GrantStation Insider: November 7, 2024

Application deadline: December 15, 2024, for team registrations, and January 15, 2025, for phase 1 applications
Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories
Grant amount: $300,000 in funding over two years plus additional supports
Description: JUSTICE SQUARED is a transformational learning and action collaborative to advance racially just healthcare. JUSTICE SQUARED, powered by WE in the World and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will support up to 12 teams of five core healthcare and community leaders with $300,000 ($400,000 for safety-net institutions) in funding over two years. Teams will take a guided journey focused on learning and action with a comprehensive support system of racial justice and system change transformation experts, as they take practical action together to change organizational policies and practices to address structural racism. Teams will create structural change by 1) shifting how they measure and account for racism (not just race) or 2) removing racism from clinical, operational, and administrative diagnostics and algorithms. Both nonprofit and for-profit healthcare organizations may apply if they are focused on making substantial progress to advance health equity and racial justice. To learn more, please visit justicesquared.org, email j2@weintheworld.org, or attend an informational webinar (register here). 

Application deadline: The final deadline is January 8, 2025. (Applicants are encouraged to confirm their eligibility by December 10, 2024, to have the opportunity to receive personalized support on their application.)
Grant amount: $150,000 to $250,000
Description: NewSchools Venture Fund envisions an education system that keeps its promise to all students. Through NewSchools 2025 funding opportunity, $10 million is available for innovators and educators working to reimagine education in the United States. Support is provided to early-stage organizations and new initiatives within existing organizations in the following areas: new, innovative public schools that support students to develop a strong academic foundation and skills needed for success in life; learning solutions, including tools, content, and models focused on K-8 foundational literacy and numeracy; teaching reimagined, including solutions that evolve how educators work, engage caregivers and community experts, and leverage genAI; and learning differences, including enhancing teaching and learning for students with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities. The focus is on creating new possibilities and a just future for all students, especially those furthest from opportunity. One-year, unrestricted grants ranging from $150,000 to $250,000 are provided, as well as one-on-one coaching, access to national experts, and connections with peer organizations.

Application deadline: None
Description: The Milbank Foundation aims to integrate people with disabilities into all aspects of American life. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations in the United States working in the Foundation’s current priority areas: consumer-focused, community-based initiatives that empower people with disabilities and foster independence and self-sufficiency; rehabilitation and reintegration of veterans, especially veterans with disabilities; helping seniors to age in the place of their choice through non-institutional, community-based health and social services; market-oriented, patient-centered healthcare reforms across the country; and programs that address mental health issues and aim to prevent substance abuse and suicide, especially among young people.

Application deadline: December 8, 2024
Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories
Grant amount: Twelve $2,500 grants will be awarded.
Description: Youth Service America in partnership with the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is offering the Youth Stop Hunger Innovation Grants to encourage youth in the United States to devise and implement sustainable hunger-relief programs in their community. Twelve $2,500 grants will be awarded to cohorts of youth between the ages of five and 25 years old who are looking to fight hunger in their community by addressing its root causes, while also engaging other youth in volunteerism. Groups comprised of two to five youth who will be the primary program planners may apply. Awardees should engage peers from outside of their core planning group to assist in the planning and implementation of their program, including young people of color and young people from other underserved or historically excluded communities.

Application deadline: January 10, 2025
Geographic scope: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas
Grant amount: Twenty-two grants of $50,000 will be provided.
Description: Mid-America Arts Alliance is accepting applications for Cultural Sustainability: Operational Impact Grants for Small Arts Organizations throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This program, offered in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, provides operational grants, capacity building, and cohort learning to small, culturally driven arts organizations with operating expenses under $500,000. Applicant organizations should predominantly serve Black, Latine, Asian, Arab, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and Caribbean communities, or another underserved community. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, fiscally sponsored artist or ensemble organizations, art-centered business entities, and state or federally recognized tribal governments are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: December 6, 2024, for letters of inquiry
Geographic scope: Washington State
Description: The Washington Women’s Foundation’s Collective Grants provide unrestricted support to nonprofit organizations across Washington State working in three priority areas annually. For 2025, the thematic areas are climate and agricultural justice, healthcare, and education, and specific interests include alleviating and reversing the effect of climate change on those communities most impacted by its effects in Washington State, culturally relevant mental health and connection-building services for young people, and non-traditional adult education programs and educational opportunities in support of adults navigating the requirements of employment and civic participation. Applicant organizations must provide services to or advocate for people affected by inequity due to race or gender identity, be accountable to the people being served, address systemic racial or gender inequities in one of this year’s priority areas, and demonstrate how they reduce disparities or achieve more equitable outcomes through their direct service or advocacy work.

