Field Initiated Projects Program (Development), 12/09/2024
The purpose of the Field Initiated Projects program is to develop knowledge, methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that will maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the greatest support needs. Grants are available for research and for development. Interests include projects addressing people with disabilities from underserved communities; the relationship between climate change and the needs, experiences, and outcomes of people with disabilities; oral health and people with disabilities; how to make airline travel accessible for people with disabilities; how to improve emergency and disaster preparedness plans and systems relative to the needs of people with disabilities; the criminal justice system and people with disabilities; people with disabilities experiencing long COVID; school experiences among children with disabilities; and social and built environments that facilitate fully inclusive play and participation among children with disabilities. Grants up to $250,000.
Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program, 1/13/2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, State, Private & Tribal Forestry, is requesting applications for the Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program (Community Forest Program or CFP). CFP is a competitive grant program that provides financial assistance to Indian Tribes, local governments, and qualified conservation non-profit organizations to establish community forests through the fee simple acquisition of private forest land. The purpose of the program is to establish community forests by protecting forestland from conversion to non-forest uses and provide community benefits including public recreation, environmental and economic benefits, and forest-based educational programs. Public access is required for all projects.
FY2025 Farm to School Grant-Turnkey, 1/10/2025
The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm-to-school programs or expand existing efforts. There are three Turnkey Grant project tracks available in FY 2025: Action Planning, Agricultural Education, and Edible Gardens. Eligible Applicants:Independent school districts, City or township governments, and Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. Grants up to $50,000. |
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STATENonprofit Security Grant Program - National Security Supplemental, 12/9/2024 The Office of Grants and Research (OGR) is the State Administrative Agency (SAA) for all funds received by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). As such, OGR manages and administers the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) in Massachusetts. This National Security Supplemental (NSS) program provides federal funding support for facility hardening and other physical and cyber security enhancements to nonprofit organizations that are at high-risk of terrorist or other extremist attack. Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations (as described under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) at high risk of terrorist attacks. Application Assistance Webinar Register here: December 9, 2024, at 11:00 am. |
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FY25 Weaving Well-Being Grant Program, 1/16/2025
To enhance the well-being of immigrants in Boston, destigmatize mental health challenges, and encourage non-clinical, culturally and linguistically sensitive practices as a form of therapy, the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) is pleased to announce a third round of its Weaving Well-being Grants. Nonprofit organizations that currently provide or plan to incorporate non-clinical wellness activities in their programming are encouraged to apply. Grants will be disbursed to immigrant-led and/or immigrant-serving nonprofits that are working across diverse immigrant communities. Grants up to $15,000.00.
FY25 Bridge The Gap Mini-Grant Program, 3/6/2025
The Mayor’s Office of Veterans’ Services exists to find innovative ways to support veterans,servicemembers, and their families to live healthy & thriving lives. In recognition of this mission, the office will award mini-grants to organizations that support the veteran community of Boston and “Bridge the Gap” that exists after possible allocation of federal or state benefits. Funds will be used to implement projects and programs that support, honor, recognize and improve the overall quality of life of the City of Boston veterans, military community, and their families. Focus areas include: Housing, Transportation, Health and Wellness, Upward Economic Mobility, Legal Services, Educational/Historical Programming. Grants up to $9,999.00. |
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The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation, 12/31/2024The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that provide programs and resources to help strengthen diverse communities across the United States. Funding is focused on three areas: education, including nonprofits focused on education resources and opportunities supporting diverse communities across the country, as well as groups that focus on STEM, early childhood learning, and safety; engaging the community, including financial literacy, food insecurity, environmental conservation, animal welfare and advocacy, and health and wellness initiatives; and promoting equity, including building meaningful relationships with community organizations that support equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion. Live Más Scholarship 2025, 1/8/2025 The Live Más Scholarship is designed for students ages 16 to 26 who are pursuing higher education, preparing for the workforce, or using their passion to ignite change in their communities and beyond. The program aims to empower the nation’s next generation of dreamers, innovators and creators—those whose passions don’t fall into the conventional “academic” or “athletic” qualifying categories of traditional scholarship programs. Applicants are required to submit a two-minute video describing their passion and how they plan to make a difference. In 2025, the foundation will be awarding up to $14 million in Live Más Scholarships, with up to $4 million being awarded to Taco Bell restaurant employees. To be eligible, applicants must be a legal resident of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, located within the United States, or the dependent child of an active duty member of the U.S. military, who is