Smart Farming Innovations for Small-Scale Producers Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks Smart Farming solutions that leverage digital technology innovations that have the potential to drive positive impact for smallscale producer (SSP) entrepreneurs delivered through bundled farmer services and enabled by scalable digital and data platforms (Figure 1). Solutions should address one or more challenges faced by smallscale crop and livestock producers in one or more areas of agricultural advisory, far
This call seeks to fund pilot studies that investigate the biological effect of traditional locally fermented foods on key microbiome, gut, and health biomarkers in local populations. The goal is to provide investigators in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with the resources to build local capacity to investigate fermented foods as novel maternal nutrition interventions. In particular, sequencing technology – a transformative tool that has enabled in-depth investigation of microbial communities
HD4A aims to reduce the barriers often faced in accessing rich data by serving as a conduit between data owners and interested researchers. Through this HD4A call for proposals (CFP), RWJF will make valuable data from unique data owners available to researchers.
Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF’s Cultu
Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health.
Children are at the heart of everything we do at the Kellogg Foundation. Our goal is lasting, transformational change for children. As a grantmaker, we recognize that children live in families and families live in communities. Therefore, our three areas of focused work – Thriving Children, Working Families and Equitable Communities – are dynamic and always interconnected.
We consider proposals in three main program areas: community development, education and religion. We also are interested in initiatives that benefit youth and promote the causes of philanthropy and volunteerism.
The Conservation and Science Program invests in action and ideas that conserve and restore ecosystems while enhancing human well-being. We welcome your ideas for funding requests. Please review the Conservation and Science program pages (Climate, Ocean, Land, Science, and Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation). If your work is aligned with our funding priorities and geographic focus, send a short description to the relevant Program Officer and Program Associate or send the description using
The Children, Families, and Communities Program strives to ensure that all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. This program is not accepting unsolicited proposals, but welcomes your ideas for funding requests. Before you send a request, please review the Children, Families and Communities program page. If your work is aligned with the program strategy and geographic focus, please send your request using the form below.
The Reproductive Health Program funds innovative work that promotes positive reproductive health. This program is not accepting unsolicited proposals, but welcomes your ideas for funding requests. Before you send a request, please review the Reproductive Health program page. If your work is aligned with the program strategy and geographic focus, please send your request using the form below.
The Local Grantmaking Program supports an array of nonprofit organizations in geographic areas that are significant to the Packard Foundation. This includes organizations in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey Counties in California, and in Pueblo, Colorado, the birthplace of David Packard. Information on how eligible organizations can submit a letter of inquiry can be found here.
The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness team partners with grantees to strengthen an organization’s fundamentals so they can focus on achieving their missions. Only current Foundation grantees are eligible to apply for Organizational Effectiveness funds. If you are a current grantee, please find more information here.
Should be aligned with our funding priorities of community development, education and workforce development and critical needs.
The Black Ambition Prize provides a platform for eligible applicants to access growth capital, pitch feedback, and mentorship. Eligible applicants consist of Black & Latinx founders building across these distinct categories:
The Black Ambition Prize provides a platform for eligible applicants to access growth capital, pitch feedback, and mentorship. Eligible applicants consist of Black & Latinx founders building across these distinct categories:
Gusto and IFundWomen have teamed up to support four (4) early-stage women-owned small businesses, each with a $2,500 grant to help them jumpstart a year of growth in 2021. In addition, all qualified applicants will receive three (3) months of free Gusto payroll services. Terms apply. Applications are being accepted through December 30, 2020.
Across our portfolio, we support innovators who are committed to using and generating rigorous evidence about what works. We offer financing from USD $50,000 to $15 million, with the largest funding amounts reserved for innovations that can demonstrate evidence of success and that have potential to spread across multiple developing countries.
You may submit a proposal anytime (except for the national and international environment program).* We build in a long lead time to review proposals and prepare grant recommendations for five board meetings each year. Program staff weigh many considerations in preparing grant recommendations and cannot promise that any proposal will be considered at a particular board meeting.
This is an application for the United States Journalism Emergency Fund, created by the International Women’s Media Foundation in partnership with Craig Newmark Philanthropies. To qualify for this Fund, you must be a U.S.-based journalist of any gender (including men) targeted as a result of your reporting at events related to the highly charged political unrest and polarization in the U.S., including elections, civil movements and other challenging environments. You may request support for:
We established the IWMF Emergency Fund in 2013 for journalists in crisis to provide women journalists with a lifeline of support in times of distress or threat. Now more than ever, journalists around the world face real dangers as a result of their reporting. The Emergency Fund is sustained with the support of individual donors to address the growing need to provide direct assistance to women journalists who are suffering.
Promoting the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices. The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, the first funding initiative of its kind, enables the IWMF to dramatically expand its support of women journalists. Established with a $4 million gift from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Fund will support projects including educational opportunities, investigative reporting and media development initi
The 2021 Funding Track focuses on utilizing conflict resolution education and training to enhance the ability of youth to find their voice and increase feelings of empowerment and safety in the following settings:
The Brave of Heart Fund was established to provide monetary grants to eligible family members of frontline healthcare workers and healthcare volunteers who lose their lives because of COVID-19. The cash grant awards will provide basic and continuing financial support for common needs, such as funeral costs, medical care, counselling, food, educational expenses of children and other dependents currently in school, mortgage or rent payments, and immediate living expenses, as these family members m
Priority is given to applicants that:
The Northern California Environmental Grassroots Fund supports small grassroots groups throughout greater northern California that are tackling tough environmental problems including toxic pollution, urban sprawl, sustainable agriculture, climate change, environmental degradation of our rivers and wild places, as well as, of our communities and our health. The Grassroots Fund is a pooled re-granting fund supported by about 20 funding partners. In addition to being one of the funding partners, Ro
TD Green Space Grants support green infrastructure development, tree planting, forestry stewardship, and community green space expansion as a way to advance environmental and economic benefits toward a low-carbon economy. Through the program, municipalities in the United States and Canada are eligible to receive $20,000 (USD) - $25,000 (CAD) grants in support of local forestry projects in areas of great need within a community.
