Grants
Nomination Period Opens for Purpose Prize
Deadline: March 5, 2009
The Purpose Prize ( http://www.purposeprize.org/ ) provides five awards of $100,000 each to people over the age of 60 who are working to address society’s biggest challenges. To be eligible for the prize, nominees must be at least 60 years old (by the deadline of March 5, 2009) and be a legal resident of the United States (including its territories). Nominees should have initiated important innovations as part of an encore career and should be currently working in a leadership capacity in an organization or institution (public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit) to address a major social problem in the U.S. or abroad. Nominees should have demonstrated recent creativity and leadership, with the promise of more to come. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016227/purposeprize
Former Talk Show Host Jenny Jones Announces Continuation of Community Grant Program
Deadline: Open
Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny’s Heroes ( http://www.jennysheroes.com/ ) community grant program. The Jenny’s Heroes program awards grants to individuals who submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects. Jenny’s Heroes provides grants of up to $25,000 each to fund projects that promise long-term community benefits. Through the fifty grant recipients so far, funds have been used to provide items and services such as library books, school computers, firefighting gear, nursing home upgrades, sports equipment, free dental services, wheelchairs, coats for children in domestic violence shelters, and a running track at a women’s prison. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016232/jennysheroes
Kaiser Family Foundation Offers Media Fellowships in Health
Deadline: March 3, 2009
A program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health program is a flexible opportunity for print, broadcast, and online journalists to pursue an area of interest in U.S. health policy issues. Any journalist, editor, or producer specializing in health reporting — or wanting to do so — is eligible. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016236/kffmediafellows
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