Sprint Foundation

The Sprint Foundation accepts grant proposals throughout the year in areas such as education, arts & culture, community improvement, and youth development.
> www3.sprint.com/sprint/overview/commun.html

The Clorox Company Foundation

The Clorox Company Foundation supports programs that serve youth, K-12 grade education, and cultural and civic organizations. The Foundation funds innovative approaches to systemic problems as well as general support for program operations.
> www.clorox.com/company/foundation/mission.html

Corning Foundation

The Corning Foundation educational grants support community service programs for students, curriculum enrichment, student scholarships, facility improvement, and instructional technology projects for the classroom.
> www.corning.com/inside_corning/foundation.asp

Rohm and Haas Company

The Rohm and Haas Company accepts applications for grants in education, civic and community involvement, health and human services, and culture and arts.
> www.rohmhaas.com/company/CSI/Giving.html

AOL Time Warner Foundation

The AOL Time Warner Foundation supports four major initiatives: Equipping Kids for a Better Future; Extending Internet Benefits to All; Engaging Communities in the Arts; and Empowering Citizens and Civic Participation.
> aoltimewarnerfoundation.org/grants/grants.html

The Candle Foundation

The Candle Foundation supports grant-seekers throughout the U.S. in program areas such as community investment and education and information dissemination.
> www.candle.com/about_candle/candle_foundation/about_our_grants.html

UPS Foundation

The UPS Foundation focuses on supporting organizations that are devoted to strengthening communities at the grassroots level.
> www.community.ups.com/community/resources/foundation/index.html

American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Community Action Grants

Offers Community Action Grants, which provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations, and local community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. One-year grants for start-up projects and two-year grants for projects focused on K-12 girls’ achievement in math, science, and/or technology are available.
> www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm

AT&T Foundation Education Grants

The foundation’s scope is national, emphasizing support of higher education and institutions and national organizations serving the academic community, and K-12 education. Areas of funding under this category include programs/projects that use technology to enhance teaching and learning, encourage family involvement in schools, provide professional development opportunities for educators, prepare future teachers for the learning environment, and implement plans for lifelong learning and community collaboration. The foundation maintains a local giving program to serve communities where the company has a presence. Types of support include annual campaigns, consulting services, emergency funds, matching funds, employee matching gifts, fellowships, program development, general/operating support, and technical assistance.
> www.att.com/foundation/

Knight Foundation

This foundation emphacizes four major program areas: Community Initiatives, Journalism, Education, and Arts and Culture.
> www.knightfdn.org/

Toyota USA Foundation Grants

Education is the focus of Toyota’s giving, with emphasis on primary and secondary schooling. In addition to funding national programs, Toyota supports the social well-being of communities where it has major operations (California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York and West Virginia). This includes assistance for Arts and Culture and Civic and Community Development.

Toyota prefers to support programs, rather than sponsor events. Organizations must apply each year to the contributions program, and subsequent funding is contingent upon evaluation of previous activities.
> www.toyota.com/about/community/fundguidelines/index.html

Free National & Global Youth Service Day Materials

Free National & Global Youth Service Day Materials are available to in the planning of service projects for the 18th Annual National & Global Youth Service Day, April 21-23, 2006. Planning Tool Kits, Service-Learning Curriculum Guides, and Classroom Posters are now available in print and on-line. Download these materials or order free printed copies at:
> www.ysa.org/nysd/resource/nysd_resources_parent.cfm

J8 Global Citizen Programme

The J8 Global Citizen Programme gives winners of its competition the opportunity to travel to Russia in July 2006 to join young people from all the other G8 countries at J8 St Petersburg 2006.
Maximum Award: an all-expenses-paid, 3-day Summit in July 2006, plus various prizes.
Eligibility: groups of 6-8 students aged 13-16.
> www.j82006.com

Grants for Service-Learning Projects

Learn and Serve America, part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, has released a Notice of funding Opportunity for grant funds to support school-based, community-based, higher education, and tribal and U.S. territory service-learning projects. The grant competition is to promote the development and sustainability of high-quality community-based service-learning programs in youth-serving community organizations across the nation.
Maximum Award: Varies.
Eligibility: K-12 schools, colleges, volunteer centers, faith-based organizations.
> www.learnandserve.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa.asp

