children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations; geographically isolated children; hearing and visually impaired children; physically or mentally disabled children; children of migrant workers; children from immigrant and refugee families; and language minority children. Interventions using a multilevel approach (individual, health system, community, societal) are encouraged. In addition, basic studies designed to further delineate mechanisms/pathways of disparities that lead to the development of interventions are also encouraged. Deadlines: October 5, 2009, February 5, 2010. http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-392.html

Herb Block Foundation Defending Basic Freedoms grant program seeks proposals to safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. Antidiscrimination projects that involve joint efforts of two or more organizations are encouraged. The foundation will also consider funding for programs to address contemporary societal issues that may arise during the project. Deadline: October 10, 2009 (Letters of Inquiry). http://www.herbblockfoundation.org/HerbBlockFoundation/content.aspx?page=2183192&_redir=130

The goal of the Medtronic Foundation HeartRescue Grant Program in the United States is to have a long-term impact in communities by creating a new generation of people who will understand the risk factors for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), will recognize SCA when it happens, and take immediate action to help save a life when it does. School-based training in emergency activation and CPR is an effective investment because these skills provide potential benefit throughout the community and not just at school. School training contributes to lifelong awareness, knowledge, and skills that can lead to more lives saved now and in the future. Deadline; October 15, 2009. http://www.medtronic.com/foundation/programs_hr_guidelines_us.html

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