Funding Opportunities

For these listings, check with the grant or project officer regarding applicant eligibility.
For listings in environmental and energy, see the Current Energy and Environmental Funding Opportunities page.

Mini-Grants for Public Health Week
Deadline: March 8, 2010
The Alaska Public Health Association has a total of $2000 to award for four public health/health promotion activities during public health week. Up to $500 will be awarded to each of four successful applicants. The theme for national Public Health Week, April 5‐11, 2010, is "A Healthier America: One Community at a Time." Grant activities can include community based health promotion activities and other gatherings to raise awareness of the important role of public health in improving health in America. The American Public Health Association creates planning, organizing and outreach materials that can be used during and after the
week to raise awareness about the year’s theme: (http://www.nphw.org/nphw10/home1.htm).


Pepsi Refresh Project
Deadline: Monthly Awards
Pepsi is looking for people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact. Look around your community and think about how you want to change it. They accept thousands of ideas each month. To download the toolkit go to: www.refresheverything.com/how-it-works.


RurAL CAP Foundation Grants
Deadlines: April 30, August 30, and November 30
The RurAL CAP Foundation has a focus on low-income people and rural communities. A limited number of small grants are provided by the RurAL CAP Foundation for educational and charitable purposes. The usual grant amount is $500 to $1500 to eligible nonprofit and governmental organizations.  It's easy! Begin by referring to the Foundation Guidelines (Word file). Then fill out the application (Word file). Lastly, submit your final report (Word file) after your project is done.

Charity Funding for Youth Groups
Applications for funding from the Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers Charity Corporation are reviewed monthly to fund activities for youth groups. For more information, and to download an application, go to: www.alaskatroopermuseum.com/foast.html, or call 279-5050 or 800-770-5050.

 

$500 Grants Given out Weekly!
Deadline: Rolling basis, active for 2 months
Do you need $500 to further the growth and success of your program or turn your idea into reality? Did you recently create a sustainable community action project, program or organization or have a great idea for helping your community? If you answered "YES!", you're eligible to apply for a Do Something Grant. Best of all - they're given out WEEKLY!

Do you have a project or idea to promote disaster preparedness or offer disaster relief? Are you building houses down in New Orleans, planning an emergency coat drive for families in crisis this winter, or collecting toys for kids who've been through a natural disaster? Then we want to hear from you! See their website for more info at: www.dosomething.org/grants.

Cigna Health Literacy Grants
Deadline: Open
Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations that work with obesity awareness and prevention as well as other health concerns. Additional information is available at the Cigna Foundation website, or email to foundationgrants@cigna.com.


Mix It Up Grants (youth-led projects)
Deadline: Open
Applications for this program, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center award up to $500 to support youth-directed projects that focus on identifying, crossing, and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Individuals interested in applying can click here.

Pacific Northwest Organizations Working with Youth
Deadline: Open
The Charlotte Martin Foundation is dedicated to enriching the lives of youth in the areas of athletics, culture, and education. An additional focus of the Foundation is preserving and protecting wildlife and habitat in the Pacific Northwest. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington that address the Foundation's priorities. Online applications may be submitted at any time. Visit their website at www.charlottemartin.org for details on the Foundation's focus areas and online application information.

Creative Ventures Fund
Deadline: Open
Applications for grants are from the Creative Ventures Fund, administered by the Rasmuson Foundation. They will provide up to $50,000 each in matching support to enrich programs offered by arts and cultural organizations in Alaska. For more information, contact Victoria Lord at the Rasmuson Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska at 877-366-2700.

Pay It Forward Foundation Mini-Grant Program
Deadline: Open
The Pay It Forward Foundation was established to educate and inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and to provide them with opportunities to do so.

Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time-only service-oriented projects that are identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community, and that include learning goals for the youth participants. Projects must contain a “pay it forward” focus – that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially.

Schools, churches, and community youth groups (with an adult sponsor) may apply for funding. Groups whose members are all over the age of 18 must include work with youth under the age of 18 as part of their projects. Mini-Grants of up to $500 are available. For more information, Email: info@payitforwardfoundation.org or go the foundation's website.

Literacy for the 21st Century
Deadline: September 1st
Starbucks Foundation Grants fund programs for youth, ages 6-18, that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in the communities where they live. The Starbucks Foundation invites letters of inquiry from qualifying 501(c)3 organizations that work with underserved youth in the fields of literacy (reading, writing and creative/media arts) and environmental literacy. Grants range from $5,000-$20,000.  Deadline: September 1 and March 1, annually (Letters of Inquiry) Click on Starbucks.com's website for more information.

Seventh Generation Fund Grants
Deadline: April 1, 2009 and October 1, 2009

The Fund directs its small grants and/or technical support, financial management and project facilitation to Indigenous communities and organizations. It is best described as holistic in nature and Native-centered. Deadline for submitting a grant proposal are April 1, 2009 and October 1, 2009. For more information, go to www.7genfund.org/ grant_making_guidelines.php.