Grants
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation‘s Youth Literacy Grants program provides funding to schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations to help students who are below grade level or experiencing difficulty reading. The maximum grant amount is $4,000. Grants will be provided to implement new or expand existing literacy programs; purchase new technology or equipment to support literacy initiatives; and purchase books, materials, or software for literacy programs. Deadline: May 16, 2012 Click here to learn how to...
Read MoreCraig H. Neilsen Foundation
The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation’s Quality of Life Grants Program provides support for innovative rehabilitation and recreation programs as well as independent living and educational opportunities intended to improve the quality of life for people living with spinal cord injuries in the United States and Canada. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000 for one year. Deadline for Letter of Intent: March 31, 2012 Click here to learn how to apply
Read MoreActive Schools Grant
ChildObesity180 and the Partnership for a Healthier America have announced the launch of the Active Schools Acceleration Project, a national competition to identify and reward effective school-based programs and technological innovations that promote physical activity for children. The competition will release $500,000 among schools with the most innovative, impactful, and cost-effective physical activity programs, and to technology developers who create new ways of using technology to promote increased physical activity among youth. School-based programs target children aged 5-12 and are already being deployed in a school setting. Technological innovations must motivate...
Read MoreChristopher Reeve Foundation
The Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program awards grants to non-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis (not limited to paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries). Funding is awarded in three broad categories that are called the ABCs of Quality of Life: Actively Achieving (primarily recreation); Bridging Barriers (overcoming obstacles); and Caring and Coping (focused primarily on caregivers). The Reeve Foundation gives special consideration to organizations that serve returning wounded military and their families, and to those that provide targeted services to diverse cultural communities. Deadline: March 1, 2012 Click here to...
Read MoreLemelson-MIT Program
Grant-supported projects have spanned many fields: from assistive devices to consumer goods to environmental technologies. Applicants are encouraged to consider the problems or needs of the world’s poorest people in brainstorming project ideas. Deadline: April 6, 2012 (March 1 for Preliminary Feedback) Click here to learn how to apply
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