Funding Opportunities Stories | Community Development Digest

$10.8 Million to Promote Environmental Engineering

The program fosters cutting-edge scientific research for identifying, evaluating and monitoring waste in the natural environment and for removing or reducing contaminants from polluted air, water and soils.

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Nonprofits to Assist Low-Income Families with Home Ownership

Funds are for eligible national and regional nonprofits to purchase home sites and develop or improve infrastructure needed to set the stage for sweat equity and volunteer-based home ownership programs for low-income persons and families.

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Demonstrations to Address Youth Homelessness

The grantees will develop and execute a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness. The program supports comprehensive systems of care for young people rather than individual or unconnected projects that serve this population.

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Funding to Improve Transit Safety

$7 million for six awards.

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Smaller Communities to Receive Air Service Assistance

The program provides financial assistance to small communities to enhance their air service. The agency provides this assistance in the form of monetary grants that are disbursed on a reimbursable basis.

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AmeriCorps Sets January Deadline, LOI Due in December

Grants focus on funding AmeriCorps volunteers for the following six types of programs: (1) Disaster Services; (2) Economic Opportunity; (3) Education; (4) Environment; (5) Healthy Futures; and (6) Veterans and Military Families.

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Foundation to Honor Community Collaborations on Healthy Living

There are 10 awards of $25,000 each. Eligibility extends to community partnerships led by state, tribal and local governments and nonprofits.

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Popular Restaurant Chain ‘Gives Back’ to Communities

Through the team sponsorship program, the foundation sponsors staff member teams for fundraising or community service projects benefiting charities of their choice.

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Conservation Grants up to $15,000 Available

These grants go for forest management and conservation, community forest education and green building projects for low-income families. Conservation grants of up to $15,000 go to protect forests and waterways and address climate change and biodiversity.

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Chicago Philanthropies Move to Quash Neighborhood Violence

As violence continues to spike in Chicago neighborhoods, local philanthropies are collaborating to provide rapid-response support for immediate action by community organizations working to keep the city’s neighborhoods safe in the weeks ahead.

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