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.
Park Foundation
Application deadline: Letters of inquiry are accepted year-round. (Invited proposals are reviewed quarterly.)
Geographic scope: Nationally throughout the U.S., as well as New York and Tompkins County, NY
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in the Foundation’s local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation’s national grantmaking focuses on the following program areas: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on state-based organizations that are educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation in the democratic process; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on drinking water; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife.
(Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.)
Diversity and Inclusion in Journalism
The Scripps Howard Fund is seeking innovative ideas to get post-secondary students from diverse backgrounds invested in journalism and foster environments where all journalism students can actively participate and feel welcome.
Diverse backgrounds include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military background and or membership in another group that is under-represented in journalism.
Universities and nonprofit organizations can apply for one-time grants of up to $30,000 to address this challenge.
The deadline to apply is April 30, 2023. Several grant recipients will be selected, with funds disbursed in June. A second round of grants for this purpose will be offered in fall 2023.
Scripps Howard Fund
The Fund is now accepting proposals from universities or nonprofit organizations to create a program to teach college students open-source investigative journalism, a way to use publicly available information to investigate. The Request for Proposals can be found here.
The winning proposal will receive a four-year grant for up to $300,000 to help launch the program no later than the 2024-25 academic school year.
The grant will be structured as follows:
Year 1: $100,000
Year 2: $100,000
Year 3: $75,000 grant if the organization raises $25,000 for the program.
Year 4: $25,000 matching grant if the organization can raise $75,000 for the program.
Completed proposals for the multiyear grant must be submitted by April 1.
The Scripps Howard Fund will host virtual information sessions for the multiyear grant on the following dates: Nov. 17, 2022, Dec. 8, 2022 and Mar. 8, 2023. If interested in signing up, please email Mike.Canan@scripps.com.
National Endowment for the Humanities - Media Projects
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: development and production. Optional drafts are due December 7, 2022, and the application deadline is January 11, 2023. Click here for more.
Park Foundation
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. The Foundation's national grantmaking focuses on the following program interests: democracy, including a broad array of initiatives intended to strengthen the foundation of democracy and good governance; civic participation, with priority on support for state base organizations educating and mobilizing voters, national and state groups protecting voters' rights and election integrity, and groups thwarting attempts to suppress participation; media, including public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political, and social issues; the environment, with a focus on ensuring drinking water is clean, affordable, and accessible and protected and managed as a public necessity; and animal welfare, with a focus on nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. (Additional areas of interest target New York state and Tompkins County, NY.) Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time and full proposals are reviewed quarterly. The upcoming deadline for full proposals is January 6, 2023. Click here for more.
The Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation funds efforts to address state and local public policy to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region, defined as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. (National public policy efforts designed to have an impact on the Great Lakes states may also be supported.) Support is provided for policy research, development, and advocacy in the program areas of culture, democracy, education and economic mobility, environment, gun violence prevention and justice reform, and journalism. Letters of inquiry are accepted throughout the year; the upcoming deadline for formal proposals is December 1, 2022. Visit the Foundation's website to learn more about the program areas and application process.
Public Welfare Foundation (Rolling)
The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to advance justice and opportunity for people in need. The Foundation's grants support nonprofits in the United States that are advancing a new, transformative system of justice with the core values of racial equity, economic well-being, and fundamental fairness for all. Current focus areas include 1) developing innovative, transformative approaches to youth and adult criminal justice reform in the states of Oklahoma, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, and Louisiana, the cities of Jackson, MS, and Milwaukee, WI, and the district of Washington, DC; 2) community-based solutions that reduce the over-reliance on mass incarceration; and 3) reframing the narrative and fostering greater transparency and urgency around the U.S. criminal justice system through storytelling, journalism, and other targeted efforts. For Fiscal Year 2023, the Foundation is also exploring investments focused on dismantling the incarceration of women and women-aligned people, reducing harm and violence using community-centered interventions, and supporting the development of formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted leaders in the field. Letters of inquiry are accepted on a rolling basis from nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status. Guidelines for submitting the online letter of inquiry are available on the Foundation's website.
LOIs are accepted on a rolling basis.