CARES Act: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Purpose: The CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund-IHE/Student Aid provides funding to institutions to provide emergency financial aid grants to students whose lives have been disrupted, many of whom are facing financial challenges and struggling to make ends meet. Funder: U.S. Department of Education Applicant: Institutions of higher education Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020
New! Youth Education Projects Purpose: The foundation supports youth education, with a specific focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects, as well as projects in the areas of the environment, job training, and literacy. Grants awarded by the foundation will range between $20,000 and $75,000 over a one-year period. Funder: American Honda Foundation Applicant: Nonprofits, private districts Amount: Varies $20,000-$75,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Saturday, August 1, 2020
New!Office of Postsecondary Education: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund-Minority Serving Institutions Purpose: Please see the information under Formula Allocations at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/caresact.html to determine eligibility. Students cannot apply for assistance directly from the U.S. Department of Education but should contact their institutions for further information and guidance. Institutions have the responsibility of determining how grants will be distributed to students, how the amount of each student grant is calculated, and the development of any instructions or directions that are provided to students about the grant. Funder: U.S. Department of Education Applicant: Private institutions of higher education, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Saturday, August 1, 2020
New!Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources Purpose: The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. Funder: National Science Foundation Applicant: Unrestricted Amount: Varies $300,00-$3,000,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Tuesday, August 4, 2020
New! ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Purpose: In this solicitation, the NSF ADVANCE program seeks to build on prior NSF ADVANCE work and other research and literature concerning gender, racial, and ethnic equity. The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM2 faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. The NSF ADVANCE program provides grants to enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and to mitigate the systemic factors that create inequities in the academic profession and workplaces Funder: National Science Foundation Applicant: Institutions of higher education (IHEs): Non-profit two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the U.S., acting on behalf of their faculty members Amount: Varies $300,000- $3,000,000 Projected Number of Awards: 36 Deadline: Friday, August 7, 2020
New! Faculty Early Career Development Program Purpose: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. Funder: National Science Foundation Applicant: Nonprofits, research labs, museums, institutions of higher education Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Tuesday, August 11, 2020
New! Special Needs School Transportation Camera (SN) Program RFP Purpose: The SN Program is intended to provide cameras on school transportation used by pre-K through high school students with disabilities/special needs to identify abusive behavior that may occur between students and/or between students and bus drivers/school personnel. Funder: Cal OES Applicant: To be eligible to submit a proposal, the applicant must be a school district or local/county education agency operating within California. Amount: Up to $138,022 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Monday, August 17, 2020
New! Special Education Research Purpose: In awarding these grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for a disability, (2) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (3) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education). Funder: Department of Education Applicant: State, City and County Governments, private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofits, small businesses. Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Thursday, August 20, 2020
New! Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment Purpose: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS or Service) National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) is accepting proposals to develop introductory educational experiences in natural resource careers to young people and veterans, including culturally, ethnically and economically diverse students, and underserved communities that traditionally have low participation in outdoor recreation activities through hands-on experience and mentoring at a variety of USFWS programs including but not limited to, national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, and ecological services offices. Under this program, individuals and/or groups of youth, young adults, and veterans. Funder: Department of the Interior Applicant: Private and public institutions of higher education, state governments, city governments, nonprofits Amount: Varies $1,000-$2,000,000 Projected Number of Awards: 250 Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Health & Social Services
New!Refugee Social Integration Services Program Purpose:Toprovide social integration or social adjustment services to a diverse refugee population Funder: Alameda County Applicant: Bidder shall be regularly and continuously engaged in the business of providing social integration or social adjustment services to a diverse refugee population, and to limited non-English speaking refugees for at least three (3) years. Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Thursday, July 30, 2020
