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• Live Green Teacher Grants
  Deadline: May 15
  Challenges middle school teachers to develop innovative ideas for furthering environmental and energy sustainability.  Teachers will identify an issue or problem, create a plan to address it, and integrate the topic into classroom teaching.  More info.
  
• Preservation Assistance for Smaller Institutions
  Deadline: May 15
  National Endowment for the Humanities helps small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, art and cultural organizations, etc, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections, which may include collections of books and journals, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings and much more.  See more.
  
• Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
  Deadline: May 15
  The Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects, and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by activist media organizations and individual media producers.  Learn more.
  
• Newspaper Association of America Foundation
  Deadline: May 16
  The NAA Foundation encourages middle and high schools to partner with professional newspapers in their communities and seek funding to start, relaunch or revitalize student newspapers, whether online or in print. All public and private schools serving grades seven through 12 and working in partnership with daily or nondaily professional newspapers are eligible to receive Student/ Newspaper Partnership Grants from the NAA Foundation. Details.
  
• Save America's Treasures
  Deadline: May 20
  Grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and works of art. Historic structures and sites include historic districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.  Get more info.
  
• American Legacy Foundation
  Deadline: May 23
  Supports projects that advance creative, promising solutions based on sound principles of tobacco control to remedy the harm caused by tobacco use in America. Aims to seed new projects or enable organizations to pilot new ideas and approaches.  See more.
  
• Great American Bake Sale Grants
  Deadline: May 30
  Helps ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger. By increasing access to nutritious meals outside of school hours, we can help end childhood hunger in communities across the country.  Learn more.
  
• Target Store Grants
  Deadline: May 31
  Supports local community programs in three primary giving areas: making art s accessible to children and families, early childhood reading, and family violence prevention.  Find out more. 
  
• Presbyterian Hunger Program
  Deadline: May 31
  Provides support to direct feeding programs, as well as organizations and initiatives that attempt to change the systemic or root causes of hunger. Get the details.
  
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
  Deadline: June 1
  Supports programs in a variety of focus areas all related to preserving and defending the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise.  Specific program focuses include improving education, promoting economic growth and prosperity and revitalizing civil society.  Find out more.  
  
• The Braitmayer Foundation
  Deadline: June 1
  Provides financial support to initiatives focused on curricular and school reform and professional development opportunities for teachers, particularly those which encourage people of high ability and diverse background to enter and remain in K-12 teaching.  Grants are provided in the form of seed money, challenge grants or to fulfill matching grants.  More information.
  
• Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
  Deadline: June 2
  Designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.  Details.
  
• The National Wildlife Refuge Friends Group
  Deadline: June 2
  Supports nonprofit organizations that encourage the American public to further develop its appreciation for fish and wildlife through a variety of activities.  Grants are given for start-up, capacity building and specific projects.  See more. 
  
• The Dana Foundation Rural Initiative
  Deadline: June 4
  Grants professional development programs arts educators in rural areas of the US.  Primary interest is in training for in-school arts specialists and professional artists who teach the performing arts to students pre-K- 12 in the public schools.  Learn more.
  
• Save Our History
  Deadline: June 6
  The History Channel partners with local organizations to help preserve the history of their communities.  Grants of up to $10,000 are provided to partnerships between schools or youth groups and community preservation projects (museums, historic sites, libraries, etc).  More info. 
  
• National Forest Foundation Matching Awards Program
  Deadline: June 6
  Engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the National Forest System.  Support will be given to nonprofit organizations implementing on-the-ground conservation with a focus on wildlife habitat improvement, recreation, watershed health and restoration or community-based forestry.  Find out more.
  
• Head Start Innovation and Improvement Projects
  Deadline: June 9
  The administration for Children and families, Office of Head Start invites applications from organizations for financial support for projects that address the promotion of promising practices in the Head Start program and other priorities that meet needs related to the comprehensive nature of Head Start. Get the details.
  
• Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
  Deadline: June 9
  Offers funding for projects that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of and skills in the arts. Projects must provide participatory learning and engage students with skilled artists, teachers, and excellent art.  More info. 
  
• Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program
  Deadline: June 11
  Helps local communities improve the capacity of local justice systems and provides for national support efforts including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address local needs.  See more. 
  
• Family and Informal Caregiver Support Program
  Deadline: June 12
  Supports efforts to enhance the quality of life for older adults by improving their ability to live meaningful, independent and dignified lives in their communities.  501(c)(3) organizations, including aging and human service agencies, faith-based and other community-based organizations, and units of local government are encouraged to apply. Learn more.
  
• Saucony Run for Good
  Deadline: June 13
  Based out of concern for the health and well being of children growing up with a lack of physical activity and poor dietary habits, provides funding to programs that encourage active and healthy lifestyles in children.  Programs should initiate and support running and fitness programs for kids.  Get more information. 
  
