Arizona Cox Conserves Hero Awards 

Deadline: November 21, 2011

Cox Communications will recognize two individuals as Arizona's Cox Conserves Heroes, and a total of $14,000 will be donated to local environmental nonprofits. Arizona's Cox Conserves Heroes - one for Phoenix and one for Southern Arizona - will be chosen through online voting and will each be awarded $5,000 to donate to the environmental nonprofit of their choice. Finalists' nonprofits of choice will receive $1,000. The program invites local residents to nominate volunteers in their community who help create, preserve, and enhance outdoor places for everyone to enjoy. Eligible nominees must not receive financial compensation for their conservation work.

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Arts Education

Deadline: February 1, 2012

The Solon E. Summerfield Foundation makes grants in support of art education to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Past grants have ranged from $2,500 to $50,000. 

Jewish Culture & Organizations

Deadline: None

Arts & Culture Grants

Deadline: None

The Dover Fund seeks to provide funds for the benefit of charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, humanitarian, and social welfare institutions and organizations maintained by others for the improvement of mankind. Grants to religious organizations have been made. Typical grants are $10,000 or less. For more information, please visit any branch of the Pima County Public Library and search the grants databases using the foundation's name or use the free Foundation Finder to review past 990 filings from your office.

Innovative or Contemporary Art

Deadline: None

The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation funds educational activities, publications and outreach associated with innovative art and/or contemporary art exhibitions, especially those focusing on contemporary Asian Art. They are interested in projects that encourage knowledge about art and culture, foster international understanding, and are supported by academic scholarship. Typical grants range from $5,000 to $75,000. 

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Islamic or Persian Culture 

Deadline: None

The Alavi Foundation aims to promote harmony and understanding among people of different religions, as well as provide grants for the study of the humanities, arts, and pure and applied sciences. They also give to organizations that are involved in the teaching of Islamic or Persian culture. Average grants range from $1,000 to $50,000, with a few larger $250,000 grants.

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School Gardens

Deadline: December 31, 2011 

Whole Kids Foundation is able to provide grants of $2,000 to support school garden projects. To be eligible for a garden grant, applicants must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or nonprofit K-12 school that is developing or currently maintaining a school garden project that will help children engage with fresh fruits and vegetables. Garden projects may be at any stage of development; planning, construction or operation.  

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Support for Nutrition Programs Worldwide

Deadline: December 31, 2011

The Allen Foundation supports nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions worldwide that promote human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research. The Foundation's grantmaking priorities include the following: nutritional education for mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, training for educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices, and the dissemination of healthful nutritional information. Relevant nutritional research projects are also supported. Preference may be given to proposals that include matching funds from the applicant or other partners, including in-kind contributions. 

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Award for Workforce Readiness Programs

Deadline: January 12, 2012

ARAMARK Building Community will provide three $20,000 programmatic grants to recognize excellence in workforce readiness - preparing people for, and connecting them to jobs - and will support future program execution in the following categories: preparation for growth industries; skills training for targeted populations; and business ventures as training ground. Members of the United Neighborhood Centers of America and the Alliance for Children and Families may apply.  

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Environmental Education

Deadline: January 31, 2012

The PADI Foundation encourages and supports underwater science, environmental projects, and education. The Foundation will fund and assist worthwhile projects that will enrich mankind's understanding of the aquatic environment and encourage sensitivity to and protection of the delicate ecological balance of underwater life.

Grants Enhance U.S. Farm Communities

Deadline: February 28, 2012 

The Monsanto Fund seeks to encourage the growth of farming communities across the United States with K-12 education grants that enhance programs designed to improve education in farming communities, including supporting schools, libraries, science centers, farmer training programs, and academic programs that supplement school programs. Grants of up to $20,000 will be made. Proposals will be accepted from nonprofit organizations from January 1 through February 28, 2012.

PreK-12 School Libraries

Deadline: None

Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Fund, administered by the American Library Association (ALA), supports public school libraries in the communities served by Dollar General. The Fund provides grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to preK-12 public schools whose school library programs have been affected by a natural disaster, fire, or an act of terrorism. Schools that have absorbed a significant number (more than 10% of enrollment) of displaced/evacuee students are also eligible to apply. Grants are intended to help replace or supplement books, media, and/or library equipment.

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