Nonprofits Grants

William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows

The goal of the Distinguished Fellows Program is to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth outcomes and well-being. To accomplish this goal, the program gives researchers the opportunity to immerse themselves in practice or policy settings and conversely gives influential mid-career practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to work in research settings.

The RFP will be reissued as the 2008-2009 William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Application Guide on September 19, 2008. Deadline for Letters of Inquiry will be January 8, 2009.

Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for consideration, Fellows must:

* Be influential mid-career practitioners, policymakers, or researchers.
* Submit a proposal that advances the William T. Grant Foundation's Current Research Interests.
* Propose one or two tax-exempt private and governmental organizations that are willing to "house" and mentor the Fellow.

Q. What is the goal of the Distinguished Fellows Program?
A. The Foundation focuses on supporting research to improve the lives of youth ages 8-25 in the United States. The goal of the Distinguished Fellows Program is to increase the supply of, demand for, and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth outcomes.

Q. Who is eligible to apply for the William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows Program?
A. Mid-career policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who are influential within their role and significantly able to affect attitudes and practices of others working in similar roles and settings. Support is restricted to researchers seeking to work in policy or practice settings, or policymakers and practitioners seeking to work in research settings.

Q. How do you define mid-career?
A. Mid-career is defined as having 8 to 20 years of cumulative experience in one's current role as a researcher, policymaker, or practitioner.

Q. How is someone judged to be an influential?
A. For the purposes of this RFP an influential is defined as a policymaker, practitioner, or researcher who is seen by colleagues in his/her role as particularly knowledgeable and well connected to others in the role and who uses knowledge, access, and connections to influence colleagues on matters important to youth.

Q. How do you define practitioner, policymaker, and researcher?
A. Practitioner refers to a person working in an organization or system that provides direct services to youth ages 8-25 (e.g., school districts, the child welfare system, community-based organizations) or in an organization meant to support such direct service organizations and systems (e.g., training and technical assistance providers, constituent group organizations).

Policymaker refers to a person currently working in a policymaking or policy-implementing organization (e.g., legislative or executive branch staff) or in an organization meant to support and/or influence such agencies (e.g., constituent group organization, advocacy organization).

Researcher is a person who works in a setting where he/she manages, designs, or conducts research, evaluations, and/or policy analyses.

Q. Are there any restrictions on the number of people per institution who may apply to the program?
A. There are no restrictions regarding the number of applicants per institution.

Q. What does the Distinguished Fellows award consist of?
A. Award recipients will be named William T. Grant Distinguished Fellows, and each Fellow will receive up to $175,000 (including direct and indirect costs of 7.5%) for the total duration of the fellowship. Fellowships may range between six months and two years. Fellowship activity must amount to a minimum of half of a person-year at the fellowship site(s) over the duration of the project. (Thus, the minimum duration is full-time for six months at the Fellowship site.) Awards are made to the applicant's employer, which must be a non-profit private or governmental organization.

William T. Grant Foundation

570 Lexington Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10022-6837
Phone: 212.752.0071 Fax: 212.752.1398 E-mail: info@wtgrantfdn.org

Diana V. Braddom Fund Raising and Financial Development Scholarship

Guidelines for Applicants
Goals

The goals of the scholarship program are to offer librarians and/or staff members from all types of libraries an opportunity to learn new fundraising skills enabling them to increase funding to their libraries from public, private and corporate sources.

Recipient

The LAMA Diana V. Braddom FRFDS Scholarship, made possible through the personal generosity of Diana Braddom, is available to librarians and/or staff members from all types of libraries who have had no previous formal financial development training and have a genuine need for fundraising skills. Applicants must be employed by libraries that include but not be limited to public, academic, multi-type, school and special libraries.
Criteria

Selection of a scholarship recipient is based upon these criteria and the applicant's essay

1. Genuine interest, need, and motivation for library fundraising and development.

2. Previously limited experience in library fundraising

3. Quality of writing

4. Clarity of content and form for required essay

5. Persuasiveness of arguments

6. Applicability to library settings

7. Opportunities for fundraising in current position.

Essay

Write a 2-page, double-spaced essay addressing the following:

1. Why do you seek training in fundraising for libraries? If you have already attended some fundraising seminars, what additional skills do you seek?