New! Healthy Start Group Health Consulting Services Purpose: To provide consulting services in support of improving women’s and children’s health from preconception to early childhood. Funder: Alameda County Applicant: Licensed clinicians who have provided Healthy Start Group Consulting Services for at least 5 years, with clinical expertise in the field of Maternal, Child Health, and strong experience working with urban African-American populations Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Friday, August 14, 2020
Perinatal Equity and Reflective Supervision Consultation Services Purpose:The county’s MPCAH program, located in the Family Health Services Division, is a participant in the State-Funded California Perinatal Equity Initiative. The county is seeking consultation services to deepen the understanding of factors contributing to the African American infant mortality rate in the County and to engage in program planning aimed to identifying and addressing gaps in services not met by existing efforts. Funder: Alameda County Applicant: Bidder shall be regularly and continuously engaged in the business of providing Perinatal Equity and Reflective Supervision Consultation Services for at least five (5) years Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
New!Telehealth Network Grant Program Purpose: The funding opportunity is aimed towards promoting rural Tele-emergency services with an emphasis on tele-stroke, tele-behavioral health, and Tele-Emergency Medical Services (Tele-EMS). Funder: Department of Health and Human Services Applicant: Rural or urban nonprofit entities Amount: Up to $300,000 Projected Number of Awards: 29 Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2020
Closing the Health Disparity Gap for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Strengthening the U.S. Health Care Purpose: The Administration on Disabilities (AoD) seeks to fund one five-year cooperative agreement that will increase and accelerate current efforts to embed ID/DD content into medical and allied health school education programs. The goal of the project is to expand access to quality healthcare for individuals with ID/DD by increasing the ID/DD-specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competence of the health care workforce. By funding this project, AoD seeks to create greater health equity and increase life expectancy of the ID/DD population Funder: Department of Health and Human Services Applicant: Private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofits Amount: Varies $300,000-$350,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Wednesday, July 29, 2020
New! Veterans Housing Rehabilitation and Modification Pilot Program Purpose: The grants may be used to modify or rehabilitate eligible veterans’ primary residences or to provide grantees’ affiliates with technical, administrative, and training support in connection with those services. Funder: Department of Housing and Urban Development Applicant: The organization must provide nationwide or statewide programs that primarily serve veterans or low-income individuals Amount: Varies $700,000- $1,000,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Tuesday, August 18, 2020
New! Identification and Management of Behavioral Symptoms and Mental Health Conditions in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional) Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages research grant applications focusing on identification and management of behavioral symptoms and mental health conditions in individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). Specific areas of interest for this funding opportunity are (1) proposals to develop and validate assessment tools that reliably identify behavioral symptoms or diagnose mental health conditions in individuals with ID, and (2) proposals studying the pharmacokinetics, safety and efficacy of specific psychotropic medications for treatment of behavioral symptoms or mental health conditions in individuals with ID. Funder: Department of Health and Human Services Applicant: State, City and County Governments, private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofits, small businesses, for-profit organizations Amount: Unknown Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Monday, September 7, 2020
Ensuring the Safety and Security of Immigrants Purpose: SVCF seeks to fund nonprofit organizations that will provide support, safety and security to immigrants during these challenging times Funder: Silicon Valley Community Foundation Applicant: San Mateo and/or Santa Clara county-serving organizations Amount: Open Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Stand Down Grants Purpose: To support local Stand Down events that assist homeless veterans by providing a wide variety of employment, social, and health services, to enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the self-sufficiency of homeless veterans through paid work. Funder: Department of Labor Applicant: State and Local Workforce Development Boards, Veteran Service Organizations, local public agencies, tribal governments, and non-profit organizations including community and faith-based organizations Amount: Varies $7,000-$10,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Justice
So Love Can Win Rapid Response Fund Purpose: The So Love Can Win Rapid Response Fund will provide general operating grants of up to $10,000 to support the sustainability and vibrancy of the Oakland, CA, racial justice movement ecosystem during the pandemic. Organizations, groups, formations, or collectives who are based in Oakland and are led by Black, Indigenous, or other people of color are eligible to apply. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through September 15, 2020, or until funds are exhausted. Funder: Akonadi Foundation Applicant: Nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored based in Oakland Amount: Up to $10,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020
