The Collaboration Prize

Why should nonprofits compete when they can do more through collaboration?

Introducing The Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 prize that recognizes collaborations among two or more nonprofit organizations that each would otherwise provide the same or similar programs or services and compete for clients, financial resources and staff.

If you know about a prize-worthy collaboration, forward this message to the nonprofits involved. Nominations are now being accepted. Visit www.thecollaborationprize.org for details.

Mentoring, Educational, and Employment Strategies to Improve Academic, Social, and Career Pathway Outcomes Grant

The Employment and Training Administration has announced the availability of $49.5 million for grants to serve high schools in specific locations that have been designated as persistently dangerous by State Educational Agencies for the 2007-2008 school year under section 9532 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The goal of these grants is to reduce violence within these schools through a combination of mentoring, educational, employment, case management, and violence prevention strategies.

The estimated total program funding is: $49.5 million.
Approximately 10 grants will be given.

For more information and to apply for the grant, click on the link below:
www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=17689

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention OJJDP FY 2008 Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program Grant

The goal of the Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program is to reduce gang activity in targeted communities through improved coordination of existing resources and activities that support anti-gang strategies. The program seeks to enhance the coordination of existing community-based gang prevention and intervention programs and strategies that are closely aligned with local law enforcement efforts. For example, educational and other programs combined with rigorous law enforcement can effectively combat gang-related juvenile crimes. This grant could be used to increase the level of coordination in that partnership, but only a small amount of funds can be used for supporting direct-service. Because many mentoring programs have an anti-gang focus, these programs may be eligible for this grant.

The estimated total program funding is: $2.4 million.
Approximately 12 grants will be given with an award ceiling of $200,000.

For more information and to apply for the grant, click on the link below:
www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=41678

Toshiba America Foundation Accepting Science and Math Education Project Proposals

Deadline: Rolling

The mission of the 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-12. 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.

The foundation is currently accepting applications for projects for grades 7-12. Toshiba America Foundation offers a separate program for grades K-6. See the foundation's Web site for further information. The grants program is national in scope. Proposals are welcome from public and private (nonprofit) schools throughout the United States. The foundation has also made a special commitment to support projects in regions where Toshiba America Group companies have offices. Decisions about grants of under $5,000 each are made on a rolling basis and applications are accepted throughout the year.

For complete program guidelines and descriptions of recent grants, please visit the foundation's Web site. www.toshiba.com/tafpub/jsp/home/default.jsp

Nature of Learning Grants Program

Deadline: June 16, 2008

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation give grants to organizations to start or expand Nature of Learning programs in their communities. Grants support start-up expenses associated with new programs and offer continued support to existing Nature of Learning programs. Nature of Learning is the National Wildlife Refuge System's community-based environmental education initiative that seeks to use National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms to promote greater understanding of local conservation issues; encourage interdisciplinary approaches to learning that enhance student academic achievement; use field experiences and student-led stewardship projects to connect classroom lessons to real world issues; and, partner local schools, community groups, natural resource professionals and local businesses.

For more information:
www.nfwf.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=4784

Apply to be a 2009 Global Youth Service Day Lead Agency

Looking for a way to increase participation in your programs while connecting with the larger youth service movement? Apply to be a Lead Agency for GYSD 2009. Lead Agencies are organizations across the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, or the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, or New Brunswick that increase the scope, visibility, and sustainability of GYSD by leading city, regional, or statewide service projects.

Lead Agencies receive a $2,000 GYSD planning grant sponsored by State Farm Companies Foundation and direct assistance and support from Youth Service America to ensure a successful GYSD. To complete an application please visit www.ysa.org and choose the GYSD-US link. The application deadline is July 11, 2008. If you have any questions about the Lead Agency program or the application, please contact Andraea LaVant, GYSD Manager at alavant@ysa.org.

HUD FY08 NOFA: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program

(July 2 deadline)

To assist Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) to build, expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities, and to expand the role of the TCUs into the community through the provision of needed services such as health programs, job training, and economic development activities.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

HUD FY08 NOFA: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

(July 2 deadline)

To assist HBCUs to expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development, principally for persons of low- and moderate-income.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

HUD FY08 NOFA: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities

(July 2 deadline)

To assist Hispanic-Serving institutions (HSIs) of higher education expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development, principally for persons of low- and moderate-income.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

HUD FY08 NOFA: Early Doctoral Student Research Grants

(June 12 deadline)

To enable pre-candidacy doctoral students enrolled at institutions of higher education accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recongized by the U.S. Department of Education to cultivate their research skills through the preparation of research manuscripts that focus on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

HUD FY08 NOFA: Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants

(June 12 deadline)

To enable doctoral candidates enrolled at institutions of higher education accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to complete their research and dissertations on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

HUD FY08 NOFA: Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities

(July 2 deadline)
To assist Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian institutions of higher education (AN/NHIs) expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities.

