A calendar of grants, resources, and funding opportunities listed by application or inquiry due date and tagged in various categories. For more information about grant, foundation, and other resources contact Laura Hennighausen at lhennighausen@purposepossible.com.
RedefinED Clayton County Community Engagement Grant
Our first investment in Clayton County aims to support strengthening family and community engagement for K-12 public education. The grant fund will allocate $100,000 towards family and community engagement programming that empowers families with tools and knowledge to support their child’s learning and education experience. The grant is open to grassroots organizations, public schools serving Clayton County students, and the Clayton County School district.
Partnering with families and the community is essential to driving student outcomes and providing equitable education. We believe family and community engagement is one factor that will help advance our mission of every child in every community receiving a great K-12 public education.
RedefinED A.R.I.S.E. Grant
The Atlanta Reimagining and Innovating for Schools Everywhere (A.R.I.S.E.) Fund is our commitment to participatory grantmaking. Community members participating in our nine-month ARISE Fellowship program learn about the levers that drive systemic change for all of Atlanta’s children, including access to funding.
The 2024 ARISE Fund is a one-year $150,000 fund aimed at supporting Atlanta Public Schools’ goal of career and college readiness for middle and high school students within the Carver Cluster. The goal of the investment is to provide wrap-around support that helps students excel academically, leads to student achievement, and global impact at home and beyond. Wrap-around services include:
Summer learning and experiences that develop curiosity, skills, and knowledge (i.e. Work-based learning)
Out-of-school/after-school learning (i.e. literacy support, tutoring, discovery, and exploratory project/problem-based learning)
SAT/ACT and ASVAB prep and support
Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Mentorship and apprenticeship for college and career (ie. Technical and trade opportunities)
The grant criteria, application, issue area of focus, and community of impact were developed and selected by community members participating in the A.R.I.S.E. Fellowship.
United Way Atlanta Learning Loss Grant
United Way of Greater Atlanta and Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) collaborate to strengthen academic support by reducing learning loss throughout the state of Georgia.
Learning loss refers to any specific or general loss of knowledge and skills or to reversals in academic progress, most commonly due to extended gaps or discontinuities in a student’s education.
Through the strategy of Academic Support, grant funding will support programming that incorporates at least one of the following:
Build Reading Skills – Expand literacy-focused after-school and summer enrichment programs designed to increase reading skills and close the literacy achievement gap.
Improve Math Proficiency – Support continuous learning, problem-solving and practice in math; utilize engaging and hands-on methods of experiencing math, science and technology.
School Transition – Prepare students, families, schools, and communities to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and relationships to assist young people in successfully moving from one grade level to another. And also to assist them in transitioning from elementary to middle school, middle to high school, and high school to post-secondary education.
Strengthen Family Engagement – Foster parents’ natural leadership as their child’s first teacher, brain builder, advocate, and coach.
Learning Acceleration – Strategically prepare students for success in the present— (i.e., this week, on this content) rather than concentrating on a list of items that students have failed to master. Past concepts and skills are addressed, but always in the purposeful context of future learning. Acceleration jump-starts underperforming students into learning new concepts before their classmates even begin. Rather than being stuck in the remedial slow lane, students move ahead of everyone into the fast lane of learning.
Access to Quality Out of School Time – Offer high-quality after-school and summer learning programs that: help close educational and opportunity gaps, support the positive development of the whole child and offer key strategies to improving child well-being.
Contextualizing Learning – Teach students the content in a context (i.e., embedding the concepts in meaningful activities and in a scenario to which the student can relate) to enhance their understanding and make the concepts more relatable.
Imlay Foundation LOI
The Imlay Foundation currently funds organizations largely in Metro Atlanta, Georgia and Hilton Head, SC. First time grants are generally in the $10,000 – $15,000 range.
Yield Giving Application Deadline
This initiative seeks community-led, community-focused organizations whose explicit purpose is to advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles. Organizations best suited to this initiative will enable individuals and families to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being through foundational resources. This includes, for instance, organizations providing access to health care, stable and affordable housing, education and job training, support for sustained employment, asset ownership, civic engagement, and other pathways. They may also be engaged in data collection and communication to amplify the voices of people and communities struggling against inequities.
