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FUNDING UPDATE
New England
Foundation for the Arts, Through October 2020
Public art grants focus on spatial justice in the time of COVID-19.
Awards range from $2,000 to $10,000.
Ramsey McCluskey
Family Foundation, 10/1/2020
Grants support projects in arts education and general education. Max
award: $7500.
Shubert Foundation,
10/15/2020 to 12/22020
General operating grants support nonprofit, professional resident theatre
and dance companies; A limited number of development grants are
also available.
New this week:
GRAMMY Museum, 11/1/2020
Preservation Implementation grants of up to $20,000, and Assistance,
Assessment, or Consultation grants of up to $5,000. The Scientific
Research Projects category provides grants of up to $20,000 for research
on the impact of music on the human condition.
D’Addario
Foundation, Open
Grants support programs that bring music back into communities and
schools and get kids playing as early and as frequently as possible.
Application process begins with a letter of inquiry.
Artists Relief, Open
To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national
arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to
offer financial ($5,000 grants) and informational resources to artists
across the United States.
City of Boston, Open
Opportunity Fund grants enable artists to develop their careers and plan
free arts-focused experiences and events throughout the city's
neighborhoods.
The Creative Capital
blog lists a variety of resources and opportunities.
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City of Boston, Open
The Boston Resiliency Fund helps coordinate philanthropic efforts to
provide essential services to Boston residents whose health and
well-being are most immediately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Funding priorities: providing food to Boston's children, families, and
seniors; providing technology to Boston Public Schools students for
remote learning; and providing support to first responders, front-line
workers, and healthcare workers so they can effectively do their jobs and
promote public health.
Life Comes From It,
Open Process for Letters of Introduction
Grants ranging from $2500 to $25,000 support grassroots movement-building
in restorative justice, transformative justice, and indigenous
peacemaking, with work rooted in lived experience and relationships.
Groundswell
Fund, Open
The Rapid Response
Fund supports organizations on the frontlines, defending the most
vulnerable communities with timely, flexible grants with an emphasis on
funding in states and communities where women of color, transgender people
of color, and low-income women and trans people-led organizing is
under-resourced. Grants range from $1,500 to $15,000.
New this week: Eastern Bank
Foundation, Open
Grants are available in multiple categories for both nonprofits and
informal groups.
People's
United Bank, 10/1/2020
Community Grants
support social, health and youth services, affordable housing, education,
arts and culture, and low-to moderate-income individuals.
Clif Bar Family
Foundation, 10/1/2020
Grants support projects that protect Earth's beauty and bounty; create
robust, healthy food systems; increase opportunities for outdoor
activity; reduce environmental health hazards; and/or build stronger
communities.Grants are awarded for general organizational support as well
as for specific projects.
Massachusetts
Department of Conservation and Recreation, 10/1/2020 to 11/1/2020
Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Grants support professional
management of a municipality's public tree resources through
public/private partnerships. Local tree departments and citizen tree groups
are specifically encouraged to apply.
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City of Boston, Open
The Reopen Boston
Fund was established to help small businesses minimize risk and manage
economic recovery. Eligible costs include Personal Protective Equipment,
safety partitions for customers and employees, and managing outdoor space
that’s approved for business use. The grants are for brick-and-mortar
businesses, with fewer than 15 employees, where people work close to each
other or to customers.
New this
week: Boston Local Development Corporation, Open
The Standard BLDC Loan Fund is available for existing businesses, new
ventures, and businesses relocating to Boston. Loans range from $25,000
to $150,000. The Backstreets Boston Back-up Loan Program provides
financing of up to $250,000 for Boston companies in the industrial and
manufacturing sectors. Also, BLDC recently received a $693,000 CARES Act
Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration at
the US Department of Commerce to capitalize and administer a Revolving
Loan Fund to provide loans to coronavirus-impacted small businesses in
Boston. For more information, contact Bill Nickerson or Gisella Soriano.
Lowe's/LISC Small Grants for Businesses
Grants of $20,000 are available to small
business owners to help meet their most immediate needs. Eligible
expenses include: payroll, rent and utilities, outstanding debt to
vendors, technology or infrastructure upgrades, and other immediate
operational costs.
Short
Deadline: Coalition
to Back Black Businesses, 9/21/2020
Each
year, 280 grants of $5,000 are awarded to support Black-owned small
businesses. Additional support includes Mentorship, Enhancement Grants
($25,000), and Online Resources. Applicant businesses must be located in
an economically vulnerable community. The application process begins with
a 10-question expression of interest.