For more information, visit
www.oup.org/news/whatsnew.asp?id=164

Students4Giving: Inspiring Philanthropy's Future 2008-2009 Request for Proposals

Campus Compact and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund are delighted to announce the 2008-2009 Students4Giving Request for Proposals to educate and inspire a new generation of philanthropists in a new era of giving. The Students4Giving initiative will provide colleges and universities with the educational resources and initial funding to engage students in strategic grant making activities within the context of community-based learning. Campus Compact member colleges and universities are invited to respond to this Request for Proposals to be eligible to participate in Students4Giving as one of ten new programs located throughout the country. Each participating school will be allocated $15,000 in assets earmarked exclusively for charitable purposes which will be managed through a Giving Account, a donor-advised fund at the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. Participating programs will also receive additional funds for administrative support.

Proposals must be received by Campus Compact by 5:00 p.m. EST Friday, June 20, 2008.

Learn more about Students4Giving.

VSA arts Invites Entries From Young Artists With Disabilities for Green Light Awards

(Deadline: July 11)
Sponsored by VSA arts with support from Volkswagen of America, Inc., the Green Light Awards program is open to young artists ages 16 to 25 living in the United States who have a physical, cognitive, or mental disability. A disability is defined as an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.

The program invites entries of original artwork completed in the last three years, either representational or abstract. Artwork may illustrate actual aspects of what signals the artist's creative motivations such as the physical world or personal discoveries. Abstract work that relates to feelings or emotions is also encouraged. Work might also reflect the artist's experience of living with a disability and its role in shaping or transforming their work. Art must be an original work that has been completed in the last three years. The program will award a Grand Prize of $20,000, a First Award of $10,000, a Second Award of $6,000, and twelve Awards of Excellence of $2,000 each.
www.vsarts.org/PreBuilt/showcase/gallery/exhibits/vw/2007/

Proposals for PK-3 Research Small Grants Program

(Deadline: July 15)
The Foundation for Child Development has announced a small grants program with three major goals: to stimulate research that spans early education and early elementary education to inform PK-3 efforts across the United States; to foster multidisciplinary perspectives and build a field of research that examines how children's education and home contexts influence developmental outcomes from PK through at least third grade; and to increase the use of datasets that can inform FCD's PK-3 initiative. The program will provide a maximum of four awards of up to $50,000 each to be used over a period from one to two years.
www.icpsr.umich.edu/PK3/spotlight/rfp.html

The Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards

(Deadline: June 16)
The Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Awards program distributes cash grants to outstanding grassroots organizations in the United States that have moved beyond charity to creating change in their communities. Organizations selected as Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award winners are judged outstanding for their innovative and creative approaches to fighting domestic hunger and poverty by empowering people and building self-reliance. For more information and to apply, go to: www.worldhungeryear.org/comm_conn/hcsra_app_2008.pdf

Democracy 2.0 Grants

Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneur Grant Summits are an innovative progression of our successful Party for the Presidency Conference and its Democracy 2.0 initiatives

Our Money in Politics Grant Summit presents members of the Millennial Generation - with the opportunity to identify a need at the local, state, or national level for clean elections practices, develop an idea or solution that would address that need, and present a proposal for funding (up to $5.000) at our Denver summit in July 2008. But, more importantly, they will receive the support of Mobilize.org and our extensive partner network to champion their proposal, creating systemic and long lasting solutions in the way elections are run.

For more information, please visit www.mobilize.org or contact Mobilize.org's Vice President of Online Organizing, Sergio Zuluaga, at Sergio@mobilize.org.

Money in Politics

Summit Rules and Application

AT&T Foundation Announces High School Success Special Grants Program

As part of AT&T Aspire, the company's recently announced $100 million initiative to address high school success and college and workforce readiness, the AT&T Foundation is accepting applications for a $12 million special grants program to help moderately at-risk students in the United States complete high school successfully.

The high school success program offers two types of grants:
1) Project support for existing high school retention programs with a successful track record of achieving effective results.
2) Planning/capacity-building support for efforts that need additional planning time and resources.

Eligible applicant organizations include school districts and school district foundations with 501(c)(3) public charity status; charter school foundations and private school foundations with 501(c)(3) status; 501(c)(3) public charities that work on-site with public and private education institutions; and 501(c)(3) public charities that work with public and private education institutions on a project basis. Priority will be given to programs that begin serving students who are either in ninth grade or are making the transition from eight to ninth grade. Funding will also be considered for programs that begin serving students in tenth grade; no funding will be provided to programs that begin serving students after tenth grade.

For more information: http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=11546

Northeast Utilities Offers Environmental Community Grant Program

Northeast Utilities Offers Environmental Community Grant Program
(CT, NH, & MA only)
Deadline: October 15, 2008

The Environmental Community Grant Program provides community based groups with funding for local projects that benefit the environment. Northeast Utilities' (www.nu.com) goal is to sponsor local grassroots-type efforts that are frequently overlooked by large grant programs.

The program awards grants of between $250 and $1,000 each in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Grant applications must be from organizations served by Connecticut Light and Power, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, or Public Service of New Hampshire.

Eligible projects protect or preserve the environment or teach others the value of doing so. Examples include providing education on environmental issues of local interest to adults or children, improving the environment through organized cleanup projects (such as cleaning up a park, part of a stream, or a vacant lot) or by reclaiming and rehabilitating damaged environments; improving a local wildlife habitat; and starting and maintaining a recycling program.

Complete program guidelines and application are available at the Northeast Utilities Web site. www.nu.com/environmental/grant.asp