Funding Resources and Contests:
2013-2014 running list
Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation
The Drucker Institute grants funds to organizations that best demonstrates Druckerʼsdefinition of innovation: "change that creates a new dimension of performance." The judges look for highly effective programs that have made a demonstrable difference in the lives of the people they serve.
The deadline is July 1. Award amount is $100,000. Click here for more information.
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Susan Harwood Training Grants
The US Department of Labor provides these grants to provide training and educational programs for workers and/or employers. Estimated funds available is $3.5 million
Deadline: Capacity building - June 26; Targeted topics - June 30
Capacity building grant deadline is June 26
Targeted topics grant deadline is June 30.
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
The National Science Foundation supports projects that: (1) increase students' awareness of STEM and cognate careers; (2) motivate students to pursue the appropriate education pathways for STEM and cognate careers; and/or (3) provide students with technology-rich experiences that develop disciplinary-based knowledge and practices, and non-cognitive skills (e.g., critical thinking and communication skills) needed for entering STEM workforce sectors. Fifteen to 20 awards will be made. The deadline is Nov. 6
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Community Connect
USDA funds broadband service that fosters economic growth and educational, health care, and public safety services. Priority to rural areas that have the greatest need for broadband services.
The deadline is July 7. Click here for more information.
Earl Knudson Charitable Foundation
The Foundation gives primarily to education, health organizations, and social service organizations. prospective applicants should submit three copies of the grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania common grant application form, which is available at No deadlines. Applications should be addressed to: Judith D. Morrison; P.O. Box 1; Imperial, PA 15126. Telephone: (800) 622-8036.
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Jackson (John E. & Sue M.) Charitable Trust
Requests should be submitted in a letter format at any time. Include amount of funds being requested and a detailed description of proposed use of funds. Include tax exempt status and supporting documentation. Organizations financials should accompany the request. Letters should be sent to: John E. & Sue M. Jackson Charitable Trust, c/o Shaun Byrne; 2 PNC Plaza; 620 Liberty Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Telephone: (412) 768-8248.
Hamilton (Frank & Marie) Charitable Trust
There are no restrictions on grants or deadlines.Grant requests should be addressed to: Jerome Kaplan, Trustee, 125A Seminary Ave., Apt. 133, Auburndale, MA 02466
Pennsylvania Online Broadband & Technology Training (OBTT) Program
PA OBTT offers a variety of FREE online training courses and educational videos to individuals interested in sharpening their personal, professional and technical skills. Course topics include online marketing, website development, cloud computing, QuickBooks, Microsoft applications, project management and more.Share this with your patrons! Access to the OBTT library is FREE to Pennsylvania residents. This is a great opportunity for both library staff and patrons!
Program information is available through
Access a variety of marketing materials, or the Self-Registration Page.
PaLA Academy of Leadership Studies
The Association of Pennsylvania Public Library Systems (APPLS) is seeking candidates for the 2014 PaLA Academy of Leadership Studies (PALS) scheduled for Sunday, June15 through Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at theRadisson Penn Harris
PLEASE NOTE: This year's PALS event is for librarians who have 7 - 12 years POST MLS/MLIS work experience.
Candidates must be employed by a library system that holds membership in APPLS. Candidates may be self-nominated or may be nominated by a supervisor or APPLS colleague. First preference will be given to candidates currently serving as system administrators. Other professional-level system staff will be considered.
Nominees must meet the following requirements:
- Degreed Librarian (must have the degree before attending program)
- 7 - 12 years POST MLS/MLIS work experience
- Demonstrate leadership potential
- Has leadership "spark"
- Must be willing to remain at the hotel for the duration of the PALS workshop, including overnight
- Must be willing to provide service to PaLA and the profession after completing the program
- PaLA membership is not required to apply or attend, but will be required upon graduation from the program
Completed applications must be submitted to PALS Chair, Sandy Longo ()witha letter of interest from the nominee indicating why they feel they would be a good candidate for PALS and how they would like to serve PaLA,a current resume from the nominee and a letter of support from the nominating party indicating why they feel their nominee has leadership potential and should attend PALS. Applications are due by May21.
PALS registration and housing costs will be covered by APPLS. Travel costs must be covered by the successful candidate, preferably by the library system.Learn more.
Judith O'Connor Memorial Fund Scholarships for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders
Board Source is accepting applications for the2014 Judith O'Connor Memorial Fund Scholarships for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders. The scholarships enable emerging nonprofit leaders to participate in the2014 BoardSource Leadership Forum, a nonprofit governance conference.
