Searching for Treasure - Call for Presenters

The Mid-Atlantic NJAAGP (Amercian Association of Grant Professionals) Regional Conference, Treasure Trove for Grantseekers, will be held Monday, May 17, 2009 at the FEA Conference Center in Monroe Township (Middlesex County). Please contact pbruder@eirc.org or dhartigan@comcast.net if you are interested in presenting on grantwriting, funding, evaluation, nonprofits, board capacity or related topics or if you know any local treasures you would like to share with us. Call for Presenters will be posted on our website shortly.

Impact 100

Impact100 Philadelphia's mission is to engage women in philanthropy and collectively to fund grants to charitable initiatives in the Philadelphia region. The goal each year is to provide high-impact grants that raise the profile of deserving but lesser-known organizations, and that highlight unmet needs in the region.

Focus areas for the grant include Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Family, and Health & Wellness. The grant recipient will be selected by a vote of the membership, after a detailed process of reviewing the grant proposals that are received.

Impact100 Philadelphia funds projects that: • are conducted by organizations with limited funding on this scale • have a long-term positive impact • reach a significant number of people • benefit an underserved population • are new programs or expansions of existing programs • have a minimum total budget of at least $100,000

Applying for a grant is a two-step process. Prior to submitting a full proposal, each prospective applicant must submit a Letter of Inquiry. Letters of Inquiry must be postmarked by Friday, January 15, 2010 and may not be faxed or sent via email.

All Letters of Inquiry will be reviewed, and during the week of February 8, 2010 Impact100 Philadelphia will inform applicants if they are invited to submit a Full Proposal. Full proposals must be postmarked by Friday, February 26, 2010. During Impact100’s review of Full Proposals, some applicants may be selected to receive site visits. Click here to see a full list of the 36 full proposal applicants, and the 14 organizations that received a site visit for the 2009 grant.

We recommend you read through the other sections of the website’s Grant Applicants menu before proceeding. Please note that only organizations with annual operating budgets between $400,000 and $5 million are eligible for the Impact100 Philadelphia grant. In addition, an organization must have been in operation at least 36 months prior to applying for an Impact100 grant.

Laura Bush Foundation - literacy grants

Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries Accepting Applications From School Libraries

Grants of up to $6,000 will be awarded to individual schools working to update, extend, and diversify the book collections of their libraries.

Posted on October 15, 2009
Deadline: December 31, 2009

UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants

Educators, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health professions are eligible to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning project grants. Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that combines meaningful service to the community with school-based curriculum or program-based learning.

Grant recipients will receive up to $1,000 in support for service-learning projects that focus on childhood obesity, engage youth ages 5-25 in the planning and implementation process, and take place during Semester of Service 2010 (MLK Day, January 18, to Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25).

Question of the Week: Are Grants Worth the Effort?

You gotta love it : Question of the Week: Are Grants Worth the Effort?

New Grant Professional Certified

Congratulations to our latest cadre of local Grant Professional Certified (GPC) grant writers!

Jolene A. Ewing, Glenside, PA
Kelley E. Ewing, Jr., Glenside, PA
Susan Green, Cranford, NJ
Dena Hartigan, Shamong, NJ
Joanne Oppelt, Elizabeth, NJ
Patricia A. Phillips, Marlton, NJ
Diane Scarangella, MA, Leonia, NJ

The Board of Directors of the Grant Professional Certification Institute (GPCI) has announced the names of 21 new GPCs from exams hosted this spring and summer in New Jersey and Florida. The newest GPCs – who are from six states – bring the total number of GPCs to 246. The GPC exam was developed through rigorous national standards for professional credentials; new exam dates and locations will be posted in coming weeks to the GPCI website and announced during the AAGP Annual Conference in Austin.

For more information on GPCI and to see the list of new GPCs, go to: http://grantcredential.org/Default.aspx. And congratulations to the newest GPCs!

KaBOOM!, the national non-profit dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of children, is giving communities free kits to host KaBOOM! Play Days. From Sept. 19-27, communities across the United States are hosting free, fun-for-the-whole-family events that focus on the important role play plays in a child’s life.

To support the cause, NFL PLAY 60 is offering Play Day communities $25,000 in grants to come together to improve their local parks and playspaces with clean-ups and simple enhancement and construction projects.

To be eligible for a Play Day grant, at least one person that attended your Play Day must share stories and photos from your event.

Nickelodeon’s The Big Green Grants Program

Nickelodeon’s Big Green Grants Program is a funding initiative that teams up kids
and adults to bring resources to their community.

