Grants

The Baseball Tomorrow Fund

Sponsor: Major League Baseball/Major League Baseball Players' Association

Application Deadline: Open (Letter of Inquiry)

Description: The Baseball Tomorrow Fund is designed to promote and enhance the growth of youth participation in baseball and softball. Grants are intended to finance new programs, expand or improve existing programs, undertake new collaborative efforts, or obtain facilities or necessary equipment. Non-profit and tax-exempt organizations involved in youth baseball and softball programs may apply. Grants are awarded on a quarterly basis.

California Wellness Grants Program

Sponsor: The California Wellness Foundation

Application Deadline: Open

Description: The California Wellness Foundation offers grants for organizations that provide direct services in disease prevention, health promotion, or wellness education. 501 (c) (3) organizations offering services in California are eligible to apply. Grants of $5,000-$200,000 over a 1-3 year period are available.

Improving the Lives of Children Grant

Sponsor: Herbalife Family Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The Herbalife Family Foundation provides financial assistance to non-profit organizations around the world dedicated to improving the lives of children. The purpose of the Improving the Lives of Children program is to support organizations and programs that focus on nutrition, prevention of substance abuse, and promotion of physical and emotional health in children. Funding amounts vary.

Helping Kids and Schools Grants

Sponsor: Office Depot

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The purpose of the Helping Kids and Schools Grants Program is to support organizations in the areas of health, education, and welfare of children. Funding for provision of services is available. Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations. Funding amounts vary.

Grants for Social Change

Sponsor: Ben & Jerry's Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling (Letter of Inquiry)

Description: The Ben & Jerry's Foundation supports non-profit, grassroots organizations that facilitate progressive social change by addressing underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems. The Foundation will only consider proposals from grassroots, constituent-led organizations that are organizing for systemic social change, and the Foundation will focus on the types of activities and strategies an organization uses for creating social change when determining funding. Full awards range from $1,000 to $15,000, and a small number of material grants of up to $1,000 for innovative programs may also be given. Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations with 501c(3) status in the U.S. (funding is generally reserved for organizations with budgets under $250,000).

Amateur Athletic Foundation Grants

Sponsor: Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (AAF) awards grants to organizations providing youth sports opportunities in Southern California's eight counties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The AAF provides funding to assist organizations that provide ongoing, structured youth sports programs combining the essential elements of teaching, learning and competition. Grants will be made to organizations rather than individuals. There is no grant application form, and the AAF accepts proposals at any time on a first-come, first-served basis.

New York City Grants

Sponsor: New York Community Trust

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The New York Community Trust makes grants in four general areas, including health and people with special needs; children, youth, and families; education, arts, and the humanities; and development and the environment. Funding priorities within the area of health and special needs include projects that strengthen preventive health care, improve access to services, promote the efficient use of health resources, and develop the skills and independence of people with special needs. Grants are made primarily to nonprofit organizations located in the five boroughs of New York City. Grants range from $5,000 to $10,000 for one year.

Health, Education & Youth Grants

Sponsor: The Annenberg Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The Annenberg Foundation provides funding for organizations with 501©(3) status. Funding priorities include health, education and youth, arts and culture, and civic and community life. Funding amounts vary.

Albertsons - Corporate Contributions Program

Sponsor: Albertsons, Inc.

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The Albertsons Corporate Contributions Program contributes to the quality of life in the communities in which they are located in 31 states. The program supports projects related to health and nutrition, education and youth development, hunger relief, volunteerism, and environmental affairs.

Fund for Teachers - Summer Learning Opportunity

Sponsor: Fund for Teachers

Application Deadline: Varies by State

Description: The Fund for Teachers provides direct grants for summer learning opportunities to teachers who work with students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Under this program, teachers must propose a summer activity and address the following areas: how the activity will make the applicant a better teacher, how the implementation of the activity will improve the applicant's skills or capacity in the classroom, and how the activity and experience will impact students, curricula and school. Applicants must have a minimum of three years teaching experience and be a full time teacher, spending at least 50% of the time in the classroom. Individual awards are up to $5,000 and team awards are up to $7,000.

The Quality of Life Grants Program

Sponsor: The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: Quality of Life grants support non-profit organizations that address the needs of persons living with paralysis (particularly spinal cord injury), their families and caregivers. Funding is awarded in thirteen categories, including: accessibility, advocacy, arts, assistive technology, children, counseling, education, employment, health promotion, independent living, practical service, sports and recreation, and therapeutic riding.

Health, Education, and Youth Grants

Sponsor: Birds Eye Foods Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: Funding priorities for the Birds Eye Foods Foundation Health, Education, and Youth Grants include health, community service, education, youth, and cultural programs. Non-profit organizations in the following communities are eligible to apply: Watsonville, CA; Montezuma, GA; Fennville, MI; Waseca, MN; Bergen, Brockport, Fulton, Oakfield, and Rochester, NY; Berlin, PA; Algona and Tacoma, WA; and Darien, Fairwater, and Green Bay, WI.

Nike Community Grant

Sponsor: Nike Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: Nike's corporate giving focuses on programs that support youth and physical activity, and the positive effects of the two when they are truly in sync. Programs should increase and promote physical activity in some way, and can include indoor programs, outdoor programs, or both. Funding priorities include programs that get kids more physically active, activities that get kids involved in the teamwork of sport, and physical activity programs that have real, positive and measurable impact. Giving is focused to communities where Nike has a significant employee or Niketown retail presence. U.S.-based 501© (3) organizations are eligible to apply as well as non-U.S. organizations that are charitable/non-profit.

The Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation Grant

Sponsor: The Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation

Application Deadline: Rolling

Description: The purpose of The Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation Grant is to improve the quality of life in the communities served by Ralphs and Food 4 Less. The Foundation focuses on the needs of those living in areas served by Ralphs, Food 4 Less, and Foods Co stores. Funding priorities include K-12 education and recreational programs, hunger-related programs, women's health, community-based projects, and assisting communities in the aftermath of local disasters. 501© (3) organizations are eligible to apply.