GrantStation Insider: August 29, 2024

Application deadline: September 27, 2024
Grant amount: $10,000
Description: The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity, is providing College Service Grants of $10,000 to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at community colleges, HBCUs, and other higher education institutions across the United States. The grants are intended to help redefine youth empowerment for a new generation and usher in a return to service for young people. Funded initiatives must fall into one of the following categories: microgrants directly provided to students for new, youth-led service initiatives; initiatives that increase student access to service experiences; and initiatives that enhance the depth of impact of existing youth-led service activities. For the purpose of this grant, community service is defined along a continuum from volunteerism to civic engagement. (As significant funding is already directed toward service learning, applicants should consider opportunities beyond that modality.)

Application deadline: The fall deadline is September 25, 2024. (New applicants must submit an account request by September 20, 2024.)
Geographic scope: United States and internationally
Grant amount: Generally $1,000 and $7,500
Description: The Amphion Foundation aims to encourage the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to performing, presenting, and music service organizations. The Foundation’s fall grant cycle is open to presenting and music service organizations for activities including professional development programs, educational initiatives, presenting concerts and festivals, artist residency programs, and archival activity. (The Foundation’s spring grant cycle supports performing organizations.) General operating support is available for organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American concert music and plans to continue that commitment, while project support is available for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary concert music that are out of the scope of an organization’s regular programming. Applicants must have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (or the foreign equivalent) or have a fiscal sponsorship, and have two or more years of performance or program history as an organization.
 

Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry
Description: The PenFed Foundation is a national nonprofit organization committed to empowering military service members, veterans, and their communities with the skills and resources to realize financial stability and opportunity. Through the Military Heroes Program, the Foundation provides grants that celebrate the leadership and service of military members and support the transition from service to civilian life. The High Impact Community Grant supports nonprofit organizations working with military communities. Funding priorities include successful civilian employment for veterans, job training and employment for military spouses, community leadership, and success and stability for military children. Applications should be for a specific project or program rather than general operating expenses. Letters of inquiry for grants are accepted on a rolling basis. (The Disaster Relief Grant supports VA employees and veterans who have been affected by a FEMA declared disaster, while Military Heroes Individual Grants are awarded to veterans, active military, or military spouses for community leadership and successful employment expenses that they are unable to afford on their own.)

Application deadline: The winter 2024 application deadline is October 4, 2024.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $50,000, averaging $20,000
Description: Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO), a grant program funded by contributions from Organic Valley farmers, is dedicated to protecting and promoting the organic industry and the livelihood of organic farmers in the United States. Grants are awarded to research, education, and advocacy projects that advance FAFO’s mission. Priority is currently given to projects that 1) benefit family farmers who produce organic dairy, eggs, meat, produce, and grain/forage, and 2) focus on organic soil health and biology. Nonprofit organizations and academic and research institutions are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: October 1, 2024
Geographic scope: New York, with emphasis on communities along the CHPE project route
Grant amount: $50,000 to $150,000
Description: The Green Economy Fund, part of the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) project, is a $40 million, 20-year fund designed to support disadvantaged communities, low-income individuals, and transitioning fossil fuel workers in accessing and building careers in New York State’s green economy. The Fund supports organizations or projects that provide training and wrap-around services to better prepare the target population for, and connect the target population to, good jobs in New York’s green economy. Examples of eligible programs include, but are not limited to, workforce development training programs, wrap-around services enabling workers to connect to or sustain themselves in good jobs and training programs, organizations building employer partnerships, and community colleges or other educational institutions providing adult basic education and job training programs. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors (501(c)(3)s), chambers of commerce (501(c)(6)s), and unions (501(c)(5)s). Priority is given to projects in counties intersected by the CHPE project route. 

Application deadlines: Applications will be accepted from September 3 to October 3, 2024, for the Rural Initiative, and from September 16 to October 16, 2024, for the Intercultural Harmony Initiative.
Geographic scope: Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wyoming, and specific counties in New York and Texas
Grant amount: Planning grants range up to $5,000 and implementation grants range up to $25,000.
Description: The Laura Jane Musser Fund will begin accepting applications for the Rural Initiative and the Intercultural Harmony Initiative in September 2024. Both initiatives provide support in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, and Wyoming, as well as Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster counties in New York and the Rio Grande River Valley, Deep East Texas, and the Brazos Valley regions of Texas. The Rural Initiative supports collaborative and participatory efforts among citizens in rural communities (population of 10,000 or less) that will help to strengthen their towns and regions in a number of civic areas including, but not limited to, economic development, business preservation, arts and humanities, public space improvements, and education. The Intercultural Harmony Initiative supports projects that promote mutual understanding and cooperation between groups and citizens of different cultural backgrounds.

Application deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline for the current round is October 31, 2024, depending on the volume of applications received.
Geographic scope: North Carolina and South Carolina
Description: First Bank’s Power of Good Grants support the important work of nonprofit leaders and educators throughout the Carolinas. Areas of interest include affordable housing and homeownership, education for all ages in both traditional and non-traditional learning environments, food scarcity and supply, and mental, physical, and financial health and wellness. Nonprofit organizations and schools are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: September 26, 2024
Geographic scope: Tennessee
Description: The Tennessee Bar Foundation supports law-related public interest projects in Tennessee. The Foundation’s IOLTA grant program provides funds for the delivery of legal services to the poor, for student loans to law students, and to improve the administration of justice. Grants have supported a diverse range of critical projects and services, such as direct civil legal representation for low-income clients, dispute resolution and mediation services, support for survivors of domestic violence, immigration counseling, and housing advocacy.

Application deadline: October 22, 2024
Description: The purpose of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B is to implement effective and innovative strategies, interventions, approaches, and services to reduce new HIV infections in the United States. The Program provides support in 48 specific HIV-high-burden counties; Washington, DC; San Juan, PR; Hamilton County, OH; and the following states with a substantial rural HIV burden: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. The focus is on four key strategies: diagnosing all people with HIV as early as possible; treating people with HIV rapidly and effectively to reach sustained viral suppression; preventing new HIV transmissions by using proven interventions; and responding quickly to potential HIV outbreaks to get needed prevention and treatment services to people who need them.

Application deadline: None (Organizations interested in becoming regional partners to administer the TPS program must apply by October 2, 2024.)
Description: The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional program promotes the widespread, sustained, and effective use of primary sources from the Library of Congress in K-12 classrooms. School districts, universities, cultural institutions, library systems, and other educational organizations may apply for grants of up to $25,000 to incorporate TPS materials and methods into their existing education and professional development programs for pre- and in-service teachers, librarians, and other K-12 educators. Applications may be submitted through the current regional partners that administer grants on behalf of the Library of Congress in the east, midwest, and west. The Library of Congress is also currently accepting applications from organizations interested in becoming regional partners to carry out all administrative and programmatic functions.

Eligible charitable and nonprofit organizations must submit applications by September 5.

Applications are now open for TD Bank Group’s annual TD Ready Challenge grant program. This year, the bank invites charitable and nonprofit organizations in its North America footprint to submit proposals for innovative solutions for the creation or growth of small businesses in underserved communities through novel strategies, technologies, or partnerships, particularly in industries that are still recovering post-pandemic.

Ten grants are available in increments of USD $1 million or CDN $1 million, depending on the applicant’s country of residence. TD will accept applications until 4 PM ET on September 5, 2024. Access additional details about this year’s Challenge and apply today.

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