Grant Opportunities
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Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood supports innovative, creative projects, and programs designed to significantly enhance the development, health, safety, education, and/or quality of life of children from infancy through five years of age. The foundation provides funding in the areas of early childhood welfare, early childhood education and play, and parenting education. Letters of Intent are accepted on a rolling basis. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications. Read more »
Express Scripts Foundation
The Express Scripts Foundation funds state and local initiatives that support school readiness and improve literacy to help prepare underserved youth for higher education and success in life. Grant amounts range from $500 – $200,000. Read more »
TESOL Teaching Materials Grant
The Tina B. Carver Fund was established by her family and colleagues to honor the life and work of Tina B. Carver, longtime member of TESOL and the ESL/EFL community. Grants are available for funding the purchase of student classroom learning materials and/or teacher-related materials (e.g., ancillary materials that can be used in conjunction with textbooks or other instruction materials) to support adult ESL education programs in the United States. Read more »
Karma for Cara Foundation Youth Service Project Grants
Micro-grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded to youth age 18 and under for service projects within their communities.... Read more »
ALDI Smart Kids Program
Grants ranging from $100 to $5,000 and ALDI gift cards are provided to local community organizations that encourage kids to be active in the areas of education, physical activity, nutrition, socializing, and the arts…. Read more »
Singing for Change
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to progressive nonprofit organizations working to address the root causes of a social or environmental problems.... Read more »
Abelard Foundation
"Abelard East is committed to supporting local progressive social change activities that expand and protect civil liberties and civil and human rights, and promote and strengthen community involvement in, and control over, the decisions that affect their lives...." Read more »
Aegon Transamerica Foundation
The Aegon Transamerica Foundation "supports nonprofit organizations focused on the education, health, and well-being of the communities where we live and work...." Read more »
American Association of School Librarians: Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Fund
The Fund provides grants of up to $20,000 to pre-K-12 public schools whose school library programs have been affected by a natural disaster, fire, or an act of terrorism. Schools that have absorbed a significant number of displaced/evacuee students are also eligible to apply. Grants are intended to help replace or supplement books, media, or library equipment. Eligible applicants must be located within 20 miles of a Dollar General store, distribution center, or corporate office… Read more »
Astellas USA Foundation Health and STEM Programs
The Astellas USA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of North America-based pharmaceutical company Astellas USA, is a tax-exempt nonprofit corporate foundation that awards grants for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes. To that end, the foundation is inviting applications from nonprofit organizations working in the areas of health and well-being, STEM education, and disaster relief... Read more »
Believe in Reading
Believe in Reading awards grants to existing and provably successful literacy programs. The maximum is $10,000…. Read more »
Brown Rudnick Center Foundation: Community Grants
Created to support front-line educators who often do not have a voice in funding decisions, the Foundation's Community Grants subsidize small, concrete projects, which will improve inner-city education within the coming year in the cities where Brown Rudnick has its offices. Although the amount of these grants may seem modest, we have found that the connections that they foster, the activities they encourage and the energy they create, have the potential to unleash countless contributions to improving inner-city education in the communities where we live and work. Read more »
Change Happens Foundation
The Change Happens Foundation seeks to fund innovative applicants and ideas with proven, high-level impact in education…. Read more »
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The mission of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is to support efforts that promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society. The Foundation provides grants through four programs including the Education program which works to increase access to high-quality educational opportunities and to support systemic change to increase and improve the pathways to education and work… Read more »
Cisco Global Impact Cash Grants
In the Education category, Cisco supports technology-based solutions and education delivery models that improve student performance and engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The Economic Empowerment category focuses on programs that encourage employment success, entrepreneurship, and long-term self-sufficiency by providing access to skills, knowledge, and financial products and services via technology-based solutions… Read more »
Halliburton Foundation
The Halliburton Foundation accepts grant proposals from U.S. based nonprofit organizations that serve the following areas: education, health, and health-related social services. Strong preference is given to organizations in areas where there is a significant presence of Halliburton employees and operations... Read more »
Kars4Kids Small Grant Program
The program provides support to nonprofit organizations that are working to make a difference in the areas of education and youth development. Grants generally range from $500 to $2,000…. Read more »
Lockheed Martin: Grants for Education
Lockheed Martin provides grants for K-16 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education. This includes Lockheed Martin's K-12 STEM Education Initiative, Engineers in the Classroom, as well as STEM-focused curricular and extracurricular programs that provide employee engagement opportunities in a community in which Lockheed Martin has employees or business interests. Maximum award varies. Eligibility applicants are 501(c)(3) organizations that deliver standards-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to students in K-16. Read more »
Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation
The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation was established for the purpose of raising and distributing funds to youth service and enrichment programs… Read more »
National Home Library Foundation
"The National Home Library Foundation (NHLF) grants are made to assist in the support, promotion and development of literacy and reading-related programs with the goal of combating illiteracy and/or encouraging an interest in reading and literacy among all ages." The National Home Library Foundation accepts grant proposals on a rolling basis, primarily in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Read more »
Peace First Rapid Response Grants
"Peace First is launching a rapid response grant process to help young people around the world lead projects that address community impacts of COVID-19, from providing meals to elderly neighbors to launching digital mental health campaigns to support youth feeling isolated. Rapid response grants are open to young people between the ages of 13-25, anywhere in the world...." Read more »
PNC Foundation Grants
"The PNC Foundation supports a variety of nonprofit organizations with a special emphasis on those that work to achieve sustainability and touch a diverse population, in particular, those that support early childhood education and/or economic development...." Read more »
Ronald W. Burkle Foundation Education Grants
The Ronald W. Burkle Foundation makes grants to programs that engage children in learning. Previous grants were used to fund youth outreach programs, health education projects for children and youth, teaching and mentoring programs for underserved children, and youth arts and athletic programs…. Read more »
Sarah Scaife Foundation
The Sarah Scaife Foundation primarily seeks to fund public policy programs that deal with major issues. Past funding has gone to education-focused research programs, research housed at colleges and universities, foundations associated with institutions of high learning, and school districts…. Read more »
The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation funds projects that challenge and expand our understanding of our individual and communal potentials, bringing communities together, casting aside social inhibitions and boundaries for a moment. The maximum award is $1,000. Read more »
The Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation is our company's primary international philanthropic arm. Since its inception in 1984, The Foundation has awarded more than $1 billion in grants to support sustainable community initiatives around the world... Read more »
The Harry Chapin Foundation Education Grant
The foundation focuses its grant making on community education programs, arts-in-education programs, and agricultural and environmental programs…. Read more »
The Lisa Libraries
The Lisa Libraries donates new children's books and small libraries to organizations that work with kids in poor and under-served areas… Read more »
Toyota USA Foundation
The Toyota USA Foundation works to enhance quality of education in kindergarten through grade 12 by building partnerships with nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of mathematics, science, and environmental science. Priority is given to programs that are creative, innovative, and develop the potential of students and teachers; are broad in scope and incorporate a systemic approach; and are cost effective and possess a high potential for success with relatively low duplication of effort… Read more »
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation wants all children to live a full life with high-quality, early childhood experiences, to grow up in homes with families that have stable, high-quality jobs, and to live in a community where they are nurtured… Read more »
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services
Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services provides a full array of services to private and family foundations across the country, including fiduciary administration, investment management, grant-making support, and consulting services.... Read more »
Westinghouse Charitable Giving Program
Grants are awarded to programs in the organization's priority funding areas including STEM education. Grants support education programs that improve knowledge and literacy, with a focus in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math…. Read more »
Wish You Well Foundation
Supporting family literacy in the United States by fostering and promoting the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs. Read more »
