Grant
Opportunities
Submission date: December 15, 2020
Today’s American youth are considered the most inactive in history. As a result, the rate of obesity among U.S. children and teenagers has more than tripled over the past three decades.
The Saucony Run For Good Foundation is committed to reversing this trend by offering children the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of running and a healthier lifestyle.
Submission date: December 15, 2020
Our mission, through our charitable investments, is to support the growth and vitality of our communities.Health, safety and wellness organizations including youth organizations, senior citizen centers, dependency and prevention programs and related. The foundation allocates grants that best serve community interests. Grants generally are less than $10,000 with most between $2,000 and $5,000.
Submission date: Open
Their mission is to accelerate the growth of nonprofits by offering in-kind service grants that seek to fill a gap for some of the most difficult budget items to fund. They do this for Nonprofit Partners in three ways: digital marketing support including Google Grants; storytelling through high-quality videos; hands-on service projects including supply donations.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Submission date (Letter of Intent): Open
Foundation Focus: Civil Society, Education, Environment
Submission date: January 21, 2021
Goals of a Fund for Teachers fellowship are for educators to:
serve as problem solvers and innovators who create solutions to real problem of practice;
reflect on their experience as a learner and transfer the most powerful aspects of their experience to student learning;
integrate their experiences as Fund for Teachers Fellows into their teaching to create more globally minded students who are empowered to take action;
and grow as leaders and change makers.
Submission date: January 27, 2021
Organizations can access up to $20,000 in support for community-wide reading programs, whether those are held in-person or apart
The Samull Classroom Herb Garden Grants
Submission date: December 1, 2020
The Herb Society of America welcomes applications from grade 3-6 teachers for its 2021 Donald Samull Classroom Herb Garden Grant. Through the program, the society will award up to ten grants of $300 grants to public and/or private classroom teachers to establish an indoor or outdoor herb garden. The funds may be used for supplies such as soil, plant trays, containers, child- or youth-sized tools, etc.
Submission date: December 4, 2020
We are concerned about the future and the fact that fewer young people are learning the trades and skills that will help preserve our heritage. To that end, we help organizations who are dedicated to instructing and training young people, primarily 18-25 year olds, to restore and preserve vintage cars, motorcycles and boats, as well as providing them with a pathway to careers.
Submission Date: December 4, 2020
Rapid Response Grant
Resist offers $1,000 Rapid Response grants to better meet the needs of frontline groups and organizations. This grant is decided on by Resist staff and generally has a one week turn around.
General Support Grant
General Support Grants are available for up to $4,000 to support groups who are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making and resilience building.
Accessibility Grant
Resist will fund the additional costs of making projects or events more accessible to community members with specific accessibility needs. Accessibility grants are awarded up to $4,000.
Shakespeare in American Communities: Schools
Submission date (Intent to apply): December 3, 2020
This opportunity is open to eligible 501c(3) professional theater companies that have produced Shakespeare or classically-based repertoire within the last five years and have a minimum of two years experience providing both performances and related educational activities for middle and/or high school students.
Shakespeare in American Communities: Juvenile Justice
Submission date: (Intent to apply): December 3, 2020
This opportunity is open to eligible 501c(3) theater companies or organizations that have two years’ experience partnering with the justice system and providing Shakespeare and theater education programs for this population.
Submission date: Generally opens first week of December and closes the last week of February
Four-year annual scholarships based on financial need to American Indian high school seniors. Preference is given to the sciences, medicine, engineering, natural and physical science, business, education, and health administration.
Submission date: Open
Grant requests must fall within the following categories:
Civic services including organizations which are concerned with the environment and conservation, as well as local community issues such as crime prevention, parks and recreation, diversity and community development.
Cultural organizations that include performing, visual, and fine arts, museums and other related activities that offer opportunities for underserved children to experience cultural learning events, or preserve their cultural heritage.
Educational institutions, both public and private, primarily at the college level. Grants of an exceptional nature may be made to vocational and non-college schools. Preferably, contributions will be directed toward the improvement of the quality of education. Ordinarily, grants will not be made to finance the expansion of a student body or the payment of scholarships. (BNSF's scholarship programs, as well as the Employee Matching Gift Program, are governed by separate policies.)
Health and Human Service organizations such as YMCA/YWCA, programs that address chemical dependency treatment and prevention, spouse and child abuse, women's and children's aid and transitional shelters. This category also includes hospitals and medical programs.
Youth organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs, Camp Fire, Scouts, Junior Achievement and similar groups.
A federally recognized tribal government, listed in the Federal Register by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Submission date: December 1, 2020
The Foundation is currently accepting proposals focused on evaluating programs that have the potential of helping to close the opportunity and resulting achievement gaps associated with race and family income.
Submission date: Open
The foundation will entertain public policy requests from out-of-state (outside of Colorado) from 501(c)(3) organizations
Public Policy
Enhance understanding of the free enterprise system
Preserve the principles upon which our democracy was founded to help ensure a limited role for government and the protection of individual rights as provided for in the Constitution
Encourage personal responsibility and leadership
Uphold traditional American values
Submission date (new seekers): February 1, 2021
Funding Priority: Youth education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy.
Charting a Course for Economic Mobility and Responsible Parenting - Cohort II
Submission date: Estimated Dec. 20, 2020
The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) forecasts inviting eligible applicants to submit applications developing interventions to educate teens and young adults about the financial, legal, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood.
MLB-MLBPA Healthy Relationships Community Grants
Submission date: December 1, 2020
Funds may be used to support general operating or programmatic expenses, that aim to:
Build and improve relationship skills of the next generation as a prevention strategy
Build and improve mental health resiliency for vulnerable populations.
