Funding Opportunities

Foundations for Learning: To help children get ready for school.

Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Eligibility: Local Education Agencies, community-based organizations, or combinations of those groups.
Deadline: February 24, 2009
Amount: Four grants averaging $245,500 each

Gang Prevention Coordination: To enhance coordination of federal, state and local, resources in support of community partnerships that engage in the following anti-gang strategies: primary prevention, secondary prevention, gang intervention and targeted gang enforcement.

Funder: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Eligibility: Public and private nonprofits
Deadline: March 24, 2009
Amount: 12 awards of up to $200,000 each for 24-month projects

Advancing Student Achievement: To create new, innovative math mentoring programs that are specific to a school's needs and foster a "love of math."

Funder: The Actuarial Foundation
Eligibility: Schools and nonprofits, with a focus on underserved populations
Deadline: Open
Amount: Not specified

Books for Children: Matching assistance to help libraries acquire new, quality hardcover children's books.

Funder: Libri Foundation
Eligibility: Rural Libraries
Deadline: April 15, 2009 and August 15, 2009
Amount: Friends of libraries or other local sponsors contribute from $50 to $350, which the foundation matches on a 2:1 basis. A library can receive as much as $1,050 worth of new books.

Dreyers Grants and Donations: Funds and donations of ice cream products and gift certificates and auction items to nonprofit organizations for events.

Funder: Dreyers Inc.
Eligibility: Nonprofits
Deadline: Day seven of each month
Amount: $3,000 or less

Immigration Education: For projects on the K-12 grade level that educate about immigrants and immigration.

Funder: American Immigration Law Foundation
Eligibility: Educators in primary, intermediate, and secondary schools.
Deadline: June 1, 2009 and November 28, 2009
Amount: $100 to $500

Safe and Vital Communities: For projects related to catastrophe response, youth anti-violence, neighborhood revitalization and teen safe driving, as well as for tolerance, inclusion, and diversity.

Funder: Allstate Foundation
Eligibility: Nonprofits
Deadline: Open
Amount: Varies

Computer Software In-kind Support Available: The Microsoft Corporation is offering grants for in-kind support to help programs create community based technology and learning centers that help promote technology literacy. Programs must have computer hardware that is needed to run Microsoft software, and personnel capable of installing and maintaining requested software.

Funder: Microsoft Corporation
Deadline: None