Citizens Bank, Open
Sponsorships are considered from a wide range of organizations. The bank
encourages creativity and innovation to develop partnerships that are of
mutual benefit to community organizations and the bank.
Equality Can’t Wait
Challenge, Now through 9/22/2020
Pivotal Ventures, Melinda Gates’ investment and incubation company, with
additional support from MacKenzie Bezos, will award $30 million to help
expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030. Grants
will be awarded to the organizations or coalitions of organizations with
the most compelling proposals. The organizational assessment period is
underway now through August.
Kazanjian Economics
Foundation, 9/10/2020
Funding focus: economics education. Applicants must have 5 years of
operating experience. Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000.
Environmental
Protection Agency, 9/22/2020 to 10/28/2020
The Brownfields Program provides direct funding for brownfields
assessment, cleanup, revolving loans, environmental job training,
technical assistance, training, and research. Multiple funding
opportunities are available.
Hello Alice,
9/25/2020
$250,000 in growth grants will be awarded to Business for All applicants,
as a critical step towards tackling entrepreneurs’ single greatest
barrier to success: access to capital.
Cigna Foundation,
9/30/2020
The Healthier Kids For Our Future global program will provide up $5
million in grants to community-based organizations over the next year.
US Economic
Development Administration, 10/4/2020
STEM Talent Challenge grants will support efforts to boost local STEM
talent and workforce development models across the nation’s growing
innovation economies. Max award: $300,000
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School-Based
Healthcare Solutions Network, Open
Grants will support licensed mental health professionals to coordinate
behavioral health services utilizing Telehealth technology and academic
coordination activities with school administration in collaboration with
school district designated program personnel. Max award: $250,000.
Funding is available until depleted.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 9/30/2020
Humanities
Connections grants support partnerships among humanities faculty and
their counterparts in the business, engineering, health sciences, law,
computer science, and other technology-driven fields, in order to
encourage and develop new integrative learning opportunities for
students. Awards range from $35,000 to $100,000.
Nellie Mae Foundation,
9/30/2020
Rapid
Response: Educators for Black Lives grants support educators who have
been at the forefront of facilitating necessary and courageous
conversations and practices centered on eradicating anti-Blackness in
their virtual classrooms, schools, and communities across New England.
Nordstrom, 10/1/2020
Grants support programs that care for kids and empower youth and benefit
a local community served by Nordstrom. Max award: $25K.
New
this week: Toshiba America Foundation, 10/1/2020
Seeking
applications from K - 5 teachers for innovative STEM projects. Max award
$1,000.
Institute of Museum and Library Services, 10/2/2020
The
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program supports developing a diverse
workforce of librarians to better meet the changing learning and
information needs of the American public.
Nellie Mae
Foundation, 10/22/2020
Educators for Black Lives Matter - grants will support organizing;
holding classroom, school, educator, and/or community conversations;
culturally responsive training sessions for schools or districts;
culturally sensitive therapy/community healing; activities intended to
center Black youth and families; attending trainings or conferences. Max
award: $30,000.
New
this week:
First Nations
Development Institute, 10/22/2020
The Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship program will honor and support a
cohort of 10 outstanding Native knowledge holders and knowledge makers
engaged in meaningful work that will ultimately lead to broad,
transformative impacts for Indigenous communities. Award: $50,000.
Coca Cola Scholars
Foundation, 10/31/2020
High school seniors are recognized for their capacity to lead and serve,
as well as their commitment to making a significant impact on their
schools and communities. 150 scholarships of $20,000 each. Additional
scholarship programs and resources are listed on the website.
AAUW, 11/15/2020
Career Development Grants provide funding to women who hold a bachelor’s
degree and are preparing to advance or change careers or re-enter the
workforce in education, health and medical sciences, or social sciences.
Primary consideration is given to women of color and women pursuing their
first advanced degree or credentials in nontraditional fields. Awards
range from $2,000 to $12,000. Additional funding opportunities are listed
on the website.
New
this week: NEA Foundation, 12/1/2020
Applications are now being accepted for Learning & Leadership Grants
that promote professional development, as well as Student Success Grants.
Awards range from $2,000 to $5000. Additional funding opportunities are
listed on the For Educators page.
National Endowment
for the Humanities, 12/16/2020
The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for
research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to
publication. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may
apply, and no advanced degree is required. Awards: $5,000 per month for 6
- 12 months.
National Science
Foundation, 12/15/2020 to 1/28/2021
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community Research
Infrastructure program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE
disciplines of Computing and Communication Foundations; Computer and
Network Systems; and Information and Intelligent Systems.