Strengthen and provide critical services to survivors of domestic violence.
Submission Date: Open
Premera Social Impact invites proposals that can make changes in the areas of behavioral health, health equity and the intersection of homelessness and behavioral health. Our community giving program focuses on addressing behavioral health issues, with a particular emphasis on funding programs that help historically underserved communities, including people of color and low-income populations.
Training Opportunities
Integrating Human Trafficking with Emergency Operations Plans (EOPS) for K-12 Schools
On demand / 1.25 hours
The U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS), along with its Readiness and Emergency Management (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center, hosted a webinar on integrating human trafficking with school emergency operations plans (EOPs).
Bullying Prevention Training Course
On demand / 60+ minutes
On demand – 60 minutes
This webinar outlines how best to conduct street outreach when gang-involved clients are in danger. The webinar highlights the work of the National Gang Center, Houston Mayor's Anti-Gang Office, and Houston Police Department. The presenters will discuss the importance of building collaborative relationships and communication protocols among outreach staff, police, schools, and justice systems to develop crisis response and safety plans, including plans to address client, outreach worker and public safety violent retaliatory situations.
Implicit Bias, Structural Racialization, and Equity
On demand / 60 minutes
Most work on implicit bias focuses on increasing awareness of individuals in service of changing how they view and treat others. But to lead to meaningful change, an exploration of implicit bias must be situated as part of a much larger conversation about how current inequities in our institutions came to be, how they are held in place, and what our role as leaders is in perpetuating inequities despite our good intentions.
Mental Health, Racial Trauma, and Health Inequities Confronting Boys and Men of Color
On demand / 90 minutes
Features Dr. Wizdom Powell, an artist, Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and a Senior Consultant for the Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders, at UConn Health, who has worked to advance health equity for boys and men of color. During this segment, Dr. Powell will describe the impact of chronic exposure to racial and developmental trauma on young Black men and share how intergenerational trauma has affected families and communities of color. She will highlight creative pathways that can be considered to promote healing for boys and men of color who have experienced racial and developmental trauma.
Girls Matter! Webinar Series Part I of III: Growing Up Girl
On demand / 90 minutes
The first of three webinars in the "Girls Matter!" series provides an overview of the growth and development of adolescent girls. Key topics include biological, social, cultural, and societal factors that influence their maturation, impact of media on self-esteem, reproductive health, and teen dating violence.
Girls Matter! Webinar Series Part II of III: The Girl in the Mirror: Behavioral Health of Adolescent Girls
On demand / 90 minutes
The second of three webinars in the "Girls Matter!" series addresses common behavioral health issues among adolescent girls and provides effective coping strategies.
Part III of III: Girls and Substance Abuse
On demand / 90 minutes
The third of three webinars in the "Girls Matter!" series explores current trends in substance use among adolescent girls, effective strategies for intervention, treatment, and support for girls, substance use trends in teens, and principles of substance use disorder treatment for adolescents.
Cannabis 101: Health Considerations – Part 1 of 2
November 7 @ 10:30 a.m. / 60 minutes
With so many types of products, ways to use, levels of potency, and differences in legality, understanding the evidence around cannabis use is challenging. Join the Washington Poison Center for the first session of a 2-part series that will lay out the evidence for you.
Cannabis 101: The Cannabis Landscape – Part 2 of 2
December 5 @ 10:30 a.m. / 60 minutes
Cannabis has been legal in Washington since 2012, but finding solid evidence and data around its use continues to be challenging. Join the Washington Poison Center for an exploration of the cannabis landscape and the contexts around learning more about its use.
Let’s Talk Cannabis: A Capacity-Building Training for Influential Adults
December 9 @ 1 p.m. / 2.5 hours
This 2.5-hour Training of Trainers workshop is designed for adults who hold important, influential roles in the lives of youth, including parents, teachers, counselors, youth service providers, and others. The goal of the training is to prevent and reduce harm from youth use of cannabis by stimulating discussion, sharing knowledge, and building communication skills.
E-Cigarettes: Finding the Truth Among the Vapors
November 18 @ 10 a.m. / 3.5 hours
This online training for adults will equip you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to educate others and hold conversations with youth in your community on nicotine and cannabis vaping.
Recognizing the warning signs of potential suicide
November 10 @ 5 p.m. or December 3 @ 3 p.m. / 90 minutes
Learning to recognize the warning signs of someone considering suicide and learning three simple steps to save a life.
Relationship Education: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Youth
November 11 @ 1 p.m. / 60 minutes
Join Dr. Kristen Plastino and Jennifer Todd from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as they define trauma and discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). They will explore trauma's effects on young people as well as youth’s reactions to trauma. You will learn how they shifted from the existing paradigm to a trauma-informed approach utilizing relationship education. They will share lessons they learned in the field as they implemented their approach with over 100,000 young people over the last 4 years in San Antonio.
Wellness Strategies for Effective Leaders
Information Exposed: Opting Out & Managing the World of Connected Devices
On demand / 90 min.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the dark side of information sharing.
• Identify private lives and public information available through websites, social networks, and “Invisible Web” sources.
• Discover ways to protect your privacy by implementing basic security practice online, at home, and on social media.
Caregiver Empowerment & Community Response to Online Youth Sex Trafficking
On demand
Ways we can arm our communities (and our youth) against online sexual exploitation. Viewers will learn about a variety of safety tactics, from conversational prevention to parental control options.
The Intersection of Sex and Labor Trafficking of Children
November 18 or December 9 / 3 hours
Participants attending this training will learn trauma-informed, person-centered, and empowerment strategies when engaging at-risk and vulnerable children. This training will dive deep into the labor trafficking of homeless youth and best practices when providing services to these youth.