2. What experience have you had in library fundraising?

3. Have you been involved in any activities in your library that foster partnerships with business/community organizations?

4. What do you plan to do with the fundraising knowledge that you learn from this scholarship?

5. Essay will also take into account the Criteria listed above

Resume

Resume to be included with essay as part of application.

Reporting

Recipients will complete a report to the FRFDS Chair within six months following Annual Conference that will consist of a tactical plan on applying the fundraising principles learned at FRFDS programs to the fundraising needs and goals of their library.
Number and Frequency of Scholarship

The scholarship will be awarded annually to two persons. If a suitable candidate is not found, no award will be presented. Scholarship amount will be a $1,000 stipend towards attending the Fundraising and Financial Development programs at the annual ALA conference.
Submission of Application

Submit application essay and resume in electronic form or hard copy by December 5, 2008 to:

Fred Reuland, Marketing Specialist
Library Administration and Management Association
50 E. Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611

Fax: 312/280-5032
Email: freuland@ala.org
Presentation of the Award

The recipients will be notified by March 1, 2009.

The scholarship will be formally announced and recognized at the LAMA President's Program at the Annual Conference.

Dear Colleague:

It is our pleasure to invite you to nominate up to two individuals for the 2009 Lewis Hine Awards for Service to Children and Youth. These nationally recognized awards, now in their 24th year, are presented annually by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) to ten recipients -- five professionals and five volunteers -- for their unheralded and exceptional service to young people...

We depend on leaders such as you to identify the outstanding work being done in your community on behalf of children and youth. That work can be of almost any kind, from health and welfare to education and recreation.

The deadline for this year’s nominations is Thursday, October 23, 2008. A distinguished national panel of judges will then make the selections, which will be announced early in 2009.

The Lewis Hine Awards seek to identify not the one-time hero, but the individual who has made a commitment to the well-being, growth and development of youth. That commitment may be carried out in a paid job or through volunteering. In either case, the individual’s efforts should symbolize the exceptional work done to improve the lives of young people.

We will bring the awardees to New York City for a media-covered ceremony where their outstanding public service will be recognized and each will receive an award of $1,000.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS TO:
NCLC 2009 Lewis Hine Awards
Selection Committee
1501 Broadway, Suite 1908
New York, NY 10036

Nominations will NOT be accepted by fax or email.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Please call 212-840-1801

The John M. Lloyd Foundation honors John's contribution to our world by awarding more than $400,000 in small grants each year to organizations around the world, supporting organizations and projects that demonstrate critical and creative thinking about the root causes of HIV/AIDS, and that seek solutions that are compassionate and courageous.

In 2006 the John M. Lloyd Foundation celebrated its 15th anniversary and the Board took the opportunity to both reflect on the Foundation's history and to strategize how the Foundation's future grants might have greater impact. This process has led to a restructuring of the Foundation's programs with the goal to provide deeper and more targeted support to those individuals, projects, and organizations that are leading the fight to end the pandemic and whose work matches one or more of the Foundation's four funding objectives.

The Foundation gives preference to organizations and projects that advocate for evidence-based policies, those that mobilize awareness and support for AIDS programs, and those that employ innovation to battle the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Foundation's specific funding objectives are:

1. To increase funding from public and private sectors to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both globally and domestically.

2. To improve domestic and international policies:
a. to apply universal protections of human rights to issues concerning HIV/AIDS,
b. to expand access to HIV/AIDS healthcare and treatment, and
c. to ensure access to accurate information about HIV/AIDS.

3. To amplify global awareness of HIV/AIDS and to facilitate broad-based change in attitudes to reduce stigma and change behavior.

4. To develop the leadership of organizations that fight HIV/AIDS; as well as to foster collaborations among those organizations and leaders.