The Foundation's Veteran Housing Grants Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations for the new construction or rehabilitation of permanent supportive housing for veterans. Awards typically range from $100,000 to $500,000.
Up to 30,000 eligible small businesses in more than 30 countries will be able to receive a grant from Facebook. To be eligible to apply, your business must:
Has the pandemic caused you to change the way you teach? Can you use $2,500 to fund new, innovative learning in your classroom? Forty teachers in each state will be selected. Winners will be selected from the first 200 applicants in each state based on need and proposed use of funds.
The AT&T K-12 connected learning program is focused on closing the homework gap for at-risk students by providing mobile Wi-Fi hotspots and free AT&T wireless internet service. School districts, charter schools, and community-based non-profit organizations that serve at-risk youth are eligible to apply. The program is focused primarily on impacting students in the following groups:Students in foster care
The Kinder Morgan Foundation focuses exclusively on academic education and the arts. It supports programs that benefit traditionally underserved youth, including minorities and girls, with a majority of contributions directed to STEM programs. The organization supporting the program and the program itself must have clearly defined objectives and demonstrate strong community ties. Programs must be located in Kinder Morgan’s selected areas of operations or benefit youth in these areas. Typical gra
Organizations seeking funding should carefully review the Foundation's grant making guidelines to determine if their project is in tune with the Foundation's mission before submitting an application. The Mazda Foundation primarily considers grant applications from organizations located in markets where Mazda has offices (Irvine, CA; Bridgewater, NJ; Chicago, IL; Sugarland, TX; Jacksonville, FL; and Huntsville, AL).
ew Earth Foundation seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. Smaller, newer 501(c)(3) organizations are the focus of grants given, so that the foundation’s gift can make a more significant contribution to the work of the recipient organization.The grants given by NEF support a wide variety of projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution a
The Institute for Rural America offers the Charles Skorupa Memorial Farm Scholarship. Our scholarship is awarded to a high school senior who plans to attend an accredited post-secondary school in an ag-related field. The amount of the scholarship is $1,000. Recipients will be selected on the following criteria:
The Institute for Rural America is pleased to offer grants to assist nonprofit organizations. They are small grants designed for groups needing to take quick action on rural issues that arise. These issues may call for immediate organizing or action that cannot be predicted and are not budgeted. In some cases it is crucial to act immediately to address the issue and take advantage of an organizing or teaching opportunity.
The Conference Grant Program provides support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convenings around important issues in education. This program is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research. We encourage appli
In honor of the Spencer Foundation's 50th Anniversary, the Foundation has launched The Racial Equity Special Research Grants program to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality in education, and which seek to remake and imagine anew forms of equitable education. Thus, we are also interest
In this great time of need, Another Round Another Rally will provide $500 grants to people of color (meaning, Black, Latinx, Asian, South Asian, Indigenous/ First Nation, Middle Eastern/ North African) who work in the front of house in bars and restaurants in order to help care for the communities that keep this industry operating.
To our food & beverage hospitality industry friends across the country, you have always welcomed and served us in your bars and restaurants with open arms.
Radical Xchange and Another Round Another Rally have partnered together to provide Mental health relief to Black hospitality workers in need. This fund is specifically to support Black Hospitality workers living in the US (you do not need to be a citizen).
Through this funding, NEEF will sponsor public lands sites in order to:
As part of our continuing commitment to elevate our impact in rural America, LISC is inviting small business owners in rural locations across the country to apply for the LISC-Lowe's Rural Relief Small Business Grants program.
BWF is now accepting 2021 grant applications! Given the urgent needs that our research highlighted, and that we also about hear from our many partners, BWF is prioritizing grants from qualified 501(c)3 organizations with programs addressing:
The World Justice Challenge 2021: Advancing the Rule of Law in a Time of Crisis is a global competition to identify, recognize, and promote good practices and high-impact projects and policies that protect and advance the rule of law in this time of unprecedented crisis.
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UHCCF’s mission is to help fill the gap between what medical services/items a child needs and what their commercial health benefit plan will pay for. UHCCF grants provide financial help/assistance for families with children that have medical needs not covered or not fully covered by their commercial health insurance plan.
The American Library Association (ALA) and Dollar General Literacy Foundation offer annual grants to U.S. public libraries to expand services for adult English language learners or adults in need of basic education and workforce development.
Our local community grants are awarded through an open application process and provide funding directly from Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities to local organizations in the U.S. Don’t know how to determine your local facility? Don’t worry, the application will assist you.
International Projects:
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economic Foundation is a small, non-profit private foundation with limited resources. The Foundation will look most favorably at programs that match grants of support with funds from other organizations, learned institutions, universities, colleges, and government sources. The Kazanjian Foundation does not support projects that are based outside of the United States and will not support overhead or indirect costs. The Foundation may only support non-profit 501(c) (3) orga
Dedicated to meeting challenges within the global community, creating solutions and taking action, The Tony Robbins Foundation provides monetary donations to various organizations around the world. Funding requests are evaluated on an ongoing basis. We look for organizations that align with our mission to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of those often forgotten.