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 Available Grants
- Note: The Center cannot guarantee the accuracy of these listings. Interested persons are encouraged to use the contacts provided for further information.
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- Grant Postings
- To post your available grants here,
e-mail: info@westernmasshealthycommunities.org. Please note that submission does not guarantee inclusion in this listing. The Center reserves the right to edit and choose content based on appropriateness, timeliness, available space and overall interest to our clients and colleagues. Inclusion in this listing should not be viewed as an endorsement by the Center of any agency/organization, program or position.
The Massachusetts Partnership for Healthy Communities, a program of The Medical Foundation, Inc. is making available 6-8 1/year planning grants of up to $10,000 available to communities in Massachusetts to help communities develop a comprehensive plan to improve the health of people within their respective community. More information and the Request for Proposal (RFP) form are available at www.masspartnership.org. Notification of Intent to Apply (electronic/telephone) is due May 15th and final proposal is due June 30th. The MA Partnership 6 years old and has worked with 300 people from 32 cities and towns in the commonwealth from Fall River, to Reading, to Southbridge, and Great Barrington among others. Several towns have made significant progress in expanding their resources to improve the quality of live of their residents through this effort. Funds to support this initiative are made available through the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Community Benefits Program, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Due May 15, 2008
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Question: Are you working with a group of young leaders who could add tobacco to the issues that they are addressing in their communities? If so, the Western Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities would like you to apply for a two+ year grant to support their efforts. Across Massachusetts Regional Youth Advisory Groups will be informing statewide tobacco initiatives, building youth leadership, community organizing and advocacy skills as they work on the issue of tobacco in their communities, their region, and their state. Click this link for more information and application
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The Youth
Action Initiative (YAI) is a
program designed to educate and empower young people age 12
to 18 to counteract tobacco marketing, change social norms around
tobacco use, and reduce youth tobacco use in Massachusetts.
Grants are available to Massachusetts youth groups to help implement projects, campaigns, and policies that prevent or reduce tobacco use among young people.
Click on link below to visit their website
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Public Welfare Foundation is dedicated to
supporting organizations that provide
services that meet basic human needs for
disadvantaged populations. They take a
particular interest in efforts that
combine elements of service, advocacy and
empowerment in their approach. The
average grant size is $42,000 and
deadlines are ongoing. For more
information go to www.publicwelfare.org
or email general@publicwelfare.org.
The phone number is 202-965-1800.
MetLife Foundation is offering grants in four
focus areas: Health, Education, Civic Affairs and Culture.
For more information, visit their web site at
www.metlife.org or
contact: Sibyl Jacobson, President & CEO, MetLife
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- Ben & Jerry's Foundation will consider proposals
from grassroots, constituent-led organizations that are
organizing for systemic social change. For more
information, contact the Ben & Jerry's Foundation at 30
Community Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403-6828 or call:
802-846-1500. or visit at http://www.benjerry.com/foundation
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- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation works with
nonprofit organizations to improve the quality of life
through philanthropy in Berkshire, MA, Columbia and
northeast Dutchess, NY, and northwest Litchfield, CT
counties. Several opportunities exist. For more
information, visit their web site at
www.berkshiretaconic.org .
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New Voice Fellowships to Support Nonprofits and Promising
New Leaders Committed to Social Justice and Peace.
The two-year grants offer support for salary, fringe
benefits, financial assistance, mentoring, and a
professional development account for a promising new
leader. The host nonprofit organizations also receive
technical assistance from national experts and a computer
to support the work of the fellow. Complete
eligibility criteria and application on guidelines and forms
are available from the New Voices Web site. RFP Link:
http://www.aed.org/newvoices .
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- Western MA Funding Resource Center. WMFRC is a library and training
center that helps nonprofit and grass roots organizations in
Western New England raise funds. A Cooperating Collection of
the Foundation Center, they offer workshops, free
orientations to the library and research process, free
access to databases of funders, reference books and
technical assistance resources. Web site: www.diospringfield.org. The MAFCR is
sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Springfield and is
located in the diocese headquarters. Other cooperating
collections in Massachusetts can be found at The
Foundation's website: http://www.fdncenter.org/collections/ccma.html
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Tiger Woods Foundation. http://www.twfound.org/.
