Nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies are eligible to apply.
The Porch Partnership Fund
The Porch at 30th Street Station has seen a string of successful programming in the two years since the University City District (UCD) helped transform a barren stretch of concrete into a colorful and accessible public space with seating, chairs, planters and even a temporary piano.
Now, UCD is reaching out to the nonprofit sector for new ideas on how to use this expansive and increasingly popular space. Through a program called "The Porch Partnership Fund," the UCD will accept proposals for cultural programming from Philadelphia nonprofits.
With a grant from the William Penn Foundation, the UCD will also be providing up to $150,000 in funds to select proposals which will be deployed over three rounds:
(1) August 2013 - October 2013; (2) April 2014 - June 2014; (3) July 2014 - October 2014. These funds will be used for marketing as well as financial support.
The first round of proposals must be received via email by 4:00pm on May 31, 2013. More information on the application can be found here.
Grants Promote K-8 Running Programs
The ING Run for Something Better School Awards Program, in partnership with the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), seeks to increase physical activity in students and help fight childhood obesity nationwide through the creation of school-based running programs. The awards program will provide at least 60 grants of up to $2,500 to schools, that want to establish a school-based running program, or expand an exisiting program, that targets grades K thru 8 in public elementary or middle schools. Funded programs must have a commitment of at least 25 students in order to apply, and be offered for at least eight weeks.
The application deadline is May 15, 2013.
Visit the NASPE website to review the grant guidelines, and submit an online application.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants
The Choice Neighborhoods program targets funding to improve severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted Multifamily housing that is located in distressed neighborhoods. Planning Grants support the development of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans which, when implemented, will be expected to achieve the following three core goals:
1. Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
2. People: Improve educational outcomes and intergenerational mobility for youth, and supports delivered directly to youth and their families; and
3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families' choices about their community.
To achieve these core goals, communities must develop and implement a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization stragety, or Transformation Plan. This Transformation Plan will become the guiding document for the revitalization of the public and/or assisted housing units, while simultaneously directing the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood and positive outcomes for families. Awards of up to $500,000 will be made. Implementation grants will follow in a separate NOFA.
Application deadline is May 28, 2013.
The full NOFA can be found here.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize Call for Applications
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Roadmaps to Health Prize is awarded annually to honor outstanding community efforts and partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. Winning communities each receive a $25,000 cash prize, and have their success stories celebrated and shared broadly with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring locally-drive change across the country.
Applications are due by 3:00pm on May 23, 2013.
Visit their website for more information.
Bikes Belong Coalition
Bike Trail and Advocacy Projects Funded
The goal of the Bikes Belong Coaliton, sponsored by the American Bicycle Industry, is to put more people on bicycles more often. In 2013, the Bikes Belong Coalition is offering Community Partnership Grants, which are designed to support partnerships between city or county governments, nonprofit organizations, and local businesses that aim to improve the environment for bicycling in the community. Grants, ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 are primarily provided for the construction or expansion of bicycle facilities such as: bike lanes, trails, and paths as well as, advocacy projects that promote bicycling as a safe and accessible mode of transportation.
The application deadline is May 24, 2013.
Visit the Coalition's website to review the application guidelines, and download the application form.
Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP)
FHIP Funds are used to increase compliance with the Fair Housing Act. This year there are three initiatives:
* Private Enforcement
* Education and Outreach
* Fair Housing Organization Initiative
HUD will award grants/cooperative agreements under each of these program initiatives. Awards of up to $325,000 will be available.
The application deadline is June 11, 2013.
The full NOFA can be found here.
Two Opportunities from the Administration for Children & Families (ACF)
Refugee Home-Based Childcare Microenterprise Development Project
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is pleased to announce the availability of funds for Refugee Home-Based Childre Care Microenterprise Development Projects. These projects are aimed at assisting primarily refugee women in becoming economically self sufficient by providing home-based child care services. Thus, recipients of grant awards through this announcement will teach refugee women about local, state, and federal child care laws, regulations and licensing requirements and about cultural norms concerning child care and child care development. Also, they will assist refugee women in English language acquisition, advance educational attainment (GED) and improve economic opportunities through application of acquired job skills in a market where there is a shortage of childcare providers.
