Grant: Carol M. White Physical Education program - To initiate, expand or enhance physical education programs, including after-school programs, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local educational agencies and community-based organizations.
Deadline: March 6.
Amount: 95 grants ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 each.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44785.
Arts
Grant: Heinz Ketchup Creativity Contest - For student art projects that may wind up on Heinz Ketchup packets.
Funder: Heinz Ketchup.
Eligibility: Students.
Deadline: Feb. 28.
Amount: Winners receive up to $2,000 in cash and supplies.
Contact: www.ketchupcreativity.com/about.aspx.
Grant: Youth court advocacy - To increase the number of volunteer court-appointed special advocates (CASA) or guardians ad litem (GALs), who advocate for abused and neglected children.
Funder: National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (with federal support).
Eligibility: CASA/GAL programs.
Deadline: Feb. 27.
Amount: As many as 90 grants ranging from $5,000 to $40,000 each are available across the categories of new program development, program expansion, diversity implementation and capacity building. One year of bridge funding is also available this year to support local CASA/GAL programs that have lost or expect to lose a direct service position due to funding cuts and/or to sustain programs' essential operational needs.
Contact: www.casanet.org/grants/index.htm .
Grant: Family drug court training and technical assistance - To help states, state courts, local courts, units of local government and Indian tribal governments build the capacity to develop, maintain and enhance drug courts for substance-abusing persons who are involved in family court because of alleged child abuse and/or neglect.
Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Eligibility: Faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning and other for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: One award of $400,000.
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/FamilyDCTTA.pdf.
Grant: Family Preservation: Improving the Well-Being of Children/Planning - For planning approaches to improve child well-being by removing barriers associated with strengthening families - including fatherhood, foster parenting, absentee parent activities and grandparents raising grandchildren - and forming and preserving healthy families, relationships and marriages (including traditional Native American and Pacific Basin marriages).
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes and other related organizations.
Deadline: March 25.
Amount: $1 million for 10 grants.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-ANA-NI-0049.html.
Grant: Family Preservation: Improving the Well-Being of Children/Project Implementation - For project implementation approaches to improve child well-being by removing barriers associated with strengthening families - including fatherhood, foster parenting, absentee parent activities and grandparents raising grandchildren - and forming and preserving healthy families, relationships and marriages (including traditional Native American and Pacific Basin marriages).
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes and other related organizations.
Deadline: March 25.
Amount: $3 million for 10 grants.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-ANA-NI-0059.html.
Civic Engagement
*Grant: Learn and Serve America Competitive - For local partnerships that implement school-based service-learning projects.
Funder: U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: State education agencies, Indian tribes and grantmaking entities (nonprofits experienced with service learning that can make subgrants in two or more state).
Deadline: April 14.
Amount: Funding of $5.7 million for eight to 10 awards ranging from $300,000 to $450,000 .
Contact: www.cns.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=69.
*Grant: Learn and Serve America Community-Based - For local partnerships that implement community-based service-learning projects.
Funder: U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: State national service committees, grantmaking entities and others.
Deadline: April 14.
Amount: Funding of $4.2 million for five to eight awards ranging from $350,000 to $450,000 .
Contact: www.cns.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=71.
*Grant: Learn and Serve America Indian Tribes and U.S. Territories - For service-learning programs in communities with enormous social and economic challenges.
Funder: U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: State governments, federally recognized Indian tribes and state educational agencies for the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Island, among others.
Deadline: April 14.
Amount: Funding of $710,000 for six to 10 awards ranging from $60,000 to $120,000 .
Contact: www.cns.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=70
Grant: Learn and Serve America Higher Education - For higher education service learning and community service programs that address community needs through local service projects.
Funder: U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service.
Eligibility: State governments, institutions of higher education and others.
Deadline: March 27.
Amount: Funding of $9.27 million will be for awards ranging from $85,000 to $500,000 for individual institutions and consortia.
Contact: www.nationalservice.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=68
Grant: Character education - To design and implement character education programs that can be integrated into classroom instruction and that are consistent with state academic content standards.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: State education agencies (SEAs) in partnership with local education agencies (LEAs), LEAs, nonprofits and other entities.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: For SEAs, $600,000 for each 12-month budget period; for LEAs, $350,000 for each 12-month budget period.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-30388.htm
Grant: Project Orange Thumb - For community gardening projects.