at least 16 years of age and no older than 26 years of age. Applicants must be currently enrolled in an accredited post-secondary educational program located in the United States. (including accredited two- and four-year colleges, universities, vocational-technical, and trade schools) and in good academic standing. The JAMS Foundation-ACR Initiative for Students and Youth, 1/10/2025The JAMS Foundation-ACR Initiative for Students and Youth provides support for conflict resolution education and training for pre-K through 12th grade students and youth in the United States, as well as the adults working with these youth populations. The 2025 funding cycle focuses on the development of systemwide educational policies and procedures that effectively integrate conflict resolution and restorative practice training in order to foster a more peaceful and positive school climate. Proposed projects should build upon the current work of the school system’s policies and practices regarding youth involved in fights, disruptive behavior, or violating school conduct rules, moving them to become more restorative in nature and focus on resolving the conflict with the least amount of disruption for the student, teacher, peers, and family. Requests for funding may range up to $20,000 in year one, with funding for a second year contingent on accomplishments at the end of the first year. The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant, 1/15/2025The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Mid-America Arts Alliance, seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma, as well as their families and caregivers, through arts-based community engagement projects. The grants support non-clinical programs taking place in healthcare, community, or virtual settings that engage military-connected individuals through experiences of art or art-making to promote creative expression, social connectedness, resilience, and independence and adaptation to civilian life. Supported programs have involved a range of arts activities, including visual, written, and performing arts offered through single events, drop-in programs, and ongoing engagement led by artists or creative arts therapists. Nonprofit organizations and state, local, and tribal government entities that have at least three years of experience in presenting and producing arts-based projects or programming for military communities are eligible to apply. The American Society of Breast Surgeons Foundation, 1/17/2025The American Society of Breast Surgeons Foundation grant program seeks to improve the standard of care for breast disease patients. Grants are awarded for projects in the United States and in other countries in the following categories: education, with a focus on raising awareness of breast cancer and increasing the capabilities of effective patient breast health education programs; community outreach, with a focus on community-based nonprofit organizations providing education on breast health and screening to underserved, uninsured, and low-income populations; and research specific to patient breast health or breast disease. Grants up to $5,000.00. Teiger Foundation, 1/28/2025Teiger Foundation supports curator-led initiatives in the field of contemporary visual art in the United States. Supported initiatives may include group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged art projects, digital exhibitions, live and virtual performance in the context of the visual arts, and as-yet-unknown curatorial forms involving contemporary visual art and artists. Curators affiliated with 501(c)(3) nonprofit institutions devoted to presenting visual art may apply for the following grants: grants of up to $150,000 to support single projects led by curators at organizations of all sizes; grants of up to $150,000 to support curators planning three years of programming at organizations with an annual budget of $3.5 million and below; grants of up to $75,000 to support curators at organizations of all sizes hosting exhibitions that originated elsewhere; and grants of up to $50,000 to support curatorial research and development at the earliest stages of a project. Grants varies by category up to $150,000. The Peace Development Fund, 1/31/2025 The Peace Development Fund believes that the change in values needed to establish a more just and peaceful world can come about only if it is strongly rooted in local communities that value the importance of building movements to create systemic social change. The Fund’s Community Organizing Grants support community-based organizations in the U.S., Haiti, and Mexico that are working for social justice. Funding is provided in the following areas: organizing to shift power, working to build a movement, dismantling oppression, and creating new structures. Nonprofit organizations with budgets under $250,000 that are directly engaged in community organizing are eligible to apply. RESOURCE TABLE, NEWS, AND CITY EVENTS Enchanted Trolley TourBoston’s Enchanted Trolley Tour continues the festive tradition of lighting holiday trees throughout Boston. For the 28th year, the Mayor's Enchanted Trolley Tour will continue the festive tradition of lighting holiday trees while bringing holiday spirit to children across Boston. The event is sponsored by Bank of America, and includes visits with Santa, tree lightings, and more. This year, the Mayor's Enchanted Trolley Tour will start on Saturday, December 7, and end on Sunday, December 8, in neighborhoods throughout Boston. Saturday, December 7th 11 a.m. - Hastings Lot, West Roxbury 12 p.m. - Wolcott Square, Readville 1 p.m. - Mattapan Square 2 p.m. - Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain 3 p.m. - J.P. Monument, Jamaica Plain 3:45 p.m. - Brigham Circle, Mission Hill 4:30 p.m. - Bolling Building, Roxbury 5:45 p.m. - Blackstone Square, South End 6:45 p.m. - Oak Square, Brighton Sunday, December 8th 12 p.m. - Codman Square, Dorchester 1 p.m. - Adams Corner, Dorchester 2 p.m. - M Street Park, South Boston 3 p.m. - Beach Street and Harrison Ave, Chinatown 4 p.m. - Paul Revere Mall, North End 5 p.m. - Winthrop Square (the Training Field), Charlestown 6:15 p.m. - Maverick Square, East Boston Learn more about the lastest City of Boston News, this feed is updated daily.Another way to Stay Connected-Sign up for email updates from the City of Boston, including information on big events and upcoming traffic and parking restrictions. (Scroll down to the middle of the page to sign up for the email updates). |
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