Cubs Care focuses its giving in the city of Chicago and makes monetary grants to organizations that aid children who have special needs, victims of domestic violence and youth sports programs. Most of these grants are designated for specific programs. Cubs Care also focuses on a wide variety of charitable and social service agencies located in the immediate neighborhood of Wrigley Field. This includes Lake View, Uptown and Lincoln Park.
Funding for 2012 Overnight Winter Adventure Camps for Teens with Disabilities in Military Families Northeast Passage is offering two Winter Adventure Camps in January 2012 for teens with disabilities (both developmental/cognitive and physical) who have a parent serving in the military. We received a grant for these camps in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire’s Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Programs.
2012 World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program The 2012 World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program offers 50 students ACT tutoring, pre-college mentoring and the opportunity to receive one of 10 renewable college scholarships worth up to $5,000 annually.
Safe Routes to School Mini-Grants The National Center for Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is accepting applications for 25 mini-grants of $1,000 each. These SRTS mini-grants support programs to enable and encourage children of all ages and abilities to safely walk and bicycle to school. The funded activities should occur between January 1, 2012, and the end of the spring 2012 semester. Applications are due on October 19, 2011, so visit the online mini-grant information and application page today.
GTECH After School Advantage
Think College! Institute for Community Inclusion The emphasis of this competition is to increase opportunities for postsecondary education for students with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD) within the UCEDD network, in partnership with their respective DD Councils and other key state partners, such as Boards of Higher Education, institutions of higher education, self-advocacy groups, and youth leadership programs.
Subcontract-Supported Research Opportunity - Autism Treatment Network
2011-2012 New York City Community Impact Grant These grants will provide seed money for projects of community-based organizations located in and serving the New York City area. Awarded projects will help further the goal of our organization by specifically focusing on improving the cardiovascular health of youth. Grant proposals can be focused on any of the following topics with a clear justification of how they improve the cardiovascular health of youth in our communities: health assessments, nutrition/eating habits, physical activity, systems change in schools, and health equity.
World Sport Chicago Scholarship World Sport Chicago (WSC), the legacy organization of Chicago 2016’s Olympic and Paralympic Bid, created the World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program to reward Chicago high school student-athletes for their demonstrated commitment to athletics, academics and the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect. Up to 50 Chicago high school juniors will receive Kaplan ACT tutoring and a year-long Chicago Scholars mentoring program, which guides students through the college application process.
Flutie Grants - Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation The goal of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism is to improve the quality of life for people and families affected by autism spectrum disorder. The foundation assists financially disadvantaged families who need assistance in caring for their children with autism spectrum disorder through nonprofit autism organizations or other organizations completing autism-specific projects. It also funds education and advocacy for individuals with autism and supports therapeutic, recreational and social skills programs. Families and individuals are not eligible to apply.
Access for Athletes - Challenged Athletes Foundation The grants provide resources for adaptive sports equipment, sports prosthetics, training, and competition grants so that those with physical challenges (disabilities) can once again, or for the first time, participate in sports. The primary goal is to increase physical activity levels for individuals and ultimately increase independence, self-esteem, and sense of accomplishment. Eligibility requirements include disabilities listed within the International Paralympic Committee classifications.
KaBOOM! and funding partner Dr. Pepper Snapple Group are offering Let's Play Playground Construction Grants of $15,000 to qualifying organizations using the KaBOOM! community-build model. The applicant must be a U.S.-based nonprofit organization or governmental subdivision, and must own the land on which the playground will be built or possess a long-term lease and obtain permission from the land owner.
The Tarjan Center at the University of California Los Angeles, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, has partnered with the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation and Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) to support inclusive, student-run businesses. The Tarjan Center will provide small grants to help teachers include students with and without disabilities in socially responsible student-run businesses.
Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 8 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.
Through this program, the Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants at the state and regional level to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of their current programs. The Foundation has adopted the following areas of focus: Education, Job Skills Training, Environmental Sustainability and Health.
U.S. Department of Labor Seeking to Employ People with Disabilities The United States Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is filling positions within the agency via Schedule A. Schedule A hiring authority enables a federal agency to hire people with certain kinds of disabilities including intellectual disabilities without going through cumbersome hiring procedures. DOL's ETA is looking for a wide variety of professions at all levels. Some jobs are in the DC area, some are in regions.
National Alliance for Accessible Golf Offers Funding for Programs for Individuals With Disabilities With funding from the United States Golf Association, the National Alliance for Accessible Golf will, for the second year, administer the grant application process for organizations providing golf programs for individuals with disabilities. The alliance is particularly interested in applications that demonstrate a focus on the inclusion of people with disabilities in programs that involve those without disabilities, with the ultimate goal of enhancing their inclusion into the fabric of their community.
Ashoka's Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim Global Health Solutions Competition Ashoka’s Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim are seeking innovative solutions worldwide that sustainably increase individual, family, and community well-being. The competition welcomes solutions and collaborations along the entire health continuum, from prevention and lifestyle to detection and treatment.
Bikes Belong Special Grant Round for Community Collaborations to Promote Bicycling Bikes Belong, which provides grants to organizations and agencies within the United States that are "committed to putting more people on bicycles more often," is accepting applications for Community Partnership Grants, which are designed to foster and support partnerships between city or county governments, nonprofit organizations, and local businesses working to improve the environment for bicycling.
Verizon Foundation invests in projects that provide technology to help underserved populations and people with disabilities access information on critical health issues. They also support innovative technology that helps healthcare providers increase their efficiency, effectiveness and reach.
