High Hopes for Pets Foundation

OK, cat-loving librarians. This one's for you if you partner with animal care or shelter agencies.

The High Hopes for PetsFoundation seeks to provide support for the many individuals and groups who are dedicated to the prevention of homelessness for companion pets everywhere. Grants are made periodically to support these groups.

Animal Care and Control and Shelter organizations can request funding for these specific types of programs:

* Food costs
* Housing costs
* Spay and neutering programs
* Capital improvements
* Training programs to make animals more adoptable
* Educational workshops

Maximum Grant:  $500            

     

Deadline:  March 29, 2013        

RGK Foundation: Education, Community, and Medicine/Health Grants

The RGK Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that provide services in the areas of Community, Education and Medicine/Health.

Specific areas of focus include:

• children and family services
• early childhood development
• parenting education
• after-school educational enrichment programs
• promotion of the health and well-being of children
• programs that promote access to health services.

Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. The grant guidelines invite organizations to submit electronic letters of inquiry that are formally reviewed on a rolling basis. After review, organizations may be invited to submit a formal proposal. Past grants. FAQ.

Letters of Inquiry due dates are March 1, 2013 | June 14, 2013 |September 20, 2013.

Quinnipiac U hosts Freedom of Information event March 27

QU is hosting "Everyday Exposés: How to Use the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act to Uncover Information in your Community," at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, in the Rocky Top Student Center on the York Hill Campus.

The free event is co-sponsored by the New England First Amendment Coalition, Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, Connecticut Library Association, Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists, and the League of Women Voters of Connecticut. Learn more

The panel discussion will be moderated by Lynne DeLucia, editor of the Connecticut Health Investigative Team. Panelists include:

• Beau Berman, investigative reporter, WTIC TV
• Bill Cummings, investigative reporter, Hearst CT newspapers
• Matt Kauffman, investigative reporter, Hartford Courant
• Jill Konopka, reporter, WFSB

Light refreshments will be provided. Free parking is available on the York Hill Campus, 305 Sherman Ave. in Hamden.

Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program

Yes, I realize how ridiculous it seems to put this on a blog devoted to libraries.

But I can't help thinking to myself, "How many times has the librarian sat in a big meeting and The Coach or Athletic Director says, 'You get me a football field and I'll pack your library study hall every day!' or something like that."

Probably never, but there's no harm in putting this out there. Just knowing it exists is interesting.

This funding address the shortage of clean, safe, and accessible football fields in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods by providing financial and technical assistance to nonprofit neighborhood-based organizations working to improve local football fields. 

Multiples grants ranging from $50,000 up to $200,000 are available to select applicants. Nonprofit organizations, middle, and high schools serving low- and moderate-income neighborhoods are eligible to apply. Deadline: March 15, 2013        

Youth Football Grassroots Program    

 

Citizen's Institute on Rural Design

Readers, I realize this is late notice, but maybe think abut it for next year. Even knowing there is funding out there like this is interesting. 

The National Endowment for the Arts' Citizens' Institute on Rural Design initiative works to help rural communities with populations of 50,000 or fewer enhance their quality of life and economic vitality through facilitated design workshops. Eligibility guidelines.  

Maximum Grant:  $7,000; Deadline: March 5, 2013

The program builds teams of local leaders, community organizations, and specialists in design, planning, and creative placemaking to help rural communities strengthen their economies, enhance their rural character, leverage their cultural assets, and design efficient housing and transportation systems.

Each community selected to participate in the Institute will receive $7,000 in 1:1 matching funds to plan and host a two-day workshop. CIRD will help communities to assemble teams of specialists based on local needs. The program also provides expert-led conference calls and webinar presentations that are open to the public on topics related to rural design.

CIRD will provide two call-ins for applicants with questions about their proposals. The calls will take place on February 7 and February 28, 2013. Participation in each call is free but registration is required. 

Neither CT nor MA has received a CIRD grant in the past, but RI has for Block Island (2005) and West Greenwich (1998).

YSA - Get Ur Good On Grants

Youth Service America's  Get Ur Good On Grants offer young people around the world an opportunity to help make a lasting positive change.

So if you know a kid with a good idea, pass this information along and help them. This grant program provides inspiration, project support, and necessary funding to turn young people's ideas into reality.

Kids and young adults ages 5-25 worldwide are eligible to apply for a maximum $500 Get Ur Good On Grant to support youth-led projects. Projects must address a demonstrated community need or issue, and must take place during Global Youth Service Day, April 26-28, 2013. Applicants must have a Project Mentor to help throughout the project and applicants under 18 must have their parent/guardian's permission.

Deadline:  March 10, 2013   

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

Students (K-12) Invited to Tackle Environmental Issues in the Annual Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

Students and teachers will be awarded grants for replicable solutions to environmental issues in their schools (grades K to five), community (grades six to eight), and the world (grades 9-12).

Deadline: March 5, 2013. Awards are between $1,000 and $5,000.

The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education, and the National Science Teachers Association designed this program to educate, empower, and engage students and teachers across the United States to become "Agents of Change" in identifying and solving environmental problems.

Teams will be judged on both their ability to create a positive, measurable solution to a local sustainability issue or challenge using scientific methodology and their ability to explain how the solution can be replicated by other communities. Student and teacher/mentor prizes, which vary according to grade level, include savings bonds and school grants.

Spruce Up Your School Sweepstakes for school play areas

Hot on the heels of yesterday's sweepstakes, Healthy Playground Makeover we see another: 

The Spruce Up Your School Sweepstakes is offering a $5,000 grant to help make your school's play area more eco-friendly and green by adding trees, shrubbery and more. 

Two runners up will receive "Green Packs" complete with eco-friendly, TurfMutt-branded school supplies for the whole classroom.

Deadline: March 21, 2013

Details here.