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GrantProse, Inc., Newsletter
December 8, 2009
Vol. 2, No. 22
Newsletter Editor: Rita Lewis
North Carolina's leading newsletter for information on grants.
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Dear Colleagues,
The GrantProse vision is to provide high quality, personalized services and resources that are reasonably priced and widely accessible. Toward this end, we provide this newsletter free and hope you will forward it to your colleagues.
We continue to add
features to our website to better serve
the grants community.
Our Grant Alerts are now divided into two
parts: opportunities with fixed deadlines, and a new webpage--Foundations--where we list
foundations and other agencies that conduct their grant programs on an
ongoing basis, making awards throughout the year.
If you have news or a point
of view you'd like to share, please email Rita Lewis, newsletter editor--we're always
interested in items that
might benefit our audience.
As always, thank you for your appreciation of our work.
Bill CarruthersGrantProse, Inc.
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Bulletin Board
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December 10, 2009. Grants Information Network (GIN) of NC meeting, 9-11 am.
December's meeting is the annual business and networking
meeting. Everyone interested in anything grant-related--management, writing, funding
opportunities--is welcome to attend. Bring something to eat or drink; we'll have plenty to fuel our discussions! Visit GIN's webpage
for directions.
December 8-11, 2009.
The NC Energy Office is offering a series of one-day classes for agencies
seeking ARRA funds under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant
program. The free classes are designed for a variety of agencies (e.g.,
government agencies, institutions in the UNC system, community colleges, public
schools), and will cover plans, forms, reporting and other requirements for the
federal grant program. A list of classes is available on the Energy Office website;
click on the December 1 news release.
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Guest Column
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Doing God's Work on Caeser's Payroll
By Michele Oros
The separation of church and
state is a foundational principal of American Constitutional law, although
precise boundaries between the secular and sacred have remained in flux
throughout our nation's history. While the U.S. Supreme Court has maintained a
position of neutrality in decisions regarding First Amendment religion clauses, some landmark
cases have been decided by a one-vote margin.
Religion and politics have
shared the spotlight since our nation's founding, as many of the European
immigrants who originally settled this continent were fleeing religious
intolerance. Churches established a number of America's first schools,
hospitals and social welfare institutions and have been permitted the use of
public money to support activities clearly defined as secular.
The Charitable Choice
provision of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996 affirmed the right of
faith-based organizations to apply for public funds and protected the religious
freedom of these organizations while administering government-funded programs.
In 2001, President George Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives to help secular and faith-based groups compete for
government grants and contracts. When he assumed the presidency in January
2009, Barack Obama reorganized this effort as the Office of Faith-Based and
Neighborhood Partnerships and assembled a 25-member advisory council
representing diverse secular and religious organizations.
This article is the first in
a series exploring the role of non-governmental organizations in community
development, and current guidelines for fiscal management, hiring and firing,
and religious expression while administering government-funded programs.
Michele Oros has written and managed grant-funded projects for Beaufort County Schools since 2003. She also helps organizations in her community find and obtain grants, and teaches grant writing workshops through NC's community college system.
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Tips & Resources
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Federal Resources: The U.S. Department of Commerce
As part
of our series that reviews some of the 64 federal agencies in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA),
in this issue we examine the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). DOC identifies 12 offices in the CFDA that
administer 96 assistance programs. Of these, 72 are grant programs; all except
one are project (competitive) grants.
Among
the offices in DOC is the Economic Development Administration (EDA), whose mission is to promote innovation
and competition and help create higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in communities
suffering from economic distress. One of its six project grants is Recovery Act
Funding to aid distressed communities in both urban and rural areas of the
country. Other DOC offices address a wide range of American commerce, including
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (with 48 assistance
programs) and the Minority Business Development Agency (with 3 programs). In
coming issues, we will review other federal agencies in the CFDA; please visit
our newsletter archives for past issues.
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Grant Opportunities
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Deadline: 12/31/09
Program:
Albemarle-Pamlico
National Estuary Program (APNEP)
Agency:
NC Dept. of Environment and
Natural Resources
Description: Grants for projects in the
APNEP region of northeastern NC, with a direct environmental benefit on public
lands and featuring a strong public outreach or education element.
Award Amount: Up to $20,000
Website: APNEP
Eligibility: K-12, nonprofits, colleges,
government agencies
Deadline: 4/30/10
Program: ING Unsung Heroes
Agency: ING
Description: Funding for innovative classroom projects.
Award Amount: $2,000
Website: ING
Eligibility: K-12 (educators)
Deadline: 9/01/10
Program: Varied
Agency: Heineman Foundation
Description: The Foundation's areas of
interest include: programs that enable economically challenged women to
enter and remain in the workplace; environmental research that will prevent,
reduce and/or eliminate water degradation; music as education and preserver
of culture; research into prevention and treatment of childhood illnesses; programs that enable youth to think, create and communicate effectively; and programs that support and promote high achievement in music, science and
literature.
Award Amount:
$20,000 to $50,000
Website: Heineman Foundation
Eligibility:
Nonprofits
New grant alerts have been uploaded to the GrantProse website. To view these and many more opportunities, visit www.GrantProseInc.com.
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