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Read on to learn more about recent grant
listings and requests for proposals and other opportunities
for your Clubs.
ESA Foundation
The Entertainment Software Association Foundation sponsors a grant to provide positive programs and opportunities that improve the quality of life, health and welfare of youth, including skills and personal development; general health and welfare; risk behavior prevention; education; and multimedia arts/technology related or applied skills.
Deadline: April 15, 2008
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Full-Service Community Schools
The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program, which is authorized by Fund for Improvement of Education (FIE), encourages coordination of educational, developmental, family, health, and other services through partnerships between (1) public elementary and secondary schools and (2) community-based organizations and public or private entities. The collaboration will provide comprehensive educational, social, and health services for students, families, and communities. This grant will support projects that propose to establish, through collaborative efforts among State and local agencies, community service organizations, and parents, full-service community schools offering a range of student services.
Deadline: April 15, 2008
Amount: Nearly $5 million for 8-12 grants averaging $415,000 each
Click here for more information.
Building Health Teen Relationships
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has grants available to support the creation and evaluation of comprehensive community-based models of prevention that decrease relationship violence and increase positive, protective relationship skills.
Deadline: April 16, 2008
Amount: $250,000 per year
Find out more.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
For programs targeted primarily to communities serving and representing Native Hawaiians. The award will go towards planning, conducting, and administering programs to prevent or reduce violence, the use, possession and distribution of illegal drugs, or delinquency.
Deadline: April 21, 2008
Amount: $579,518 for two grants
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State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2008 for Cooperative Agreements for State-Sponsored Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention. The purpose of this program is to build on the foundation of prior suicide prevention efforts in order to support States and tribes in developing and implementing statewide or tribal youth suicide prevention and early intervention strategies, grounded in public/private collaboration. Such efforts must involve public/private collaboration among youth-serving institutions and agencies and should include schools, educational institutions, juvenile justice systems, foster care systems, substance abuse and mental health programs, and other child and youth supporting organizations.
Deadline: April 22, 2008
Amount: Up to $500,000
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GoGirlGo!
The Women’s Sports Foundation offers grants to sports or physical activity programs seeking to add or expand program participation opportunities for underserved girls, particularly economically disadvantaged girls and those from populations with high incidences of health-risk behaviors.
Deadline: May 9, 2008
Amount: A total of $430,000
Find out more.
Great American Bake Sale
Share Our Strength Great American Bake Sale grants program helps to ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical out-of-school times. In particular, this grant wishes to address efforts to increase participation among low-income children in summer and after-school meal programs.
Deadline: May 30, 2008
Amount: $1,000 to $10,000
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Target Grants
Your local Target has grants available to support the following initiatives: bringing the arts to schools or making the arts accessible to children and families; early childhood reading; and family violence prevention.
Deadline: May 31, 2008
Amount: $1,000 to $3,000
Click here for details!
American Honda Foundation
The American Honda Foundation is offering a grant for non-profits and educational institutions to fund youth-related projects in the fields of youth and science education. Founded in 1984, this organization provides grants to organizations that are focused on educating youth. The American Honda Foundation has awarded over $20 million in grants.
Click here for more information.
Amount: $40,000 to $80,000
Deadlines: May 1, August 1, November 1, February 1
Enhancement Grant
Enhancement grants support activities to advance the applicant library’s operations to new levels of service for activities specifically identified in the Library Services and Technology Act. A Basic Grant application must be submitted in the same fiscal year to be eligible for the Enhancement Grant. Applicants can request up to $150,000. Deadline: May 1, 2008
The application guideline brochures are available on the IMLS website www.imls.gov and www.grants.gov. Applications must be submitted online, mailed applications will not be accepted.
History Channel Announces Guidelines for Save Our History Grant Program
An initiative of the History Channel, the Save Our History Program, invites history organizations to partner with a local school or youth group and apply for funding to help preserve the history of their communities. Eligible applicants are nonprofit 501(c)(3) history organizations that are located in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. Other eligible applicants include local government agencies such as parks and recreation commissions, historic commissions, departments of local history, or other local government agencies that own and/or operate a historic site or property. Eligible applicants must partner with a local elementary, middle, or high school, or an organization that provides educational programming for children of similar ages. The History Channel will award a total of $100,000 in grants of up to $10,000 each in 2008.
All applications must be completed and submitted online. Click here for complete program information and application instructions. Deadline: June 6, 2008
Tiger Woods Foundation
Tiger Woods Foundation grants focus on providing opportunities to underserved youth, ages 5-17. The average grant range is between $2,500 and $25,000. The following are approved programmatic areas of funding: Education, Youth Development, and Geographic Focus. Deadline: February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1
Pay It Forward Mini-Grants
Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community. Projects must contain a “pay it forward” focus – that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially – to be considered in the grant making process. Mini-Grants of up to $500 are available for projects on a one-time-only basis. Deadline: January 15, April 15, and October 15
Lego Systems Establishes Lego Children's Fund to Support Youth Creativity Programs
Lego Systems Inc., the Americas (North America and Latin America) division of the Lego Group, has announced the formation of the Lego Children's Fund, a nonprofit foundation established to support organizations and programs dedicated to inspiring and encouraging youth creativity, thereby improving their quality of life and preparing them for the future.