Lexmark, Open
Funding focus: educational excellence/STEM, diversity, and employee
volunteerism.
Brown Rudnick, Ongoing
Community
Grants simultaneously 1) encourage those involved broadly with the Brown
Rudnick Center for the Public Interest to actively think about the
educational needs in the communities of Boston, 2) recognize, encourage
and collaborate with the front-line educators who often do not have a
voice in funding decisions; and 3) provide funding to assist with small,
concrete projects or needs which will improve education in underserved
communities, within a year of the grant award.
ECMC Foundation,
Open
Funding priority: requests that address the immediate challenges and
opportunities arising from the pandemic, with emphasis on implementing
systemic reforms to increase college success and career readiness for
students from underserved backgrounds.
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Cigna Foundation, Open
For World of Difference grants, the funding focus is Health Equity:
helping people overcome barriers to their health and well-being related
to factors such as ethnicity, race, gender, age, geography, or economics.
Additional priority is given to community health navigation projects.
Average grant: $25,000.
One Young World,
Open
The COVID-19 Young Leaders Fund supports young leaders around the world
who are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic on the front lines.
New this week: National Institutes of Health, 10/18/2020 -
6/15/2022
The HEAL Initiative: Non-addictive Analgesic Therapeutics Development to
Treat Pain is a milestone-driven, phased cooperative agreement
program involving participation of NIH program staff in the development
of the project plan and monitoring of research progress.
Papoose Conservation
Wildlife Foundation, 10/1/2020
Funding focus: wildlife science and children’s experiences in nature.
Goal: to help children become the scientists of tomorrow working to
preserve wildlife diversity. Max award: $5,000.
US Health Resources and Services Administration,
10/6/2020
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children grants support innovative,
community-based initiatives to improve the health status of infants,
children, adolescents, and families in rural and other underserved
communities.
Average award: $50,000.
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, 10/7/2020
Community Solutions for Health Equity grants will focus on elevating the
voices that have been left out of discussions when local health care
systems in the United States are creating policy. RWJF will award 9
grants of $300,000.
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, 10/15/2020 (Round One)
The Culture of Health Prize elevates compelling stories of places
throughout the country where residents are working together to transform
education, jobs, transportation, housing, and more so that better health
flourishes for all. Up to 10 winning communities will each receive a
$25,000 cash prize and have their success stories shared broadly, with
the goal of raising awareness and inspiring locally-driven change across
the United States.
LiveStrong, 10/16/2020 Letters of Interest
Funding priorities include post-treatment care, patient and caregiver
education, comprehensive quality of life services, and streamlining
systems and care. Awards range from $5,000 to $20,000.
Fundación MAPFRE,
10/30/2020
Ignacio H. de Larramendi Research Grants support health promotion
strategies such as obesity prevention, patient education, physical injury
assessment, and health management. This is a worldwide competition. Max
award: $30,000 euros.
AIDS United, Rolling
The Relief, Recovery, and Resilience Fund is currently supporting
nonprofit organizations that are experiencing challenges meeting the
needs of people living with, and at risk for, HIV and AIDS because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the Fund is on access to HIV care,
housing, food, etc. Priority populations: people who use drugs or
communities of color, especially Black communities Max award:
$15,000. Applications will be reviewed as long as funds are
available.
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Massachusetts Service Alliance
COVID-19
Resiliency, 9/14/2020
Grants
of up to $4,000 will support volunteer community service projects and
volunteer capacity-building initiatives.
Youth
Development Volunteer Initiative, 9/18/2020
Grants
of up to $10,000 will support capacity-building opportunities to
nonprofits and Volunteer Connector Organizations to better engage
volunteers in youth development programming.
AmeriCorps, 9/4 - 9/25/2020
Grants
support members who engage in community service interventions to
strengthen communities.
New
this week: People's United Community Foundation of Eastern
Massachusetts, 10/1/2020
Funding priorities: Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Education,
Social and Youth Services. Geographic restrictions apply.
HAND Foundation, 10/1/2020
Grants support organizations working to reduce and prevent child sex
abuse. Grants range from $5,000 to $150,000. The application process
begins with a letter of inquiry.
New this week: Impact Fund,
10/6/2020
Grants support nonprofit legal service providers, private attorneys,
and/or small law firms seeking to advance justice in the areas of civil
rights, human rights, anti-poverty, and environmental justice cases that
affect a marginalized group. Grants typically range between $10,000 and
$50,000, primarily for class actions, but multi-plaintiff and
environmental justice cases are encouraged.
