GrantStation Insider: October 3, 2024

Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry
Geographic scope: National and Tompkins County, NY
Description: The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. Funding priorities include democracy, with a focus on initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, including the implementation of democracy through exercising the right to vote and other direct forms of civic involvement; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of environmental, political, and social issues; environment, with a focus on efforts on a national scale or in New York State that promote clean drinking water as well as statewide efforts in New York that decrease reliance on fossil fuels; and animal welfare, including nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. Additional funding priorities focus on sustainability, community needs, and school food and nutrition in Tompkins County, NY.

Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry
Grant amount: $500 to $7,500
Description: The mission of the 1 FUR 1 Foundation is to support mutually beneficial endeavors that enhance the lives of animals and humans in need throughout the United States. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations providing animal-assisted therapy, including programs designed to promote improvement in human physical, social, emotional, or cognitive function; animal-assisted activity, including programs related to motivational, educational, or recreational animal-assisted activities; and therapy dog programs, including service dogs, guide dogs, hearing dogs, and medical alert dogs. Application guidelines and information on the application process are available on the Foundation’s website.

Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry
Description: The Andrew Family Foundation’s Junior Board Grants support nonprofit organizations in the United States that positively impact the lives of youth. The focus is on efforts that help people enrich their lives by providing opportunities for education in traditional academics and the arts. Support is also provided for programs that raise awareness about the importance of living sustainably and in harmony with the environment. The Foundation prefers to support well-established organizations with five or more years of operating experience and organizations with budgets of less than $5 million. Grants are made for specific purposes or projects that will have a direct impact on the target population.

Application deadline: November 12, 2024
Geographic scope: Global
Description: SeedMoney’s mission is to help more individuals and communities, especially disadvantaged ones, to grow more of their own healthy food. The SeedMoney Challenge is a 30-day crowdfunding competition taking place November 15 to December 15, 2024, open to any public food garden project located anywhere in the world, including youth gardens, community gardens, community farms, and food bank or shelter gardens. Participants keep 100% of what they raise and compete for additional grants of $100 to $1,000. This year, the Challenge is providing 432 grants totaling $81,000: 50 Strong Start Grants of $100 and one bonus grant of $400 to the projects that raise the most during the first week of the challenge; 70 Geographic Interest Grants of $150 to $300 to projects based in Maine or developing countries (no crowdfunding challenge required); 23 Strong Finish Grants of $100 to $500 for projects that raise the most in the last seven days of the campaign; and 288 Challenge Grants to projects based on where they are ranked at the end of the challenge period.

Application deadline: January 8, 2025
Geographic scope: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, DC, and WV
Grant amount: $10,000 to $250,000
Description: Through the Inspire Awards, Truist Foundation and MIT Solve seek innovative nonprofit solutions that improve resources and wraparound services for adults who are in the middle or late stages of their careers seeking reskilling, upskilling, and career navigation support. The Awards will support nonprofits serving within the Truist footprint, including AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, DC, and WV. Supported services can include wraparound services for unemployed and underemployed individuals on their journey to economic mobility, including transportation support, childcare, mentorship, mental health services, and more; coalition building to generate greater buy-in and support for workforce navigation efforts across diverse sectors and stakeholders; career navigation enabling workers to navigate their career choices more easily; and upskilling and reskilling training opportunities for those transitioning between careers or facing unemployment. 15 semi finalists will receive a $10,000 award and six finalists will be selected for a $250,000 first place award, a $150,000 second place award, and four $25,000 runner-up awards. Additionally, one of the six finalists will also receive the $75,000 audience favorite award.

Application deadline: November 15, 2024
Geographic scope: Arizona
Grant amount: Up to $175,000 over three years
Description: Vitalyst Health Foundation’s mission is to connect, support, and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in Arizona. The Foundation’s Systems Change Grants invest in efforts that positively address complex community health challenges and reduce structural and systemic gaps in health outcomes or opportunities. Projects must include two or more partners working collaboratively, with the lead organization being an Arizona-serving nonprofit serving Arizonans. Supported coalitions must have a history of working together and must have identified the intersecting community health issues that the systems change will improve. (In addition to Systems Change Grants, one-year Spark Grants of up to $25,000 are provided to support coalitions to plan and identify solutions toward systemic change. Spark Grants have two deadlines annually. The Foundation also has Technical Assistance Grants of up to $20,000 for coalition capacity building toward systems change. These partnership opportunities are reviewed throughout the year.)

Application deadline: The next application deadline is December 2, 2024.
Geographic scope: Vermont
Grant amount: The minimum request is $5,000.
Description: The Hoehl Family Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations in Vermont to enhance the lives of Vermonters and address basic human needs. Areas of interest include housing, food security, education, mental and physical health, and stable employment to promote self-sufficiency. Types of support include general operating support, program support, capacity building, and capital support.

Application deadline: November 15, annually, for letters of inquiry
Geographic scope: Primarily Alabama
Description: The mission of the Malone Family Foundation is to promote positive changes in the lives of people, who in turn can build and enhance the communities in which they live. The Foundation primarily supports organizations and programs whose beneficiaries reside in the state of Alabama, while organizations and programs in the states of Florida and Georgia will be considered to a limited extent. Support is provided for initiatives that improve the quality of education and the motivation and self-esteem of students from pre-kindergarten through higher education. The Foundation has an especially strong interest in supporting innovative endeavors that lead to a better-educated population and a higher standard of living. The focus is on programs and projects designed to prevent or solve problems and create opportunities, rather than meet basic needs. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: November 21, 2024
Description: The Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds (CoCBuilds) program targets efforts within CoC geographic areas to address and reduce persons experiencing homelessness by adding new units of permanent supportive housing through new construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation. The focus is on permanent housing in which supportive services are provided to assist individuals with disabilities, and families where at least one household member has a disability and is experiencing homelessness, to live independently. 

Optional letters of intent: October 24, 2024
Application deadline: November 12, 2024
Description: The National Service Line for Incarcerated Survivors of Sexual Abuse Program offers support to create and pilot test a service line for sexual abuse victims in adult correctional settings in four states. The service line will utilize providers specialized in delivering trauma-informed emotional support services to incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse, and will offer multiple means of communication for using the service line, such as phone, chat, text, email, letter, or video.

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Webinar date: October 7, 2024, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: As your grant programs grow, you have an important decision to make: Should you hire an external grant professional or do the work yourself? This isn’t always an easy choice. It can be hard to effectively evaluate both the benefits and drawbacks. During this free TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will help you weigh each option so your organization can move forward with a decision.

Webinar date: October 9, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: From start to finish, your proposals must tell a strong, consistent story. However, accomplishing this across the unique sections of an application is not always straightforward. During this webinar, Alice Ruhnke will walk you through a systematic process to apply to all your grantseeking efforts in order to reduce the stress related to proposal writing. She’ll introduce a planning tool that can be used again and again by your organization, saving you time and energy in your grantseeking efforts. (This webinar is part of the series The Power of 3: Fuel Your Mission With Successful Grant Proposals.)

Webinar date: October 10, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Managing your grants effectively is vital if you want to keep receiving them. In this fast-paced session, Gregg Bossen, a CPA specializing in nonprofits and President of QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits, will focus on the five top tips for effectively managing your grants and will give participants an opportunity to ask questions throughout. You’ll leave better prepared to manage your grants to ensure the financial health of your organization.

Interested in GrantStation's funder profiles? Current opportunities include Levine Impact Lab (U.S. national), Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation (U.S. local: Puget Sound region of Washington), Alliance for Mental Well-Being (Canada local: Prince Edward Island), and True Story Award (global).