New!Detecting and Preventing Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System Purpose: This initiative supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm (NSSI) by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system. Opportunities for detection and prevention start at early points of contact (e.g., police interaction, the intake interview) and continue through many juvenile justice settings (e.g., pre-trial detention, juvenile or family court activities, court disposition, placement and on-going care in either residential or multiple community settings.) This FOA invites intervention strategies that are designed to be delivered in typical service settings using typically available personnel and resources, to enhance the implementation of interventions that prove effective, enhance their future uptake in diverse settings, and thereby reduce risk of suicide and self-harm in this population. Funder: Department of Health and Human Services Applicant: private and public institutions of higher education, state governments, city governments, nonprofits, small businesses, public housing authorities Amount: Up to $500,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Thursday, January 7, 2021
Economic & Workforce Development
Social and Economic Development Strategies in Relation to COVID-19 Purpose: 2020 funds for the Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) program. This program is focused on community-driven projects designed to grow local economies, strengthen Native American families, including the preservation of Native American cultures, and decrease the high rate of current challenges caused by the lack of community-based businesses, and social and economic infrastructure in Native American communities. Native American communities include American Indian tribes (federally- recognized and non-federally recognized), Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and Native American Pacific Islander Funder: Department of Health and Human Services Applicant: Nonprofits, Native American Tribal Governments Amount: Varies $100,000-$400,000 Projected Number of Awards: 33 Deadline: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Susan Harwood Job Training Grants Purpose: Susan Harwood Training Grants provide training and education for workers and employers on workplace safety and health hazards, responsibilities and rights. Target audiences include underserved, low-literacy, and high-hazard industry workers and employers. Funder: Department of Labor Applicant: Nonprofits and public agencies Amount: Up to $200,000 Projected Number of Awards: 100 Deadline: Monday, July 20, 2020
New! Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs including CARES Act Funding Purpose: To provide investments that support construction, non-construction, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under the Economic Development Administration’s Public Works and EAA programs. Grants and cooperative agreements made under these programs are designed to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities Funder: Department of Commerce Applicant: State, City and County Governments, private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofits Amount: Varies $100,000-$3,000,000 Projected Number of Awards: 3,000 Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Upcoming Youth Build Purpose: The YouthBuild program is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are high school dropouts or who previously dropped out and subsequently re-enrolled, adjudicated youth, youth in and aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, and other disadvantaged youth populations. YouthBuild simultaneously addresses several core issues important to low-income communities. Such as, affordable housing, education, employment, and leadership development. Funder: U.S. Department of Labor Amount: Total anticipated funding $85 million Anticipated Release Date: Winter 2020
Arts
Innovations + Intersections Purpose: The I+I program provides funding for large-scale and/or long-term innovative projects working at the intersections of (1) arts and technology, and (2) arts and wellness. The purpose of this program is to support arts organizations that are doing groundbreaking work in response to community needs. The California Arts Council is looking for projects that elevate imagination into spaces that have yet to be created or identified. Funder: California Arts Council Applicant: Applicants must either be a California-based nonprofit arts organization, arts-based unit of municipal or county government, or tribal government Amount: Up to $500,000 Projected Number of Awards: Varies Deadline: Letter of Intent submission deadlineFriday, May 1, 2020; Finalist Application Deadline July 22, 2020
NEA Our Town Purpose: Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the NEA supports projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into local strategies for strengthening communities. These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development) Funder: National Endowment for the Arts Applicant: Independent school districts, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, County governments, private institutions of higher education, State governments, nonprofits, City governments Amount: Varies $25,000-$150,000 Projected Number of Awards: Unknown Deadline: Thursday, August 6, 2020
Art Grant Programs
The California Arts Council provides funding to arts programs, with funding available for youth programs, creative projects, and operation support. Click here to view the list of open programs.
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