Nonprofits Grants

American Psychological Foundation Disaster Relief Grant

Funding psychology-based programs that respond to emergencies or disaster relief and contribute to the sustained rebuilding of communities.

Deadline: November 1, 2010

The APF provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come. It executes this mission through a broad range of scholarships and grants. For all of these, it encourages applications from individuals who represent diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

The Disaster Relief Grant supports psychology based programs that respond to emergencies or disaster relief and contributed to the sustained rebuilding of communities. Special consideration will be given to programs with broad-based community support goals.

Program Goals

* Promote the sustained rebuilding of the communities
* Encourage the application of psychological science to problems arising in the aftermath of disasters and crises
* Implement psychological principles into innovative programs for the recovery effort

Funding Specifics: Up to $10,000 will be available for projects

Affiliation with an education institution or with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

Special consideration will be given to programs with broad-based community support goals

Evaluation Criteria

* Conformance with stated program goals
* Demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work
* Quality of proposed work

Proposal Requirements

* Description of proposed project to include goal, relevant background, other organizations involved, target population, methods, expected outcomes, geographic scope, total cost Format: up to 5 pages (1 inch margins, no smaller than 11 point font)
* CV of the project leader

Submission Process and Deadline

Submit a completed application online by November 1, 2010.

Questions about this program should be directed to Kim Palmer Rowsome, Program Officer by e-mail.

2010 Subaru Healthy Sprouts Awards

Children today spend more time in the vitural world than the natural world. How can we expect the next generation to care for the environment if they feel disconnected from it and lack understanding about the impact of their actions on our health and food supply, both locally and globally? One solution: Get them in the garden!

Garden programs engage children by providing a dynamic environment where they can observe, discover, experiment, nurture, and learn. Through gardening activities, children develop respect for their environment and establish an important connection with nature.

Edible gardens in particular provide opportunities for youth to learn how to nurture and care for other living things while also learning how to care for themselves. They experience first-hand, the process of growing food and the skills needed to increase their access to fruits and vegetables. Edible gardens also provide opportunities to teach kids how to care for others in their community. What better way to create awareness about hunger than to have them actively involved in growing a garden, or part of a garden, to donate to a local food pantry.

The Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award recognizes and supports youth gardening programs focused on teaching about our environment, nutrition and hunger issues in the United States. Through winning programs, youth will learn the skills necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle compatible with environmental stewardship and gain an understanding of how their actions can positively impact the well being of their community.

Who is eligible to apply:

To be eligible for the 2010 Healthy Sprouts Awards, your school or organization must plan to garden in 2011 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. The selection of winners is based on the demonstrated relationship between the garden program and education related to environmental, nutrition and hunger issues in the United States.

Grant Packages

This year we will present awards to 30 schools or organizations. Each program will receive:

* a $500 gift certificate to the Gardening with Kids catalog and online store for basic youth gardening supplies and supporting educational materials
* NGA's Eat a Rainbow Kit, chock full of engaging taste education and nutrition lessons
* a literature package from NGA

healthy sprouts Submission process: Applications are due by October 1, 2010.

National Gardening Association
1100 Dorset Street
South Burlington, VT 05403
Phone: 800-538-7476 (800-LETSGRO)
Fax: 802-864-6889

Interested in learning more about our grants programs, contact Amanda: amandaw@garden.org

Active Living Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Deadline: Jul 1, 2011

Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity. The program places special emphasis on reaching children and youths ages 3 to 18 who are at highest risk for obesity: Black, Latino, American Indian and Asian/Pacific Islander children, as well as children who live in under-resourced and lower-income communities.

This call for proposals will support opportunistic, time-sensitive studies on emerging or anticipated changes in physical activity-related policies or environments. Rapid-response grants are expected to accelerate progress toward policy and environmental strategies to prevent and reduce childhood obesity. For maximum impact, studies should be completed in as short a time frame as realistically possible, and results disseminated using methods designed to reach local, state or national decision-makers in time to help inform key policy decisions. Detailed results of these studies, including methodologies and data analyses, along with the outcome of the efforts to reach policy audiences, also should be subsequently reported in peer-reviewed publications.

* Letter of Intent Required

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

* Preference will be given to applicants who are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
* Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories. The focus of this program is the United States; studies in other countries will be considered only to the extent that they may directly inform U.S. policy.