The fund will make cash grants to nonprofit organizations in the United States with programs dedicated to a child's exploration of creativity that cater to children ages birth to 14, with priority consideration for disadvantaged or at-risk youth. The fund's cash grants will generally range between $500 and $5,000 each. Additionally, the fund aims to make one $100,000 grant per year to a single organization identified and selected by the fund's board of directors.
The fund will award grants to qualified 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations including educational organizations with specific, identifiable needs primarily in these areas of support: early childhood education and development; technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities; and sport or athletic programs that concentrate on underserved youth.
The fund will provide grants quarterly: February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1.
Grant program guidelines and applications are the available at the Lego Children's Fund Web site.
Literacy for the 21st Century
Starbucks Foundation Grants fund programs for youth, ages 6-18, that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in the communities where they live. The Starbucks Foundation invites letters of inquiry from qualifying 501 (c) 3 organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields of literacy (reading, writing and creative/media arts) and environmental literacy. Grants range from $5,000-$20,000. Deadline: September 1 and March 1, annually (Letters of Inquiry) CLICK HERE for more information.
Outdoor Classroom Grant Program
Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation, International Paper and National Geographic Explorer! Magazine have teamed up to create an outdoor classroom grant program. The program’s focus is to engage students in hands-on natural science experiences and allow enrichment opportunities across the core curriculum. All K-12 public schools in the United States are welcome to apply.
This school year, the program will award grants up to $2,000 to at least 100 schools. In some cases, grants of up to $20,000 can be awarded to schools or school districts with major outdoor classroom projects. Please click here for more information.
Let’s Just Play Giveaway – Nickelodeon is awarding $5,000 grants to help schools and community-based program encourage active play! Five winners will be selected each month. Find out how your kids can enter their Boys & Girls Club by CLICKING HERE
Free Tuition at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts is offered to students from low-income households. Beginning in the Fall of 2004, Harvard no longer expects families with incomes less than $40,000 to contribute to the cost of attending the university. Additionally, reduced tuition costs are available for students from families with incomes between $40,000 and $60,000.
To further encourage students from low-income families to apply, the University will waive application fees, pay for travel to visit the campus, and provide for books, winter clothing, medical, and other extraordinary expenses.
Harvard uses a “need-blind” admissions process, considering students for admission without regard to their financial status. Students are chosen on the basis of their outstanding academic, extracurricular, and personal qualities and on their promise for high levels of achievement during college and beyond.
For more information, visit the Harvard University website at www.harvard.edu.
Support for Native Grassroot Causes
Seva's Native American Funding Programs support local grassroots
partnerships with Native American Peoples who have devised
their own solutions in spiritual and cultural beliefs renewal,
health and wellness renewal, environmental protection and
restoration, and a variety of other areas. Small Grants are
offered for programs that may otherwise be overlooked by larger
foundations while the Continuing Grants Fund supplies three
consecutive years of funding to assist in the development
of organizational sustainability. Applications are accepted
year-round. More information is available on Seva's website.
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Support for Job Skill and Education
The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide
funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or
education for all people, with special emphasis on disadvantaged
youth. Guided by this mission, the Foundation seeks to support
causes that teach, train and inspire people from all walks
of life and diverse backgrounds. Grant decisions are made
on a quarterly basis - visit their website
for application deadlines.
Concern for High Risk Youth
Tony Hawk Foundation
The Tony Hawk Foundation was established to promote and provide
funds for high-quality public skateboard parks throughout
the United States. Preference is given to parks that are in
low-income areas, or areas with a large population of at-risk
youth. The Foundation gives priority to grassroots organizations.
CLICK HERE
for further information.
Indian Community Development Block Grant Program (ICDBG)
Applications for HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Program for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages are now available. Tribes and tribal organizations are eligible to apply and funds may be used to build new community facilities such as a Boys & Girls Club. Up to 15% of the total grant may be set aside for public service activities like youth development/crime prevention programming offered by the Club.
For more information, click here.
The LEGO Children’s Fund
The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs focused on early childhood education and development, technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities and sports or athletic programs that concentrate on underserved youth.
Deadline: Quarterly Amount: $500 - $5,000
Click here to learn more.
Region/Award Ceilings:
Alaska $600,000
Eastern Woodlands $600,000
Southern Plains $800,000
Northern Plains $900,000-$1,100,000
Southwest $605,000-$5,500,000
Northwest $500,000
Clubs Sought for New Tech Program
BGCA’s Club Tech program is seeking established Boys & Girls Clubs to apply for a dynamic new pilot program that provides intensive technology training for youth ages 10-13 and incorporates the existing Career Development, Character and Leadership Development, Power Hour and Club Tech programs. Clubs selected for this $30,000 per year pass-through grant also receive a new computer lab including software and equipment. Applicant Clubs must have a room available specifically for this program and must hire a part-time staff person to run it. To learn more, send an e-mail with "Tech Pilot Program" in the subject line and your Club's contact person and their e-mail address to twilliams@bgca.org.
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