The following are grants with deadlines approaching soon. Click on the link above for more detailed information.
- Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Grant (May 9th Deadline)
- Rural Community Development Initiative Grant (May 9th)
- USDA Rural Jobs Accelerator Grant (May 9th)
- Rural IT Workforce Grant (May 24th Deadline)
- State Farm Community Development Grant (May 31st Deadline)
Additional grant opportunities are listed below by relevant action group:
State Park
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations working to improve and encourage responsible use of public land sites in the United States
Due Date: 1/13/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Water Quality, Environmental Education
2. Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
Purpose: To develop the capacity and ability of nonprofit organizations, low-income rural communities, or federally recognized tribes to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural areas.
Due date: 5/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
3. Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
Purpose: To develop the capacity and ability of nonprofit organizations, low-income rural communities, or federally recognized tribes to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural areas.
Due date: 5/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
4. Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards
The Implementation Award will offer grants for the real-world execution of a promising community project. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: All
5. Appalachian Funders Network
This group does not give money on its own, but garners attention from outside funders for regional efforts. Is primarily focused on economic development issues.
Relevant Action Groups: All, but especially Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
One of goal areas is to improve the health, education and welfare of Lee and Wise County Virginia residents or their descendants.
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Does not list specific grant criteria. Has given to community groups in the Clinch River Valley region
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Civic and Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: All
9. Appalachian Community Fund Technical Assistance Grants Program
To be eligible for a Technical Assistance grant, the purpose, structure and work of applicants must meet ACF’s General Fund guidelines (see website). Technical Assistance grants are designed to build organizational capacity and to help train board and/or staff in organization building skills such as but not limited to: leadership development, fundraising; planned giving; board responsibilities and roles, long range planning, financial management/planning, legal issues, e.g., non-profit incorporation, community organizing, informing community/media about work, trainer’s fees, materials, and travel.
Due Date: Rolling; allow three weeks to process request
Relevant Action Groups: All
10. Rural Assistance Center Resource
Website lists grants, foundations and agencies with funding opportunities.
Due Date: Various
Relevant Action Groups: All
Access Points
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations working to improve and encourage responsible use of public land sites in the United States
Due Date: 1/13/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Water Quality, Environmental Education
2. The North Face Explore Fund
Projects that encourage youth outdoor participation, focusing primarily on creating more connections of children to nature, increasing access to both front & backcountry recreation, as well as providing education for both personal & environmental health.
Due Date: 4/6/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Environmental Education
3. Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
Purpose: To develop the capacity and ability of nonprofit organizations, low-income rural communities, or federally recognized tribes to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural areas.
Due date: 5/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
4. State Farm Community Development Grant
State Farm also sponsors a national grants program focusing on driving safety, home protection, disaster preparedness and recovery, and personal financial security. The emphasis of Community Development Grants is on affordable housing, first-time homeowners, community revitalization, and economic development. The deadline for those grants is May 31.
Due Date: 05/31/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
5. Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards
The Implementation Award will offer grants for the real-world execution of a promising community project. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: All
6. Appalachian Funders Network
This group does not give money on its own, but garners attention from outside funders for regional efforts. Is primarily focused on economic development issues.
Relevant Action Groups: All, but especially Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
One of goal areas is to improve the health, education and welfare of Lee and Wise County Virginia residents or their descendants.
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Does not list specific grant criteria. Has given to community groups in the Clinch River Valley region
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Groups that provide technical assistance and financing for small businesses, build networks and markets for entrepreneurs in distressed rural and urban communities, Strengthen worker-owned enterprises and cooperatives, Foster commercial real estate development
Currently not accepting unsolicited proposals.
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
10. Goldman Sachs
Four focus areas: Honoring Service and Veterans, Building and Stabilizing Communities, Increasing Educational Opportunities, Creating Jobs and Economic Growth
Does not accept unsolicited proposals, so recommends starting with a two page letter of inquiry
Brenda Lee, grants administrator, (212)902-3246.
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
11. Dominion Power
Civic and Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: All
12. Appalachian Community Fund Technical Assistance Grants Program
To be eligible for a Technical Assistance grant, the purpose, structure and work of applicants must meet ACF’s General Fund guidelines (see website). Technical Assistance grants are designed to build organizational capacity and to help train board and/or staff in organization building skills such as but not limited to: leadership development, fundraising; planned giving; board responsibilities and roles, long range planning, financial management/planning, legal issues, e.g., non-profit incorporation, community organizing, informing community/media about work, trainer’s fees, materials, and travel.
