New Earth Foundation Grant

The New Earth Foundation Grant aims to support innovative, humanitarian projects that promote sustainability, peace, and community development. Founded by John B. Loveland in 1997, the foundation focuses on assisting smaller 501(c)(3) organizations to create impactful solutions for societal challenges. Grants are awarded to projects that demonstrate innovation, community involvement, and the potential for replication, ensuring a lasting positive impact on both local and global scales.

What NEF Seeks to Fund
New Earth Foundation seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. Smaller, newer 501(c)(3) organizations are the focus of grants given, so that the foundation’s gift can make a more significant contribution to the work of the recipient organization.
The grants given by NEF support a wide variety of projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution and to save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities.
NEF particularly appreciates projects that are replicable so that excellent ideas and work can multiply and benefit many.
Criteria
New Earth Foundation awards grants to projects that serve life's wellness and Earth's peace. NEF accepts Letters of Inquiry and invites Grant Applications according to the criteria listed below. The project
meets NEF’s Vision and Missionis innovative, new, pioneering, even ingenious
transforms an aspect of society and provides practical solutions
fulfills an important and persisting need
outlines one specific undertaking with clearly defined goals, implementation plan and expected results
indicates who will benefit and how
endeavors to involve those who are served in the planning process
includes plans for replication so that benefits can multiply
contains an evaluation process to measure success, progress, and future decision-making
seeks community involvement and/or collaboration with other organizations
is cost-effective with a realistic budget appropriate for the proposed program, and a suitable balance between project related administrative costs and benefits to those served
has a plan of acquiring future funding from other sources
has qualified staff/volunteers to carry out the project, with staff qualifications clearly specified
has images of models/examples, and will provide such regarding work on the project and it's completion

Eligibility

Any organization with an IRS nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status in the USA might apply.

Ineligibility

Although organizations with their specific types of projects listed below do valuable and important work, NEF does not give grants to:organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) tax statusindividualspersonal education expensesmainstream social services or organizations that are affiliated with a well-known national or community organization  real estate, repairs, maintenance, building or renovation projectsgeneral organizational purposesstandard after-school programs, summer camps, or gardening programs, unless they are significantly innovative and pioneeringprojects not well-defined and focused