The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly, 6/20/2024
The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program provides capital advance funding for the development of supportive rental housing for very-low-income persons aged 62 years or older and project rental subsidies in the form of a Project Rental Assistance Contract (PRAC) to maintain ongoing affordability. This program provides elderly persons with the opportunity to live independently, but with important voluntary support services such as nutritional, transportation, continuing education, and health-related services. In addition, this year’s NOFO includes funding to support the development of intergenerational housing for elderly caregivers raising children. Funding of approximately $115,000,000 is available through this NOFO.
Justice Department, Grants.gov deadline: 6/24/2024 or Just Grants deadline: 7/8/2024 The National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects program seeks to enable organizations to provide financial and technical assistance to approximately 300 communities (100 each year) nationwide to conduct public education and awareness activities on crime victims’ rights and services in their jurisdictions during the 2025–2027 National Crime Victims’ Rights Weeks. The program furthers the DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights. Anticipated maximum dollar amount per award will be up to $1,750,000.
Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise Development Program, 6/28/2024
The Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise Development Project (RFCCMED) seeks to provide refugee participants with training and technical assistance in professional childcare, microenterprise development, and financial literacy; assist refugee participants in navigating the childcare licensing process; and provide direct financial assistance as needed to enable participants to prepare their homes for childcare business operation. The three main objectives of RFCCMED are to help refugees achieve economic self-sufficiency by establishing licensed family childcare businesses, help refugee families gain access to licensed family childcare businesses which will meet the early care and developmental needs of refugee children, and assist refugees in learning how to navigate mainstream childcare services. Grants up to $250,000.00.National Endowment for the Arts, Grants.gov deadline: 8/1/2024, NEA Portal deadline: 8/15/2024
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Successful projects demonstrate a specific role for arts, culture, and design as part of strategies for strengthening local communities, ultimately centering equity and laying the groundwork for long-term systems change tailored to community needs and opportunities. All applications must be submitted by one organization and require one partner organization. The applicant/partner pair must include a nonprofit organization and a local government or quasi-government entity. Applicants may request an amount between $25,000-$150,000, with a required minimum non-federal cost share/match equal to the grant amount. |
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Massachusetts Dept of Early Education & Childcare, 9/1/2024
The Early Childhood Scholarship provides financial assistance if you are currently employed in an early childhood field. This includes all licensed and funded EEC program types (group and school aged, out-of-school time, family child care and residential & placement programs).The scholarship supports early childhood staff who are enrolled (or plan to enroll in) a higher education certificate, associates, bachelors or masters degree program at an approved institution in Massachusetts. Supported certificates and degrees include Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Special Education, Child Development, Family Studies, Child and Family Studies, Human Services, Psychology, Child Psychology, Child Care Administration, and Social Work.
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CITY
Food Bank Local Support Grant Program, 6/4/2024
The Mayor’s Office of Food Justice (OFJ) is accepting applications for funding to support bulk purchase of food by the food bank for food pantries in Boston. Food banks play a critical role in ensuring that food pantries have a steady supply of healthy, nutritious food and to provide culturally relevant options and perishable food where possible. The City of Boston seeks to continue ensuring all food pantries in Boston have a consistent supply of food despite the increasing cost of groceries. This grant will provide the food bank with resources to support food pantries' availability to purchase this food from the food bank directly. Grant up to $100,000.00
The Opportunity Fund, 6/9/2024
MOAC is streamlining the Opportunity Fund into a single unrestricted grant of $3,000. The revised grant program aims to increase creative workers’ social impact by uplifting artists' creative practice, assisting their professional creative career development, and bolstering economic opportunities for artists within the City of Boston.
FY24 Cultural Affairs Mini Grant Program, 6/10/2024
Boston-based community organizations are invited to join the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs by hosting a community building event, welcoming the general public to build connections with Boston’s vibrant cultures and communities. The purpose of these one-time community building events are to foster belonging and promote social integration and cohesion among our diverse immigrant residents and allies, as well as raise awareness of existing community programs and services and elevate the contributions of the various cultures to our City. Grants up to $5,000.00.