Due Date: Rolling; allow three weeks to process request
Relevant Action Groups: All
13. Rural Assistance Center Resource
Website lists grants, foundations and agencies with funding opportunities.
Due Date: Various
Relevant Action Groups: All
Water Quality
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations working to improve and encourage responsible use of public land sites in the United States
Due Date: 1/13/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Water Quality, Environmental Education
2. Conservation Partners Funding for Wildlife Conservation on Private Land
Conservation Partners, a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and other regional/initiative specific partners, provides grants on a competitive basis to organizations working with NRCS field offices to provide technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other private landowners to optimize wildlife habitat conservation on private lands.
Priority will be given to proposals that target species and ecosystems of shared interest between NFWF and NRCS, including but not limited to the following areas: Northeast forests, Upper Mississippi River basin, Gulf of Mexico, and prairie pothole.
Due Date: 3/13/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality
3. State Farm Youth Advisory Board Grant
For K-12 schools and student-led service-learning projects
The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is composed of young adults who demonstrate exemplary work in service-learning, volunteering, and philanthropy in their communities. The Youth Advisory Board National Grant Program funds student-led service-learning projects throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Areas of interest include natural and societal disasters, driver safety, environmental responsibility, accessing higher education/closing the achievement gap, and financial literacy.
Due Date: 5/4/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
4. Virginia Environmental Endowment: Virginia Mini-Grant Program
The Virginia Mini-Grant Program supports community-based efforts to strengthen environmental education and to promote stewardship of Virginia’s waterways. These are intended to be one-time, start-up grants, and preference is given to modest local projects. Grant program areas are: Environmental Education and Water Quality Protection.
Public and private schools and nonprofit, nongovernmental community organizations in Virginia are eligible to apply for one-year awards up to $5,000.
Due Date: 6/15/2012 and 12/1/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
5. Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards
The Implementation Award will offer grants for the real-world execution of a promising community project. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: All
Cultural arts, Civic and community, Conservation & Environment, Education, Historic Preservation, and Social Services, Health and Welfare
Due Date: 09/01/2012 for fall cycle, 03/01/2013 for spring cycle
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
7. Appalachian Funders Network
This group does not give money on its own, but garners attention from outside funders for regional efforts. Is primarily focused on economic development issues.
Relevant Action Groups: All, but especially Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
One of goal areas is to improve the health, education and welfare of Lee and Wise County Virginia residents or their descendants.
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Does not list specific grant criteria. Has given to community groups in the Clinch River Valley region
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
10. Campbell Foundation for the Environment, Inc.
Has given to waterkeepers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Not accepting unsolicited proposals for this year.
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality
11. Dominion Power
Civic and Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: All
12. Appalachian Community Fund Technical Assistance Grants Program
To be eligible for a Technical Assistance grant, the purpose, structure and work of applicants must meet ACF’s General Fund guidelines (see website). Technical Assistance grants are designed to build organizational capacity and to help train board and/or staff in organization building skills such as but not limited to: leadership development, fundraising; planned giving; board responsibilities and roles, long range planning, financial management/planning, legal issues, e.g., non-profit incorporation, community organizing, informing community/media about work, trainer’s fees, materials, and travel.
Due Date: Rolling; allow three weeks to process request
Relevant Action Groups: All
13. Rural Assistance Center Resource
Website lists grants, foundations and agencies with funding opportunities.
Due Date: Various
Relevant Action Groups: All
Environmental Education
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations working to improve and encourage responsible use of public land sites in the United States
Due Date: 1/13/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Water Quality, Environmental Education
2. Action for Nature International Young Eco-Hero Awards
Youth between the ages of 8 and 16 from anywhere in the world whose personal actions have significantly improved the environment are eligible for a cash prize of up to $500.
Due Date: 1/15/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
Grants are made for activities that conform to the mission of the Captain Planet Foundation which is to: promote and support high-quality educational programs that enable children and youth to understand and appreciate our world through learning experiences that engage them in active, hands-on projects to improve the environment in their schools and communities.
