Captain Planet Foundation Environmental Grants

The Captain Planet Foundation funds hands-on environmental projects to encourage youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities.

Grants are intended to serve as a catalyst to getting environment-based education in schools and inspire youth and communities to participate in community service through environmental stewardship activities. All projects must promote understanding of environmental issues, focus on hands-on involvement, involve children and young adults 6-18 and promote interaction and cooperation within a group.

Schools and organizations located in the US with operating budgets less than $3 million are eligible to apply.


Preferential consideration is given to requests seeking seed funding of $500 or less and to applicants who have secured at least 50% matching or in-kind funding for their projects.

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust grant:

The purpose of the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust is to award grants to librarians who "promote the free reading of teenagers." Not much information on the site, I can't see a deadline. 

Complete the application (a two-page pdf) & mail it to:

Julian L. Lapides, Esquire
Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust
600 Wyndhurst Ave, Suite 246
Baltimore, MD 21210

Share the Good from Seeds of Change

Seeds of Change®,  maker of organically grown seeds and nutritious organic foods, has opened the grant application period for their Share the Good grant program. The application period is open from April 8 until April 22. Organizations that inspire nutrition, gardening and farming programs could receive a $25,000 grant or one of 15 $10,000 grants to support efforts to enhance the environmental, economic and social well-being of gardens, farms, farmers and communities.

Community-based schools, nutrition-focused programs, gardens and farm-related organizations are encouraged to apply for a grant to support and expand their sustainable growing initiatives.

Applicants are asked to describe how their organization or project shares the good in its community through sustainable gardening and farming, and how the project or activity makes its community more sustainable.

Applications will then be made available for voting by anyone who visits the Seeds of Change Facebook page from April 22 to May 17, 2013. The top 50 organizations or programs that receive the most votes will move onto the final judging phase. The grant recipients will be selected by a panel of judges that includes Seeds of Change farmers, who will evaluate each proposal's impact and relevance to the Share the Good  initiative. Winners will be announced on or around June 4, 2013.

                    

Maximum Grant:  $25,000           Deadline:  April 22, 2013   

State Farm Youth Advisory Board

The State Farm Youth Advisory Board is currently funding service-learning projects between $25,000 and $100,000 that address the root cause of the issue areas below. Service-learning is defined as the integrating of meaningful community service back into real classroom curriculum, and it’s a method that has been proven effective to increase student engagement and impact student achievement.
 

Worth checking out, with a robust FAQ and Help page. Maximum: $100,000; Deadline: May 3, 2013.  

2013 Issue Areas

Access to Higher Education/Closing the Achievement Gap: Every 26 seconds, a child drops out of school. By developing innovative strategies for empowering students to care about and take control of their education, our grantees hope to reduce and eliminate this crisis. To learn more about this issue area, please visit our projects area.

Financial Literacy (and Economic Inclusion): The need for a greater understanding of finance is clearer than ever in light of the ongoing financial crisis. Equipping students with the skills they need to be successful and informed about their current and future finances is the vision of our financial literacy grantees. To learn more about this issue area, please visit our projects area.

Community Safety and Natural Disaster Preparedness: The issues of community safety have received unprecedented attention in the wake of school shootings such as at Sandy Hook Elementary and Virginia Tech and hurricanes such as Katrina and Sandy. As these diverse yet equally exigent disasters unfold, the State Farm Youth Advisory Board recognizes the importance of keeping our communities safe from natural disasters, social issues, and acts of violence.

Social Health & Wellness Issues: Nutritional imbalances across the country, the high rates of obesity among both children and adults, the increasing prevalence of mental illnesses, and the growing rate of sexual transmitted diseases and sexual assault, demonstrate the significance of health and wellness issues in all communities. The State Farm Youth Advisory Board encourages projects within Health and Wellness that address, focus on threats or challenges to, and promote mental, physical, and sexual health.

Environmental Responsibility: From global climate change and environmental education to wildlife conservation and land preservation, our grantees create and implement powerful service-learning projects that improve both our local and global environment. To learn more about this issue area, please visit our projects area.

Run for Something Better Grants

Run for Something Better Grants, sponsored by ING & The National Association for Sport and Physical Education, establish school-based running programs or expand an existing ones. 

The goal of this funding is to empower school age children nationwide with the means to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

At least 50 grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded to select applicants. 

Programs that target grades Kindergarten through 8th grade in elementary or middle schools are eligible to apply.

Deadline: May 15, 2013. 

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   

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.