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.
NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants
The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, NBC and Telemundo owned television stations will fund organizations that are doing work in three specific areas: Youth Education and Empowerment, Next Generation Storytellers and Community Engagement. These grants are general operating grants, and your application will be reviewed based on your overall work and impact in your local community.
In 2024, NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants will award $2.5 million to nonprofit organizations in 11 NBC and Telemundo owned television station markets. The grant program will provide unrestricted funds to eligible nonprofits with total expenses between $100,000 and $1,000,000.
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.
Early Literacy Intervention Initiative Grant
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)invites nonprofit, community-based organization that provides early literacy services for students in the District of Columbia or districts with similar demographics as the District of Columbia to apply for the Early Literacy Intervention Initiative Grant. The purpose of this grant is to implement evidence-based early literacy interventions to increase proficiency of District students in the early grades. The overall goal of the Early Literacy Intervention Grant is to provide resources that will enable the grantee to partner with local education agencies (“LEAs”) in which they would provide direct, developmentally appropriate, evidence-based reading programs to students in grades Pre-K through 3. The application deadline is January 18, 2024
Herb Block Foundation Pathways Out of Poverty Grant
The Herb Block Foundation seeks proposals for its Pathways Out of Poverty program which focus on improving student achievement and healthy development of young people. Grants of up to $25,000 will be awarded to nonprofit organizations working to help young people in the greater Washington, DC region gain a quality education. Letters of intent are due no later than Thursday, February 1, 2024.
New York Life Foundation: Aim High
Grant amount: 20 one-year grants of $15,000 and 20 two-year grants of either $25,000 or $50,000 per year will be provided.
The Aim High grant program, funded by the New York Life Foundation and administered by the Afterschool Alliance, provides support nationwide for out-of-school time programs serving middle school youth. The aim is to support local community-based after-school and summer learning programs in providing the foundational skills and guidance that middle school students need to be prepared for the transition into high school.
For 2024, twenty one-year grants of $15,000 each will be awarded: ten for programs’ efforts around racial equity and social justice and ten for programs’ efforts around youth entrepreneurship. Twenty two-year grants of either $25,000 per year or $50,000 per year will support programs in enhancing direct service activities, technical assistance, capacity building, and their efforts in continuing to serve youth while facing the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. Funded programs must serve a high percentage—at least 75 percent—of low-income youth.