Contact (404)522-4215 to ask questions or get more information. Must apply online.
Due Date: 1/15/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
4. Elmer’s and Kids in Need Foundation K-12 Teacher Grant Program
Grants will be awarded to teachers who wish to conduct classroom projects selected from a catalog of more than five hundred projects currently in the Kids In Need Guide to Award Winning Projects. Grant awards will be based on financial need, description of how the particular project meets the educational needs of students and satisfies state standards or school curriculum requirements, and the number of students who will benefit from the project.
Applications open in mid-February each year. Deadline is TBD (already closed for 2012).
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education.
5. American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Young Naturalist Awards
This program invites students to plan and conduct their own scientific investigation, one that includes observations, questions, predictions, data-gathering field trips, and analysis. Investigations should provide students with a new understanding about their question. To enter, students must submit an essay that includes tables, charts or graphs, and artwork or photographs that help illustrate their findings. In addition to cash awards, winners will be given an expense-paid trip to New York City to attend an award ceremony at the Museum and to take a behind-the-scenes tour.
For students in grades 7-12
Contact the Young Naturalist Awards Administrator at yna@amnh.org
Due Date: 3/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
6. The North Face Explore Fund
Projects that encourage youth outdoor participation, focusing primarily on creating more connections of children to nature, increasing access to both front & backcountry recreation, as well as providing education for both personal & environmental health.
Due Date: 4/6/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Environmental Education
7. Dressman Education Foundation
Funding K-12 educators for classroom innovations. The Academic Enrichment funding goes for in-class and extracurricular programs that nurture the intellectual, artistic and creative abilities of pre-2 grade students from low-income households. Teacher Development Grants provide funding to individuals or small teams of teachers in the formation and implementation of groundbreaking collaborative K-12 classroom instruction.
Questions? Call (801)578-1260 or e-mail, info@mccartheydressman.org
Due Date: 4/15/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
8. State Farm Youth Advisory Board Grant
For K-12 schools and student-led service-learning projects
The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is composed of young adults who demonstrate exemplary work in service-learning, volunteering, and philanthropy in their communities. The Youth Advisory Board National Grant Program funds student-led service-learning projects throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Areas of interest include natural and societal disasters, driver safety, environmental responsibility, accessing higher education/closing the achievement gap, and financial literacy.
Due Date: 5/4/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
9. Meaningful Watershed Education (MWEE) Partner Mini-Grant Program
DEQ and the Virginia Resource-Use Education Council are working with regional VAST and local groups interested in science and environmental education to conduct professional development that builds capacity for K-12 environmental literacy. Topics may include meaningful watershed education (MWEE), STEM or other standards-based environmental science. Grants ranging from $250 – $1,000 will be awarded; amount will be based on anticipated attendance.
Due Date: 6/1/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
10. Virginia Environmental Endowment: Virginia Mini-Grant Program
The Virginia Mini-Grant Program supports community-based efforts to strengthen environmental education and to promote stewardship of Virginia’s waterways. These are intended to be one-time, start-up grants, and preference is given to modest local projects. Grant program areas are: Environmental Education and Water Quality Protection.
Public and private schools and nonprofit, nongovernmental community organizations in Virginia are eligible to apply for one-year awards up to $5,000.
Due Date: 6/15/2012 and 12/1/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
11. Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards
The Implementation Award will offer grants for the real-world execution of a promising community project. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: All
Cultural arts, Civic and community, Conservation & Environment, Education, Historic Preservation, and Social Services, Health and Welfare
Due Date: 09/01/2012 for fall cycle, 03/01/2013 for spring cycle
Relevant Action Groups: Water Quality, Environmental Education
13. Appalachian Funders Network
This group does not give money on its own, but garners attention from outside funders for regional efforts. Is primarily focused on economic development issues.
Relevant Action Groups: All, but especially Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
14. Slemp Foundation
One of goal areas is to improve the health, education and welfare of Lee and Wise County Virginia residents or their descendants.
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
15. Appalachian Electric Power
Does not list specific grant criteria. Has given to community groups in the Clinch River Valley region
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
16. Claude Moore Charitable Foundation
Help the talented and underprivileged (culturally and economically) in our society to maximize their opportunity for educational advancement through literacy and advanced education.
Must be invited to apply; not accepting unsolicited proposals for 2012. For Virginia grantees only.
