Weekly Grant Round-Up
Americorps has recently opened applications for its FY2025 State and National Grants program! This program funds organizations that engage Americorps member volunteers in evidence-based interventions that strengthen American communities. For this program, Americorps is prioritizing applications from organizations that:
Serve communities with concentrated poverty and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals.
Implement programs, or expand access, to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services.
Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, and active-duty members of the armed services.
Promote environmental stewardship.
Support and implement civic bridge-building programs that reduce political polarization.
Total program funding is dependent on federal appropriations. Last year, this program distributed $370 million in grants! This current funding round has no matching requirements, and applications are due January 23, 2025.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Cultural and Community Resilience Program supports community-based efforts to address the impacts of climate change and COVID-19. This program safeguards cultural resources and fosters cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and collecting community experiences. Eligible projects for this grant include:
Collaborative planning to identify a community's cultural and historical resources.
Recording oral histories from members of a community.
Preserving passed-down knowledge, practices, and memories of community elders.
The NEH forecasts the next round of applications to be due May 20, 2025. Applicants can receive up to $150,000 with no cost-sharing required.
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The Rogovy Foundation's Miller/Packan Film Fund provides grants to feature length non-fiction film projects. The Foundation is looking for films that focus on education, the environment, or civics. Filmmakers can receive up to $15,000 for "advanced development" projects to cover work done in a documentary's preliminary stage, or $25,000 for "production and post-production" projects to help applicants finish and edit their film.
Applications for this round of funding are due November 15, 2024.
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