Scholarship recipients receive free registration and lodging at the conference, which will be held October 9 & 10 in Washington, D.C.Recipients are responsible for their own travel expenses.
Let your trustees know to apply for this to
- advance their leadership skills
- learn about progressive practices in nonprofit governance
- interact with nonprofit leaders from across the country
The application deadline is June 27
American Honda Foundation
The Foundation is awarding grants of up to $75,000 each to groups that support education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, in addition to the environment. Who may apply: organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, public school districts, private/public elementary and secondary schools listed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. The deadline is August 1 and another round deadline is Nov 1.
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Ribbons of Hope-Invest in Women
They will award a $100,000 grant to a nonprofit organization that promotes education, health, economic independence, social well-being, or human rights for women and girls. Applicants must have been in operation for a minimum of 3 years; have 501(c)(3) status; and run on an annual operating budget of at least $500,000, which can include noncash donations. The deadline is July1.
Contact:Ribbons of Hope-Invest in Women, E-mail:. Find out more.
Women of Worth
Nominations for awards from the Women of Worth program, administered by the Points of Light Institute and supported by L'Oreal Paris. The company will honor 10 women for their volunteerism by donating $10,000 for each one to a charity of her choice. One of the 10 honorees will be selected through an online vote to receive an additional $25,000 donation in her name to a charity of her choice. Additional information is available on the company's website. Who may be nominated: women ages 18 and older who are legal residents of the United States. Nominees' volunteer activities must be ongoing and have lasted at least six months. All activities must be unpaid and cannot include court-ordered community service. The deadline is June 25. Click here for more information.
Entertainment Software Association
They are looking for programs and services that utilize technology and/or computer and video games to educate America’s youth and young adults.The Foundation is dedicated to supporting positive programs and opportunities that make a difference in the lives of America's youth. They seek to harness the collective power of the interactive entertainment industry to create positive social impact in our communities. They support geographically diverse projects and programs that benefit American boys and girls of all races and religions. The deadline is May 28. Learn more.
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Citizenship and Integration Grant
This grant is available for public or non-profit organizations that promote immigrant
civic integration and prepare permanent residents for citizenship. Applications are due by May 16.
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Thriving Cultures Program (Surdna Foundation)
The program supports projects that successfully connect teens to artistically rigorous and culturally relevant programs that equip them with practical skills. Grants will not support individuals; in-school arts programs; recruitment efforts at specialized public arts high schools, arts-focused charter schools, and community music schools; or one-time projects. Learn more.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant
(National Endowment for the Humanities)
The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations grants). Deadline is July 17.
Link to Additional Information:
Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570
Toyota U.S.A. Foundation
The Foundation supports innovative programs and building partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving K-12 teaching and learning of mathematics, science and environmental science. Awards range from $50,000-$500,000. Learn more.
Community Initiative Grants (Kresge Foundation)
Awards are made in six fields of interest: health, the environment, community development, arts and culture, education, and human services. Working with our grantees, we endeavor to improve the life circumstances and opportunities for poor, disadvantaged and marginalized individuals, families, and communities. Explore funding opportunities.
Innovative Approaches to Literacy (US Dept of Education)
Summary: Promotes early literacy for young children, motivates older children to read, and increase achievement by using school libraries, distributing free books to children and their families, and offering high quality literacy activities.
Eligibility: High-need local educational agencies, including an charter school or state administered school that is considered an LEA under state law, in which 25 percent of the students aged 0-17 in the geographic area served by the LEA are from families with incomes below the poverty line based on the most recent satisfactory data available from the U.S. Census Bureau. Deadline: July 18More here.
Advancing Informal STEM Learning(National Science Foundation)
Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning
This program wants to advance new approaches to and understanding of STEM learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences. 51awards. Deadline is July 10.
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Giving Through Glass
Anyone want to do a PROPOSAL FOR LIBRARIES TO DO OUTREACH --outside the library with Google Glass? Whether or not....
Five charities that propose the best ideas by May 20 will get a free pair of the glasses, a trip to Google for training and a $25,000 grant to help make their project a reality. The deadline is May 20. Learn more.
Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Project 2014
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a funding opportunity for small projects to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information for health care professionals, first responders and others that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response and recovery.NLM is soliciting proposals from partnerships in the U.S. that include at least one library and at least one organization that has disaster-related responsibilities, such as health departments, public safety departments, emergency management departments, pre-hospital and emergency medical services, fire/rescue, or other local, regional, or state agencies with disaster health responsibilities; hospitals; faith-based and voluntary organizations active in disaster; and others.NLM encourages submission of innovative proposals that enhance mutually beneficial collaboration among libraries and disaster-related agencies. Summaries of the previous years' funded projects can be viewed at awards will be offered for a minimum of $15,000 to a maximum of $30,000 each for a one-year project.
The deadline for proposals is Thursday, June 19, 2014.
Access the solicitation notice andmore information and instructions. The National Library of Medicine ( is the world's largest biomedical library and provides extensive online health information resources. Visit the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center site.
i3 Investing in Innovation
The competition will continue the Department's investments in promising strategies that can help close achievement gaps and improve educational outcomes for our neediest students.
The i3 program aims to develop and expand practices that accelerate student achievement and prepare students to succeed in college and in their careers. As in years past, the program includes three grant categories: Development, Validation and Scale-up. This year, school districts and nonprofit organizations, in partnership with districts or schools, are eligible to compete for nearly $135 million across all three categories. The maximum grant amount available in each category is based on the evidence of effectiveness.
For this competition, Validation grants will provide up to $12 million to fund projects with moderate evidence of effectiveness. Scale-up grants will provide up to $20 million to fund projects with strong evidence of effectiveness and enable expansion across the country. All i3 projects conduct an independent evaluation to identify what works in education.
The 2014 i3 competition includes priorities that target specific areas of need, expanding the i3 portfolio of solutions that addresses persistent challenges in education. Complementing the administration's efforts to increase access to high-quality early learning opportunities, the Department has included an invitational priority in both the Scale-up and Validation categories.
Applications will be evaluated by peer reviewers in the coming months, and the Department will announce the highest-rated applicants in late fall. Those applicants will then be required to secure private-sector matching funds in order to become a grantee. Validation grantees must secure a private-sector match comprising 10 percent of their budget and Scale-up grantees must secure 5 percent.
The Notices Inviting Applications are published in the Federal Register, and applications for the Scale-up and Validation grants are due June 24, 2014. To access the notices for the categories, visit:
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Learn more about the Investing in Innovation Fund.
Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling
National Storytelling Network is accepting applications for this annual award that recognizes the transformational properties of storytelling and the ways storytelling can promote change in individuals and communities. Grants of $5,000 will be awarded. Deadline is April 30. More.
Citizens-Save-Libraries Grants
These grants from United for Libraries, made possible by a grant from the Neal-Schuman Foundation, are due May 5. 10 libraries will receive two days of onsite consultation by advocacy experts, who will help friends of the library groups, library directors and trustees develop individual blueprints for advocacy campaigns to restore, increase or save threatened library budgets. Learn more.
May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
The trust supports programs offering direct services to needy children and youths, including academic enrichment and college access programs; mentoring and youth leadership programs; arts outreach programs; career development programs; programs serving abandoned, abused, and neglected children; and recreational programs and camps incorporating youth development. Priority is given to organizations working to achieve a long-term sustainable difference in the lives of the people they serve. No grants will be made to schools, except those receiving 25 percent or less of total revenue from families or those whose entire student body is disabled. Read more.
Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation
This award is administered by the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, with support from the Coca-Cola Foundation. The $100,000 prize will honor a nonprofit organization that best demonstrates Mr. Drucker's definition of innovation: "change that creates a new dimension of performance. Deadline is July 1. Read more.
Entertainment Software Association Foundation
the Foundation seeks proposals for projects that use innovative technology or computer and video games that positively shape the lives of youths in the United States. Deadline is May 15. Learn more.
US Airways Community Foundation
The foundation will support educational programs at nonprofit organizations that are located in and provide services to the major metropolitan areas of Charlotte, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. Programs must focus on boosting learning and academic achievement for low-income children (at least 75 percent of children served by the program must qualify for free and reduced price meals) or developmentally disabled children (at least 75 percent of children served by the program must qualify for special needs education as defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) or increase student interest and academic achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math.Deadline is May 1. Learn more.
Microsoft Corporation
Apply to create community-based technology and learning centers, in order to bridge the "digital divide" and eliminate technology illiteracy. Learn more.
Cisco Networking-solutions Software Donations
Through a program sponsored by Cisco and TechSoup, organizations receive equipment and hardware necessary and free technical support for five years from SmartNet. Other networking components are also available.More.