Through this grant, mentors will help primarily refugee wome establish agreements or contracts with State or county child care offices so they may qualify for State/county child care reimbursement as childcare service providers. Although the focus will be on rfugee women, all services provided to refugee women under this project are available to refugee men who are able to benefit from these services.
Applications are due May 21, 2013.
For more information, visit their website.
Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting applications for grants to administer projects for the national Assets for Independence (AFI) demonstration of the use and impact of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) and related services. Grantees will provide an array of supports and services to enable individuals and families with low incomes to become more economically self-sufficient for the long-term. A primary feature of each AFI project is that project participants are given access to special matched savings accounts called Individual Development Accounts (IDA). Participants open an IDA and save earned income in the account regularly with the goal of accumulating savings to acquire an economic asset that will appreciate over time--specifically, to purchase a home, capitalize or expand a business for self-employment, or attend higher education or training. Grantees also ensure that participants have access to financial literacy education and coaching such as training on money management and consumer issues.
Applications are due May 24, 2013.
For more information, please visit them here.
Orleans Technical Institute
Scholarship Deadline Extended for Court Reporting Program
The Orleans Techinical Institute extended their May 1, 2013 deadline for the High School Scholarship Award to May 15, 2013. The scholarship will cover half of the tuitiion for the Court Reporting Program.
Click here to learn more about the Court Reporting HIgh School Scholarship Award Progarm.
If you have any questions about the Orleans Technical Institute or the training program in Court Reporting, contact Debbie Bello, Admissions Department Director at 215-728-4700.
Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) Scholarship Foundation
The Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) Scholarship Fund offers scholarship opportunities to any under-served student across the United States.The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation is unique in that it offers scholarships to: single mothers, children who attend alternative schools, students who have earned a GED, students with grade point averages of 2.0, and students who have previously been incarcerated, etc. but desire a higher educational opportunity. This group is generally not the recipients of college scholarships, and is typically ignored by the Board of Education.
One of the key questions asked by the Foundation when students apply for a scholarship, is: What are your plans to give back to the community?
Qualified applicants must be a high school senior, college student, or between the ages of 18-25 and pursuing studies at either a vocational or trade school. All applicants must also be a U.S.citizen.
Click
here for the application. The
application deadline is May 31, 2013.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Homeownership Grant Program
The Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Homeownership Grant Program provides financial resources to local nonprofit housing organizations to create sustainable homeownership opportunities for low-to-moderate-income people.
Homeownership Grant Program Areas of Interest:
*Construction/Rehab
For the development and pre-development of construction or rehab of owner- occupied homes.
*Buyer Education & Counseling
For homebuyer education, pre-and-post-purchase counseling
*Foreclosure Counseling & Prevention
For counseling and prevention activities to avoid foreclosure and may include
modification assistance
For down payment and closing cost subsidies, interest rate buy downs, and other
subsidies that assist homebuyers/homeowners to purchase or retain
their homes
*Home Repairs
For essential home repairs, purchases and modificiations (e.g. repair
or replacement of a furnance or to build a ramp for handicap asscessibility)
The deadline is July 31, 2013.
For more information or to complete an online application, visit their website.
Philadelphia Housing Authority
Unit Based Subsidy/Captial Funding Request for Proposals
Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) wishes to partner with entities to provide new or preserve existing low-income housing through partnerships. To address each of the foregoing, PHA is seeking to diversity its housing inventory through the participation of property owners and developers in PHA's Local Unit-Based Operarting Subsidy Program.
Applications are due October 4, 2013.
More information can be found at their website.
Support for Music, Education, and Grassroots Organizing
Sparkplug Foundation
The Sparkplug Foundation primarily supports nonprofit organizations that are proposing start-up projects in the fields of music, education, and grassroots organizing. In the Music category, the Foundation supports emerging professional musicians or music-development programs. In Education and Teaching, the Foundation funds projects that deal with "the whole student," and with learning as a community activity. Through Grassroots Organizing, the Foundation encourages activist strategies for addressing institutional injustices and for building a reasoned, just society.
