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.
Peoples Bank Foundation
Application deadlines: Applications are reviewed quarterly. Visit the Foundation’s website for the upcoming application deadlines.
Geographic scope: Communities within the Peoples Bank footprint in OH, WV, KY, VA, DC, and MD, as well as Burlington, VT; Excelsior, MN; and Lee’s Summit, MO
The Peoples Bank Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations working to improve the quality of life for individuals and families within the Peoples Bank footprint of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland, as well as Burlington, VT; Lee’s Summit, MO; and Excelsior, MN. Support is provided for local programs that help low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Areas of interest include community investment and economic development, youth and education, health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment.
NEXT for AUTISM
NEXT for AUTISM is committed to enhancing the lives of adults with autism throughout the United States. NEXT for AUTISM’s 2024 grant cycle will support both autistic-led and community-based organizations and initiatives. Grants fund programs supporting the transition from school into adulthood for individuals with autism in the following three areas: home, addressing the need to design or develop and maintain high-quality living environments for adults with autism; work, addressing the need for autistic adults to gain and retain paid employment; and social, including supporting autistic adults to make connections, build relationships, and establish friendships. Nonprofit organizations working in the United States that have an interest in building or starting innovative programs, services, or models of service delivery with measurable impact or outcomes are eligible. Preference is given to low-income and limited-resource communities.
RRF Foundation for Aging Accepting LOIs
RRF Foundation for Aging focuses on improving the quality of life for older people. Priority areas are (1) caregiving, (2) economic security later in life, (3) housing, and (4) social and intergenerational connectedness. Next LOI deadline is 5/1. Grants tend to be $50k to $500k+ but no specified range.
Care Quest: Veteran Oral Health, Expanding Access and Equity
Through the Veteran Oral Health: Expanding Access and Equity Request for Proposals (Veteran Oral Health RFP), CareQuest Institute is seeking to fund projects and partner with organizations that are working to address system-level barriers to oral health for veterans. CareQuest Institute prioritizes proposals that reflect the applicant’s authentic commitment to meaningfully and consistently engage members of the veteran community in the planning phase and throughout their proposed project. Compelling and aligned projects should be driven by, or collaborate with, individuals and/or organization partners representative of rather than “on behalf of” people involved in the veteran community.
CareQuest Institute will fund 10 projects for up to $125,000 each.
TD Charitable Foundation: Regional Grants
Application deadline: Applications are accepted on a bimonthly basis; upcoming deadlines are December 22, 2023, and February 16, 2024.
Geographic scope: Communities TD Bank serves
Grant amount: The minimum amount is $5,000.
The TD Charitable Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations to improve the quality of life in the communities TD Bank serves, which include specific counties of CT, DE, DC, FL, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, PA, RI, SC, VT, and VA. (A list of eligible counties is available in the online application.)
The Foundation primarily funds programs aligned to one or more of the following areas: better health, with a focus on research, technology, and innovative solutions that improve access to care for all; connected communities, with a focus on increasing access to the opportunities people need to participate and feel a sense of belonging in their community, including arts and culture; financial security, including early learning, income stability, financial literacy, and affordable housing; and vibrant planet, including clean economic growth that supports the transition to a low-carbon economy and activating green spaces.
Special consideration will be given to organizations delivering programs that support diverse and historically underserved communities and to programs that support low- to moderate-income individuals with services that improve the quality of life.
COPIC Medical Foundation
Grant amount: Up to a total of $750,000 will be awarded in 2024.
The COPIC Medical Foundation aims to improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United States by reducing adverse outcomes and supporting innovation. Grant funding is provided for programs and initiatives that improve patient safety and quality of care through systems changes and improvements, pilot programs that are designed to reduce medical errors, and development and implementation of checklists and other tools to improve disease management and transitions in care.
For 2024, the focus is on the issue of reducing fragmentation across care settings. Nonprofit organizations with an approach or program that has demonstrated potential for uptake or replication by the healthcare community are eligible to apply.
Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium: Black Girls Dream Fund
Application deadline: The 2024 cycle is open through December 4, 2023, and several grantseeker workshops will be offered from November 14 through November 28, 2023.
Geographic scope: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, East TX, WV, and VA
Grant amount: The average grant is $35,000.
The Black Girls Dream Fund, an initiative of the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, seeks to channel greater resources toward organizations that are intentionally supporting and empowering Black girls and women in the South.
For 2024, the Fund is providing general operating grants to support the capacity of organizations that care for Black girls. Black women-led and girl-led nonprofit organizations and fiscally sponsored projects within Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, East Texas, West Virginia, and Virginia are eligible to apply. Support is provided in five categories: education, health and wellness, economic opportunity, social justice, and leadership and empowerment.
Ms. Foundation for Women: Birth Justice Initiative
Geographic scope: U.S. South, Midwest, Southwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories
Grant amount: $50,000 to $100,000, distributed over two years
The Ms. Foundation for Women’s Birth Justice Initiative aims to advance equitable birth outcomes and experiences, strengthen grassroots BIPOC-led birth justice organizations, and expand the frame of birth justice to support intersectional movements and strategies that recognize the full spectrum of experiences and identities in birthing, parenting, and family building.
Through the current call for proposals, the Initiative will provide two-year grants to birth justice organizations led by and for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color. Support will be provided for organizations that are serving the U.S. South, Midwest, Southwest, Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories and working for change at a local or state level. Organizations must be implementing birth justice strategies that are rooted in movement building and organizing, and connected to the broader reproductive justice movement.
Healthcare Georgia Foundation: Building the Field of Health Advocacy
Geographic scope: Georgia
Grant amount: Up to $75,000
The mission of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation is to inspire and promote collective action that advances health equity for all Georgians. Through the Building the Field of Health Advocacy program, the Foundation anticipates investing a total of $1.2 million to support advocacy efforts aimed at advancing health equity in Georgia.
Support will be provided for projects that identify emerging opportunities to advance health equity in Georgia at the systems level, either locally or statewide; elevate community voices to educate decision-makers on health-related issues of importance to communities; bolster the capacity of nonprofit organizations to engage in effective advocacy efforts including research, policy development, coalition building and mobilization, community education, and strategic communications; and strengthen the overall field of health advocacy. Nonprofit organizations and groups with a nonprofit fiscal sponsor working in Georgia on behalf of Georgians are eligible to apply.
PeopleForBikes: Industry Community Grant Program
Grants Improve Bicycling Infrastructure in U.S. Communities
Application deadline: October 20, 2023, for letters of interest
Grant amount: $5,000 to $10,000
PeopleForBikes’ Industry Community Grant Program provides funding for projects that make bicycling better in communities across the U.S. Support is provided for bicycle infrastructure projects and targeted initiatives that make it easier and safer for people of all ages and abilities to bike.
The focus is on funding infrastructure projects that improve a community’s City Ratings score by building connections in a low-stress bikeway network or improving access to recreational amenities.
Priority is given to projects in which funding closes a financial gap or leverages additional funds, projects that address historical inequities in low-income communities and communities of color, and projects that are part of a larger strategy to build a network of bikeways and bike facilities that enable people of all ages and abilities to access bicycling as transportation or recreation.