HOW TO….
FIND FUNDERS: Sources of financial assistance
(Also scroll to bottom for a list of Community Foundations that provide grants to youth-led projects.)
AAUW Educational Foundation Community Action Grants
"Community Action Grants provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations, and community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls."
American Promise Program
"The American Farmers' Insurance Group is accepting applications for grants for its American Promise program. Grants seek to recognize successful and innovative student-led programs or lesson plans that make use of the American Promise program's civic-education videos. One winning teacher will receive a $2,500 grant; three runners-up will each receive $500. Teachers who have developed innovative programs in their classrooms that incorporate American Promise videos are encouraged to apply."
Be the Change! Grants
Sponsored by Peace Child International, these are small grants up to $5,000 for project ideas from young people under 25. Proposals must identify a problem in your community and a concrete action project to address the problem. Grants are offered worldwide.
Campus Compact list of Funding Sources for undergraduate and graduate students
The Captain Planet Foundation
"is accepting proposals for grants, which supports projects that organize children and youths to find solutions to environmental problems in their communities. Grants generally range from $250 to $2,500. Schools and nonprofit organizations that organize local environmental programs involving children and youths ages 6 through 18 are encouraged to apply."
The Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)
Grants for research on civic engagement by young Americans.
Center for Youth as Resources
Eligibility: Ages 5-21. Grants ranging from $100 to $5,000 for community-based projects designed and led by youth in partnership with adults. Projects can be standalone or within existing organizations.
Corporation for National and Community Service
Draper Richards Foundation
"The Draper Richards Foundation provides selected social entrepreneurs with funding of $100,000 a year for three years. The funds are specifically and solely for entrepreneurs starting new nonprofit organizations. The foundation awards only four fellowships a year and, like a venture capital fund, offers strategic and organizational assistance in addition to financial support. The projects selected by the foundation will demonstrate innovative ways to solve existing social problems."
The Foundation Center - Finding Funders
Search by name for addresses, Web sites, basic financial information, and more on 67,000 private and community foundations in the U.S.
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues
"Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, based in New York City, is a national association of grantmakers committed to increasing resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities and to advancing a human rights and social justice agenda within the field of philanthropy. We work to increase the philanthropic community's knowledge, understanding and support of critical funding needs in the LGBT communities."
The Funding Exchange
"The Funding Exchange is a national membership organization of publicly supported, community-based foundations. We are a unique partnership of activists and donors dedicated to building a base of support for progressive social change through fundraising for local, national and international grantmaking programs."
GrantStation
"GrantStation is a web-based membership service that links nonprofits to current sources of grant money while teaching organizations how to secure available funding. Developed and tested by fundraising professionals, GrantStation is based on in-depth and ongoing research. GrantStation also offers the GrantStation Insider, a low-cost, weekly e-newsletter that provides you with the latest information on new funding programs, upcoming grant deadlines, conferences, industry news, and general information for the serious grantseeker."
Literacy Action Network, Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE)
SCALE will award between 10-12 subgrants of up to $10,000 to institutions of higher education proposing exciting projects connecting direct service literacy tutoring programs to service-learning courses or co-curricular seminars. The Literacy Action Network is funded by the Corporation for National Service - Learn and Serve America.
Mix It Up Grants
"The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Study Circles Resource Center are accepting applications for this program. Grants of up to $250 will be made to support youth-directed projects that focus on identifying, crossing and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Applicants should demonstrate youth leadership, collaborative community efforts and the potential for sustainable work. Individuals proposing youth-directed school or community projects are encouraged to apply."
NIKE Youth Action Award
"$500 grants to fund your plan for sustainable change based on your Youth Service Day project this year."
Non Profit Management Education Center: Learning Resource Center
Phi Alpha Delta's Public Service Center Minigrants
"The Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center (P.A.D P.S.C) is offering pre-law and law school chapters 25 mini-grants for violence prevention-focused National Youth Service Day projects. The mini-grants support the mission of the P.A.D.P.S.C. by teaching children and youth to resolve conflict without violence, and to prevent juvenile delinquency as a whole. P.A.D.P.S.C. uses law-related education and service-learning to address violence by and against youth for a safe, disciplined, drug-free schools and communities."
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides an annual stipend of $10,000 for a graduating college senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world. This allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.
Sounds Conservancy Grants Program
"Atlantic Center for the Environment supports marine education and research in the region that stretches from Long Island Sound to Nantucket Sound. Grants average $1000 (and do not exceed $2,500) and are designed especially to support students with marine science research projects. A small portion of funds is available to support local nonprofits with public education and outreach efforts."
The State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award
Youth Service America and State Farm are proud to present the State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award. The award is now available to teachers/professors, youth (ages 5-25), and school-based service-learning coordinators to implement service-learning projects for National Youth Service Day. One hundred grants of $1,000 are available to youth, teachers/professors , and school-based service-learning coordinators.
Stern Family Fund's Public Interest Pioneer Program
Through this program, the Fund offers $100,000 renewable seed grants to launch new projects or initiatives.
Taking it Global list of financial opportunities
(awards, grants, etc)
Third Wave Foundation
"Young women must be given the financial support to take action. Through grantmaking, the Third Wave Foundation helps young women activists make change in their lives and the lives of others. Whether through reproductive rights, organizing and advocacy or scholarship gifts, we ensure that young women have the resources to implement their strategies and move social justice forward."
Video Contest for College Students: "One Person Can Make A Difference"
College students are invited to interpret the Christopher belief that “ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE” in a short film of five minutes or less. A nonprofit organization founded in 1945, The Christophers uses the media to spread two basic ideas: There’s nobody like you, and you can make a difference. This message, based on the concept of service to God and all humanity, is addressed to people of all faiths and of no particular faith. Winners will receive cash awards ranging from $100 - $3,000.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Internship Grants for Graduate Students in Humanities
"The program offers Practicum Grants to support internships for graduate students who wish to explore the impact of their scholarship beyond the university. The Humanities at Work initiative will award up to ten Practicum Grants of up to $2,000 to support humanities Ph.D. students who have created public scholarship internships, engaging their scholarship in a context outside of college teaching and research."
YouthActionNet
"Grants of $500 are available to young leaders of social-change projects and those that look to connect youth to local communities. YouthActionNet, a project of the International Youth Foundation, will support 18- to 24-year-olds. Projects must have clear goals and potential for growth and replication." For more information, contact YouthActionNet, IYF, 32 South St., Suite 500, Baltimore, MD 21202; e-mail: info@youthactionnet.org.
Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants
"The National Education Association and Youth Service America jointly sponsor the Youth Leaders for Literacy initiative to inspire youth-led reading-related service projects."
Youth Service America Awards and Grants
Includes The AT&T Cares Youth Service Action Fund, The Born to Lead Grant, and The Clay Aiken ABLE to SERVE Awards and more. Grants of various sizes that can be used to implement service projects on National Youth Service Day.
Youth Venture
"At Youth Venture, we believe that young people (ages 12 to 20) have the creativity and the energy to launch and lead their own ventures that bring about positive change to their schools and neighborhoods. Our strategy is simple - Youth Venture strives to reach and support any young person nationwide who has a dream about how to make a difference, and the commitment to make it happen."
Community Foundations that provide grants to youth-led projects: Many of the following foundations also have youth councils that advise on grant making. (This list is courtesy of the Youth Volunteer Network)
Michigan Community Foundations Youth Project
Richmond Community Foundation's Youth Philanthropy Project
George Foundation's Youth Philanthropy Grants
Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
Delaware Community Foundation's Youth in Philanthropy Program
|