Grants to Integrate Literacy with Personal and Civic Action

Starbucks Foundation Grants fund programs that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in the communities where they live.
Maximum Award: $5,000.
Eligibility: 501 (c) 3 organizations that work with underserved youth ages 6-18 in the fields of literacy (reading, writing and creative/media arts) and environmental literacy.
> www.starbucks.com/aboutus/grantinfo.asp

CiviConnections Program

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) CiviConnections program links local historical inquiry with community service-learning activities nationwide in 3rd-12th grade classrooms. CiviConnections projects during the 2006/07 school year will focus on: Poverty, Health Care, Discrimination, or the Environment.
Maximum Award: $7,500.
Eligibility: teams of three teachers from grades 3-12 in the same public school district with membership in NCSS or agreeing to join if selected; must partner with at least one local community agency and meet certain other requirements (see website).
> www.civiconnections.org

Seeking Young Heroes for $2,000 Barron Prize

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes seeks nominations for its 2006 awards. The Barron Prize honors young people ages 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in public service to people and our planet. Each year, ten national winners each receive $2,000 to support their service work or higher education. Nomination deadline is April 30. For more information and to nominate, visit:
> www.barronprize.org

National Teach-In celebration of National Youth Service Day

Youth for Justice, the national coordinated law- related education (LRE) consortium funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the United States Department of Justice, invites 100 middle and high school classes across the United States to teach others about the fundamental ideas of American democracy through the Third Annual National Teach-In celebration of National Youth Service Day and National Law Day.
Maximum Award: $200.
Eligibility: middle school and high school classes.
> www.crfc.org/yfj_teachin2006.html

Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community

The Hitachi Foundation presents the Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community for high school students on the basis of their community-service activities.
Maximum Award: $5000.
Eligibility: graduating high school seniors in the U.S. or U.S. territories.
> www.hitachifoundation.org/yoshiyama/index.html

Kohl’s Kids Who Care Program

Kohl’s Kids Who Care Program recognizes and rewards young volunteers who transform their communities for the better.
Maximum Award: $5000.
Eligibility: youth 6 to 18 years old, not graduated from high school by March 15, 2006.
Deadline: March 15, 2006.
> www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/Community02.htm

Grants to Engage Troubled Youth in Volunteer Service

Youth Service America/U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention YouthRising program will award grants for organizations to engage high risk and/ or gang-involved youth in volunteer service. A significant portion of the project must take place on National & Global Youth Service Day, April 20-22, 2007. Maximum Award: $2000. Eligibility: organizations with documented success in prevention/intervention work with high risk and/or gang-involved youth.
> www.ysa.org/awards

State Farm Companies Foundation Education Grants

Funded by: State Farm Companies Foundation
Description: To support K-12 public education, the following types of grants will be considered: 1) Striving for Teacher Excellence, which will improve teacher quality; 2) Service-Learning programs that integrate core classroom curriculum with service to the community; 3) Systematic improvement, or those programs and processes that require longer periods of time and investment of resources to impact measurable student achievement; and 4) Operation Respect through the "Don’t Laugh At Me" project, a curriculum-based program that is designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon one another. For higher education, The Foundation provides funding to scholarship programs that are administered by the American Indian College Fund, the Hispanic scholarship Fund, and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Program areas: Community involvement/volunteerism, ESL/bilingual/ foreign language, general education, math, professional development, reading, science/environmental, social studies, technology, all other
Recipients: Public school, higher education
Average amount: $100 to $10,000
Contact person: Kristy Funk, Asst. Secy.
Telephone: 309-766-2161
Email: kristy.funk.cm3n@statefarm.com
> www.statefarm.com/foundati/foundati.htm

Target Stores Grants

Through its Store Grants, Target (www.target.com) supports local giving in the categories of Arts, Reading, and Family Violence Prevention.

The program awards Reading grants to schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations, supporting programs such as weekend book clubs, after-school reading programs, and events encouraging family reading time. Arts grants are given to programs that bring the arts to schools or make it affordable for families to participate in cultural experiences, such as school touring programs, field trips to the theater or symphony, or artist residencies and workshops in schools. Family Violence Prevention grants support groups working to make individual homes and entire communities safer, such as child abuse counseling programs and shelters.

Eligible applicants must be nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status, schools, or units of government.

Most grants average between $1,000 and $3,000.

Funding is limited to the communities in which Target does business. Because applications will be reviewed as they are received, applicants are encouraged to apply early.

