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The Grant Center is public broadcasting's premier source for grant seekers, providing a one-stop shop for funding opportunities tailored to your needs, along with related news, resources and tools to help you make your case. |
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| The Grant Center Newsletter | December 2011
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News
Save the date for the Grant Center's upcoming webinars, one in December and one in January:
- Partnering With Your State: Helping Each Other Race to the Top. Join us on Thursday, January 12, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. EST, to hear from stations and policy experts about how to successfully partner with state agencies on education projects, as well as specifics about the Race To The Top process, so that you can take advantage of the next opportunity in your state. We'll hear partnership success stories from Terry Rinehart, Director of Educational Services at Iowa Public Television and Denise Blumenthal, Director of the Education Department at WGBH. Register here.
Grant Center Provides Resources to Extend CPB Initiatives.
Is your station involved in either the American Graduate or the Women and Girls Lead initiative? The Grant Center is here to help you formulate a sustainability plan or seek funding to extend the reach of your project. Explore our resources here.
Congratulations to Stations Receiving Federal Grants from USDA, NEA, and IMLS.
Pursuing a large federal grant? Let us know! We need to hear about the grants that you are pursuing. We want to know about them, and we're here to help! |
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Federal Trends and Opportunities
Decoding the 2012 Federal Budget Talks
Once again, Congress is heading into December without having passed spending bills for each federal agency for FY 2012. Last year, a logjam on Capitol Hill kept a budget deal from happening until April, with a Continuing Resolution sustaining the government through the fiscal year. Now, already two months into the new fiscal year, most federal spending remains sustained through another Continuing Resolution, with a few select appropriations bills passed. Congress has not put together a complete budget since FY 2010.
Because the Super Committee failed to produce legislation that would make spending reductions, sequestration is scheduled to begin in January 2013. However, three spending bills have been signed into law by President Obama, as part of Congress' plan to pass the budget as a series of smaller packages called minibuses.
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Federal Funding
All Children Reading Competition: This program from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will support innovative projects that support the goal of dramatically improving reading skills and low literacy rates among primary-grade children worldwide. Approximately 25 grants, each no more than $300,000, will be awarded. Deadline: January 31, 2012. College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP): From the U.S. Department of Education, this program provides academic and financial support to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their children complete their first year of college and continue in postsecondary education. Eight or nine awards, ranging from $180,000 to $425,000 are expected to be granted. Deadline: January 18, 2012. High School Equivalency Program (HEP): This U.S. Department of Education program aims to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and members of their immediate family obtain a general education diploma (GED) that meets the guidelines for high school equivalency and to help them gain employment. Three or four awards, ranging from $180,000 to $475,000, are expected to be granted. Deadline: January 18, 2012. National Leadership Grants: These grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) support projects that advance the ability of museums, libraries and archives to preserve culture, heritage and knowledge, contribute to building technology infrastructure and information technology services and provide 21st century knowledge and skills to current and future generations in support of a world-class workforce. Grants will range from $50,000 to $500,000. Deadline: February 1, 2012. Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums: This IMLS program supports projects that address problems, challenges or needs of broad relevance to libraries, archives and/or museums and encourage those institutions to challenge existing assumptions about how they operate and the services they provide. Grants will range from $10,000 to $25,000. Deadline: February 1, 2012. Challenge Grants for Two-Year Colleges: This National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program provides grants to two-year colleges to strengthen their long-term humanities programs and resources and enhance the role of the humanities on their campuses. Grants of up to $500,000 can be requested. Deadline: February 2, 2012. Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers: This NEH program supports a series of workshops for K-12 educators. The workshops use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music and other humanities subjects. Awards will range from $150,000 to $180,000. Deadline: March 1, 2012. Our Town: This National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) program provides grants for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities. Grants will range from $25,000 to $150,000. Deadline: March 1, 2012. |
Foundation Funding
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The Hewlett Foundation is funding organizations working on educational policy in California (including media) and is interested in technology-enabled learning. It also has an interest in women's issues, especially internationally, and may be a match for projects associated with the Women & Girls Lead initiative.
Lincoln Financial Foundation: This foundation has a strong interest in education, including literacy, dropout prevention, financial literacy and workforce development. It gives nationally in areas of company operation.
Rhode Island Foundation: This state-based foundation has a signature initiative focused on dropout prevention, is interested in using the arts in schools and has a history of funding public media. It may be a match for American Graduate or other educationally focused projects in Rhode Island.
Baltimore Community Foundation: This community foundation will focus discretionary giving increasingly on education and will double its investment in education beginning in 2012.
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| Free Prospect Research Service
Whether your station is seeking to expand its newsroom, renovate facilities, make up for a funding cut or launch a new initiative, the bottom line is the same: money is needed to implement your vision. The Grant Center can help you find that money through its free custom foundation prospect research service.
With more than 78,000 foundations out there, it can be a daunting task to find the ones that are viable prospects for you. The Grant Center will do the research for you, identifying foundations that match your goals and providing you with brief notes and sample grants for each. We've already helped individual stations and collaborations to identify foundation prospects for general operating support, equipment, health reporting, education coverage and much more.
For more information or to request research, please contact Amie Miller, DEI Foundation Development Advisor. |
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