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(OUTDOORS) New England Fund Focuses on Community Groups

Private Funder: New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF); Opportunity: Small Grants Program; Funding Focus: Environment, communities; Geographic Focus: New England; Eligibility: Grassroots nonprofits with or without 501 (c)(3) status in CT, ME, MA, NH, RI and VT; Funding: Multiple awards rang...

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(EDUCATION) Lorrie Otto Provides Seeds Money for Education

Private Funder: Wild Ones andLorrie Otto; Opportunity: 2011-2012 Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grants; Funding Focus: Education and the environment; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Schools, nature centers or other nonprofit educational organizations; Funding: Awards up to $500 each;...

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(PUBLIC SAFETY) Open Society Institute Offers Range of Funding

Private Funder: Open Society Institute (OSI); Opportunity: 2011 program grants (Open Society Fellowships); Funding Focus: Public safety and community development; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Varies;Deadline: Rolling (Proposals received by Aug. 1, 2011 will be evalua...

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(UNDERSERVED) Levi Strauss Foundation Grants Fight Poverty

Private Funder: Levi Strauss Foundation; Opportunity: 2011 program grants; Funding Focus: Heath and community development; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Up to $75,000;Deadline: Rolling. Summary: The Levi Strauss Foundation, the giving arm of blue jeans-maker Levi Str...

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Good news! We've significantly upgraded our search engine to help you better mine the wealth of stories and grant opportunities in our extensive news database.. Now you can search by date, topic, key word or headline--and even across multiple publications at once--virtually anyway you choose. ...

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(YOUTH) Gap Foundation Offers Community Funding

Private Funder: Gap Foundation; Opportunity: 2011 employee-company funding programs; Funding Focus: Youth; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Up to $50,000 each; Deadline: Rolling. Summary: For nearly three decades the Gap Foundation—the charitable arm of clothier Gap Inc...

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(CULTURE) Furthermore Provides Education Funding

Private Funder: J.M. Kaplan Fund initiative; Opportunity: Furthermore; Funding Focus: Writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding.; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: Up to $15,000 each; Deadline: Sept. 15 & March 1...

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(AUDIO CONFERENCE) Experts Provide Insider Info about New HUD Funding Opportunities

Even though the Department of Housing & Urban Development continues its slow rollout of specifics about opportunities in the agency's FY 2011 funding stream, grant experts from CD Publications on Thursday (May 12) provided hundreds of audio conference attendees with "insider" details about HUD's...

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(COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT) UPS Foundation Provides Service Grants

Private Funder: UPS Foundation; Opportunity: 2011 Grants; Funding Focus: Community development and the underserved; Geographic Focus: National; Eligibility: Nonprofits; Funding: In 2009, the foundation distributed more than $43 million in grants; Deadline: Rolling Summary: The UPS Foundation offer...

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(FUNDING TIPS) Guru Offers Sources of Funding for Literacy, Disabilities Programs

Dear Grant Guru: "We are looking for funding for our programs. What we need most (right now) are grants for operational costs. We need laptops, projector screens, microphones, website development ...and funding to build our staff ... If you know of any resources to help us build our organization, pl...

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