Senior Homeowner Services Program, 6/18/2024
The City of Boston’s Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH), is seeking experienced non-profit agencies to administer services for its Senior Homeowner Services (SHOS) Programs for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026. Senior Homeowner Services is a unit of The Boston Home Center Division. SHOS is making Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) funds available to award. Grants range $180,000 to $350,000. |
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FOUNDATIONSMassachusetts Vest-A-Dog, 6/15/2024 Massachusetts Vest-A-Dog accepts grant applications semi-annually for essential equipment, training, & purchase of K-9 dogs. Essential equipment includes specialized equipment for the K-9 dog (bullet/stab-protective K-9 vests, K-9 first aid kits, canine oxygen masks, reflective K-9 gear, specialized harnesses), training/protective clothing (bite suits/pants/jackets/sleeves/hand protectors/helmets), K-9 cruiser specialized items (kennels, heat detector/door popper units, secure storage units, door panels, window guards/fans, rear A/C systems), training aids (scent kits), training equipment (K-9 agility structures, scent-training boxes).
Fuller Foundation, 6/15/2024
The Fuller Foundation primarily funds non-profit agencies that support youth at risk, protect wildlife, and showcase the arts. Grants up to $7,500.00.
Barbara McDowell and Gerald S. Hartman Foundation, (LOI) 6/15/2024 The foundation awards grants to organizations that undertake systemic social justice litigation across the fifteen issue areas of access to benefits, children’s rights, disability rights, discrimination, domestic violence, due process, environmental justice, health care, homelessness, housing, Native American rights, prisoner’s rights, refugee and immigration rights, veterans’ rights, and voting rights. Applications must be for a specific social justice legal case, including the filing of an appeal. Grants are made for the sole purpose of paying for litigation costs, including attorney time charges and litigation related expenses, and grant funds are to be used only for attorney time charges and litigation expenses related to the specific case for which an organization is applying to be funded.
The Collective Futures Fund, 6/16/2024
The Collective Futures Fund is now accepting applications. The Collective Futures Fund is a grant program administered by the Tufts University Art Galleries and is a part of the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Collective Futures Fund will award a total of $80,000 to collaborative and public-facing projects by visual artists, curators, and collectives across Plymouth, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex counties. Grants range from $2,000 to $7,500.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation, 6/21/2024
Provides philanthropic support to build thriving communities by addressing issues fundamental to economic mobility, including workforce development and education, community development and basic needs. Through partnerships, the foundation supports vulnerable populations, including working families, youth, seniors, individuals living with disabilities, veterans, and those impacted by the criminal justice system – enabling them to move forward in their goals. While there are local variations, as a general guide, grant amounts in larger markets can range from $5,000 to $50,000. Grant amounts in smaller markets can range from $2,500 to $25,000.
Circle for Justice Innovations’s Leadership Circle, 6/21/2024
Circle for Justice Innovations’s Leadership Circle supports grassroots organizations working to transform and reimagine the current U.S. criminal legal system, build new alternative community-based solutions, and organize to stop the criminalization of marginalized identities and communities. Support will be provided for movement-building organizing efforts that build alternatives to create safe and healthy communities that don't rely on arrest and incarceration, invest in approaches to end mass criminalization and incarceration. Eligible organizations must be led by people who have been incarcerated or others who have been directly impacted by the system, have budgets of $1 million or less, and be committed to achieving systems change through organizing.
Nature’s Path, 6/24/2024
The Nature’s Path Gardens for Good grant program supports nonprofit organizations with community garden projects in the U.S. and Canada. For 2024, grants will be provided to nonprofit organizations that have an urban organic agriculture feeding project or program providing food to serve low-income communities, soup kitchens, food banks, emergency pantries, school feeding programs, shelters, or similar types of organizations.