New
this week: Santander Bank, 10/15/2020
Funding priorities: Community Development Financial Institutions,
Economic and Workforce Development, Affordable Housing, and Financial
Education and Inclusion. Funding focus: programs that make a measurable difference
in the lives of low- and moderate-income individuals and communities.
Average award: $30,000
Ben & Jerry's
Foundation, 10/15/2020
Social Justice grants support grassroots organizations & movements
throughout the U.S. working to change underlying conditions in order to
bring about a more equitable society. Max award: $25,000.
Community Consulting
Teams, 10/16/2020
Midsize nonprofits, often at a stage of re-focusing or new growth, face
one or more challenging business issues, and can often benefit from pro
bono business consulting services. By working with a CCT project team,
nonprofits can increase their capacity to address the causes they serve
and improve sustainability.
New
this week: Resist, 12/4/2020
Grants ($4,000) support community organizing and anti-racism projects,
economic justice, environmental protection, LGBTQ rights, labor
organizing, and Native American organizing, among others.
Dunkin’ Joy in
Childhood Foundation, Open
The Foundation is awarding $1M in emergency hunger relief grants for underserved
communities in 2020.
New
this week: National Endowment for the
Humanities, 1/15/2021
Digital
Humanities Advancement grants support Articles; Digital Materials
and Publication; Workshops; Reports; Teaching Resources; Digital
Infrastructure; Software. Awards range from $50,000 to $325,000.
New this week: Agnes M. Lindsay Trust, Open
Funding Priorities: Health and Welfare, Dental/Oral Health, Camp
Scholarships, Education, and Homeless Shelters, our newest initiative.
Special focus on Food Pantries. Applicants must be located in Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. For new applicants, the process
begins with a Letter of Inquiry.
New this week:
Cornell Douglas
Foundation, Open
Funding focus: environmental health and justice. Grants generally range
from $15,000 to $50,000
GrantStation offers a searchable database of COVID-19
funding.
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THE RESOURCE TABLE
Connecting
Communities to Opportunity
Courtesy
of Winn Companies
Use CONNECT to search for free and reduced cost services like food,
healthcare, job opportunities, benefits enrollment, rent assistance and
more.
Family
Resources
Emergency Childcare
Good Neighbors
Coping Skills for Youth
Harvard
Business School Community Action Partners
Now seeking nonprofit clients for pro bono consulting projects. Alumni
from Harvard's Business and Kennedy schools offer expertise in strategic
and business planning, market research and marketing strategy, financial
planning and analysis, board development and governance, and
organizational development. In response to the ongoing pandemic, CAP is
offering SHORT (2-4 months) and CLASSIC consulting projects. The
9/11/2020 deadline may be extended upon request. Contact CAP Executive
Director, Kathy Le: info[at]cap-hbsab[dot]org
Microsoft Digital Skills Center for Nonprofits - a
collaboration with TechSoup Courses
Boston Public
Library
- Appointments are now available to use computers.
- Career Skills Workshops are available via ZOOM
Resume Writing: September 21
Happiness: September 25
How to Find Monthly
Donors and Grow Your Monthly Giving Program
Courtesy of Donor Perfect
WEBINAR:
Walk Your Talk: Anti-Racist Grantmaking for White Funders
9/21/2020 at 1:15 PM
Eastern
Courtesy of Camelback Ventures
Learn more, RSVP, and submit a question for the
panel here.
WEBINAR: Grant Writers,
9/22/2020 at 2PM
Eastern
Courtesy of GrantStation
Learn how to increase your expertise in grant research, proposal writing,
grant management, and strategic planning, no matter your level of
expertise or role in your organization.
WEBINAR:
Introduction to Project Budgets
9/23/2020 at 2PM Eastern
Courtesy of Candid.
WEBINAR: Giving Tuesday and Welcome Wednesday:
Tips, Strategies,
and Templates
September 29, 2020 at 1PM Eastern
Courtesy
of Donor Perfect
Learn
how to stand out on Giving Tuesday and turn new donors into long-term
advocates by celebrating Welcome Wednesday with the same enthusiasm
through a dynamic and engaging new donor welcome series.
One on One: A Giving Pledge Donor Calls for Change in a
Time of Tumult
9/30/2020 at 2PM
Eastern
Courtesy of The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Mel King Institute
Expand
your knowledge on community development topics through virtual training
courses.
Fundraising Tactics During Unprecedented Times
Courtesy
of Salesforce/The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Nonprofit pros offer tips on how to keep your organization running during
a global crisis.
Visit
the Intergovernmental Relations Resource Page for a wide variety
of fundraising tips, along with back issues of The Funding Update.
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