National Trust Preservation Funds

Maximum Grant:  $5,000            Deadline:  October 1, 2013         Guidelines and application.

The National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) accepts grant applications from members (see site) on a quarterly basis. Grants are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector.

The National Trust is particularly interested in projects that relate to the preservation priorities listed below. If your project relates to any of these issues, please explain the connection in your narrative.

* Building sustainable communities: Does your project demonstrate that historic preservation supports economic, environmental and cultural sustainability in communities?
* Reimagining historic sites: Does your project use innovative, replicable strategies that create new models for historic site interpretation and stewardship?
* Promoting diversity and place: Does your project broaden the cultural diversity of historic preservation?
* Protecting historic places on public lands

Application deadlines are February 1, June 1, and October 1.

Open Meadown Foundation funds projects benefiting women and girls

Open Meadows Foundation

Open Meadows Foundation Offers Funding for Projects to Benefit Women and Girls

Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation funds projects that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, age or ability. It offers grants up to $2000 to projects that:

* Are designed and implemented by women and girls;
* Reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization;
* Promote building community power;
* Promote gender, racial, social, economic and/or environmental justice; and
* Have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding.

There are two deadlines per year, August and February.

American Honda: STEM, Literacy, Job Training

The American Honda Foundation supports youth education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy.

Deadlines are four times a year (February, May, August, November) and grants range from $20,000 to $75,000 over a one-year period. 

Proposals are submitted online in a process that begins with applicants taking an Eligibility Quiz to ensure the program meets certain qualifications. There's a pretty robust informational page about these grants, too.

SIGMS Technology Innovation Award

The SIGMS Technology Innovation Award from the InternationalSociety For Technology In Education  is presented to two teams of a school librarian and collaborating teacher from one primary school, or its equivalent, and one secondary school, or its equivalent each year. 

We're looking for teams who have planned a collaborative project involving technology, received support from administration, and successfully executed the project with supportive data and evidence for others to replicate the project. 

Deadline: February 28, 2013; Award: $2,000

Award winners receive:

• Recognition at ISTE's annual conference and exposition.
• Complimentary registration to ISTE's annual conference and exposition (two per team).
• Up to $1,000 travel stipend for ISTE's annual conference and exposition (one per team).
• A $1,000 cash award payable to the school media center (one per team).
• A $300 professional library from ISTE (one per team).
• A one-year ISTE membership (two per team).
• An engraved plaque recognizing the recipient's outstanding achievement (two per team).
• Recognition in ISTE publications, in press releases provided to local media, and on the iste.org/ website

It’s All About the Fruits and Veggies Grants Program: up to $500

The National Gardening Association’s It’s All About the Fruits and Veggies Grants Program is open to schools, community organizations, and nfp’s gardening with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. Schools must be located within a 50 mile radius of a Jamba Juice store (there’s one in Orange at Bruegger's Bagels in the Crossroads Plaza) and a few in New York.

I guess how it works is, applicants complete a Garden Registry profile, and then, through the Sip To Support A Garden Program, schools and community gardens can earn credits that can be applied against the purchase of essential gardening equipment suitable for any age from the national gardening association’s Gardening With Kids Catalog.

Deadline: 2-18-2013; maximum award: $500.00.

Disney Friends for Change Grants: $1K for young people

Disney Friends for Change Grants offer young change-makers the opportunity to receive funding to help make a lasting, positive change in the world. Projects should highlight the creativity and commitment of young people working to meet the needs of others with the goal of showing how even small actions can add up to big changes.

Multiple grants of $1,000 will be awarded to select applicants. 

Youth ages 5-18 are eligible to apply. Deadline: February 10, 2013. Application + info  here.

To be eligible to lead a Disney Friends for Change grant, you must be between the ages of 5 – 18.  Legally, if you are younger than 13, you must have someone older than 13 prepare and submit the application for you.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

Dollar General's Literacy Foundation offers Family Literacy Grants to providers; applying organizations must have the following four components:

* Adult Education Instruction
* Children's Education
* Parent and Child Together Time (PACT)
* Parenting Classes

Maximum Grant:  $15,000; Deadline:  February 28, 2013

Guidelines and application.

Deadline to apply: February 28, 2013
Grant Announcement: May 17, 2013
Maximum Grant Amount: $15,000

IMLS Sparks! Ignite grants

Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums ("Sparks Grants") are a special funding opportunity within the IMLS National Leadership Grants program. These small grants encourage libraries, museums, and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. 

Maximum Grant:  $25,000; Deadline:  February 1, 2013

Sparks Grants support the rapid prototyping and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and museums serve their communities. Sparks grantees are required to submit a short white paper with the results of their work to be publicly posted and shared with the field.

Examples of activities that may be funded by this program include, but are not limited to:

* rapid prototyping and testing of new ways to engage learners
* offering innovative new types of services or new service options
* exploring the potential of highly original, experimental collaborations
implementing new workflows or processes with potential for substantial cost savings
* addressing community challenges through new types of partnerships, services, processes, or practices
* developing and testing new tools or services that facilitate access, presentation, management, preservation, sharing, or use of museum and/or library collections