• Virginia Environmental Endowment Mini-Grant Program
  Deadline: June 15
  Supports community-based efforts to strengthen environmental education and to promote stewardship in Virginia's waterways.  Grants of up to $5000 are given as one-time, start-up grants, with a preference for modest local projects.  Specific focus is limited to environmental education and water quality protection.  See more. 
  
• Kodak American Greenways Awards
  Deadline: June 15
  Provides small grants to stimulate the planning and design of greenways in communities throughout America which can be used for all appropriate expenses needed to complete a greenway project including planning, technical assistance, legal and other costs. Find out more.
  
• Home Depot Affordable Housing Built Responsibly
  Deadline: June 15
  Provides funding to affordable housing projects built or preserved with environmentally friendly, efficient and durable materials that increase energy and water efficiency, improve indoor air quality and reduce maintenance costs.  Get the details. 
  
• CVS Caremark Charitable Trust
  Deadline: June 15
  Supports charitable organizations making a difference in the lives of children with disabilities and to help support organizations providing healthcare to the uninsured.  See more.
  
• Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy Grants
  Deadline: June 16
  Seeks to broaden public support for drug policy reform and will fund strategic and innovative approaches to increase such support.  Find out more. 
  
• Staples Foundation for Learning
  Deadline: June 16
  Provides funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.  Find out how to apply.
  
• Women's Shelter Grant Program
  Deadline: June 30
  Donates funds to worthwhile organizations that aid the victims of domestic violence.  Provides shelters with awards of up to $20,000 to put towards their operating budgets.  More information.
  
• My Cause
  Deadline: June 30
  SunTrust will donate $100 to the charity of your choice is you open a new checking account.  donations may be directed to any IRS-recognzied 501(c)(3).  Get the details.
• Bowerman Track Program
  Deadline: May 31, 2009
  Provides matching funds of up to $50,000 to youth oriented nonprofit organizations, that demonstrate a need for running track refurbishment or construction. Athletic booster clubs, schools and school districts are eligible to apply.  Board reviews applications quarterly. Find out more. 
  
• Princess Grace Awards
  Deadline: Various
  Provides funding to recognize the talent of individual artists in theater, dance and film.  Awards are given in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships.  Deadlines vary by category.  Get the details. 
  
• Open Society Institute
  Deadline: Open
  This Institute has several different grant programs for nonprofits and other groups working on research or programs which are designed to promote social justice, political freedom.  Specific focuses of individual grants range from media policy and academic freedom to reducing reliance on incarceration.  Find out more about specific grants. 
  
• Conservation of Works of Art Grants
  Deadline: Open
  The Getty Foundation provides support for the conservation treatment of works of art of outstanding artistic significance that are part of a museum's permanent collection. Projects will only be eligible and competitive if they extend beyond the proposed treatment to include a significant interdisciplinary research component.  Learn more. 
  
• Neighborhood Excellence Initiative
  Deadline: Various
  Bank of America is accepting applications in community development and neighborhood revitalization.  The initiative awards grants of up to $200,000 for leadership training and general operating support for nonprofit organizations.  Learn more.
  
• The Wilson Research Foundation
  Deadline:  Open
  This Foundation dispenses funds for grants in rehabilitation research for disabling illnesses and injuries.  For more information.
  
• Ben & Jerry's Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Contributes both large grants of $1,001 - $15,000 and small grants of under $1000 to organizations which employ creative solutions to promote social change.  The primary concern of the foundation is the strategies and activities used for promoting social change, not a particular issue area.  Find out more. 
  
• The Carnegie Corporation of New York
  Deadline: Open
  Supports a range of efforts related to education, peace & security, international development, strengthening democracy, and more. Take a quiz to find out if your project fits the guidelines for grants. Read on.
  
• One by One
  Deadline: Open
  Makes in-kind donations of imprinted goods to deserving organizations. Find out more. 
  
• Build-a-Bear Workshop Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports local animal shelters and stray pet rescue and rehabilitation organizations across the country.  Grants are made quarterly and vary in size from $2,500- $50,000.  Interested?
• The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Awards grants to organizations that promote environmental and community health, advance environmental justice, sustain the food system in both urban and rural communities and more. Find out more.
• The Microsoft Corporation
  Deadline: Open
  Offers in-kind support to organizations working to create community-based technology and learning centers in order to bridge the digital divide and eliminate technology illiteracy. Get the details.
  
• National Geographic Conservation Trust
  Deadline: Open
  Supports conservation activities around the world that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological cultural and historical resources.  Find out more. 
• The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Deadline: Open
  Funds programs in science education and research, from pre-K through PhD. Learn more.
• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
  Deadline: Open
  Funds a range of programs including those in education, theology/religion, health care, and public television. Read on.
  
