Pima County Public Library

Happy New Year!

Did you make a list of New Year's resolutions? Perhaps yours include finding grant opportunities for your nonprofit. If so, you're opening the right email! Use the Table of Contents at the right to navigate to grant opportunities of interest to you. If none of these opportunities seems to fit with your nonprofit, come on down to the Joel D. Valdez Main Library on Friday, January 14th for a hands-on Grants Databases Open Lab led by a librarian skilled in locating funder matches for your project. If you want to gain more knowledge about proposal writing after locating a funder, be sure to sign up for the library's Proposal Writing Basics workshop on Saturday, January 29th. Check out the Grants & Nonprofit Calendar for even more local events.

Arts & Culture
Theatre Communications Group and Mellon Foundation Launch New Global Connections Program

Deadline: February 28, 2011

Designed by the Theatre Communications Group and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Global Connections program will award travel grants and project development grants to U.S.-based theaters and individual artists. The program is designed to foster new relationships by way of cultural exchange and to further pre-existing international collaborations. Theater organizations and individual artists may apply to one of the two initiatives of this new program:

1) Global Connections - On the Road: This initiative will award twelve grants of up to $6,000 to foster new relationships with international colleagues that will inspire each other's work and aesthetics by creating opportunities for cultural exchange.

2) Global Connections - In the Lab: This initiative will award six grants of $10,000 to further pre-existing international collaborations by supporting residencies that either advance the development of a piece or explore elements leading up to a full production.

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Kresge Foundation's Arts & Culture Facility Investments & Building Reserves Grants
Deadline: March 1, 2011 for preliminary applications

The Kresge Foundation's Arts and Culture Program is inviting preliminary applications for its Facility Investments and Building Reserves grants. The opportunity is part of the program's Institutional Capitalization focus area, which is designed to strengthen the long-term financial health of arts and cultural organizations. Organizations may apply for two types of grants:

1) Facility investments grants support both project costs and the creation of a building reserve. This new grant opportunity will prioritize renovation and repair projects. On occasion, the foundation will entertain applications for new construction associated with exemplary sustainability practices or those that embody key principles of urban and community planning to enhance the quality of life in a place.

2) Building reserves grants are designed to seed or enhance a fund to support the ongoing maintenance and replacement needs of an organization over time.

Applicants must now have arts and culture as their primary mission. In general, Institutional Capitalization grants will not exceed $1 million and/or a period of three years. Grants may be awarded as a match or challenge. Click for Complete Information

The Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation

Deadline: None

Along with supporting human services organizations, the foundation provides grants to arts and music organizations that encourage appreciation for the arts among the local community. Some consideration is given to organizations funded in the past. Most grants are between $2,000 and $12,000. To apply, submit a proposal including the specific amount requested, the intended use of the grant, current financial statements, a current budget, proof of 501(c)3 status, and any other pertinent data to Samuel T. Armstrong, Jr., P.O. Box 12867, Tucson, AZ 85732-2867. For more information, please visit any branch of the Pima County Public Library and search our grants databases using the foundation's name.

The Hearst Foundation
Deadline: Rolling

The foundation supports programs that enrich the lives of young people by engaging them in cultural activities, primarily through art-in-education programs. Grants are awarded to major institutions and community organizations in the arts and sciences that address the lack of arts programming in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade curricula by providing comprehensive, on-site and/or outreach education activities. Recent grants made in 2010 ranged from $25,000 to $1,000,000, although most were for $50,000 to $200,000. For Arizona grantseekers, contact the San Francisco office. Click for More Information

Literacy & Education
Verizon Foundation
Deadline: October 31, 2011

The Verizon Foundation targets our philanthropic investments to partners and programs that achieve meaningful outcomes and measurable results in specific areas within each of our Funding Priorities. Grant applicants are required to select one or more outcomes and results for grants in each of our Funding Priorities. The foundation makes grants in the following funding priorities: 1. Education; 2. Literacy; 3. Domestic Violence Prevention; 4. Healthcare and Accessibility; and 5. Internet Safety. The foundation helps people to increase their literacy and educational achievement, avoid being an abuser or a victim of domestic violence, and achieve and sustain their health and safety. Click for Complete Information

The Big Read

Deadline: February 1, 2011

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Organizations applying to The Big Read must select from specific reading choices listed on the website. Organizations may apply for grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000. Grants must be matched at least 1 to 1 with nonfederal funds. Grant funds may be used for such expenses as book purchases, speaker fees and travel, salaries, advertising, and venue rental. Click for Complete Information
Innovating Worthy Projects Fund

Deadline: Applications accepted January 1 to August 31

The Foundation makes grants to organizations dedicated to serving developing innovative programs, disseminating ideas, or providing direct care or services for children with special needs, acute illnesses or chronic disabilities. Past grants have included programs to educate needy students. Past grants have ranged from $5,000 to $15,000. Click for Complete Information
Literacy for PreK-5 Students

Deadline: July 1, 2011 for Letters of Inquiry

Beginning in 2010, The Stocker Foundation's competitive grantmaking focuses exclusively on lessening the reading/literacy achievement gap for under-resourced prekindergarten through fifth grade public school students. Their primary funding interests are supplemental programs that move students toward grade-level reading mastery; comprehensive intervention strategies that increase overall literacy achievement by fourth grade; book distribution programs that increase students' access to print materials, encourage students' reading outside of the classroom, and develops students' life-long love of reading; programs that support emerging literacy and reading skills among prekindergarten (children enter kindergarten ready to read. Pima County is one of their primary geographic interests. Past grants have been as much as $75,000, although most are $25,000 and under. Click for Complete Information
For more information on grants and nonprofit resources, please visit the Grants & Nonprofit Info Center website

Sincerely,



Kassy Rodeheaver

Librarian, Grants & Nonprofit Info Center

Pima County Public Library

In This Issue
Theatre Communications Group & Mellon Foundation
Kresge Foundation's Arts & Culture Facility & Building Reserves Grants
The Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation
The Hearst Foundation
Verizon Foundation
The Big Read
Innovating Worthy Projects Fund
Literacy for PreK-5 Students
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About the Grants & Nonprofit Information Center
 

The mission of the Grants & Nonprofit Information Center is to provide information resources for nonprofit and community organizations to assist them in fulfilling their missions. You can visit us on the 3rd floor of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library in downtown Tucson.

 

Kassy Rodeheaver is the supervisor of the Grants & Nonprofit Info Center and has been a part of the Tucson nonprofit community since 2007.

 

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