• 
  Adults complete the application. Kids include essays and/or artwork explaining why this
  project is important to them and their school, club, after-school program or community.
  
• Between April 22 and December 31, 2009, eligible schools and community-based
  organizations can apply for one of two funding opportunities.

1. A $2,500 grant for an environmentally-friendly project.
2. A $5,000 grant for an environmentally-friendly project. To request $5,000, applicants must provide a 1-to1 dollar-to-dollar match ($10,000+ total project budget).

Science Career Week grant

Science Career Week in the Delaware Valley region is October 19 – 23, 2009. To ensure region-wide participation and to promote the diversity of careers in the sciences, Delaware Valley Innovation Network will award grants to support science-related events for students, parents, educators, workforce providers and workers in the DVIN tri-state, 14-county region.


Individual Grant Projects:
Up to $1,000 for single classroom or club-size science activities

Proposals can include but are not limited to:
hands-on laboratory experiments• STEM programs for parents and students• Field trips to local science companies• Tours of science exhibits• Presentations by science industry professionals



Collaborative Grant Projects:
Up to $5,000 for science-related programs for school-wide events or events open to the publicProposals can include but are not limited to:

Science department open houses• Open lectures on science topics• Science Fairs• Career Fairs featuring science careers

Grant Reviewers Needed

Recovery Act's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and Broadband Initiatives Program needs the help of experienced professionals ensure the success of the BTOP grant to help review the many applications over the coming months for broadband grant funding. To be considered as a reviewer you must have significant expertise and experience in at least one of the following areas:

1) the design, funding, construction, and operation of broadband networks or public computer centers;
2) broadband-related outreach, training, or education;
3) innovative programs to increase the demand for broadband services.


Reviewers will come from diverse backgrounds and areas of the United States. Please feel free to circulate this "Call for Reviewers" to other individuals or organizations that may be sources of qualified reviewers.


If you would like to become a BTOP reviewer, please send a resume and conflict of interest form (on website) in an email to btopreviewers@ntia.doc.gov or FAX to BTOP Reviewers at 202-501-8009. Please send a signed paper copy as well by U.S. Mail to BTOP Reviewers Broadband Technology Opportunities Program National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce HCHB, Room 4812 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20230

veggie grant

The makers of Hidden Valley® Salad Dressings are awarding ten (10) ten thousand dollar ($10,000) grants to elementary schools across the United States to support programs that help provide students with increased access to, and consumption of fresh, healthy foods made available through an on-campus vegetable consumption program.

 

Each grant award will support an elementary school in developing a vegetable program offering fresh produce to be implemented as early as April 2010 and lasting through the 2010-2011 school year. Each school grant will consist of $10,000 in direct funding.*

 

All applications must be submitted via the grant program’s Web site, www.LoveYourVeggies.com. Applications must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Nov. 6, 2009. Late applications will not be accepted. Schools will be notified of their award status soon after Feb. 15, 2010, with a target date of no later than March 1, 2009. A public announcement of all 10 winners will be made in April 2010.

 

 

Grants.gov Updates - Webinar Registration & Archives

Grants.gov and Recovery Act Webinar Series

Webinar registration is now open for Series 2 and 3.

August 18, 2009, 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. ET - Series 2: Finding Recovery Act Opportunities

August 20, 2009, 3:00 – 4:00 P.M. ET - Series 3: Registration to Submit Recovery Act Opportunities

To register for these webinars and to view the archives of Series 1 and the presentation in partnership with FedBizOpps.gov, please visit: http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11258845&msgid=201109&act=15RO&c=171570&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grants.gov%2Fapplicants%2Frecovery_webinar.jsp.

Stimulus webinar

Stimulus: The Second Wave
This event is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, 2pm to 3pm EST.
The US Dept of Education is gearing up to award $5 billion from the federal economic-sitmulus package to school districts, states and education non profit organizations through several competitive grant programs.
What are the requirements for Race to the Top, innovation and other grant programs?
How can leaders best compete for those awards? And how can the money be used to drive education reform?
Presenter:
Joanne Weiss: Race to the Top Director at the US Dept of Education.
Susan A. Gendron: Maine's commissioner of education and board president of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
No phone is necessary to participate; an archive version will be available within 24 hours of the presentation.

Ocean First for Ocean, Middlesex and Monmouth

The OceanFirst Foundation makes grants to  nonprofits in Ocean, Middlesex and Monmouth Counties. School Library, Arts and Cultural and other major and minor grants. Priorities are housing, youth development, health and wellness, and improving the quality of life.