Community-led, community-focused nonprofit organizations from across the United States and U.S. Territories are invited to apply and share the impact they have had on the abilities of individuals and families in their communities to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being.
Interested organizations must register to apply before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Friday, May 5, 2023. Complete applications are due before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Monday, June 12, 2023. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of at least $1 million and no more than $5 million for at least two of the last four fiscal years to be eligible to apply.
Cigna Foundation - Education and Workforce Development Program
The Cigna Foundation's Education and Workforce Development program supports underserved populations by investing in students at all education levels. Grants are provided for education initiatives focused on students enrolled in pre-K, K-8, high school, and post-secondary and adult education. In the area of post-secondary and adult education, the Foundation seeks to support the educational and employment path of individuals who are considering health-related jobs, including increasing the number of practitioners who identify with groups that have been underrepresented and underserved and learning opportunities for all practitioners on how to better understand and address health disparities among diverse groups. Nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. can apply for grants between $50,000 and $125,000. New applications will be accepted from April 10 to May 5, 2023.
Yield Giving Registration Deadline
This initiative seeks community-led, community-focused organizations whose explicit purpose is to advance the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles. Organizations best suited to this initiative will enable individuals and families to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being through foundational resources. This includes, for instance, organizations providing access to health care, stable and affordable housing, education and job training, support for sustained employment, asset ownership, civic engagement, and other pathways. They may also be engaged in data collection and communication to amplify the voices of people and communities struggling against inequities.
Community-led, community-focused nonprofit organizations from across the United States and U.S. Territories are invited to apply and share the impact they have had on the abilities of individuals and families in their communities to achieve substantive improvement in their well-being.
Interested organizations must register to apply before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Friday, May 5, 2023. Complete applications are due before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on Monday, June 12, 2023. Organizations must have an annual operating budget of at least $1 million and no more than $5 million for at least two of the last four fiscal years to be eligible to apply.
National Center for Families Learning: Sharon Darling Innovation Fund
The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) supports family success and well-being through education in the United States. The NCFL's Sharon Darling Innovation Fund is currently seeking proposals to develop and implement innovative programs, initiatives, products, processes, or strategies aimed at significantly improving the status quo in family literacy, family engagement, and family leadership. Support will be provided for programs and initiatives addressing the following objectives: increasing access to and the quality of educational opportunities for parenting adults and their families, increasing the number of families participating in literacy and learning activities, improving the learning outcomes for children and their parents, enhancing and increasing positive interactions between parenting adults and their children, developing the leadership skills of parenting adults and caregivers, and supporting and promoting the development of strong, positive relationships and engagement between families and schools or communities. Organizations including adult education programs, early childhood programs, childcare programs, out-of-school time programs, school districts, etc. may apply. The maximum grant award is $30,000 to be used for up to 18 months.
Imlay Foundation LOI
The Imlay Foundation currently funds organizations largely in Metro Atlanta, Georgia and Hilton Head, SC. First time grants are generally in the $10,000 – $15,000 range.
Panera Bread Foundation
The Panera Bread Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen communities by investing in underserved and at-risk children and youth to become leaders. The Foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. who provide access to programs for at-risk, underserved, or historically underrepresented children and youth. (Part of the services provided must be within 25 miles of a Panera U.S. location.) Qualified organizations are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving predominantly children and youth of color, ages 10-18, that have a new or existing program focused on college readiness, skills building, workforce or leadership development, post-high school planning, or mentorship. Eligible organizations can apply for grants between $25,000 and $150,000. The application deadline is November 14, 2022. Visit the Panera Bread website for more information on the Foundation and apply online to submit a grant application. In addition, Panera's Day-End Dough-Nation program donates unsold bread, bagels, and baked goods from Panera's bakery-cafes to local nonprofit organizations, public schools, and religious organizations. Applicants must distribute the donated products to people in need, people who are ill, or to underserved and at-risk children and youth and must commit to picking up and distributing the donations on a weekly and continuous basis. Organizations who are interested in the program can apply online. Panera's Donation Team will respond to all applicants.