Grants
Generations Serving Together – Apr 22
Now, more than ever, we need new ways to bring older and younger people together to solve problems and bridge divides. National service can play a critical role in bringing older and younger corps members and volunteers together to create real change.
Encore.org will award four $25,000 grants to cogenerational initiatives that create new initiatives or significantly expand or deepen existing programs that unite older and younger to serve together.
Encore.org has opened applications for a new incentive grant to age-integrate national service. If your organization has AmeriCorps funding and wants to create new intergenerational initiatives or significantly expand or deepen existing programs that unite older and younger to serve together, check it out!
Application deadline: April 22, 2022
In addition to financial support, “Generations Serving Together” grantees will participate in a virtual cohort experience rooted in peer learning, shared challenges, problem solving, networking, and mutual aid.
Together Women Rise – Apr 24
Together Women Rise (formerly Dining for Women) is an educational giving circle whose members meet monthly, learn about featured and ongoing programs, and donate together to support grassroots international programs that empower women and girls living in extreme poverty. The giving circle funds programs that foster good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency in developing countries and are devoted to educating and inspiring individuals to make a difference and fight global poverty and gender inequality through the power of collective giving.
Together Women Rise selects a grantee each month to feature and promotes them throughout the month at chapter meetings and through mailings, social media, and online communications. Featured grantees are selected based on issue area and geography for a specific month.
The group has announced that it will accept letters of intent between April 1-24, 2022, for projects that address one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, create lasting change in the lives of the women and/or girls who are affected, and provide solutions that have been identified by the women and/or girls being served that include their perspectives.
Applicants may request between $35,000 and $50,000 to be distributed over two years.
Letters of intent are due April 24, 2022, and the top 18 LOIs will be invited to submit a full grant proposal in June of 2022.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES FUND PROGRAM
The Neighborhood Initiatives Fund Program assists nonprofit and community-based organizations with neighborhood-scale projects in commercial corridors that improve quality of life and maintain the neighborhood as a desirable place to live.
Program Details
The Neighborhood Initiatives Fund (NIF) Program is intended to assist nonprofits (including government agencies) and community-based organizations with neighborhood-scale projects in commercial corridors. These projects include efforts that encourage neighborhood investment through vacant property reclamation and stewardship, historic preservation, brownfield redevelopment, public infrastructure improvements, and/or other eligible efforts. Nonprofit organizations with for profit development partners are also eligible to apply.
There are two tiers of available grants:
- Tier 1 grants will fund projects between $20,000 and $30,000
- Tier 2 grants will fund projects between $30,001 and $100,000
A match is not required for Tier 1 grants. Tier 2 grants will require a 2:1 match; for every two dollars ($2) of Program funds invested into a project, there must be at least one-dollar ($1) match invested in the project. Matching funds must come from non-URA and non-city sources.
Important Program Dates
- March 11, 2022 – 2022 NIF applications open
- March 17 – April 7, 2022 – Virtual NIF Information/Technical Assistance Sessions:
- March 17, 2022 at 4 p.m.; Register here
- March 22, 2022 nd at 2 p.m.; Register here
- April 7, 2022 at 12 p.m.; Register here
- May 10, 2022 – 2022 NIF applications are due by 5 p.m.
How to Apply
2022 NIF applications are open! Applications are due by 5 p.m. on May 10, 2022. Click on the Program Application link below. Fill out the application online, and include any attachments where indicated. Email Jamie Piotrowski with any questions at jpiotrowski@ura.org.
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RESOURCES
Virtual Ask a Nonprofit Expert: Marketing Strategy and Social Media
Wed, April 13, 2022 10:00 a.m.
Business Resource and Innovation Center at Parkway Central Library
Marketing is a means of educating your audience about your services. A nonprofit markets their services to its clients, its funders and its volunteers. When you meet with your consultant, you can discuss how to market your organization, how social media fits within your strategy.