 

 

Financial Literacy Grants

 

From McGraw Hill – see Focus Grants at Work

http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/cr/guidelines.shtml

 

 

2009-2010 School/School District Partnership Request for Proposal

The New Jersey State Parent Information and Resource Center (NJPIRC), a program of Prevent Child Abuse-NJ, is pleased to announce the second Request for Proposals (RFP) to select schools and school districts that seek to develop or enhance Parent Involvement Teams and/or Parent Involvement Plans. If your school or school district is interested in enhancing your parent involvement program, please complete the application by May 8, 2009. For more information, contact us at 1-800-CHILDREN or to download RFP, click the link above.

 

 

 

 

NJ Amistad Commission - Exemplary Award

A Message from the NJ Amistad Commission:

Please see the 2009-2010 Exemplary Award Application for the New Jersey Amistad Commission. To ensure that New Jersey teachers are supported to effectively teach the revised social studies core curriculum content standards via the Amistad curriculum, and to provide funding and programmatic assistance to teachers we offer the Amistad Annual Exemplary Awards. Up to 10 recipients are selected each year to receive the $5000 grant to enhance their programmatic initiatives in the classroom. The New Jersey Amistad Commission will identify and catalog EXEMPLARY PRACTICES in schools across the state that incorporate and infuse African American history into the school's curriculum and lesson delivery. The purpose of this program is to recognize and celebrate the excellence achieved by New Jersey's public schools and to make information available describing designated exemplary practices readily accessible to educators throughout the state.

Exemplary practices are those exemplary and/or innovative strategies that (1) infuse African-American history into the school's curriculum; (2) promote high student achievement; (3) address specific educational needs of students and the Core Curriculum Content Standards; (4) yield documented results meeting set objectives, and (5) can be replicated. Any New Jersey teacher, group of teachers, or school is eligible to participate. The competition is open to public schools serving students in pre-kindergarten to grade 12. The practice must have been in place for a minimum of one year prior to submission. Only one application per applicant may be submitted. Commercially developed practices will not be considered. In addition practices that are solely implemented around black history month will not be considered. There is no limit to the number of teachers within a school or district that may propose a practice for consideration.

The application is due back to the Amistad Commission on April 3, 2009. If you have any questions, please feel free to visit the Amistad Commission website at http://www.nj.gov/state/divisions/amistad/ Thank you and we look forward to receiving your application! The Amistad CommissionTashanna N. WilliamsNew Jersey Department of StateAmistad Commission225 W. State St.P.O. Box 458Trenton, NJ 08625Phone: 609-826-5325 Fax: 609-633-8168

Back to School Grants

The Dollar General Back to School Grants provide funding to assist school libraries or media centers in meeting some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs, or purchasing new equipment, materials or software. 

Grant Deadline:  May 22, 2009

Grant Announcement:  August 21, 2009

Maximum grant amount is $5,000.

 

 

 

Beyond the Basics Grant Writing Course

Give Me the Money is a new course from the Neighborhood Leadership Institute at the Center for Leadership Community and Neighborhood Development at Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey.

 

The course is divided into four sessions; the first beginning on Sat.,

March 31st. The rest are scheduled for April 4th, & 18th, and May 2nd.

The hours are from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  A continental breakfast will

be served at 9.

 

Feel free to contact Jill Lombardo-Melchiore, Director, Center for Leadership, Community and Neighborhood Development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Breakfast Grant Release

 

 

 

March 4, 2009 – Increasing the number of children eating breakfast at school to start their day right is the goal of a new grant program. Action for Healthy Kids, with generous support from Kellogg’s Corporate Citizenship Fund, is offering grants to schools that currently participate in the School Breakfast Program with greater than 50 percent eligibility for free and reduced-price meals. The goal is to increase their average daily student participation by 25 percent.

 

School buildings in every state meeting minimum grant requirements are eligible; however, priority will be given to schools in states with the lowest average daily student participation in school breakfast as a percentage of school lunch participation.  According to the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) 2007-2008 School Breakfast Scorecard, these states are  South Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Alaska, Nebraska, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Connecticut.

 

School breakfast plays a critical role in addressing the epidemic of overweight and undernourished children. Research shows both educational and nutritional benefits to children who have school breakfast.

 

“We believe that schools are an incredible equalizer in ensuring that all kids have daily access to healthy foods,” said Rob Bisceglie, executive director of Action for Healthy Kids. “These grants will help schools expand participation through creative programs and marketing practices so students are fit, healthy and ready to learn.”

