GRANTS
2021 Eagles Social Justice Fund Application – DEADLINE 11/11/21
The Eagles Social Justice Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation was established as a joint effort between the Eagles organization and our players and reflects our team’s core values of partnership and teamwork. The Eagles Social Justice Fund supports programs and initiatives that reduce barriers to opportunity, with a specific focus on:
- Education;
- Community / police relations;
- Improving our criminal justice system; and
- Other initiatives focused on poverty, racial equality, and workforce development.
If your organization would like to be considered for a grant from the Eagles Social Justice Fund for the 2021 season, please submit the application below no later than November 11, 2021.
Compass offers FREE Consulting Micro-projects – Nov 12
Compass offers FREE Consulting Micro-projects within four service lines for Micro Project clients: Board Development, Funding Strategy, Strategic Alignment, and Technology Strategy.
We urge any interested organization to setup a pre-application call with our dynamic Program Manager, Shelley Dinehart at sdinehart@compassphilly.org – this initial scoping call is key to the process.
Local Innovations in Vaccine Equity in Pennsylvania (LIVE PA) Mini-Grants
The Wolf Administration and United Way of Pennsylvania launched the Local Innovations in Vaccine Equity in Pennsylvania project (LIVE PA) to administer $4 million in mini-grants to local organizations and $630,000 for faith-based organizations aimed to reduce vaccine hesitancy and ensuring an equitable vaccine distribution throughout the commonwealth.
LIVE PA is a collaboration between the Wolf Administration’s Office of Advocacy and Reform and the departments of Health and Human Services, working closely with United Way of Pennsylvania to fund hyper-local, grassroots nonprofit organizations to partner with certified vaccine providers to help the populations they serve overcome barriers to vaccination.
With a reimbursement rate of $10 per shot achieved and a matching rate of $10 per direct person-to-person outreach, the grants are designed initially to range from $400 to $40,000 per vaccination event. It also includes a requirement that the nonprofits and local United Way chapters involved promote the events using traditional and digital media to help fight vaccine hesitancy.
Seeking Proposals: Career Exploration Program for High School Students – Nov 22
A core component of improving economic mobility for our fellow Philadelphians is ensuring that students are adequately prepared for college and careers. To advance those efforts, CEO is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to provide career exploration opportunities for high school youth.
Interested contractors would be expected to provide a 6-8 week career exploration program to 15-20 high school students, to introduce multiple career pathways:
- creative entrepreneurship
- tech/information technology
- business
- public healthcare
- and social services.
Interested parties are invited to submit questions by November 10 at 5 pm and apply for funding no later than November 22 at 5 pm. All questions and proposals should be submitted to ceo.contracts@phila.gov.
Social Change & Social Justice Grants – Dec 3
Resist Invites Applications for Social Change, Justice Grants
Boston-based Resist works to redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of social change while amplifying their efforts to build a better world.
To that end, the organization invites applications from grassroots organizations led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression and that are working to advance justice and liberation.
Two types of grants will be awarded in this round:
General Support: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded in support of groups that are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, artmaking, and resilience building.
Accessibility: Grants of up to $4,000 will be awarded for work that specifically enables a group’s work to be more accessible to community members with specific accessibility needs.
Applicants must have an organizational budget under $150,000 per year, be based in the United States, and be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) according to the Internal Revenue Code, a federally recognized Native American tribal government or agency, or be sponsored by a previously listed entity.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Resist website.
Deadline: December 3, 2021
PHLConnectED Caregiver Digital Literacy Grants – Dec 6
PHLConnectED – in partnership with the Digital Literacy Alliance (DLA) – is launching a grant cycle specifically geared to stand up digital literacy classes targeted to pre-K-12 caregivers. This opportunity aims to better support pre-K-12 student households by providing funding for community-based organizations (CBOs) and / or local education agencies (LEAs), schools, or school-based networks to offer a suite of gateway digital literacy courses to caregivers.
Deadline to submit an application is December 6th.
You can find the Grant Opportunity listed here.