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The purpose of this program is to boost interest and proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by challenging public school teachers and students in grades 6-12 to show how STEM can be applied to help improve their local community. Rather than providing monetary awards, this program provides prize packages including Samsung technology and classroom resources that will allow teachers to build the critical thinking and leadership skills of their students.
Samsung
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The purpose of this program is to build just and durable democracies in the 21st century by strengthening institutions that improve educational attainment of historically under-represented groups. In general, awards issued through this program will provide additional resources and professional development opportunities for faculty and student research at a select group of private, four-year institutions whose missions are to provide an undergraduate liberal arts education.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to celebrate the working relationship between theaters and writers. Awards will support nonprofit theaters that have fair and equitable practices and that hold themselves to superlative ethical standards in supporting the livelihoods and careers of writers. Awards will also get funds directly into the hands of writers working with these theaters whose work pushes boundaries and shows tremendous promise.
Dramatists Guild Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to create a culture of healthy eating and active living throughout the country. The program aims to engage, organize, and mobilize people to help all children grow up at a healthy weight. Projects will advance coordinated state, local, and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused on healthy eating and active living, and will utilize the American Heart Association's proven advocacy capacity to drive meaningful and widespread policy change. The funding a
American Heart Association
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The purpose of this program is to elevate city-led strategies that most successfully engage citizens to help create and implement solutions to pressing local problems. The program intends to reward cities that engage citizens in creative and effective ways, including in areas such as civic tech, data analysis, impact volunteering, and more. The best strategies will be celebrated, ultimately enabling cities from around the world to learn, adopt, and improve upon these strategies back home.
Cities of Service
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The purpose of this program is to empower future generations and provide them with the tools needed to combat environmental challenges by supporting science and environmental education. This program provides funding for K-12 classroom teachers to participate in a 7- to 14-day expedition to perform firsthand research regarding such topics as climate change, ecology, and wildlife, and develop a better understanding of environmental concerns to share with their classrooms, schools, and communities.
Earthwatch Institute
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The purpose of this program is to end the killing in America's animal shelters and bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. Funding will support projects related to targeted spay/neuter, adoption initiatives, trap-neuter-return or return-to-field projects for community cats, intake prevention programs, and/or any other initiatives that will directly reduce shelter deaths in the community. Projects can be focused on one event or program or include multiple events or programs. Proj
Best Friends Animal Society
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The purpose of this program is to ensure that there is a high-quality park within a ten-minute walk of every person, in every neighborhood, in every city across the country. To achieve this goal, this program will provide monetary awards and technical assistance to support the planning efforts of cities and mayors. Applicants must demonstrate a clear interest and commitment to the 10-Minute Walk Campaign, strong project management, and leadership support. Details regarding the 10-Minute Walk Cam
National Recreation and Park Association
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The purpose of this program is to foster new forms of research and collaboration and new approaches to teaching and learning in the field of European art. Awards will be provided for the digitization of important visual resources, especially art history photographic archives, in the area of pre-modern art history. Support will also be provided for the digitization of primary textual sources, especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history; for promising initiatives in onl
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to foster relationships and increase understanding between U.S.-based Muslim and non-Muslim populations by supporting the planning and implementation of projects that engage such populations in literary-, media-, and/or performing arts-based experiences. Projects may be conducted in collaboration with other organizations, and should offer engaging, immersive, and interactive experiences that are tailored to the needs and interests of the specific intended audiences
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to help communities where Exelon employees and customers live and work to grow and thrive. Funding will support projects that deliver measurable and sustainable improvements. Event grants will be issued for events that occur only once per calendar year, such as golf outings or annual galas, and program grants will be issued for programs that occur over time, such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs or academic mentoring."
Exelon Corporation
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The purpose of this program is to help develop and maintain vibrant and sustainable communities by meeting critical needs, revitalizing communities, or developing the future workforce. Projects must align with the strategic parameters of the program. The funding agency’s core areas include: The militaryEducationWorkforce developmentCommunity revitalizationHealth and human service-related issues and causesFunding may be provided in the form of an event sponsorship or fun
Bell Helicopter
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The purpose of this program is to help end pet homelessness before it starts by preventing unplanned litters. Funding will support subsidized spay and neuter services.