This is the Foundation's long-standing program to provide project support. The Spring cycle is open to any organization that submits a concept letter (see Application Procedures) by December 15 for a project that matches one or more of the objectives listed above. The maximum grant award is $20,000.

Through this funding program the Foundation supports projects of newly developed non-profit organizations, of groups that have not yet been funded by the Lloyd Foundation, of small organizations, as well as novel demonstration projects and discreet small-budget projects of larger, more established organizations.

There is a two-pronged application process. Following a review of all submitted concept letters, the Foundation will request that a few (usually no more than twenty) organizations submit full proposals. Organizations are not eligible for more than three (3) consecutive Spring Cycle awards.

If you are unsure if your project matches the funding guidelines and objectives, please email info@johnmlloyd.org or call 310/ 622-1050.

The John M. Lloyd Foundation, a private family foundation, generally makes contributions to non-profit organizations that are described in section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue code. The Foundation also makes grants to non-profit organizations based outside of the United States.

The Foundation prefers projects that have promise of making a significant impact and those which are new and innovative. The Foundation gives added preference to the development of programs that will significantly amplify the dollar amount of the grant.

In general, the Foundation does not make contributions:

* more than once per calendar year to any single organization
* more than three consecutive years to any single project
* to annual campaigns
* to operating budgets of established organizations
* to capital expenditures (physical plant, equipment, endowment)
* to indirect costs
* to individuals
* to locally-focused projects in the United States with the exception of locally-focused projects in California.
* to organizations that have annual budgets of $5 million or more
* for lobbying, as per federal restrictions on private foundations
* for health care or service provision
* for general support

The Foundation does make contributions to:

* locally-focused projects in California
* U.S.-based projects with a national or global scope
* International projects

The grant limit for the Spring Funding Cycle is $20,000.

The Foundation gives preference to organizations and projects that advocate for evidence-based policies, those that mobilize awareness and support for AIDS programs, and those that employ innovation to battle the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The Foundation's specific funding objectives are:

1. To increase funding from public and private sectors to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both globally and domestically.
2. To improve domestic and international policies:
* to apply universal protections of human rights to issues concerning HIV/AIDS
* to expand access to HIV/AIDS healthcare and treatment, and
* to ensure access to accurate information about HIV/AIDS.
3. To amplify global awareness of HIV/AIDS and to facilitate broad-based change in attitudes to reduce stigma and change behavior.
4. To develop the leadership of organizations that fight HIV/AIDS; as well as to foster collaborations among those organizations and leaders.

Celebrating Solutions

The Mary Byron Foundation created the Celebrating Solutions Awards to showcase and applaud local innovations that demonstrate promise in breaking the cycle of violence. We select programs that can serve as models for the nation and offer $10,000 cash awards in recognition of their pioneering efforts.

We accept nominations for the Celebrating Solutions Awards annually. Winners are announced the following Spring. Submissions for the 2008-09 awards will be accepted
Friday August 1 , 2008 -
Friday October 17, 2008.

Eligibility criteria:

* Both the nominated program and the institution must have been operating for a minimum of three years.
* The program must address the issue of domestic violence.
* The program must be part of a non-profit 501(c) (3) or government agency.
* The program should be replicable, or if it is national in scope, the program should have applications for individual communities, regardless of their size or ethnic population.

Not eligible for Celebrating Solutions Awards are:

* Past Celebrating Solutions Award winners.
* Organizations other than non-profit or governmental.
* Organizations operating outside the United States or a U.S. territory.
* Individuals.
* Basic research.

The awards process includes submission of a nomination form, a program outline detailing innovative aspects of the program, and a release. Institutions advancing to the next round will be asked to answer additional questions, submit letters of support, and provide a program budget.

Nominations are judged by a panel of experts in criminal justice, health care, and public policy, and other disciplines that address domestic violence.

The nomination form is available in Adobe PDF format. If you experience difficulty downloading the file, please send e-mail to information@marybyronfoundation.org. We will send you a copy via postal mail or fax.