The deadline for final applications is May 15, 2013.
Visit the
Foundation's website to review the funding guidelines and online application instructions.
The Home Depot Community Impact Grants Program
The Home Depot Community Impact Grants Program provides support to nonprofit organizations, public schools, and public service agencies in the U.S. that are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their communities. Proposals for the following community improvement activities will be considered: repairs, refurbishments, and modifications to low-income and/or transitional veteran's housing or community facilities (schools, community centers, senior centers, etc.); weatherizing or increasing energy efficiency of low-income and/or transitional veteran's housing or community facilities; and planting trees or community gardens and/or landscaping community facilities that serve veterans.
Priority is given to projects for veterans that include housing repairs, modifications, and weatherization work. Grants of up to $5,000 are made in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase of tools, materials, or services.
Requests are being accepted now up to August 13, 2013.
Visit the
Home Depot website for more information and to apply online
here.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
BJA FY 13 Smart Probation: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities
Summary of purpose
The FY 2013 Smart Probation Program (SPP) seeks to improve probation success rates, which would in turn improve public safety, reduce admissions to prisons and jails, and save taxpayer dollars. Funds can be used to implement evidence-based supervision strategies and to innovate new strategies to improve outcomes for probationers.
This program is funded under the Second Chance Act appropriation, which authorizes federal grants to government agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide employment assistance, substance abuse treatment, housing, family programming, mentoring, victims support, and other services that can help reduce recidivism.
Deadline
5/19/13
Bidder's conference date
No pre-proposal conference listed
Amount of award/contract
Award ceiling: $750,000
Award floor: $0
Eligibility
Applicants are limited to states, units of local government, and federally organized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). BJA may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
Application contact
For assistance with requirements of this solicitation, contact the BJA Justice Information Center at 1-877-927-5657, via e-mail toJIC@telesishq.com or by live web chat at www.justiceinformationcenter.us
Program from the Department of Health and Human Services: Financial Education and Ethnic Community Grants Available
The Assets for Independence Demonstration Program provides support for community-based organizations to offer Individual Development Accounts, financial education, and related services to low-income individuals and families in order for them to accumulate savings and invest in appreciating assets such as a first home, small business, or higher education or training.
More information can be found
here
The application deadline is May 24, 2013.
Neighborhood Economic Development Grants
The Department of Commerce is requesting proposals from Philadelphia neighborhood-based organizations to fund development costs related to the construction of commercial development and the commercial portions of mixed-use development.
Neighborhood Economic Development grants in the amounts of $100,000 to $300,000 will be awarded to provide gap financing in support of neighborhoood-based economic development ventures. The grants will support neighborhood-based organizations undertaking economic development projects designed to enhance employment opportunities the majority of which will be available to low and moderate income residents of the targeted neighborhood and to create a suitable living environment by increasing the availability of goods and services in the community.
Proposals are due on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
To download the RFP and obtain briefing and submission information:
1. Go to www.phila.gov/contracts
2. Click "eContract Philly"
3. Click "New Contract Opportunities"
4. Search Departments: "Commerce"
5. Click on Opportunity "21130214193553" for the Neighborhood Economic Development (NED) Grant.
LEEWAY FOUNDATION
Applications are now available for the 2013 funding cycles of the Art and Change Grant. Leeway Foundation's grantmaking program honors women and trans artists in the Delaware Valley region for their ability to create social change through their artistic and cultural work.
The Arts and Change Grant provides project-based grants up to $2,500 to women and trans artists to fund art for social change projects. Deadline: August 1, 2013.
Seybert Foundation
Grants generally range between $2,000 and $5,000, and are made in the form of General Operating Support to those organizations whose mission align with that of the Foundation.
The Seybert Foundation directs its giving primarily to community-based organizations in Philadelphia with an annual operating budget of less than $1.5 million.
Due date:September 15, 2013.
Click here to apply.
