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Schools, Communities Can Use New Website to Leverage Education, Dropout Aid
   The APA Center for Promise at Tufts U. will focus on projects designed to demonstrate how disconnected youth can be helped back onto the career-college track.
posted 1/1/13 09:40 AM  read complete story

Foundation Official Offers Tips on Obtaining Youth Workforce Grants
   Funding helps improve workforce opportunities for those with disabilities.
posted 12/21/12 04:45 AM  read complete story

Foundations Launch Open Data, Funding Collaborations
   Dubbed the "Reporting Commitment," the effort is supposed to make grant information available in a more consistent, more open, and more frequent format.
posted 10/29/12 2:46 PM  read complete story

Foundation Serves as Good Example of Partnering, Community Funding
   Foundation Serves as Good Example of Partnering, Community Funding
posted 9/28/12 4:12 PM  read complete story

Foundation Expands Efforts in Improving Education, Reducing Dropouts
   Foundation Expands Efforts in Improving Education, Reducing Dropouts
posted 7/23/12 1:42 PM  read complete story

Lowe’s, Keep America Beautiful to Provide $1M in Community Improvement Grants
   Funders: Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF); Opportunity: 2012 KAB community grants; Funding Focus: Community beautification and recreation; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: KAB affiliates, community grassroots organizations and K-12 scho...
posted 2/14/12 2:35 PM  read complete story

Foundation Shares Tips on How to Win Education-Entrepreneur Grants
   Virtual Enterprises International (VEI) used its good track record and well-focused program strategies to win a $1 million grant that will provide high school business education programming in four states, say New York Life Foundation officials. Chris Park, president of New York Life Foundation, te...
posted 1/27/12 07:57 AM  read complete story

(FUNDING TIPS) Reader Finds Help for Funding Gap
    PGA readers who are facing significant funding gaps in their human-services programs may want to emulate the work of a South Florida nonprofit which was able to leverage Agriculture Dept. (USDA) commodity donations to bridge an ongoing budget dilemma. Loretta deVries, of the Dialysis Food Fo...
posted 9/2/11 4:17 PM  read complete story

(TIPS) PGA Offers Funding Sources for Workforce, AIDS Programs
    A PGA reader from Chicago was looking for funding to help her find grant opportunities to support her organization's programs for the unemployed and those suffering from chronic diseases. Eula Burge, a grant-seeker with Proactive Community Services, says that funding is tight these days and t...
posted 7/22/11 4:33 PM  read complete story

(EXCLUSIVE) PGA Offers Insights into Winning APA Youth Grants
   The America's Promise Alliance (APA) and ING Foundation have launched the 2011 100 Best Communities for Young People competition and program officials have offered PGA with exclusive insights on winning the grants. The 100 Best competition distributes awards to communities which are judged preemin...
posted 3/16/11 07:18 AM  read complete story