Free grantwriting classes

The Franklin Public Library Foundation Center will be offering many free upcoming grant workshops:

• Friday, May 28, 2010 | 10:00 AM – Noon | Grantseeking Basics
• Friday, June 25, 2010 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Foundation Directory Online Basics
• Friday, July 30, 2010 | 9:00 AM – Noon | Proposal Writing Basics
• Friday, August 27, 2010 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Foundation Directory Online Basics
• Friday, September 24, 2010 | 10:00 AM – Noon | Grantseeking Basics
• Friday, October 29, 2010 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Foundation Directory Online Basics

All classes are limited to a certain number of participants, and registration is required. To register, please call the library.

Vocational Rehabilitation Providers Can Apply for $4.2 Million in Grants to Improve Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities

The Department of Labor & Industry is offering $4.2 million in grants fostering the development of new strategies and initiatives which will improve employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities. Grant applications are due by June 11, 2010. Learn more. View guidelines and application.

New i6 grants

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a new
$12 million innovation competition, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
and the National Science Foundation (NSF). EDA will award up to $1 million to each of six
teams around the country with the most innovative ideas to drive technology commercialization
and entrepreneurship. NIH and NSF will award a total of up to $6 million in additional funding
to NIH or NSF Small Business Innovation Research grantees associated with winning teams.
"This initiative promotes the priorities of the Obama Administration by driving innovation and
entrepreneurship, and cultivating strong public-private partnerships,” U.S. Commerce Secretary
Gary Locke said. “The i6 Challenge is an exciting opportunity to highlight some of the nation’s
top leaders who are moving ideas from the lab into the marketplace."

Entrepreneurs, investors, universities, foundations, and non-profits are encouraged to participate
in the i6 Challenge. The deadline for applications is July 15, 2010.

CVS Caremark Charitable Trust Offers Grants to Support Children with Disabilities and Uninsured or Underserved People With Healthcare Needs

[From Philanthropy News Digest]

The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, the private foundation of CVS Caremark Corporation, will award grants ranging between $10,000 and $50,000 to programs that help build skills, capabilities, and create opportunities for success for children under the age of 21 with disabilities. Applicant programs should address accessibility, inclusion, and awareness building; physical activity; early intervention; and rehabilitative services. Programs that promote wellness and obesity prevention for children of all abilities are also eligible.

The trust also offers grants to organizations that are dedicated to improving the quality of health and well-being of populations most difficult to reach, including uninsured or underserved seniors, adults, youth, and children. CVS Caremark Charitable Trust is particularly interested in programs that seek to provide a "medical home" for underserved populations and that provide screening, health promotion, and prevention efforts.

The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust accepts applications from organizations in forty-nine states, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. (The trust is not currently accepting applications from Alaska.)

Organizations can learn more and apply for a grant at the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust Web site.

Contact:
Link to Complete RFP

DCED Destination Marketing grants

The Department of Community and Economic Development announces the availability of guidelines for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010-2011 Grant Programs for Destination Marketing Organizations. This program administered by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office provides grants to support tourism promotion and marketing for eligible Tourism Promotion Agencies and other Tourism Destination Marketing Organizations. These supported activities will encourage the prosperous development of Pennsylvania business, industry and commerce, to expand markets and promote and develop new markets for Pennsylvania tourism, encouraging the location and development of new business, industry and commerce within the Commonwealth, to aid in restoring employment in communities affected by unemployment, and to assist persons, firms, associations, political subdivisions, corporations, cooperative associations and other organizations to assist various public safety, recreation, senior citizens or other community service organizations.

 Assistance from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office is in the form of grants from the Commonwealth to eligible applicants for projects which conform to the eligibility criteria detailed in the program guidelines.

 All applications and requests for guidelines should be directed to Department of Community and Economic Development, Tourism Office, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Fourth Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0225, (800) 237-4363, jacollier@state.pa.us.

The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation

Not all American children grow up inside the comfortable definition of normal childhood development. For thousands, each day is a challenge marked by pain, prayer and perseverance. Many of these youngsters require specialized care. To overcome their obstacles, they need help from you and the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation.

