Grants
Public Welfare Foundation
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=240
The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. We look for carefully defined points where our funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people. Grants are made in the following program areas:
- Criminal and Juvenile Justice
- Health Reform
- Workers’ Rights
FY09 Public Awareness and Outreach for Victims in Underserved Communities
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2043
The overall goal of this program is to raise the awareness of traditionally underserved populations about victims’ rights as well as improve their knowledge about accessing local services available to crime victims. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will support the planning and development of victimization-focused public awareness campaigns targeted at underserved and socially isolated populations including, but not limited to victims who: are immigrants with limited English proficiency, are American Indian, have disabilities, are Deaf or Hard-of-hearing, or members of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) populations. Successful applicants will establish an advisory group and collaborative partnerships with other local service providers, businesses, community-based organizations, faith-based service providers, media and individuals within the target population to be served to inform and participate in the development of a well-researched, culturally and linguistically appropriate, victimization-focused public awareness campaign.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2030
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) whose primary goal is to implement healthy eating and active living initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the United States. The program places special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of race/ethnicity, income and/or geographic location.
Ronald McDonald House Charities National Scholarship Program
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1551
Local Chapters of Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), with support from RMHC Global offer scholarships to students from communities who face limited access to educational and career opportunities.
USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=225
Provides scholarships to students able to demonstrate financial need. USA Funds® targets its scholarships to students from families with household incomes of $35,000 or less because national studies have shown significantly lower college-going rates for these students than for students from higher-income families.
Family Preservation - Improving the Well-Being of Children Project Planning
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2035
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 funds for projects that plan for approaches to improve child well-being by removing barriers associated with strengthening families (including fatherhood, parenting, foster parenting, grandparents raising grandchildren and absentee parent activities), forming and preserving healthy families, relationships and marriages (including Traditional Native American and Pacific Basin marriages) and sustaining healthy families, relationships and marriages in Native American and Pacific Basin communities.
Dr. Alma S. Adams Scholarship for Outreach and Health Communications
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1923
Applications are now being accepted for The Dr. Alma S. Adams Scholarship for Outreach and Health Communications to reduce tobacco use among what the American Legacy Foundation calls “Priority Populations.” Priority populations are those populations who are disproportionately targeted by the tobacco industry, or who often lack the tools and resources to combat smoking in their communities. Identified priority populations are Native Americans/Alaska Natives, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Low SES, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities.
Ronald McDonald House Charities Grant Program
http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1348
Grants to organizations that help children read, provide nutritious after-school meals, offer life-changing surgeries, or help prevent life-threatening disease.
[posted on Rural Assistance Center Human Services Update]