The Mary Byron Foundation
10401 Linn Station Road
Louisville, Kentucky 40223-3842
Toll free: (866) 264-6684
Fax: (502) 212-0868

The Gates Award for Global Health

The nomination deadline for the Gates Award is October 31, 2008.

In December, 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the establishment of the International Gates Award for Global Health. The Gates Award has been established to recognize an organization yearly that has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of global health.

The prize consists of a distinctive award sculpture and a prize amount of 1 million dollars.

The Gates Award for Global Health was established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reward and exemplify organizations which have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource poor settings, with measurable results. The Gates Award for Global Health recognizes past achievements and the promise of continuing activity and improvement.

Any organization from any country in the world that has substantively improved the health and the lives of people in need may be nominated for the Gates Award for Global Health; the organization may be a charitable institution, a private company, or a public entity.

Nominations will be considered by an international jury consisting of health professionals from developing countries and the Global Health Council's Board of Directors. Nominations submitted will be reviewed by this jury and a winner will be selected. The jury member names will be publicized on the Global Health Council website once it is established.

The award will be presented in Washington, D.C., at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council's Annual International Conference. The winner's name is embargoed until the time of the ceremony.

Global Health Council

1111 19th Street, NW - Suite 1120
Washington, DC 20036
Tel (202) 833-5900
Fax (202) 833-0075

The Brookdale Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
Local Initiative – Year 2009

Guidelines
2009 RAPP Local and Regional Request for Proposals (RFP)
Introduction
The Brookdale Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) aims to develop or expand services for
grandparents or other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting when the
biological parents are unable to do so. Up to thirty local and regional programs will be selected
through this Request For Proposal (RFP) process from within the United States. Each selected
organization will receive a mini-grant of $10,000 over a two-year period ($6,000 and $4,000
respectively), contingent on progress made during year one and potential for continuity in the future.
On-going technical assistance will also be provided.
The deadline for the completed proposals is Thursday, December 4, 2008. Selected applicants will
be notified in April and are required to attend an Orientation and Training Conference to be held
May 1-3, 2009 in Denver, Colorado.
Goals of the Relatives as Parents Programs
• supportive services to relative caregivers and the children they are raising, with emphasis on
relative caregiving families that are not in the formal foster care system;
• start new or expand current services in response to caregiver and family needs;
• Services and assistance to relative caregivers and the children in their care must include regular
ongoing support, educational or social groups and at least two of the following:
- benefits and legal guidance - educational seminars
- individual and/or family counseling - health care services
- childcare - housing assistance
- children’s services - group recreational activities
- transportation assistance - services to special populations
- services with local schools - other programmatic initiatives
- mental health services
• establish collaboration with community organizations and other service systems such as family
services, child care, aging, education, legal, health care, mental health and extension services;
• initiate programs that have assurance of continuity beyond the two year grant period; and
• create replicable models of cost-effective, quality services across the region
General Guidelines for Local and Regional Sponsors
• The sponsoring organization must have a 501(c)(3) or equivalent tax-exempt status.
• The proposal should reflect responsiveness to all of the goals listed above.
• The sponsor must show linkages to other community agencies. Letters of support from
collaborating agencies should be included in the appendix of the proposal and reflect the kinds
of supportive services and activities they will contribute to this project.
• The sponsor must assign a senior staff member who will have overall administrative and
supervisory responsibility for the Program, and should also designate a person to serve as RAPP
Coordinator to manage the day-to-day operations.
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• The proposal must include a clear statement of how direct services will be provided to meet the
needs of relative caregiver families. It will not be sufficient to simply refer the
grandparents/relatives elsewhere for assistance.
• The seed grant must be matched 100%, either in-kind or in cash before the initiation of the
program. The source of matching financial support may be the sponsor, other community
agencies or public/private funds.
• The sponsor is responsible for the appropriate management of the seed grant and must comply
with the reporting requirements of the Foundation.
• Evidence of the ability to continue the program beyond the seed grant period should be included
in the project proposal.
• Applicants may apply for either the local or regional initiatives.

