Tag: "Grants"
Grant Announcement: Deadline 10/01/10
The Spirit of Conservation Migratory Bird Program is a partnership between ConocoPhillips and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to provide grants for bird habitat conservation projects in areas where ConocoPhillips has an operating presence.
To be eligible for funding, a project must benefit migratory birds and their habitats. The program supports projects that protect, [...]
Grant Announcement: Deadline 11/01/10
The National Gardening Association awards Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations across the United States with child-centered garden programs.
In evaluating grant applications, priority will be given to programs that emphasize one or more of the following: educational focus or curricular/program integration; nutrition or plant-to-food connections; environmental awareness/education; [...]
Grant Announcement: Deadline 11/12/10
Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy are teaming up again this year to provide Libraries and Families Award grants for libraries with exceptional family programming.
Through this opportunity, NCFL and Better World Books will reward and enhance existing family programming and expand literacy-building practices of families in library settings. [...]
Grant Announcement: Deadline 09/30/10
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has announced that it is accepting applications for its waiting list reduction grant, a new program.
Responding to increased demand for adult literacy services, the new grant program is designed to help nonprofit adult literacy organizations remedy their waiting list issues and get more students involved in educational [...]
Grant: Deadline 10/22/10
Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group are encouraging youth to create and implement programs addressing childhood obesity in their local communities through the Heroes program.
The Heroes program is a service-learning, health literacy initiative designed to encourage young people to partner with schools and nonprofits to create and implement local hands-on programs to [...]
Grant: Deadline 09/20/10
Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award.
The award program invites library users across the United States to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college, and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people [...]
Grant Opportunity: Deadline 10/28/10
National Endowment for the Humanities and National Autonomous University of Mexico Announce Scholarly Conference Grant Opportunity
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Humanities Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Coordinación de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — (UNAM) are cooperating to foster the exchange of information [...]
Grant Deadline: 01/03/11
Horace Mann Offers Teacher Fellowships at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Since 2005, Horace Mann and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum have partnered to annually offer fifty teachers a five-day fellowship to study the life and legacy of the sixteenth American president.
Fellows attend one of two five-day sessions — [...]
Grant Deadline 09/29/10
American Council of Learned Societies Announces Guidelines for Digital Innovation Fellowships
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies is inviting applications for the sixth annual ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. The program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related [...]
Grant Deadline 09/10/10
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Accepting Applications for 2011 National Grant Program
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is accepting applications for its annual national grant competition. The grantmaking program is designed to help develop or expand projects that support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers [...]