PetSmart Charities
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The purpose of this program is to help law enforcement agencies acquire police service dogs (K9s) for their department. The program's ultimate goal is to bridge financial gaps and ensure that K9 costs never keep officers from having their K9 partners. Rather than providing monetary awards, this program provides the following types of K9s: Single-purpose dogs trained in one of the following disciplines:Untrained (green)Imprinted with scentsPatrol - trained in handler prot
K9s4COPs
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The purpose of this program is to help make the game of golf more accessible to people with disabilities by providing financial assistance and resources to organizations that provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to learn and enjoy the game of golf and its inherent values. Of particular interest are projects that focus on the inclusion of people with disabilities in programs that involve those without disabilities, with the ultimate goal of enhancing their inclusion into the fa
U.S. Golf Association
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The purpose of this program is to help shape and sustain art history and conservation as dynamic and rigorous disciplines by supporting art museums, conservation centers, research institutes, graduate programs, and related institutions, with an emphasis on training, collaboration, and knowledge networks. Awards are intended to strengthen fundamental and innovative work in the following four primary areas: Curatorial initiativesArt conservation and conservation scienceArt museums
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to help unbanked people open safe and affordable accounts when they enter or reenter the workforce by helping interested workforce development programs or large nonprofit employers identify and operationalize a banking opportunity within their program structures. In addition to monetary awards to support banking access integration into a workforce development/employment program, award recipients will receive technical assistance, including phone support and a site
Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund
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The purpose of this program is to improve recycling infrastructure, with priority given to closing the loop on materials and enhancing existing infrastructure. Funding will be provided in the form of below-market loans and will support replicable and financially viable recycling infrastructure projects in the primary categories of collection, sortation, and processing/end markets. In addition, this program supports the priority areas of sortation of small-format rigid plastics and sortation and
Closed Loop Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to improve the quality of justice in state courts and to foster innovative, efficient solutions to common issues faced by all courts. This program offers a variety of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to improve the administration of justice in state courts. Significant financial resources will be allocated to support the following priority investment areas: Opioids and state courts responseHuman trafficking and state courtsGuardianship
State Justice Institute
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The purpose of this program is to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV (PLWH) as they age. The funding agency believes that it is now a critical time to develop innovative social programs and systemic policies that help aging PLWH achieve positive health outcomes. Projects will build upon what is known in the field and community, with a focus on leveraging the power of partnerships to drive progress towards sustainable programs and effective policies for PLWH who are 50 years o
Gilead Sciences
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The purpose of this program is to increase student awareness and involvement in the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed region's natural resources through increasing student access to projects that provide meaningful watershed educational experiences (MWEEs), or other activities that serve the same purpose. Projects must raise public awareness about the health of streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake and Coastal bays and about the steps that can be taken to restore and prote
Chesapeake Bay Trust
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The purpose of this program is to invest in events, programs, projects, and activities that make a positive local impact in communities located within the geographic footprint of TD Bank. Supported projects may include: Events, defined as one-time activities that potentially benefit a nonprofit organization, including walk-a-thons, relays for life, and food drives. Programs, defined as ongoing activities that may be educational in nature or
TD Bank Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to overhaul the country's outdated and crumbling infrastructure with a new approach that will foster healthier, sustainable, and just communities. Focusing on urban areas and their surrounding suburbs, this program seeks to support solutions that connect and improve infrastructure systems in ways that maximize positive impacts and minimize negative environmental, economic, and social consequences. Funding will support both project and general support awards.
Surdna Foundation
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The purpose of this program is to place as many AEDs, which are critical life-saving devices, in as many locations as possible. The program is designed to allow public and private organizations, as well as the public, to have access to these amazing devices at an affordable, reduced price. AEDs will be shipped directly to recipients. The funding agency will also assist recipients in acquiring medical oversight/doctors' prescriptions for their devices. Purchased devices may provide opportunities
AEDGrant.com
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