Refresh Your Fundraising Skills
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Thank you all for sticking around despite my radio silence in July. This Grants Librarian had a really nice vacation, but now I'm back and re-energized! Our free workshops are once again starting up for the fall. Encourage your new volunteers, interns, staff, or board members to learn all about the grants research resources that the Pima County Public Library offers at Grantseeking Basics for Nonprofits on Friday, August 17th or send them to the Proposal Writing Basics workshop on Friday, September 21st. If you have any questions about nonprofits or fundraising, you can always Ask a Librarian. Here's one thing you may not know: I sometimes post time-sensitive RFPs not included in this email to the Grants & Nonprofit Info Center's Facebook page. Like us so you don't miss out!
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Unique Funding Opportunity
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Spay/Neuter Grant Programs
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Deadline: August 31, 2012
PetSmart Charities is accepting grant applications for its two high-impact spay/neuter United States grant programs. The Targeted Spay/Neuter Program is intended to provide funding and mentoring for high impact spay/neuter project that focus on owned pets in areas where there is a critical need. The Free-Roaming Cat Spay/Neuter Program is intended to provide funding and mentoring for high-impact trap-neuter-return projects. Organizations are eligible to apply for only one of the grant programs at a time.
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Microgrants to Improve Community Health
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Deadline: Rolling
The Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation is re-launching the Trustee Awards, a microgrant program that will give $1,000 each month to a different non-profit organization working to improve community health. The first award will be given in January; however applicants can submit proposals now. The previous version of the Foundation's Trustee Awards was less frequent but funded many organizations including the Community Food Bank, Tucson Children's Museum, and Arizona Theatre Company.
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Support to Encourage Agro-biodiversity
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Deadline: August 31, 2012 (pre-proposal)
The Christensen Fund supports innovative Indigenous and local communities of farmers and pastoralists, ranchers and fishers and their allies to strengthen and celebrate local food systems connected to biodiverse land and seascapes. Their grants aim to foster learning networks around biocultural diversity across landscapes and enable frontline local community associations to catalyze change and safeguard indigenous rights to food, health, and homelands. Grants range between $30,000 and $100,000.
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Project Grants for Preservation & Related Fields
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Deadline: September 15, 2012
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation provides mid-career grants to professionals working in the fields of historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, decorative arts, architectural design, and architectural history. Grants of up to $15,000 are awarded annually to one or two mid-career professionals with at least ten years of experience and an academic background, professional experience, and an established identity in one or more of the eligible fields. The foundation will consider proposals for research and/or execution of a preservation-related project in any of the eligible fields.
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Cultural Experiences Grants
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Deadline: September 30, 2012 (must attend September 14th conference call to apply)
The BBVA Compass Foundation provides grants to facilitate access to and participation in cultural experiences for persons with low- to moderate-income levels and ensure the availability of a broad array of artistic opportunities/venues that reflect the diversity of the community. Grants range from $500 to $20,000.
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Deadline: October 1, 2012
The William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund provides grants to Arts and culture; performing arts; museums, and libraries. Previously made grants ranged from $2,000 to $20,000. Contact Kerry J. Hall or her assistant via telephone, email or letter for required grant application at US Bank, 101 North 1st Avenue, Suite 1600, Phoenix, AZ 85003; tel: (602) 257-5443, or kerry.hall@usbank.com. 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.
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Cultural Exchange Fund Awards
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Deadline: November 16, 2012
The Cultural Exchange Fund provides travel subsidies to help United States-based presenting professionals and their organizations and companies build partnerships and collaborations with touring artists, companies, and their collaborators in other countries and experience their artwork in its own cultural context. All applicants must be active members of APAP. The maximum amount awarded per organization, inclusive of travel costs and per diem, is $2,000.
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Deadline: September 15, 2012
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation is dedicated to the goal of increasing economic literacy throughout the United States. The Foundation provides grants to programs with national impact that address the following issues: raising the public's participation in economic education and creating a demand for greater economic literacy; encouraging measurement of economic understanding; developing the application of new strategies for teaching economics, including online instruction; and helping disenfranchised youth or young adults with children learn to participate in the economic system.
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K-12 Innovative Classroom Projects
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Deadline: September 30, 2012
Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students. Teacher Grant awards range from $100 to $500 and are intended to be used to finance creative classroom projects. The number of grants awarded varies from year to year, depending on the total amount of funds requested. Typically, three hundred to six hundred grants are awarded annually.
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K-12 Public School Improvement Projects
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Deadline: October 12, 2012
The Lowe's Toolbox for Education program provides grant awards of up to $5,000 to support school improvement projects at K-12 public schools in the United States. For the 2012-13 school year program, the foundation will give priority to basic necessities. There is a preference for funding requests that have a permanent impact such as facility enhancement (both indoor and outdoor), as well as landscaping/cleanup projects. Projects that encourage parent involvement and build stronger community spirit are encouraged. Grant requests must be between $2,000 and $5,000 per school.
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Youth and Scientific Education Grants
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Deadline: November 1, 2012
The American Honda Foundation provides support for youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment. Grants range from $20,000-$75,000.
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Improving Lives Through Play
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Deadline: Rolling
The Toy Industry Foundation provides grants to special projects or ongoing programs designed to improve the lives of children and families in need through play. Grants will range from $5,000 to $50,000. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis in the areas of Education (Summer and School Year Programming); Health and Safety; Youth Development and Leadership; Play and Recreational Activities; and Arts and Culture.
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Have a terrific week!
Sincerely,
Kassy Rodeheaver
Librarian, Grants & Nonprofit Info Center
Pima County Public Library
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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.
Contact her by sending an email to grantsinfocenter@pima.gov.
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Have a Question?
Do you need to know how many people are below the poverty line in Pima County for a propsoal? What the literacy level is for students graduating from high school? Or maybe you just need a phone number and address for a foundation? Ask the Pima County Public Library!
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