Grants and Funding
Current Issue - February 2008

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Listed in order of deadline:

• Sodexho Stop Hunger Scholarships
• Home Depot Foundation Grants
• Dollar General Literacy Grants
• Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program
• The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
• Tony Cox Community Fund Grants for AIDS Outreach Projects
• Funds for Targeted Programs in the U.S., Canada, and the Developing World
• Do Something Offering Weekly Grants for Young Social Entrepreneurs

Sodexho Stop Hunger Scholarship

Sodexho is sponsoring $3,000 scholarships for any young person who is in school in the us (kindergarten through graduate school) and is doing great things to fight hunger and poverty in the us.  To learn more, visit http://www.helpstophunger.org/scholarships. The deadline to apply is February 29, 2008.

The Home Depot Foundation Grants

Affordable Housing Built Responsibilty Program

Healthy Community Trees Program

The Home Depot Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in the communities where company associates live and work throughout the United States and Canada. The Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, livable communities through the integration of affordable housing built responsibly and through the preservation and restoration of community trees. The Foundation’s Affordable Housing Built Responsibly Program provides grants to organizations that help families live in homes that provide safe, healthy environments and conserve energy, water, and other natural resources. The Healthy Community Trees Program provides grants to organizations that work to incorporate trees and landscape into the community development plans of towns and cities. The next deadline for letters of inquiry for both programs is March 1, 2008.

Visit this link for online submission information.

Dollar General Literacy Grants

The Dollar General Literacy Grants programs provide funding to literacy providers in the communities served by the company. The Adult Literacy Grants program supports nonprofit organizations that provide direct service to adults in need of literacy assistance by offering adult basic education, general education diploma preparation, or English for speakers of other languages. The Family Literacy Grants program supports family literacy service providers that offer programs for both parents and children. Eligible organizations must be located within 20 miles of a Dollar General store in the company’s 35-state market area. The application deadline for both programs is March 4, 2008. Visit this website for application guidelines for the programs.

Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), operating through the Risk Management Agency (RMA), announces the availability of approximately $5 million in fiscal year 2008 for collaborative outreach and assistance programs for limited resource, socially disadvantaged and other traditionally under-served farmers and ranchers, who produce Priority Commodities as defined in Part I.C. Awards under this program will be made on a competitive basis for projects of up to one year. Recipients of awards must demonstrate non-financial benefits from a partnership agreement and must agree to the substantial involvement of RMA in the project.

Educational institutions, community based organizations, associations of farmers and ranchers, state departments of agriculture, and other non-profit organizations with demonstrated capabilities in developing and implementing risk management and other marketing options for priority commodities are eligible to apply. Individuals are not eligible applicants. Application Deadline:  March 24, 2008.

http://www.rma.usda.gov/aboutrma/agreements/

The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation

The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that are committed to developing a more humane and rewarding society in which people have a greater ability and opportunity to determine directions for the future. The Foundation’s grantmaking focus areas are Environment, including ecosystem protection and green economic development; Social, including human rights and world peace; and Jewish/Israel, including Jewish culture and Israeli issues. Applications must be submitted via mail or online by April 1, 2008. Visit this website for details on each of the Foundation’s focus areas.

Tony Cox Community Fund Grants for AIDS Outreach Projects

Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry's AIDS action organization, is accepting applications for the Tony Cox Community Fund grant program. This national grant program provides support to community-based AIDS service organizations and cable outlets to partner in joint community outreach efforts, which may include producing or distributing locally focused HIV/AIDS-related programs and public service announcements, activities related to World AIDS Day or National HIV Testing Day, and other joint efforts. Grants of up to $7,000 (amounts based on the number of households served) are available. Applications must be submitted by March 14, 2008. Visit this website for additional information.

Funds for Targeted Programs in the U.S., Canada, and the Developing World

The Arthur B. Schultz Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life on earth through support of wildlands conservation, disabled recreation and mobility, international microenterprise, and global understanding. The Foundation’s grantmaking priorities include organizations supporting outdoor adventure opportunities for the disabled in the U.S. and programs providing wheelchairs for the needy overseas. In addition, socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurial projects in the developing world are supported. Finally, the Foundation encourages initiatives designed to promote global peace and understanding between people of different nations and ethnic backgrounds. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Visit the website for detailed information on each priority area at http://www.absfoundation.org/

Do Something Offering Weekly Grants for Young Social Entrepreneurs
Deadline: Rolling

Do Something is a not-for-profit organization that works to inspire, support, and celebrate young social entrepreneurs and community activists. The organization is accepting applications for the following grant programs:

• Do Something and GameStop are offering grants of $500 each to young people, age 25 and younger, in the United States or Canada who have a great idea for a community-action project and need support to turn their idea into reality. GameStop grants are given out weekly.
• Do Something and Plum TV are offering grants of $500 each to social entrepreneurs, age 25 and younger, in the U.S. who have recently created a sustainable project, program, or organization and need funding to further the growth  and success of their program. Plum TV grants are given out weekly.

Visit the Do Something website at www.dosomething.org for complete program information and application forms.

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