Christopher Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on but not limited to paralysis caused by spinal caused by spinal cord injuries. She started the Quality of Life grants program to recognize and support organizations that recognize and support organizations that help individuals, their families and caregivers in ways that more immediately give them increased independence, day-to-day happiness, and improved access.
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation - MS Brighter Tomorrow Grants MS Brighter Tomorrow Grants to provide individuals with MS with goods or services (valued at up to $1,000) designed to improve their quality of life by enhancing their safety, self-sufficiency, comfort, and/or well-being. Recipients of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation's Brighter Tomorrow grant have received car repairs, ramps, wheelchairs, walkers, eyeglasses, computers, appliances, televisions, furniture, therapeutic equipment, hobby supplies, retreats, and various home modifications.
The Ross Foundation provides direct aid and assistance to vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, children who are ill, orphaned, injured, disfigured, abused or have limited access to education.
MGN Family Foundation
Women’s Sports Foundation - Travel & Training Fund. GoGirlGo!
National Inclusion Project - Let's ALL Play Program Let’s ALL Play is the National Inclusion Project’s program model for recreational programs that are currently serving children with disabilities and wish to do it better or programs seeking to open doors currently shut to children with disabilities in their community. Let’s ALL Play includes successful modifications, inclusive games, and other information to successfully run a program of inclusion. To be eligible for a partnership, your program must be a non-profit or public organization. Submit your inquiry between March and July; you should receive a response within 2 business days of submission either inviting you to submit a full proposal or informing you that the inquiry does not fit within our scope of funding. Funding Limit: $10,000/yr.
TCDD Funding Available for Health and Fitness Projects
Humana Foundation Community Grants The Humana Foundation supports charitable activities that promote healthy lives and communities, such as:
National Science Foundation- General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE) The GARDE program supports research that will lead to the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Research may be supported that is directed to the characterization, restoration, and/or substitution of human functional ability or cognition, or to the interaction of persons with disabilities and their environment.
The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities; to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.
RERC on Low Vision and Blindness The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities; to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.
Living Among Individuals with Disabilities The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.
Promoting Health Policy and Disease Prevention The purpose of the program is to create, evaluate, test, and otherwise inform health policy development that will aid CDC in creating and advancing health policies that positively affect health at the population level. The objectives of this cooperative agreement support and align with Healthy People 2020 as it is expected to serve multiple program areas as well as support cross-cutting initiatives.
Projects of National Significance: Partnerships in Employment Systems Change Funds are available for projects developed by consortia to enhance collaboration across existing State systems, including programs administered by State Developmental Disabilities agencies, State Vocational Rehabilitation agencies, State Educational agencies and other entities to increase competitive employment outcomes for youth and young adults with DD including ID. Funding is intended to support a 60-month project with five 12-month budget periods.
Healthy People 2020 Community Innovation Awards On June 20, 2011, ODPHP through its contractor John Snow, Inc., released a Request for Proposals for the Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project. Through this competitive process, community based organizations (CBOs) will be eligible for awards of $5,000 to $10,000 to address one or more HP2020 topic areas, with special emphasis on Environmental Justice, Health Equity, or Healthy Behaviors Across All Life Stages. Funding may only be used to support activities above and beyond general operations. ODPHP anticipates making 85 to 170 awards. Proposals are due on August 5, 2011 with awards to be announced in early November. The project period will run from December 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012.
Areas of interest include:
Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the New York Tri-State Area - Programs for Children The Charities is working to better the lives of children and their families in our community, by creating and supporting programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children in the areas of health, education, the arts, and civic and social services. RMHC is mostly interested in organizations that have a broad base of funding, a consistent management capacity to effectively execute the project, and a clear and concise plan to evaluate a project with measurable results. RMHC is also interested in specific programs that directly benefits and improves the well-being of children (ages 0 to 18 years), addresses a significant need or opportunity for a specific group of children, has a long term impact in term of replication and reach, and produces measurable results. Partnership for Patients announces Federal contracting opportunities
New Jersey Health Initiatives-Community Agency Capacity Enhancement This special solicitation by the New Jersey Health Initiatives program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will strengthen the core organizational capacity of community-based organizations providing social, health and human direct services to historically disadvantaged populations in New Jersey. This includes, but is not limited to, organizations serving ethnic and racial minorities from historically disadvantaged groups or other persons in low-resourced communities. Project funds will support the development and implementation of a strategy to improve each organization’s ability to manage, evaluate, and to help sustain programs aimed at serving their clients.
The Explore Fund is a grant-giving program committed to supporting nonprofit, community organizations that break down the barriers to getting youth outdoors. The Explore Fund will support organizations that encourage youth outdoor participation, focus on sustainability initiatives, or help to create a connection to nature that will empower the future leaders of tomorrow.
Murad Family Foundation
Bikes Belong Coalition
Healthy Kids, Healthy Families
Funding available through Community Transformation Grants
The 2011 Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund
CVS Caremark Community Grants Program
Uninsured. Saucony - Obesity Prevention grants
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation - Full Inclusion Funding
participate alongside their peers. MEAF's funding priority is inclusion.
Department of Justice $300,000 Mentoring Youth with Disabilities Initiative grant - Deadline May 16
Grant Opportunities: Healthy Living Promotion for People with Disabilities
Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health: Community Grants Program
Mockingbird Foundation: Music education for children
Funding Opportunity through American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
The 2010 Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund
Department of Health and Human Services Child Care Research Grants
Six Flags Friends Scholarships
Request for Applications Announced: Fostering the Progress of the Autism Treatment Network
Announcing the 2010 VSA arts Playwright Discovery Call for Scripts
Christopher Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Proposals - Communities Creating Healthy Environments
2010 CVS Caremark Community Grants
Active Living Research Grants - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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