 

The grants are intended to fund implementation of alternative breakfast programs, innovative marketing and promotions, and/or enhancement of the school breakfast experience through educational enrichment activities. Awards will range between $500 and $2,000.

 

According to FRAC, 8.5 million low-income children participated in the national School Breakfast Program last school year. While that’s an increase of four percent over the previous school year, the program still misses more than half of America’s eligible low-income children. And, with the worst economy in decades, it’s likely that substantial numbers of new children will become eligible for the school breakfast program as families lose jobs or have their incomes cut. 

 

Click here to view the School Breakfast RFP and you can also find it on our website.

 

More information can be found at www.actionforhealthykids.org or by contacting Sarah Titzer, director of team programs at (317) 884-0321 or Sarah@ActionForHealthyKids.org

 

FY 2009 Early Reading First Grant Competition

 

The FY 2009 Early Reading First notice has been published by the Federal Register (Volume 74, Number 40: Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-030309-001). The instructions package and notice inviting applicants is now available to download on  Grants.gov.  You should register for Grants.gov and review the submission tips provided on the site as several features have changed.  You are also reminded to visit the ERF website at www.ed.gov/programs/earlyreading to determine eligibility, download the ERF Eligibility Verification Document (Attachment A), and review additional submission tips. PDF and Word versions of the complete FY 2009 application package and a link to the Federal Register Notice are available on the applicant info section of the ERF website. We are currently working on updating the eligibility information available on the ERF website. We will have the updated information posted by COB today. We will send out a follow-up email as soon as it has been posted.

 

ERF staff will be hosting two technical assistance webcasts on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, one for novice applicants and one for experienced applicants.  The one hour webcast for novice applicants will be held at 1:00pm Washington, D.C. time and the one hour webcast for experienced applicants will be held at 3:00pm Washington, D.C. time. 

 

Due to the large number of potential applicants, applicant participation for both webcasts will be limited.  Interested applicants will have to sign-up in advance to participate.  Additional information on how to register for the webcasts will be forwarded shortly. Due to the large number of potential applicants, applicant participation for both webcasts will be limited.  Interested applicants must register in advance to participate.  In order to accommodate representatives from as many organizations as possible, please limit registration to one representative from your organization. Information on how to register for the webcasts will be distributed via email later this week.

 

Both webcasts will be recorded for individuals unable to participate in the live webcast. A link to access the recorded information will be distributed via email shortly after the webcast occurs.

New Jersey DOE Releases 2008 School Report Cards and Assessment Reports

The New Jersey Department of Education today released the 2008 School
Report Cards and the 2008 Statewide Assessment Reports. Additional
information is found at http://www.nj.gov/education/news/2009/0204rc.htm

TAH Reviewers WANTED for 2009 grant competition

The proposed grant review dates are April 6-24, 2009.

 

Reviewer qualifications (must meet one):

 

·        A degree in history

·        K-12 history teacher

·        History professor

·        TAH grant director 

·        TAH grant partner

·         History scholar, or

·        Other history-related professional

 

Please email your abbreviated resume to Bonnie Carter at Bonnie.Carter@ed.gov or Mia Howerton at Mia.Howerton@ed.gov no later than February 20, 2009.

 

If selected, you will serve on a panel with two other reviewers.  This process includes one week of reading applications on your own and two weeks of telephone meetings with your panel. 

An honorarium is given to those who complete the grant review by the USDOE.

 

 

 

Early Reading First

The Early Reading First pre-application will be available within the next couple of weeks. For detailed information regarding the application process please visit the ERF website. Detailed applicant info and the application from last year (FY 2008) are available in the applicant info section. The general application process will be similar for this year (FY 2009). Please visit the contacts section of the website and sign up for the free listserv where you will receive an automatic email notification as to when the application becomes available.  

 

 

 

Met Life Awards

1)Neighborhood Revitalization Awards: Two first place monetary awards of $25,000 each and four runner up awards of $15,000 will recognize exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes, such as real estate development, business attraction and job growth. Winners of the Neighborhood Revitalization Awards agree to hold a local event in summer or fall 2009 to announce their award.

2) Special Strategy Awards: Five monetary awards of $15,000 each recognize exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yield significant public safety outcomes in one or more of the following areas: 

• Applied Technology
  
• Aesthetics and Greenspace Improvement
  
• Diversity Inclusion & Integration
  
• Drug Market Disruption
  
• Gang Prevention & Youth Safety
  
• Seniors & Safety

Preliminary Applications (electronic or hard copy) must be received by midnight eastern time on Friday February 27, 2009.