Heineman Foundation’s Youth Development Grants

The Heineman Foundation provides seed money for start-up projects and new projects within existing organizations for a maximum of three to five years.

Youth Development Grants are intended to support projects that conduct research into prevention, education, and treatment for childhood illnesses, and those that enable youth to think, create, and communicate effectively.

Deadline: September 1, 2012.

The Foundation's general areas of interest are the following (in no particular order):

• Programs that enable economically challenged women to enter and remain in the workplace
• On site day care centers for women in the workplace
• Job training programs
• Language and leadership skills
• Environmental research that will help prevent, reduce and/or eliminate water degradation.
• Music as education and preserver of culture.
• Research into prevention of and treatment
  for childhood illnesses.
• Programs that enable youth to think, create and communicate effectively.
• Programs that support and promote high achievement in music, science, and literature.

21st Century Solutions from NBC

The NBCUniversal Foundation is partnering with NBC Connecticut to create 21st Century Solutions, a local grant challenge for nonprofit organizations implementing new and innovative programs.

The competitive grant challenge is open to 501c3's organizations that are implementing progressive programs, approximately less than three years old. 21st Century Solutions will accept applications for programs that are addressing new emerging challenges or ongoing issues in the areas of Arts and Media, Civic Engagement, Jobs and Economic Empowerment, Community Development, Technology and Innovation, Education, and Environment.

Qualifying non-profit organizations must be physically located in and serve the NBC Connecticut Television Market.

The application deadline is August 15, 2012. 

Free webinar 7/24: In the News and On the Shelf: Fiction & Nonfiction in Your Book Groups

In the News and On the Shelf: Fiction & Nonfiction in Your Book Groups


This free, hour-long webinar will explore numerous ideas for enhancing your book group discussions using book awards, current events, reviews, and technology. Moderator Rebecca Vnuk, Reference and Collection Management Editor for Booklist, will be joined by representatives from Random House and W. W. Norton—whose authors were recently named winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction—as well as Kaite Stover of the Kansas City (MO) Public Library and Lucy Lockley of the St. Charles (MO) City-County Library District.

Even if you can't make the date, you might want to register anyway because a link to the video archive will be e-mailed to you after the event. 

EVENT DETAILS: Tuesday, July 24

Time:
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