Key Dates:

* Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Letters of intent may be submitted at any time until July 1, 2011 (5 p.m. ET).

Total Award:

* A total of up to $1.5 million will be awarded under this call for proposals. The maximum award for a single grant is $150,000, with a funding period not to exceed 18 months.
* Funding for approved studies may be initiated as early as four months after submission of invited full proposals.

Contact:

Chad Spoon, research coordinator (Active Living projects)
cspoon@projects.sdsu.edu
Office: (619) 260-5539

Mailing Address

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
P.O. Box 2316
Route 1 and College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08543
Telephone Number

(877) 843-RWJF (7953)

“Faith and Development” 2010 - 2011 SEVEN-Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty Essay Competition

The S.E.VEN Fund (SEVEN) is pleased to announce its 2010 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on faith-based and faith-inspired development efforts fighting poverty and disease around the globe. The competition will award two (2) prizes of US $5,000. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST). Winners will be announced on December 15, 2010.

Essay Question

Are faith-based and faith-inspired enterprise based solutions more effective than conventional methods? Could interfaith efforts bridge gaps that secular efforts cannot? Could a stewardship-based understanding of entrepreneurship and profit-making infuse business with a profound moral purpose? Does the combination of concern for others and sound business principles result in sustainable, long-term solutions? While we readily learn of secular efforts in fighting poverty and disease, we very rarely hear the profound stories that describe the experiences of people who undertake this fight from a spiritual perspective. We aim to change that, and are interested in hearing your story or the story of someone you know who exemplifies faith-based or interfaith efforts to fight poverty and/or disease.

Foreign economic aid and government programs have spent billions of dollars over the past five decades to alleviate the high number of people living in poverty. No country has been lifted out of poverty solely as a result of these efforts. One-dimensional aid programs cannot alleviate poverty because they associate poverty solely with low to no levels of income for individuals and families. However, poverty in its broader and more relevant sense may be understood as stemming from an impoverished sense of self in relation to God, community, and the environment. A more holistic, integral approach that takes account of the full human person is necessary for effective poverty alleviation. Physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects need to be accounted for if we want to truly create abundance.

The notion of creating wealth is often stigmatized, and businesspeople can be regarded as too self-interested to be a force for positive social change. But what if they are informed by a spiritual worldview? A faith-based approach helps one to regard material rewards from a perspective of temporary stewardship and understand the responsibility that comes with that. Sound business principles ensure that efforts result in more than a handout, instead growing into a self-sustaining solution that affirms the dignity of all. Faith compels us to act in solidarity with others for the common good of all.

What if these efforts take place in an interfaith setting? Are communities of diverse faiths mutually called to tasks of love and service, collaborating to improve the human condition, and participating in their shared covenant with God? Does interfaith action and dialogue on a grassroots level grant opportunities to explore an empathetic mutuality and identify transformed behavior? Perhaps interfaith action redefines the boundaries of who is perceived as a neighbor and who is included in one’s community?

Share with us an inspiring story about a faith-based or faith-inspired effort in development addressing one or more of the following issues:

* Interfaith collaboration and action against poverty or disease;
* Faith-based or faith-inspired efforts addressing seemingly intractable problems;
* Bringing together faith-based efforts and sustainable enterprise based poverty alleviation, i.e. faith-inspired enterprises offering for-profit solutions to poverty.

We invite stories about individual action, or about collaborations between individuals or communities of different faiths on issues that affect global poverty. We are looking for stories and lessons learned about innovation, failures and projects, collaborations and businesses created, for-profit enterprises funding non-profit solutions, and the people helped by such efforts. The essay should be no longer than 2000 words, in English, and each submission should start with a 100-word abstract and a 100-word biography of the author.

SEVEN and CIFA are looking for stories in which people of faith or faith communities have decided to stimulate human and economic development through an “unorthodox mix” of faith, collaboration, for-profit entrepreneurship, business strategy, local wisdom, and mutual benefit. Potential essay writers are asked to read the four stories listed below and, informed by what they read, tell the story of faith-based or faith-inspired action/collaboration in solving issues (such as enterprise solutions to poverty) to help us inspire others and highlight where such efforts are taking root and flourishing around the world.

