Daniel Foundation of Alabama: Education & Youth Grants

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• _[Health Grants]()_
• _[Community Needs Grants]()_
• _[Arts, Culture and Community Asset Grants]()_

Education and Youth

The Daniel Foundation believes that a quality education provides the basis for individual opportunity and economic vitality. We are committed to supporting and improving education and development for youth in grades pre-K-12, especially children in underserved areas or facing economic disadvantages.

Our priorities:

• Availability of and access to high quality public libraries
• Readily available, quality birth through pre-school opportunities
• Support for bold approaches to Alabama’s public school challenges, and programs working to provide better educational opportunities for K-12 students, including the support of charter schools developing in Alabama.
• Programs that expose and prepare students for higher education and employment opportunities
• Summer learning, with a particular focus on SAIL
• Youth development, including mentoring programs

Higher Education

Grants to universities will be primarily focused on these partnerships and primarily initiated by the Foundation.

Colleges and universities in Alabama are key economic drivers for the communities in which they exist and for the state as a whole. Grants to universities will be primarily focused on these partnerships.

Eligibility

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• Organizations should be well established with a strong base of community support.
• Grants to start-up operations are considered by invitation only.
• After three consecutive years of funding organizations must sit out one year before re-applying
• Organizations may only receive one grant during the calendar year

Ineligibility

• We do not fund:
• Individuals
• Scholarships
• Sponsorships for fundraising events
• Organizations outside of Alabama