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Open Meadows Foundation
Funding for
Women and Girls and Social Change. Deadline:
February 15 and August 15, annually. The Open Meadows
Foundation funds projects that are designed and implemented
by women and girls; projects that have limited access to
financial resources and which reflect the cultural and
ethnic diversity of our society and promote the empowerment
of women and girls; and projects for social change that have
encountered obstacles in their search for funding. Open
Meadows provides grants of up to $2,000 to cover start-up
expenses or to support ongoing projects. Projects focusing
on indigenous women or young women activists may also
receive funding from the foundation's special funds: the
Jeanne Meurer Indigenous Women's Fund, the Ellen Dougherty
Activist Women's Fund, and the PatsyLu Fund for women's
music projects. Open Meadows does not fund individuals,
fellowships, or scholarships. For further information,
visit the foundation's Web site or email or telephone the
foundation's offices. Contact: Open Meadows Foundation, Tel:
(718) 768-4015, E-mail:
openmeadows@igc.org RFP Link:
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CISCO Systems, Techsoup.org Launch Nationwide Product
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This partnership gives
nonprofits access to Cisco's networking solutions at
reasonable prices and links them with on-going technical
support from TechSoup and Cisco. Cisco subsidizes the
purchase of
equipment and offers a one-year technical support contract.
TechSoup provides nonprofits with information about
networking, offers easy access to product donations through
its online distribution service DiscounTech and counsels
users on purchasing decisions. Products and
eligibility guidelines are available on
DiscounTech
http://techsoup.org/discountech, TechSoup's distribution service.
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Telehealth Network Competitive Health Grant. The Telehealth Network Grant Program will award grants to
demonstrate how telehealth network projects in rural areas,
medically underserved areas,
frontier communities, and medically underserved populations
can be used to:
(a) expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of
health care services; (b) improve and expand the training of
health care providers; and (c) expand and improve the
quality of health information available to health care
providers, patients and their families. This program is a
competitive, merit-based grant program. It aims to increase
access to quality health care services for the underserved
by promoting the use of advanced telecommunications and
information technologies by rural health providers
across America. You can obtain more detailed
information about the Telehealth Network Grant Program and
the actual newly released grant application guidance on the
HRSA Federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
website at
http://www.hrsa.gov/telehealth/grantee.htm
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Hasbro Children's Foundation Announces Funding Guidelines. A philanthropic program of toy and
game manufacturer Hasbro, the Hasbro Children's
Foundation is committed to improving the emotional, mental,
and physical well-being of children from birth through age
twelve and their families through the support of
innovative direct service programs in the areas of
health, education, and social services. The foundation
funds not-for-profit organizations only. The foundation
places the highest value on ensuring caring and
consistent person-to-person services for the most vulnerable
children and their families. See the foundation's Web site
for complete funding guidelines, application procedures, and
examples of funded programs. RFP Link: http://news.youthlearn.org/archives/000100.html
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- Grants for After-School Programs. The After School Alliance has detailed information on 30 sources of federal funding from a broad spectrum of programs less visible than the 21st Century Learning Programs.
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/training_fact_sheets.pdf
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American Dental Association Foundation Invites Proposals
for Children's Oral Health Programs. The
http://www.ada.org/ada/prod/adaf/index.asp ADA
Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Dental
Association, has established a permanent endowment fund
dedicated to the prevention of childhood caries and oral
health maintenance for children. The Harris Fund will award
competitive grants to applicants whose oral health promotion
programs are designed to improve and maintain children's
oral health through community education programs.
See the ADA Foundation Web site for complete program
guidelines and application procedures.
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Avon Foundation -- Women's Economic Empowerment. Application Deadline: The Avon Foundation has a rolling
deadline; however, proposals should be sent as early in the
calendar year as possible. Description: The Avon
Foundation supports organizations and programs that provide
women with economic opportunity. These include programs that
offer women the ability to acquire the skills and support
they need to become economically secure.
http://www.avoncompany.com/women/empowerment/index.html
NEC Foundation. Application Deadlines: March 1 and
September 1 each year. Description: NEC Foundation
of America makes cash grants to nonprofit organizations in
support of the development, application, and use of
technology by and for people with disabilities.
http://www.necfoundation.org/toapply/toapply.htm
The Home Depot. Application Deadline: Proposals are
accepted throughout the year. Description: The
Home Depot is committed to giving back to the communities
where its associates and customers live and work. To make a
significant impact, it concentrates its efforts in four key
areas: affordable housing, at-risk youth, the environment,
and disaster preparedness and relief. The Home Depot will
respond to grant applications in only these four areas. http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/
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- Grants.gov. This site allows organizations to
electronically find and apply for competitive grant
opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
Navigation of the site is simple. Use the colored tabs and
links at the top of the screen to access primary sections of
the site and links on the left side of the screen to access
content within each section.
http://www.grants.gov/
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New Online Training Available for SAMHSA Grant
Applicants. Following up its popular and
informative April webcast, "Understanding SAMHSA's Grant
Application Process," the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services, now has published an
online video-based training to provide grant applicants with
additional information about preparing applications.
The training uses video and synchronized PowerPoint slides
to provide an overview of key elements that every grant
applicant should clearly
understand. This program entitled, "Tutorial: Understanding
the Grant
Application Process," can be found on SAMHSA's Web site at
http://grantstraining.samhsa.gov/ .
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