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education
The Coca-Cola Foundation supports projects which provide youth with the educational opportunities to become productive citizens. The foundation encourages new solutions to problems that impede educational systems and supports existing programs that work. Because the challenges for education are so broad, the foundation’s commitment is multifaceted. The Higher education grants focus on programs that encourage students to stay in school and proceed with confidence to college and graduate school. Classroom teaching and learning grants focus on K-12 public; global education grants focus on global exchange programs that encourage international studies. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status.
Contact Helen Smith Price, Executive Director, at (404)676-2568 or cocacolacommunityrequest@na.ko.com
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
18. Goldman Sachs
Four focus areas: Honoring Service and Veterans, Building and Stabilizing Communities, Increasing Educational Opportunities, Creating Jobs and Economic Growth
Does not accept unsolicited proposals, so recommends starting with a two page letter of inquiry
Brenda Lee, grants administrator, (212)902-3246.
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
19. Dominion Power
Civic and Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: All
20. Tennessee Valley Authority Corporate Contribution Program
Contributions made to not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations through the Corporate Contributions programs are broad-based in community outreach and scope, with special emphasis on education, economic development and civic-business partnerships that further enhance TVA’s mission of service. Requests for large contributions are considered by a diverse committee of TVA representatives that meets quarterly. Focus areas include: Education, Human Services, Civic-Business Partnerships and Others.
Must apply online.
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
21. Appalachian Community Fund Technical Assistance Grants Program
To be eligible for a Technical Assistance grant, the purpose, structure and work of applicants must meet ACF’s General Fund guidelines (see website). Technical Assistance grants are designed to build organizational capacity and to help train board and/or staff in organization building skills such as but not limited to: leadership development, fundraising; planned giving; board responsibilities and roles, long range planning, financial management/planning, legal issues, e.g., non-profit incorporation, community organizing, informing community/media about work, trainer’s fees, materials, and travel.
Due Date: Rolling; allow three weeks to process request
Relevant Action Groups: All
22. Rural Assistance Center Resource
Website lists grants, foundations and agencies with funding opportunities.
Due Date: Various
Relevant Action Groups: All
Outdoor Recreation and Downtown Revitalization
1. Economic Development Administration
The purpose of EDA’s University Center Economic Development Program is to assist institutions of higher education and consortia of institutions of higher education in establishing and operating University Centers specifically focused on leveraging university assets to build regional economic ecosystems that support high-growth entrepreneurship.
Due Date: 3/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Roadmaps to Health: Community Grants
For governments, tribes and nonprofits (applicants should participate in established coalitions or networks that span multiple sectors); Funding: 20 grants up to $200,000 each;
These grants support communities that seek to implement policy or system changes to improve community health — such as education, employment and income, family and social support, and community safety. Applicants should look at how to encourage social connectedness among special populations and youth. Applicants must secure 100% matching support — including a cash match of at least 50% with the balance as in-kind support.
Contact Alexis Brimage-Major at roadmaps@communitycatalyst.org or (617) 275-2865
Due Date: 5/12/2012 for initial proposal; 07/25/2012 for full proposal
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
This opportunity will support customized solutions targeted to address the gaps and opportunities specific for individual regions by strengthening linkages to self-identified, high-potential industry clusters in competitively selected rural regions across the nation and across all sectors.Funds can be used for a range of projects including projects related to housing, community facilities, or economic and community development along with creation of regional linkages that connect communities with innovation clusters and regional opportunities leading to job creation, expanded markets, and economic growth.
Due Date: 5/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
4. Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
Purpose: To develop the capacity and ability of nonprofit organizations, low-income rural communities, or federally recognized tribes to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural areas.
Due date: 5/9/2012
Relevant Action Groups: State Park, Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
Looking for projects that: (1) design strategies that are likely to produce significant positive change in learning and employment outcomes; (2) continuously evaluate the effectiveness of their strategies in order to improve their programming; and (3) identify and integrate promising and proven strategies into their education and training programs. Also likes to see development of online learning strategies for adults.
Due Date: 5/24/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Outdoor Recreation and Downtown Revitalization
6. State Farm Community Development Grant
State Farm also sponsors a national grants program focusing on driving safety, home protection, disaster preparedness and recovery, and personal financial security. The emphasis of Community Development Grants is on affordable housing, first-time homeowners, community revitalization, and economic development. The deadline for those grants is May 31.