The Brookdale Foundation Group
The Brookdale Foundation The Glendale Foundation Ramapo Trust
950 Third Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Anna Lalor Burdick Program
Guidelines
Mission and Purpose

The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to educate young women about human reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life.

The Program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health, including the subjects of contraception and pregnancy termination, and as such may be particularly lacking options in their lives.

Funding Interests

Because limited foundation funding is available in the field of human reproductive education for young women, the trustees are interested in stretching the benefit of its grants as far as possible. Accordingly, the Anna Lalor Burdick Program emphasizes:

# Support for one-time projects, ongoing projects, new projects and initiatives that demonstrate realistic plans to achieve greater financial self-sufficiency.

# Support for new or smaller organizations, including grassroots efforts, where funding will increase public visibility, improve standing with funders, facilitate overall organizational development, or, in the case of the well defined projects of larger organizations, add a new dimension or capability to operations.

# Support for collaborative efforts among nonprofit organizations.

# Support for organizations that can demonstrate a proven ability to reach out to, include and involve young women with inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health.

# Support for new ideas, initiatives and demonstration projects, which, if proven effective, may be successfully replicated or provide multiple benefits.

Geographic Focus

The Program has no geographic limits.

Funding Availability and Limits

The trustees award a small number of grants in the range of $10,000 to $50,000.

Normally grants are awarded for one year only. Under special circumstances, renewals are considered, such as for projects which clearly require more than one year of support for effective implementation, or for projects which demonstrate outstanding results or promise during their first year.

Eligibility

Eligible U.S. applicants must be tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code, and defined as "not a private foundation" under section 509(a) of the Code.

If the applicant is not located in the United States and has not already been classified by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, please contact the Foundation office at the address or phone number listed at the end of this document.

Reproductive education must be the centerpiece of the proposed project, which should include attention to the subjects of contraception and pregnancy termination.

The project must focus on young women, including young mothers and preteens.

The proposal should include a succinct plan for assessing and reporting on the project's results. In this regard, the trustees are interested in learning from projects that have fallen short of expectations as well as those which have succeeded.

Areas Where Grants Are Not Normally Made

To full proposals submitted in advance of a concept paper that has been reviewed and approved by the trustees for further consideration.

To individuals, or for individual research projects and scholarship.

To requests for endowment or major capital support.

To prior grantees which have failed to provide grant reports.

To organizations with no track record or no personnel known to the trustees or to the staff at Grants Management Associates.
Application Procedures
Organizations are asked to begin the application process by submitting a concept paper in accordance with the foundation's concept paper application format. The concept paper application form is available on the Foundation's web site or through the Foundation office at the address and phone number listed at the end of this document. Concept papers should be submitted by mail.

Full Proposals - Applicants whose concept papers have been approved by the trustees will be invited to submit full proposals. If you are invited by the trustees to submit a full proposal, please download the proposal application and instructions from the Application Forms page of the website.

Deadlines
The trustees meet twice a year, in June and December. Proposals are not normally considered out of cycle. The respective deadlines for the receipt of concept papers are May 15 and November 1, or in the case of holidays or weekends, on the next business day.

Applicants will be informed of the foundation's decision regarding the concept paper by July 15 and January 15 respectively.

Please submit your concept papers no earlier than 8 weeks prior to a deadline. For the November deadline, concept papers may be submitted between September 1 and November 1. For the May deadline, concept papers may be submitted between March 15 and May 15.

Applicants who are invited to submit a full proposal will have 60 days from the date of notification to submit their proposal and will be notified of the foundation's decision 30 days after receipt of the proposal.

The Lalor Foundation, Inc.
c/o Susan Haff
Grants Management Associates
77 Summer Street, 8th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1006
Phone: 617-426-7080 x 323
FAX: 617-426-7087
E-mail: shaff@grantsmanagement.com