Funder: Fiskars.
Eligibility: Community garden groups, schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs and treatment facilities.
Deadline: Feb. 17.
Amount: Each winner will receive up to $1,500 in Fiskars' garden tools and up to $1,000 in gardening-related materials.
Contact: http://projectorangethumb.com/pot
Education
Grant: Integration of schools and mental health systems - To increase student access to high-quality mental health care by innovatively linking school and mental health systems.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: State and local educational agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are considered LEAs under state law, and Indian tribes.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: 15 awards ranging from $150,000 to $400,000.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-364.pdf
Grant: Safe Schools/Healthy Students - For integrated, comprehensive community-wide plans that create safe and drug-free schools and promote healthy childhood development.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local education agencies and others.
Deadline: March 4.
Amount: $30.9 million for 28 awards ranging from $$750,000 to $2.25 million.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-31024.htm
Grant: Foundations for Learning - To help eligible children get ready for school.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Local education agencies, community-based organizations or combinations of those groups.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: Four grants averaging $245,500 each.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44511
Grant: Teaching American history - To assist local educational agencies (LEAs) that work in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise to develop, implement, document, evaluate and disseminate innovative, cohesive models of professional development.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: LEAs that partner with one of the following organizations: an institution of higher education, a nonprofit history or humanities organization, or a library or museum.
Deadline: March 9.
Amount: Total funding for a three-year project period is a maximum of $500,000 for LEAs with enrollments of less than 20,000 students; $1 million for LEAs with enrollments of 20,000 to 300,000 students; and $2 million for LEAs with enrollments above 300,000 students.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-30554.htm
Grant: ING Unsung Heroes - To help teachers support innovation in the classroom.
Funder: ING.
Eligibility: Educators.
Deadline: April 30.
Amount: 100 e ducators receive $2 ,000 each; t hree top award winners receive $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 more.
Contact: www.ing-usa.com/us/aboutING/CorporateCitizenship/Education/INGUnsungHeroes/index.htm
Grant: Educator scholarships - For K-12 educators to take college courses.
Funder: Horace Mann Companies.
Eligibility: Public and private school educators.
Deadline: March 12.
Amount: $30,000 for scholarships that vary in size from $500 to $5,000.
Contact: https://www.horacemann.com/resources/scholarships/default.aspx
Health
Grant: Healthy eating research - For research on environmental and policy strategies that have the potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among low-income and racial/ethnic populations at the highest risk for obesity.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: $100,000 to $400,000.
Contact: www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20606
Grant: Communities creating healthy environments - To prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Applicants with a track record of at least two years of successful community organizing and policy advocacy to address health-related problems in communities of color. Youth-led organizing groups and community-based groups with youth-organizing components are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Feb. 26.
Amount: $2.5 million for policy advocacy grants in up to 10 communities nationwide.
Contact: www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20602
Grant: Health conferences - For n on-federal conferences in health promotion and disease prevention, educational programs and applied research.
Funder: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits and others.
Deadline: March 2.
Amount: $2.6 million for up to 100 grants.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/FOAs.htm
Grant: New Connections: Increasing diversity of RWJF programming - T o expand the diversity of perspectives that inform the foundation's programming, introduce new researchers and scholars to the foundation, and help meet staff needs for data analysis.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Eligibility: Scholars from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities who have received their doctorate within the last seven years.
Deadline: March 12.
Amount: 12 two-year grants of up to $75,000.
Contact: www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20425
Juvenile Justice
*Grant: Justice and mental health collaboration (JMHCP) state-based capacity building -To support JMHCP by seeking one or more providers to deliver resources and services to unfunded, eligible JMHCP applicants.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits, among others.
Deadline: March 26.
Amount: Three awards of up to $525,000.
Contact: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/09JMHCPStatesol.pdf
Grant: Justice and mental health collaboration - For innovative cross-system collaboration on services for adults or juveniles with mental illness who come in contact with the justice system.
Funder: U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Eligibility: States, units of local government, Indian tribes and tribal organizations.
Deadline: March 12.
Amount: $50,000 to $250,000 depending on the category.