Application deadline: March 17, June 16, September 15, and December 15, annually, for interest forms
Geographic scope: Indiana
Grant amount: Up to $25,000
Description: The Pacers Foundation seeks to empower young people and invest in community partnerships addressing equity and justice in education, health, and safety in Indiana. Indiana-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations engaging in community work aligned with the Foundation’s mission and areas of interest, including education, health, and safety, can apply for grants of up to $25,000 for short-term or long-term projects.

Application deadline: Applications of $2,000 or less are considered throughout the year. The next deadline for requests greater than $2,000 is February 7, 2025.
Geographic scope: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
Description: The mission of the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation is to improve the access to and the quality of oral healthcare and education for the public and the dental communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Support is provided for oral health initiatives including educational programs enhancing awareness of good oral health, oral healthcare programs that are preventive in nature, nonprofit dental clinics or centers working to make oral healthcare more accessible and affordable, education of dental health professionals, research efforts that will improve oral health, and efforts improving the dental health workforce through scholarship and loan repayment programs.

Application deadline: February 12, 2025
Description: The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.

Application deadline: December 17, 2024 
Description: The Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) seeks to facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities on a national, geographically diverse basis. SHOP units must be decent, safe, and sanitary non-luxury dwellings that comply with state and local codes, ordinances, and zoning requirements. The SHOP units must be sold to homebuyers at prices below the prevailing market price. Homebuyers must be low-income and must contribute a significant amount of sweat equity towards the development of the SHOP units. Funds must be used for land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, and reasonable and necessary planning and administration costs.

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy just released a report titled The Giving Environment: Giving During Times of Uncertainty, which examines giving trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you don’t have time to go through the entire report but are interested in exploring its key findings, you may want to read “Philanthropy Report Explores Pandemic’s Impact on Charitable Giving, ‘Declining Donors’ Trend.” This article draws on the report to analyze the philanthropic landscape immediately before and during the pandemic.

Webinar date: November 12, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: An A+ proposal budget provides an honest, complete, and clear picture of the total value of everything it takes to do your work successfully. It also stands as an invaluable management and evaluation tool when it comes to running your grant-funded program. So how can you craft this type of budget? That’s the question you’ll explore with Maryn Boess in this down-to-earth, myth-busting session.

Webinar date: November 13, 2024, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: When you dedicate your career to seeking grants, you’re bound to consider approaching the most well-known foundations. During this webinar, Susan Schaefer of Resource Partners will lay out a roadmap that creates momentum toward those most elusive foundations. With a career dedicated to securing major grants and helping many others do the same, Susan will provide you with insights built on years of observing what works best in making it to your industry’s most sought-after prospects.

Webinar date: November 18, 2024, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: Accurately accounting for your indirect costs is crucial in effectively managing your nonprofit organization. While indirect costs can be confusing, understanding what they are and how to calculate them is worth your time and effort because this will help you provide funders with an accurate picture of what it costs to truly run your programs. Join Alice Ruhnke and Megan Tarnow for an insightful TargetED designed to enhance your financial management skills.

More funding opportunities are featured on the GrantStation homepage. Current opportunities include LookUp Innovation Challenge (U.S. national), Dwight Stuart Youth Fund (U.S. local: Los Angeles County, CA), Toronto Pearson International Airport: Propeller Project (Canada local: Greater Toronto, ON, area), and T1D Community Fund (low- and middle-income countries).