GrantStation Insider: March 16, 2023

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National Funding
Opportunities throughout the U.S.

Challenge Seeks Solutions Addressing Gender Equity in STEM
MIT Solve: Gender Equity in STEM Challenge
The Gender Equity in STEM Challenge, a collaboration between MIT Solve and Tiger Global Impact Ventures, seeks innovative U.S.-based solutions that address barriers and unlock the untapped potential of girls and women in STEM across the country. Solutions should address one or more of the following areas: supporting K-12 educators in effectively teaching and engaging girls in STEM in classroom or after-school settings; ensuring continuity across STEM education in order to decrease successive drop-off in completion rates from K-12 through undergraduate years; creating a more inclusive STEM workplace culture including through improving pay transparency, decreasing bias in hiring and promotion, introducing and upholding healthy behaviors and organizational role models, or bolstering wraparound supports for workers who are caregivers; and enabling women STEM entrepreneurs to participate and thrive in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Applications will close June 2, 2023. Visit the MIT Solve website for more information on the Gender Equity in STEM Challenge.

Funding Enhances Quality of Life for Adults With Autism
NEXT for AUTISM: Color the Spectrum Community Grants
NEXT for AUTISM is committed to enhancing the lives of adults with autism. The Color the Spectrum Community Grants provide support to autistic led and centered nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to support the transition from school to adulthood in the following three areas: home, focused on designing, developing, and maintaining high quality living environments for adults with autism; work, focused on addressing the need for autistic adults to gain and retain paid employment; and social, focused on supporting autistic adults to make connections, build relationships, and establish friendships. In order to qualify for funding, the head of the organization or the person leading the project being funded must be on the autism spectrum. The application deadline is April 20, 2023. Visit the NEXT for AUTISM website for more information.

Efforts Strengthening the Arts Sector Supported
The Music Man Foundation: Strengthening the Sector Grants
The Music Man Foundation empowers organizations that use music to catalyze enduring change in learning and well-being. The Foundation's Strengthening the Sector grants support organizations working to create positive changes in the arts through advocacy and research efforts. Nonprofit organizations that focus on music within their efforts and operate nationally, in the state of California, or in Los Angeles County, CA, are eligible to apply. Grants will support activities such as research and policy analyses that promote the need for arts (specifically music) to change and improve circumstances, cross-sector initiatives that cultivate allies and build bridges between the arts and other interest groups, advocacy training and tools that build the capacity of arts and cultural leaders to understand and proactively influence issues impacting the arts and community vitality, and designing solutions that shift the circumstances within a system to promote efficiency and sustainability. Before applying, all organizations must participate in an organizational interview with Foundation staff. Organizational interviews with prospective applicants will take place until September 2023. The deadlines for submitting applications are March 31 and September 15, 2023. Visit the Foundation's website to verify eligibility and schedule an interview using the online portal.

Grants Advance Conservation Projects Nationwide
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: America the Beautiful Challenge
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's America the Beautiful Challenge consolidates funding from multiple federal agencies to support large-scale, locally led conservation and restoration projects throughout the U.S., U.S. territories, and tribal nations. Approximately $116 million will be awarded for projects across the following themes: conserving and restoring rivers, coasts, wetlands, and watersheds; conserving and restoring forests, grasslands, and important ecosystems that serve as carbon sinks; connecting and reconnecting wildlife corridors, large landscapes, watersheds, and seascapes; improving ecosystem and community resilience to flooding, drought, and other climate-related threats; and expanding access to the outdoors, particularly in underserved communities. Grant categories include Implementation Grants, Planning Grants, Sentinel Landscape Grants, National Forest Grants, and Private Forests, Rangelands, and Farmlands Grants. State government agencies, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes are eligible to apply for all five grant categories. Nonprofit organizations, local governments, municipal governments, and educational institutions are eligible to apply for Sentinel Landscape Grants, National Forest Grants, and Private Forests, Rangelands, and Farmlands Grants. Pre-proposals are due April 20, 2023. Visit the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's website to review the request for proposals.

Regional Funding
Opportunities for specific geographic areas

Youth Development Programs Funded in Indiana
Lilly Endowment: Strengthening Youth Programs in Indiana
The Lilly Endowment's Strengthening Youth Programs in Indiana initiative seeks to advance the academic, physical, and social development of Indiana youth. Support will be provided to established youth-serving nonprofit organizations that provide programs and services to youth ages five through 18 in communities throughout Indiana. Funding priorities include enhancing the welfare and safety of youth, identifying and addressing the social and emotional needs of youth, delivering educational experiences for youth that supplement classroom learning, developing character traits and leadership skills in youth, and providing safe and enriching out-of-school time learning environments for youth. Grants ranging from $60,000 up to $1 million will be considered in the following categories: program grants to expand or enhance existing programs or initiate new programs, capacity-building grants to strengthen operations, and capital grants to renovate physical spaces or purchase needed equipment. The application deadline is May 1, 2023. Visit the Lilly Endowment's website to submit an online application.