Contact: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/JMHCprogram.html
Grant: Gang prevention coordination - To enhance coordination of federal, state and local resources in support of community partnerships that engage in the following anti-gang strategies: primary prevention, secondary prevention, gang intervention and targeted gang enforcement.
Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: March 4.
Amount: 12 awards of up to $200,000 each for 24-month projects.
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/GangPrevention.pdf
Grant: Tribal juvenile accountability - To develop and implement programs that hold American Indian and Alaska Native youth 17 and under accountable for delinquent behavior and that strengthen tribal juvenile justice systems.
Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Eligibility: Federally recognized tribes.
Deadline: March 12.
Amount: Up to $300,000 each. The number of grants will depend on final appropriations.
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/TribalJADG.pdf
Life Skills
Grant: College assistance migrant program - For academic and financial support to help migrant and seasonal farm workers and their children complete their first year of college.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or private nonprofit projects in cooperation with such an institution.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: $5.34 million for 13 awards ranging from $180,000 to $425,000.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-31025.htm
Grant: High school equivalency - To help migrant and seasonal farm workers and their children obtain a general education diploma (GED) that meets state guidelines for high school equivalency and to gain employment or be placed in an institution of higher education or other postsecondary education training.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education or private nonprofits or combinations of these organizations.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: Up to 16 awards averaging $446,438 are planned.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44520
Mentoring
Grant: Mentoring - To enhance or expand initiatives that build the capability of community mentoring providers that serve high-risk populations found to be underserved because of location, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population or other analogous situations.
Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Eligibility: National organizations.
Deadline: Feb 25.
Amount: An unspecified number of awards for as much as $10 million or more for up to three years. The number of grants depends on final appropriations.
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/NationalMentoring.pdf
Race/Ethnicity
*Grant: Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities - Programs for Native Hawaiians.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility: Organizations primarily serving and representing Native Hawaiians.
Deadline: March 9.
Amount: A total of $579,518 split between two awards.
Contact: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-1194.pdf
Grant: Enhancing culturally and linguistically specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Funder: U.S. Office on Violence Against Women.
Eligibility: Community-based programs that provide culturally and linguistically specific services to these victims and/or programs whose primary purpose is providing culturally and linguistically specific services who can partner with an expert in these crimes.
Deadline: March 4.
Amount: $150,000 to $300,000 each.
Contact: www.ovw.usdoj.gov/docs/fy09_culturally_and_linguistically_specific_services_solicitation.pdf
Research
Grant: Child care research - For dissertation research on child care policy issues in partnership with state Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Private, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
Deadline: March 30.
Amount: $150,000 for six grants of $30,000 each.
Contact: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-OPRE-YE-0001.html
Grant: Identifying neighborhood-level youth violence protective factors - To study how neighborhood and environmental factors reduce youth violence perpetration and victimization by promoting nonviolence or buffering against known risk factors.
Funder: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 17.
Amount: $700,000 for two awards.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-008.htm
Grant: Influence of religiosity and spirituality on health risk behaviors in children and adolescents - To study how religious and spiritual beliefs develop and are transmitted across generations, and whether and how these beliefs influence early sexual behaviors and alcohol or other drug use that may facilitate the transmission of HIV in children and adolescents.
Funder: National Institutes of Health.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: March 16.
Amount: No more than $200,000 in direct costs annually.
Contact: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-403.html
Grant: Engaging fathers in child maltreatment prevention - To develop and pilot test adaptations to existing evidence-based parenting programs that engage fathers and male caregivers in ways that prevent child maltreatment.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: Two awards of up to $200,000 each per year.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-002.htm
Grant: Youth violence prevention through economic, environmental and policy change - To assess policies and other interventions designed to change the economic or environmental characteristics of a community to reduce rates of youth violence perpetration and victimization.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: Two awards averaging $500,000 each.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-009.htm
Safety
*Grant: Neighborhood-level protective factors - To study how neighborhood and environmental factors reduce youth violence perpetration and victimization by promoting nonviolence or buffering against known risk factors.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits, among others.
Deadline: Feb. 19.
Amount: $700,000 for two awards.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=43384
Grant: Enhancing culturally and linguistically specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Funder: U.S. Office on Violence Against Women.
Eligibility: Community-based programs that provide culturally and linguistically specific services to these victims and/or programs whose primary purpose is providing culturally and linguistically specific services who can partner with an expert in these crimes.
