Tag Archives: funding

Funding Alert: Faith Program for At-Risk Children

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Posted on GrantStation on 5/1/13. Geographic Scope: National Type of Organization: Religious Total Annual Giving:  Not Available Grant Range: $1,000 – $7,500 Eligibility Requirements: Christian nonprofit organizations Application Deadlines: January 7 and July 8, 2013 (The 2014 deadline will be available early in the year.) Areas of Interest: For Kids Only is a nonprofit faith-based organization [...]

Norwich University Receives $25 million Gift

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Posted on Vermontbiz.com on Friday April 26, 2013. Norwich University’s President Richard W. Schneider announced today that the University has received the largest gift in its 194-year history. At a dinner for the board of trustees on April 25, 2013, COL (IL) JN Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), President of the Tawani Foundation, committed $25 million [...]

Funding Alert: CRESH Small Grants for Teachers, Counselors, Health Care Providers

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The Center for Research in Emotional and Social Health (CRESH) is dedicated to improving the emotional and social health of children, adolescents, and adults. CRESH’s Small Grants Program provides support to teachers, counselors, and other health care providers to bring evidence-based programs into the real-world so that children and families can directly benefit. Grants of [...]

Funding Alert: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Announces Vermont Economic Justice Grant

TheBen & Jerry’s Foundation is very pleased to announce the launch of our new Vermont Economic Justice Grant program with an allocation of $100,000. Beginning this summer, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation will offer competitive grants of up to $20,000 to Vermont-based, nonprofit organizations working to address the economic, social and environmental impacts of poverty. [...]

Measure Your Organizational Capacity: Free for 10 Nonprofits!

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Benchmarks for a Better Vermont, with the support of the Vermont Community Foundation, is helping Vermont’s nonprofits assess their strengths and areas for development.Benchmarks for a Better Vermont, with the support of the Vermont Community Foundation, is helping Vermont’s nonprofits assess their strengths and areas for development. BBVT is now taking applications from 25 Vermont nonprofits seeking a scholarship for the Core Capacity Assessment Tool to apply. The first 25 applicants meeting the eligibility criteria will receive a full scholarship for the CCAT, a $300 value.

7 Reasons Your Grants Are Being Rejected

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This article was written by Charlie Hullihen for Nonprofits 2.0. You don’t write for your audience. You aren’t proofreading enough. You aren’t thorough enough. Your proposal contains too much fluff. You have a goal but no plan. You aren’t providing enough data. You are using unreasonable budgets.   Read the entire article here!  

News: Nonprofit Finance Fund Releases 2013 Survey Results

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The Nonprofit Finance Fund just released their 2013 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey, supported by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Here is the short story: Nearly 6000 respondents from all 50 states–34 from Vermont–reported financial and management details showing the substantial changes that many organizations are making after years of economic stress. In the [...]

News: Nonprofits Taking Steps to Adapt to ‘New Normal’, Survey Finds

From Philanthropy News Digest: After years of economic stress, many nonprofit organizations are changing the way they do business in order to adapt to new economic realities, a report from the Nonprofit Finance Fund finds. According to NFF’s 2013 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey (15 pages, PDF), 49 percent of the 5,983 nonprofits that [...]

Help JobsinVT.com Donate $6,000 to Vermont Nonprofits

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JobsinVT.com shared this news about their  Live Work Give Program. Wouldn’t you love to help out your favorite nonprofit Vermont charity this year with a gift of up to $1,000? What if we wrote the check? Enter our contest before April 1, 2013 for five chances to do just that.1 JobsInVT.com, Vermont’s #1 employment resource, [...]

Funding Alert: Invitation for Letters of Inquiry for Environmental Grants Program

Posted on The Foundation Center website on March 14, 2013. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry from nonprofit environmental organizations for initiatives that support environmental, economic, and social sustainability in the United States. Through its Gray Notes Grants program, the foundation awards grants of between $2,000 and $25,000 for environmental conservation, [...]