Established in 1954, the American Legion Child Welfare Foundation was developed as a repository of funds from individuals who wished to contribute to the betterment of children in this country. Our foremost philanthropic priority is to provide other nonprofit organizations with the means to educate the public about the special needs of children across this nation.

CSBG Innovation grants

The Office of Community Services (OCS), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces that applications will be accepted to fund up to 22 one-year grants to establish Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) State Exemplary Practice Projects (EPPs) supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to document exemplary practice models focused on: 1) Job Creation and Green Jobs; 2) Benefits Enrollment; or 3) Community Economic Development. Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) applicants will submit proposals for one, or any combination of, the three exemplary practice model focus areas mentioned above, which comprise elements of a strong network of activities to identify evidence-based and innovative community services programs. The purpose of this funding announcement is to identify and document exemplary practice models that focus on implementation, dissemination, and sustainability projects for employment-related services, coordination of benefits enrollment activities, and community economic development activities and services. The State EPPs would compliment the strategic planning and coordination efforts supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A secondary purpose of the State EPPs is to assist States in providing guidance to eligible entities that need or have the desire to enhance current community service programs. State EPPs should include consistently applied activities or service delivery mechanisms, which make meaningful and measurable progress toward alleviating the causes and conditions of poverty and increasing self-sufficiency among low-income individuals, families and communities. State EPPs should also document and disseminate practice models addressing, directly or indirectly, one or more of the areas of evidence-based and innovative programming. Applicants must clearly state which of the three practice models, or combination thereof they are applying for, and must justify their selection in terms of documented experience and areas of expertise in specified project goals and objectives. Grantees will develop these projects and tangible resources with the goal that CSBG Network members seeking to implement evidence-based and innovative programs can look to them for guidance, insight, and possible replication.

$200 million loan fund for small biz

[From Philanthropy Today] The banking giant Citigroup is teaming up with two nonprofit organizations on a $200-million loan fund for small firms in low- and moderate-income areas, The Washington Post writes.

Citigroup will put up $199-million for the Communities at Work Fund, with the rest coming from the Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit investment group, and the Opportunity Finance Network of community lenders. Calvert will manage the fund.

Incarcerated Veterans Grant

The U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS), announces a grant competition to fund at least twelve (12) Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program (IVTP) grants designed to support incarcerated Veterans “at risk” of homelessness. These grants are being funded under the authority of 38 U.S.C. Section 2021 and 2023 as amended by PL 110-387, Sec. 602, titled the Expansion and Extension of Authority for Program of Referral and Counseling Services for At Risk Veterans Transitioning from Certain Institutions. VETS will have up to $4 million allocated to fund awards under this grant competition. Applicants will be required to design programs which assist eligible incarcerated and/or transitioning incarcerated Veterans who are “at risk” of homelessness, by providing referral and career counseling services, to include job training and placement assistance, job readiness and life skills support services, housing, health care, and other benefits. Under this solicitation, VETS anticipates that up to $300,000 will be made available for each awards and expects to award at least twelve (12) grants. As mandated by Congress, one grant award will be to a penal institution under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons. Projects will be selected that provide services to incarcerated Veterans at one or more levels of the correctional system, i.e., Federal, State and/or local. This notice contains all of the necessary information and forms needed to apply for grant funding. The IVTP is designed to be flexible in addressing the national, regional, and/or local issues that prevent incarcerated Veterans from reintegrating back into the workforce. VETS will seek applicants that provide direct services through a case management and counseling approach that network with Federal, State, and local resources for Veteran support programs and that have clear strategies for effectively providing employment and training, retention and/or life skills and job readiness services to incarcerated Veterans. Further, since local and county jails are normally the first location where incarcerated Veterans will be available for potential grantees to focus their outreach and to provide program services, VETS also seeks applicants who are able to deliver proactive service approaches targeted especially toward returning Veterans who recently served overseas. There may be future addendums to this solicitation published on Grants.gov and the VETS website. All applicants are responsible for checking back to Grants.gov and the VETS website regularly to ensure they have the latest information regarding any updates to this solicitation.