Awards Recognize Leaders Solving Challenges in California
James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards
The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards annually recognize four to six leaders whose innovative solutions to critical state challenges improve people's lives, create opportunity, and contribute to a better California. Each Award recipient's organization receives $250,000 and help sharing their solutions with policymakers and other leaders in their communities. Nominated leaders must be residents of California, and may be an individual or a pair of leaders, work in any sector (nonprofit, public, or private), and work in any field (such as education, health, public safety, housing, economic development, or the environment). Nominations that reflect the diversity of California's population and regions are especially encouraged. The deadline for submitting nominations is April 27, 2023. More information is available on the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards website.

Support Available for Health-Focused Programs in Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust
The BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust provides support to health-focused programs and organizations statewide in Tennessee. Funding is focused on the following primary areas: charitable clinics; disease prevention, early detection, and treatment services; youth health and development programs; and diversity and inclusion. 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations, state colleges and universities, and government agencies are eligible to apply. The upcoming deadline is May 1, 2023. Visit the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee website to review the guidelines and submit an online application.

Grants Boost Wilderness Preservation in the Rocky Mountain West
Maki Foundation
The Maki Foundation provides support in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana to protect and preserve the Rocky Mountain West's remaining wild lands, rivers, and wilderness, as well as the wildlife that depends on these lands. Priorities include wilderness and wildlands protection, river and wetlands conservation, biological diversity conservation, and public lands management. The majority of grantees are small local and regional grassroots organizations working to protect public lands and rivers from threats such as mineral development, unconstrained off-road vehicle use, and poorly planned water projects. Grants usually range from $1,000 to $5,000. The application deadline is April 28, 2023. (Organizations that have never received a grant from the Foundation must first submit a brief letter of inquiry via email.) Application guidelines and forms are available on the Foundation's website.

Federal Funding
Opportunities from the U.S. government

Program Helps Domestic Violence Victims and Their Pets
Department of Justice
The Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance Grant Program supports shelter and transitional housing services to victims of domestic violence and their companion animals. The Program's objectives are to increase the number of shelter beds and transitional housing options to meet the needs of victims of domestic violence who need shelter or housing for themselves and their companion animals, and to provide training to local stakeholders on the link between domestic violence and the abuse and neglect of companion animals, the needs of victims of domestic violence, best practices for providing or referring support services to such victims, and best practices in designing and delivering services that protect victims' confidentiality. Applications are due to grants.gov by April 10, 2023. The JustGrants deadline is April 17, 2023.

Educational Activities for People With Disabilities Funded
Department of Education
The purpose of the Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals with Disabilities program is to improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology; supporting educational activities designed to be of educational value in the classroom for children with disabilities; providing support for captioning and video description that is appropriate for use in the classroom; and providing accessible educational materials to children with disabilities in a timely manner. The application deadline is April 14, 2023.

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Master of Arts in Diverse Community Development Leadership
Are you looking to pursue a career leading diverse organizations and communities? If so, you may consider applying to CSUN's Master of Arts in Diverse Community Development Leadership. Designed for working adults, the program emphasizes contemporary social theory—with a focus on social justice—and features hands-on workshops and assignments. Courses focus on organizational leadership models, social justice in diverse communities, conflict resolution, research methods, community partnerships, and communication management.

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Reading a Funder's 990: How Can It Help Me?
Reviewing a funder's tax forms can be an illuminating process. The past informs the present. That's why understanding the history of a grantmaker's giving is such a worthwhile task in your grantseeking efforts. But like many tax documents, 990s can be daunting. They often include a lot of information, which can be overwhelming to sift through. So which info is most relevant for you? During this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will break down the key elements of the Form 990 to help you determine which grantmakers are the most valuable to your organization. The webinar will be held on Monday, March 20, 2023.

(FREE) Tour of the GrantStation Website
Finding the funds needed to fulfill your mission is a never-ending challenge for all nonprofits. Whether you're part of an established nonprofit constantly searching for new funding to expand your programs, or you're a one-person development office, which means you need to do it all, GrantStation can work for you because it is designed to help nonprofit organizations of all sizes get funded. During this live demo and Q&A session, Jeremy Smith, Director of Communications Technology, and Kerry Glauser, Senior Research Specialist, will show you how you can use GrantStation to complete your grant research quickly and get high-quality results. You'll see how you can find and vet funding opportunities in a quick, streamlined fashion, so you and your staff can focus on what's most important—serving your community. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.

Healthy Partnerships for Greater Grants Success
Did you know that leveraging the power of partnership is the single most powerful way to accelerate and amplify your grants success? In other words, you can get more grants, faster. But that doesn't mean creating and sustaining healthy, authentic partnership is trouble-free. Imagine these scenarios: Your community collaboration seems to have stalled out. Your team is losing steam and you can't figure out why it's happening, much less what to do about it. Maybe you all were sailing along beautifully and suddenly an issue you thought your team had sorted out a long time ago is rearing its ugly head and jamming the works . . . again. Or perhaps you're dealing with conflicts. We're not talking open argument here, but some really strong differences of opinion have surfaced and you're all spinning around in circles and never really getting anything resolved. Sound familiar? Good news—you're not alone. All these "problems" aren't really problems at all, but symptoms of very common and predictable partnership challenges. Best of all? Every one of these situations is fixable and even preventable. In this lively session, Maryn Boess, Founder of GrantsMagic U, explores three powerful, simple tools for understanding what's going on when your collaboration seems to be going wrong—and how to get it back on track. The webinar will be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023.

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