• John Merck Fund
  Deadline: Open
  Provides funding in several areas, including developmental disabilities, environment, reproductive health, human rights and job opportunities.  Has a special interest in small organizations and startups in need of funding.  See more. 
  
• Do Something
  Deadline: Rolling
  Do Something has partnered with GameStop and together are offering two $500 grants to young social entrepreneurs (under the age of 25) weekly.  The GameStop Grant is seed money to begin a project and the Plum Grant is awarded for programs already underway.  Both are given out weekly.  For more information.
  
• Social Justice Grant Fund
  Deadline: Open
  The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia provide financial support to help those who are poor, oppressed, and marginalized in society and to promote social justice at local, national, and international levels.  Recipients should be engaged in fostering systemic change, promoting self-help and empowering community, or responding to unmet needs of those whoa re poor and/or marginalized.  Has two giving cycles per year.  Find out more. 
• The National Network to End Domestic Violence
  Deadline: Open
  Partners with nonprofits to assist survivors of domestic violence. Read on.
  
• Equine Fund Grant
  Deadline: Open
  the ASPCA provides funding to nonprofit equine welfare organizations for capital improvements, emergency grants or education-related grants.  Funds for hay, feed, and medical care are generally restricted to large cruelty seizures or impounds only.  Find out more. 
• Women Helping Others Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports organizations that serve women and/or children in the areas of health, education and social service needs. Learn more.
• The Weithorn and Ehrmann Families Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports programs that solve the problems of children in need, without regard to race or creed, and activities designed to protect civil liberties and promote social justice. Email Stanley S. Weithorn, sweithorn@rhtax.com, for details.
  
• Goldman Sachs Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Funds innovative educational organizations.  Current foundation priorities are focused on developing the abilities of promising high potential youth, supporting high quality education for young people in leadership, entrepreneurship and business education and enhancing academic performance and prospects for life achievement of students at the secondary school level.  More info.
• The Comcast Corporation
  Deadline: Open
  Funds programs that utilize communication technologies to address community needs related to literacy, volunteerism and youth leadership. Learn more.
• The Level Playing Field Institute
  Deadline: Open (applications reviewed monthly)
  Promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. The Institute's Fairness Fund provides small, one-time grants to organizations who share the Institute’s commitment to fairness and inclusion. The Fund supports projects that increase access to opportunities for underserved or underrepresented persons/students; remove barriers to full participation in education and/or workplaces; develop innovative solutions that create fairer work environments; and enhance diversity awareness. View the website.

• Google Grants Program
  Deadline: Open
  Nonprofit groups can apply to receive at least three months of free advertising on Google’s website to promote their mission. Get the details.
  
• Rapid Response Grants
  Deadline: Open
  Connect US makes grants to support non-governmental organizations active in policy issues, especially related to US global engagement.  These grants are to serve as a potential source of funding for time-sensitive projects to effect policy change with focuses on climate change, energy policy, nuclear proliferation, human rights and international trade and development. Find out more.  
• The Starr Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  One of the largest private foundations in the US; funds organizations involved in education, medicine and health care, human needs, public policy, culture and the environment. Read on.
  
• Baseball Tomorrow
  Deadline: Open
  This joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association is designed to promote and enhance the growth of youth participation in baseball and softball by funding programs, fields and equipment.  Learn more. 
• Points of Light Foundation's Daily Points of Light Awards:
  Deadline: Open
  Any individual, organization, group, family, business, or labor union actively engaged in voluntary service benefiting the community or nation can be nominated. Find out more.
• Cisco Donation Program at TechSoup
  Deadline: Open
  Donations of networking-solutions software to health-service support organizations and organizations that provide education, job training, and literacy support to underserved populations. This is completely separate from regular Techsoup discounted software programs. Visit the site.
  
• Development Grants
  Deadline: Open
  Veteranscorp.org provides funding for programs that provide opportunities and resources to veterans interested in business or entrepreneurial endeavors. For more information. 
  
• William Randolph Hearst Foundations
  Deadline: Open
  Assists institutions in providing opportunities to underserved and underrepresented populations.  There are a variety of funding priorities including education, health, social services and culture.  Get more info. 
  
• The Draper Richards Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports new nonprofits that result in social change. Unrestricted funding will be provided to entrepreneurs who have started a new organization within the last 3 years. View the details.
• Food Lion Charitable Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Focuses on primary and secondary education, and feeding the hungry, but will consider any charitable organization in the community. More detail.
• The Kroger Company Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Grants are available to any 501(c)(3) organization in communities in which Kroger operates. Grants are given to a range of causes: to support education, feed the hungry, support breast cancer initiatives, and assist local grassroots organizations. Read on.
• Alliance/Quest Network Challenge
  Deadline: Open
  Alliance has teamed up with Quest Network to provide $1,000 classroom awards to teachers who most effectively and creatively integrate two of the four Blue Zones programs into their curriculum. Quest’s Blue Zones programs, including Blue Zone Quest, Blue Zones Challenge, Blue Zones Financial Challenge, and Blue Zones Legacy Project, are geared toward cultivating student curiosity as well as empowering students to lead healthy lives. The programs are aligned to National Education Standards.  Read on.
  
