Nebraska 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Available to public school districts and private schools, community-based organizations, non-profit agencies, city or county government agencies, faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education and for-profit corporations that meet specified requirements
Get up to $5.00 per day per student for weekday programming and $7.50 per day per student for weekend and summer programming to provide extended learning opportunities to students. Programs should aim to improve student learning performance in academics, enhance character development and increase family/community engagement to support student education.
Must apply by February 1, 2012
All Children Reading Competition
Available to non-governmental organizations, for-profit organizations, colleges and universities and faith-based organizations
Get up to $300,000 for programs designed to improve reading skills and low literacy rates among children.
Must apply by January 31, 2012
Delaware 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Available to local school systems, interagency, interdepartmental, community and faith-based or other private or public organizations, or a consortium of two or more of the aforementioned – serving youth who attend schools exhibiting rates of poverty 40% or higher
Get up to $150,000 to establish or expand community learning centers that provide students with enrichment opportunities such as tutoring and mentoring.
Must apply by February 20, 2012
California After School Education and Safety
Available to local educational agencies (LEAs) serving students K-9, such as school districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, and cities, counties, or nonprofit organizations in partnership with, and with the approval of, an LEA. Nonprofit organizations may apply, but the LEA or the public agency must agree to act as the fiscal agent
Get up to $150,000 to create after school programs that support educational literacy and enrichment, thereby providing constructive alternatives for youth.
Must apply by January 13, 2012
Literacy Is For Everyone (LIFE) Promise
Available to LEA’s who successfully demonstrate plans to implement Louisiana Comprehensive Literacy Plan in a cluster (feeder system) likely to serve the same children as they progress through their education. Includes Birth-PreK; K-12; high-needs; nonprofit or school-based; community-based orgs; libraries; health care providers; and LA4 classrooms.
Get up to $1 million to improve literacy in your school through programs that enhance children’s literacy outcomes and demonstrate best practices for program implementation, teacher characteristics, classroom quality and student characteristics.
Must apply by February 20, 2012
Deadline: December 2, 2011 (Letters of Inquiry)
Media and Performing Artists and Nonprofit Organizations in Northern and Central California Invited to Apply for Collaborative Project Grants
The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation, invites artists and nonprofit organizations to apply for grants for collaborative projects featuring media or performing artists.
Launched in 1994, the Creative Work Fund is designed to help address the decline in support for artists and new works. Since its inception, CWF has contributed $8 million to advance art-making by California artists in a variety of disciplines. Grants are awarded to genuine, creative partnerships between artists and nonprofit organizations. Each year, CWF focuses on projects from different disciplines; the 2012 grants program will fund collaborative projects that feature media or performing artists.
The CWF grant program emphasizes the creation of new work — not distribution or productions of work already developed. Projects may culminate in any form, but they must feature a lead artist with a strong track record as a media artist or performing artist and collaboration between that artist and a nonprofit organization.
The fund uses the following definitions for eligible artists. Media artists create narrative, documentary, animated, or experimental time-based works using audio, digital, film, and/or video media.
Computer arts also are included in this category. (Please note that the fund considers still photography in its visual arts category.) Performing artists create or execute work in dance, opera, performance art, theater, and vocal and instrumental music. (Please note that the fund considers spoken word artists in its literary arts category.)
Any kind of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization may apply (but not a private foundation). A recognized religious organization, even if it does not have 501(c)(3) status, may apply, as may a public agency (such as a parks department, health department, or public school). A nonprofit organization that clearly fills a charitable or educational purpose but does not have nonprofit status may apply with an eligible nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
The principal collaborating artists and organizations must live or be located in the Northern or Central California counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, or Stanislaus; and have been there for at least two years.
A total of up to $810,000 will be available through grants ranging from $10,000 to $40,000. Artists and organizations should plan projects and prepare and sign their Letters of Inquiry together.
Deadline: February 10, 2012