Deadline: March 4.
Amount: $150,000 to $300,000 each.
Contact: www.ovw.usdoj.gov/docs/fy09_culturally_and_linguistically_specific_services_solicitation.pdf
Grant: MetLife Foundation community-police partnerships - To recognize, sustain and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization.
Funder: MetLife Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Eligibility: Community organizations, community development corporations, police/sheriff's departments, Weed and Seed programs and others (public agencies, including schools, must apply in conjunction with at least one nonprofit).
Deadline: Feb. 27.
Amount: For the neighborhood revitalization category, two first-place awards of $25,000 each and four runner-up awards of $15,000 for collaborations between community groups and police that yield crime reduction and economic development outcomes; and for the special strategy category, five awards of $15,000 each for exemplary collaborations that result in public safety outcomes in certain categories, including gang prevention and youth safety.
Contact: www.lisc.org/docs/resources/2009_MetLife_Preliminary_Application.pdf and www.lisc.org/metlife
Grant: National victim-assistance projects - For national-scope training, technical assistance and demonstration initiatives that improve the capacity of victim service providers and allied practitioners to advance rights and services to crime victims in a variety of areas, including child abuse, elder abuse, sexual assault and stalking.
Funder: U.S. Office for Victims of Crime.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: $50,000 to $500,000 each.
Contact: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/dakit.htm
Grant: Indian tribal government and sexual assault services - To improve the ability of Indian tribal governments to respond to crimes of violence committed against Alaska Native and American Indian women, including providing counseling to their children.
Funder: U.S. Office on Violence Against Women.
Eligibility: Federally recognized tribes.
Deadline: March 3.
Amount: 65 grants of up to $450,000 each.
Contact: www.ovw.usdoj.gov/open-solicitations.htm
Grant: Supervised visitation and safe exchange - For supervised visitation and safe exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, dating violence, child abuse, sexual assault or stalking.
Funder: U.S. Office on Violence Against Women.
Eligibility: States, Indian tribal governments and units of local government.
Deadline: Feb. 19.
Amount: 30 awards of up to $650,000.
Contact: www.ovw.usdoj.gov/docs/fy09-safe-havens-solicitation.pdf
Grant: Youth violence prevention through economic, environmental and policy change - To assess the effectiveness of efforts to change the economic or environmental characteristics of a community to reduce rates of youth violence perpetration and victimization.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits.
Deadline: Feb. 23.
Amount: $1 million for two grants.
Contact: www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-009.htm
Substance Abuse
*Grant: Indian alcohol and substance abuse - To plan, implement or enhance tribal justice strategies to address crime issues related to alcohol and substance abuse, with a priority on law enforcement-led strategies.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice.
Eligibility: Federally recognized tribal governments.
Deadline: March 21.
Amount: 90 awards of about $300,000.
Contact: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/09IASAPsol.pdf
*Grant: Drug Free Communities (DFC) - To establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, nonprofits and others to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults.
Funder: U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, among others.
Eligibility: Anti-drug coalitions that have never received a DFC grant; those that previously received a DFC grant but whose funding lapsed; and those that are applying for a second, five-year funding cycle.
Deadline: March 20.
Amount: $17 million for 130 grants.
Contact: http://samhsa.gov/Grants/2009/sp_09_002.aspx
Grant: Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) - To reduce the availability and consumption of alcoholic beverages among U.S. Air Force service members under age 21.
Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Eligibility: State agencies administering EUDL discretionary programs.
Deadline: Feb. 24.
Amount: $500,000 to each of up to four states for the first 18 months of the three-year project period.
Contact: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/EUDLDiscretionary.pdf
Youth Development
Grant: Classroom quality improvements - To develop and improve the measurement of classroom indicators associated with favorable student outcomes in grades K through 12.
Funder: Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation.
Eligibility: Nonprofits, with some exceptions.
Deadline: Feb. 16.
Amount: One- to three-year awards ranging from $50,000 to $500,000.
Contact: www.wtgrantfoundation.org/usr_doc/2009_Classroom_Measurement_RFP.pdf
Grant: Social and economic development strategies - To strengthen children, families and communities through community-based organizations, tribes and village governments.
Funder: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes and other related organizations.
Deadline: March 25.
Amount: $14 million for 80 grants.
Contact: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44172
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