Applications for Target Store Grants are available at local Target stores and online through the Target Web site. Visit the Web site for complete program information and application procedures.
> fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001791/target

Do Something to Honor Young Social Entrepreneurs

Each year, the Do Something (dosomething.org) Brick Award honors six outstanding leaders age 18 and under and three outstanding leaders age 19 to 25 who use their talents to take action that measurably strengthens their local communities in the areas of community building, health, or the environment. The award is meant to highlight the achievements of individual social entrepreneurs who have made a difference in their communities.

Each of the "18 and under" winners is awarded a $5,000 higher education scholarship and a $5,000 community grant to be directed by the award winner to the not-for-profit organization of his or her choice. Winners in the "19 to 25" category each receive a $10,000 community grant.

Members of the Brick Selection Committee evaluate applicants on the following criteria: communication skills; ability to motivate and mobilize community members; originality of approach to strengthening the community; knowledge and understanding of how the local community works; leadership, development of key collaborations and relationships, and demonstration of long-term commitment to the community; social entrepreneurial skills; ability to create programs and initiatives, and/or to build upon existing programs; ability to tangibly improve the lives of others; ability to measurably strengthen the quality and health of community institutions through community work; and ability to have a sustainable impact on the community at large and to catalyze long-term improvement in the community.

This is an award for social entrepreneurs, not activists or fundraisers. Brick winners are builders and creators who start programs/organizations and/or modernize older programs/organizations. Although founding a program or organization is not a requirement for the award, it does demonstrate that the applicant is a social entrepreneur and will be scored accordingly. By the same token, if an applicant has brought new and fresh leadership to a stale organization, that also shows social entrepreneurism.

Visit the Do Something Web site for complete programinformation and application procedures.
> fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001788/dosomething

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Seeks Nominations

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes (www.barronprize.org) honors young people between the ages of 8 and 18 who have shown leadership and courage in public service to people and our planet.

Each year, ten national winners each receive $2,000 to support their service work or higher education.

Winners must have organized and led a truly extraordinary service activity that has clearly benefited other people, our fellow creatures, or the planet we share. The winner’s service activity must have been initiated and motivated primarily by the winner him or herself. Winners must have participated in their heroic work within the twelve months prior to the nomination deadline of April 30, and must be legal residents of the United States or Canada.

Nominations can be made by responsible adults who have solid knowledge of a young person’s heroic activities and who are not related to the nominee.

For complete program information and to nominate a young person, visit the Barron Prize Web site.
> fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001787/barronprize

Angel Soft Angels in Action National Awards Program Will Honor Children and Youth for Volunteer Efforts

The Angel Soft (www.angelsoft.com) Angels in Action Awards Program, now in its seventh year, aims to recognize children and youth who are performing exemplary acts of community service. Georgia-Pacific, the makers of Angel Soft toilet paper, invites teachers, parents, guardians, and friends to submit nominations to honor "ordinary kids who are doing extraordinary things" to help improve their communities.

For the first time since the program’s inception, one outstanding child or teen will be awarded $15,000 for "Program of the Year." Two grand-prize winners (one from each age category) will receive $10,000 and ten finalists (five from each age category) will receive $1,000.

The age categories are 8 to 15 years old and 16 to 18 years old.

Nominators who are 18 years or older are asked to submit an essay of two hundred words or less on the nominee’s service accomplishments.

Visit the Angel Soft Web site for complete program guidelines and to submit a nomination.
> fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001785/angelsoft

Pay It Forward Mini-Grants

This program funds one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community. Projects must contain a "pay it forward" focus -- that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially.
Maximum Award: $500.
Eligibility: schools, churches and community youth groups (with an adult sponsor).
> payitforwardfoundation.org/educators/grant.html

KnowledgeWorks Foundation National Search for Excellence

KnowledgeWorks Foundation National Search for Excellence seeks schools that reflect the emerging trend of designing schools that serve as centers of community -- schools that welcome community use and benefit from community resources that support student and community success.
Eligibility: all public schools.
Maximum Award: $5000
> www.nationalschoolsearch.org/about_search/2005/

Rewarding Exemplary Community and Volunteer Service

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor young people in grades 5 through 12 who have demonstrated exemplary voluntary service to their communities.
Maximum Award: $5,000.
Eligibility: Students grades 5-12 who have conducted a volunteer service activity within the past year.
Deadline: October 31, 2006.
> www.principals.org/s_nassp/sec.asp?CID=539&DID=48173