• The Glaser Progress Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Has identified several program areas for which they provide funding to nonprofits organizations. These include measuring progress, animal advocacy, independent media, and global HIV/AIDS. To find out more about the specifics of each of these initiatives, visit. 
• Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports projects that improve medical education, diversity among health care professionals, and benefits to underserved populations. Read on.
• CHAMP - Children's Health & Wellness Grant Program
  Deadline: Open (LOI's reviewed in March and September)
  Supports nonprofit organizations that focus on children's issues: childhood disease research foundations, organizations that promote child safety, and charities that serve children with special needs. Find out more.
• The Annenberg Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health. Read on.
  
• Wellpoint Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  This is the corporate-sponsored foundation of Anthem Insurance.  They fund organizations that support healthy lifestyles: healthy minds (education), healthy bodies (health oriented) and healthy communities (community projects and human services).  Find out more about their giving program.   
• The American Humane Association's Second Chance Program:
  Deadline: Open
  Partners works with animal welfare organizations to provide care for animals. Get the details
• The PepsiCo Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports health and wellness, diversity and inclusion, environment and employee community engagement. Details.
• The AT&T Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Makes grants for K-12 education. Details: Email the foundation president, Laura Sanford, at ls2968@att.com.
• Educational Foundation of America
  Deadline: Open
  Areas of interest include the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, drug policy reform, democracy, peace and national security issues, education, medicine, and human services. Find out more.
  
• Allstate Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Allstate funds nonprofit organizations in three focus areas, which are broken down into specific program goals.  These focus areas include: safe and vital communities, economic empowerment, and tolerance, inclusion, and diversity.  Grant requests must be for single year requests.  Find out more. 
   
• Rosie's For All Kids Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Priority is given to experienced, community-based programs serving children in low-income, major urban areas. The primary focus of the Foundation’s grant making is on tuition subsidies, small renovations, equipment upgrades, playground construction, and staff development opportunities for early education and care programs. Learn more.
  
• Singing for Change
  Deadline: Open
  Provides financial support to programs in three primary focus areas: children and families, the environment, and disenfranchised groups.   More info. 
• Public Welfare Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  The primary goal of the Public Welfare Foundation is to address human needs in disadvantaged communities. The Foundation's grantmaking strongly emphasizes support for organizations that include service, advocacy, or empowerment in their approach, with particular interest in efforts that combine two or all three of these elements.  Take a look.
  
• Mix it Up
  Deadline: Open
  This program encourages youth proposed and directed initiatives by supporting projects that challenge social boundaries in schools and communities.  Find out more. 
  
• The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  The Foundation has three primary program areas available to organizations in this area- Civil Society, Environment, and Pathways Out of Poverty.  Through its programs the Foundation seeks to fulfill its mission of supporting efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.  Read the guidelines carefully.
  
• United Healthcare Children's Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Facilitates access to health-related services not fully covered by the available commercial health benefit plan and have the potential to significantly enhance either the clinical condition or the quality of life of the child.  Provides grants which help provide financial assistance towards family's share of the cost of medical services.  Find out more. 
• Grants.gov
  Deadline: Varies by grant
  Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 BILLION in federal grants.  It is the single access point for over 1,000 grant programs.  www.grants.gov
• The Dominion Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Supports nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the economic, physical, and social health of the communities served by Dominion's gas companies. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking in five general categories: health and human services, education, culture and the arts, neighborhood and community development, and the environment. Visit the website for online application information.
• The Surdna Foundation
  Deadline: Open
  Fosters entrepreneurial programs throughout the U.S. that offer viable solutions to difficult systemic problems. The Foundation provides support through five distinct grantmaking programs: The Environmental Program, the Community Revitalization Program, the Effective Citizenry Program, the Arts Program, and the Nonprofit Sector Support Program. Visit the website for more information.
• Barnes and Noble Corporate Contributions Program
  Deadline: Open
  Supports local and regional nonprofit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or education (K-12). Applicants must be located in the communities where company stores are located and should serve the greater good of the local community or region. A plan for promoting the program with Barnes & Noble should be included in the proposal, and the organization must be willing to work with the local store or stores on in-store programming. Barnes and Noble also provides limited support to national nonprofit organizations that focus on the company’s grantmaking priorities. In addition, eligible applicants may apply for support through a literary-based sponsorship program. Visit the website for more information.