This competition is open to anyone who lives at the intersection of faith and entrepreneurship and seeks to find ways to alleviate poverty through faith-inspired, sustainable enterprise solutions, or has implemented this work in collaboration between individuals and communities of different faiths.

This essay competition is open to all participants globally.

Only applications submitted through the form on our website will be accepted. If you encounter problems, please contact SEVEN at info@sevenfund.org.

Important Dates

* Inaugural SEVEN-CIFA Call for Essays: April 10, 2010
* Deadline for Essay submission: 12:00AM Eastern Standard Time (EST), October 15, 2010
* SEVEN-CIFA Essay Award Announcements: December 15, 2010

Via Email

General Inquiries: info(at)sevenfund.org

Via Snail Mail

S.E.VEN Fund
1770 Massachusetts Avenue, 247
Cambridge, MA 02140
United States of America

Alzheimer's Foundation of America Family Respite Care Grant

AFA’s Family Respite Care Grant helps alleviate the cost of respite care for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Funds may be used for in-home care, adult day programs or other types of respite.

Individuals may only apply for this grant through one of AFA’s participating nonprofit member organizations, and AFA will only accept applications mailed from that member organization’s office. Applicants must meet specific requirements.

The amount of each of these grants may change each year. Therefore, it is best to check with AFA for the most up-to-date information prior to applying. However, as a baseline, in 2007:

* AFA awarded Family Respite Care Grants of $1,000 each to dozens of families in need of financial assistance for respite care and other care services.

This grant is offered in the spring and fall of each year; for consideration, applications must be postmarked by:

Spring cycle – May 1

Fall cycle – November 1

Alzheimer's Foundation of America
322 8th Ave., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001

You may contact AFA at 866-232-8484.

Multiple Sclerosis Center Quality of Life Grants

Since 1996, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (MSF) has awarded grants and endowments to universities, MS centers, and other nonprofit organizations to actively promote quality of life and create a brighter tomorrow for those living with MS. MS centers and nonprofit organizations, with a physical presence in the United States, in need of expanding their programs and services are also eligible for financial assistance from the MSF. Grants are available for implementing or expanding MS Day Programs, diagnostic services, rehabilitation services, support services, social services, education and outreach, and medical care.

Applications are accepted beginning September 1st of each year. Applications must be postmarked between September 1st and November 1st to be eligible for funding.

Eligibility:
• New and existing centers with a physical presence in the United States.
• Centers serving twenty-five or more MS patients.

Priority will be given to efforts that:
• Address unmet needs
• Enhance or expand current services
• Use creative and innovative approaches to achieve positive outcomes
• Fill gaps in current services

Areas not funded:
• Grants for research
• Grants to individuals
• Grants for religious purposes
• Grants for items covered under existing MSF programs

Size and types of grants:
• Funding decisions will be based on the type and scope of the program. Due to the wide variety of program designs expected, varying amounts of funding will be provided. Generally, the MSF funds programs in the range of $5,000 to $40,000.

For further information on the MS Center Quality of Life grant, call Alan Segaloff, Executive Director at 1-800-225-6495.

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
6350 North Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309-2130

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships: Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grantmakers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:
To be considered for funding through the RWJF Local Funding Partnerships, each proposal must include the following parties:

An eligible nominating funder who will propose a funding partnership with RWJF to support a proposed project of a local nonprofit organization; and
A nonprofit applicant organization classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Eligible Nominating Funders
To nominate projects for Peaceful Pathways, a grantmaking organization must be tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and must represent a community of color or diversity that is traditionally underserved by mainstream philanthropy.

Selection criteria can be found in the complete call for proposals brochure or the program's Web site.

Key Dates:
Optional applicant conference calls will be scheduled. Information will be posted at www.localfundingpartnerships.org under How to Apply.
Proposals may be submitted at any time throughout 2010.
Submitted proposals will be processed for review on the following dates: May 5, 2010, September 1, 2010 and January 5, 2011.

Total Award:
Up to $1 million is available in 2010.
Up to eight matching grants of between $50,000 and $200,000 each will be awarded.

Mailing Address

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
P.O. Box 2316
Route 1 and College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08543

Telephone Number  (877) 843-RWJF (7953)