P.E.A.R.L. Pledge is Pearl Milling Company, 6/26/2024
P.E.A.R.L. Pledge is Pearl Milling Company’s community funding initiative focused on championing the empowerment and success of Black women and girls across the U.S. A total of $1 million will be provided to nonprofit organizations doing work or offering programming that serves Black women and girls in alignment with the following P.E.A.R.L. Pledge pillars: prosperity, with a focus on alleviating systemic barriers and inequities in areas such as food, housing, employment, financial support, and generational wealth; empowerment, including inspiring and encouraging Black women and girls to attain holistic wellness and success in areas such as confidence building, self-esteem, and mental and physical health; access, with a focus on enhancing equal opportunity to education and entrepreneurship in areas such as scholarships, grants, capital, and financial literacy; representation, with a focus on elevating Black women and girls in areas such as culinary arts, food innovation, science, and media; and leadership, including advancing skill development and access to resources for emerging talent in areas such as public speaking, strategic thinking, team building, and mentorship. Applicants must be 501(c)(3) public charities based in the United States and align with one or more P.E.A.R.L. Pledge pillars. Grant amount: $10,000 to $100,000.
lululemon Centre for Social Impact, (LOI) 6/3/2024 & 6/28/2024 Applications are invited for the lululemon 2025 Here to Be Grant, which will award general operating support of up to $50,000 to community-led nonprofit organizations working to create equity in well-being, and serving populations most impacted by systemic inequity. Applicants must be working to create access to physical, mental, and/or social well-being. Applications from organizations working at the intersection of environment and well- being are also welcomed. An annual budget of less than $2 million is preferred.
Family Medicine Cares USA, 7/15/2024
The grants support the purchase of durable medical equipment and instruments necessary for diagnosis and treatment related to primary care. Priority is given to new clinic applications, but when funds are available, existing clinic applications will be considered for funding. Applicants for a new clinic grant must have opened or will open within six months of the application deadline, have received or are in the process of receiving the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Seal of Excellence, and have an American Academy of Family Physicians member in a leadership role within the clinic. Up to $25,000 for new clinics and up to $10,000 for existing clinics.
The Morgan Stanley Alliance, 7/8/2024
The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards provide seed funding for transformative mental healthcare solutions for children and youth across the U.S. The Awards seek new or piloted projects from direct-service organizations that will help address the far-reaching challenges of stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues in children and young adults in the U.S. Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs, with a goal of reducing stigma, increasing access to care, improving equity in mental health, enabling early identification and prevention, or enhancing intervention, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. U.S.-based 501(c)(3) public charities are eligible, with a focus on those with an annual total revenue under $5 million. Five winners will receive grants to scale their innovative work as well as leadership training and other opportunities, while a broader group of applicants will be invited to join a leadership learning series. Five winners receive $100,000 each in seed funding.
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, 9/1/2024 The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation awards grants to organizations that operate a lending bookmobile that travels into neighborhoods populated by underserved youth. The grants are for purchasing books published for young people preschool through grade 8. Bookmobiles operated by charitable [501(c)(3)] and other non-taxable agencies, including public libraries or schools, are eligible. The Foundation provides grants to organizations that serve economically or socially at-risk children, have limited book budgets, and demonstrate real need.Grants range from $500 to $3000 and are specifically for book purchases, and cannot be used for administrative or operational uses.
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, 10/01/2024
The foundation invites applications to its National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO), which offers two-year, unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year—with an average grant size of $20,000 per year—to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations across the United States and its territories. While the foundation’s broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, its primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of our grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing. The foundation is interested in supporting groups that are carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities.
Toshiba America Foundation, 10/01/2024 The mission of Toshiba America Foundation is to promote quality science and mathematics education in U.S. schools. Grants are made for programs and activities that improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics, grades K-5. The Foundation focuses its grant making on inquiry-based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams of teachers, for use in their own classrooms. Summer projects or after school programs cannot be considered. Salaries, facility maintenance, textbooks, video production, audio-visual equipment (e.g. electronic white boards, Smartboards, document projectors, student response systems) and education research will not be funded. No grants are available for computer hardware. Other funding opportunities, with different deadlines, are available to support grades 6-12. Average award is $1,000.00.
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