Due Date: 05/31/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
7. Design Ignites Change Implementation Awards
The Implementation Award will offer grants for the real-world execution of a promising community project. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: All
8. Design Ignites Change Idea Awards
The Idea Award will be given to innovative social change project ideas. Participating students are eligible to apply, educators can apply on behalf of their students and creative professionals can apply on behalf of the students they mentor.
Due Date: 6/30/2012
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
9. Appalachian Funders Network
This group does not give money on its own, but garners attention from outside funders for regional efforts. Is primarily focused on economic development issues.
Relevant Action Groups: All, but especially Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
10. Slemp Foundation
One of goal areas is to improve the health, education and welfare of Lee and Wise County Virginia residents or their descendants.
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
11. Appalachian Electric Power
Does not list specific grant criteria. Has given to community groups in the Clinch River Valley region
No due date listed.
Relevant Action Groups: All
Groups that provide technical assistance and financing for small businesses, build networks and markets for entrepreneurs in distressed rural and urban communities, Strengthen worker-owned enterprises and cooperatives, Foster commercial real estate development
Currently not accepting unsolicited proposals.
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
The Coca-Cola Foundation supports projects which provide youth with the educational opportunities to become productive citizens. The foundation encourages new solutions to problems that impede educational systems and supports existing programs that work. Because the challenges for education are so broad, the foundation’s commitment is multifaceted. The Higher education grants focus on programs that encourage students to stay in school and proceed with confidence to college and graduate school. Classroom teaching and learning grants focus on K-12 public; global education grants focus on global exchange programs that encourage international studies. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status.
Contact Helen Smith Price, Executive Director, at (404)676-2568 or cocacolacommunityrequest@na.ko.com
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
Purpose: To advance the knowledge about how to encourage healthy lifestyles and effect positive behavior change. These include community development, minority community initiatives and efforts involving health professionals…Programs at the high-school level emphasize skill development for students of color and students from low-income households. The foundation also considers organizations which help foster a positive environment for minority-owned and women-owned businesses as well as workplace climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
Only accepts e-mail applications, pepsicofoundation@pepsico.com
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
15. Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Inter-professional education and teamwork; patient safety, quality improvement, and system performance; new models for clinical education; career development for underrepresented minorities; and education for the care of underserved populations. Board grants are evaluated on four key priorities: relevance to foundation priorities; importance and originality; significance and whether they can be generally applied and sustainability.
jmacyinfo@josiahmacyfoundation.org or (212)486-2424
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
16. Goldman Sachs
Four focus areas: Honoring Service and Veterans, Building and Stabilizing Communities, Increasing Educational Opportunities, Creating Jobs and Economic Growth
Does not accept unsolicited proposals, so recommends starting with a two page letter of inquiry
Brenda Lee, grants administrator, (212)902-3246.
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Access Points, Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
17. Dominion Power
Civic and Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: All
18. Tennessee Valley Authority Corporate Contribution Program
Contributions made to not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations through the Corporate Contributions programs are broad-based in community outreach and scope, with special emphasis on education, economic development and civic-business partnerships that further enhance TVA’s mission of service. Requests for large contributions are considered by a diverse committee of TVA representatives that meets quarterly. Focus areas include: Education, Human Services, Civic-Business Partnerships and Others.
Must apply online.
Due Date: Rolling
Relevant Action Groups: Environmental Education, Downtown Revitalization and Outdoor Recreation
19. Appalachian Community Fund Technical Assistance Grants Program
To be eligible for a Technical Assistance grant, the purpose, structure and work of applicants must meet ACF’s General Fund guidelines (see website). Technical Assistance grants are designed to build organizational capacity and to help train board and/or staff in organization building skills such as but not limited to: leadership development, fundraising; planned giving; board responsibilities and roles, long range planning, financial management/planning, legal issues, e.g., non-profit incorporation, community organizing, informing community/media about work, trainer’s fees, materials, and travel.
Due Date: Rolling; allow three weeks to process request
Relevant Action Groups: All
20. Rural Assistance Center Resource
Website lists grants, foundations and agencies with funding opportunities.
Due Date: Various
Relevant Action Groups: All
