Eli Segal Fellowship (Deadline: October 8)
The Corporation for National and Community Service invites former AmeriCorps members to apply for the Eli Segal Fellowship, a year-long leadership opportunity to help advance national service policy, operations, and strategy at the agency's headquarters in the nation's capital. The fellowship is open to AmeriCorps alumni who demonstrate exceptional leadership, dedication to national service and its ideals, a social entrepreneurial spirit, and effective communication and analytical skills. Fellows carry out projects, advance their career development, and gain a first-hand understanding of national service and the workings of a federal agency. Eligible applicants for the fellowship include all AmeriCorps alums who served full-time in the past three years who will be available to serve at Corporation headquarters starting in December 2010. The selected Eli Segal Fellow will work directly with the Director of AmeriCorps and closely with the office of the CEO, participating in high level meetings, strategic planning, and other important work to advance the agency's mission at a time of expansion and innovation for national service. The fellowship includes a $27,079 salary, with full benefits, for a 13 month term. The deadline to apply for the Eli Segal Fellowship is October 8, 2010. For further information, application instructions, and frequently asked questions, please click here.
Business for Good Competition (Deadline: October 15)
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business is sponsoring the second annual Business for Good, a social enterprise business plan competition, that opened on September 1 and runs until October 15. The goal is to facilitate creativity, innovation, and collaboration among social entrepreneurs, increase the visibility of social entrepreneurship, and encourage college students to consider social entrepreneurship as they move into the working world. Finalists will have the opportunity to attend the Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Business Convention at the Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston and present their business plans to a panel of high- profile judges, including Elizabeth Blake, senior vice president at Habitat for Humanity International. For more information, please visit www.businessforgood.ning.com
Amway Positivity Project Prizes (Deadline: October 17)
The Amway Positivity Project is about advancing the power of positive in the world. In highlighting everyday stories of how positivity has made a difference in people's lives, the Amway Positivity Project is designed to inspire and motivate others to make positivity part of their lives. Amway invites you to share your power of positive story, and enter to win the $10,000 grand Positivity Prize or one of nine $2,500 Positivity Prizes - all intended to help you advance the power of positive in your life, your community and your world. Twenty-five stories will be selected as semi-finalists by a panel of judges, and the Positivity Prize winners will be chosen through public voting. You can share your story through video, pictures, essay, illustration or poetry - t's up to you how you want to tell your story. We just want you to share it. The ten finalists will gather for a special VIP event where their stories will be highlighted and their Positivity Prize granted.
Prudential Spirit of Community Awards (Deadline: November 1)
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program is the United States' largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service. The program was created in 1995 by Prudential in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) to honor middle level and high school students for outstanding service to others at the local, state, and national level. The program's goals are to applaud young people who already are making a positive difference in their towns and neighborhoods, and to inspire others to think about how they might contribute to their communities. To be eligible, a student must be in grades 5-12 as of November 1, a legal resident of a U.S. state, have engaged in a volunteer activity that occurred during the last 12 months, and submits a completed application to a school principal or head of a designated local organization by November 1. 12 students will receive the maximum award of $1,000 and a trip to Washington, DC. For more information and to apply, please click here.
Youth Garden Grants (Deadline: November 1)
Home Depot and the National Gardening Association (NGA) are partnering again to offer the Youth Garden Grants, given to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs. Priorities will be given to programs that emphasize one or more of these elements: educational focus or curricular/program integration, nutrition or plant-to-food connections, environmental awareness/education, entrepreneurship, social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service-learning. Schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups throughout the United States are eligible. Applicants must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18 years. Previous Youth Garden Grant winners who wish to reapply may do so, but must wait one year (e.g., if you won in 2010, you can apply again in 2012) and have significantly expanded their garden programs. This year, 100 grants are available, with five programs receiving gift cards valued at $1000 (a $500 gift card to Home Depot and a $500 gift card to the Gardening with Kids catalog, and educational materials from the National Gardening Association. Ninety-five programs will receive a $500 gift card to Home Depot and educational materials from NGA. For more information, please visit www.kidsgardening.org/ygg.asp.
Echoing Green Fellowships (Deadline: November 12)
The two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program will provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity. This highly-competitive award will give 12-20 individuals $60,000, or two-person partnerships a grant of $90,000 to support their work. In addition, a health insurance stipend, yearly professional development stipend, access to conferences led by organizational development experts, technical support, and other benefits are included in the package. The application will open on October 12, and the deadline to submit is November 12. For eligibility and more information, please click here.
Project Ignition Grants (Deadline: November 15)
Applications for $2,000 grants are now available online for high school students and adults interested in addressing teen driver safety through service-learning initiatives. State Farm and the National Youth Leadership Council are proud to continue their collaboration on Project Ignition in this seventh year. Students and staff from any public high school in the U.S. and in the Canadian Provinces of Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick can apply. Applications are due November 15, 2010, and twenty-five high schools will receive $2,000 grants in December, 2010 to support implementation of their programs between January and April, 2011. To apply, please visit www.sfprojectignition.com.
Office Depot Foundation Grants (Deadline: November 15)
The Foundation's funding focus includes: Making a Difference in Children's Lives - to support activities that serve, teach and inspire children, youth and families; Building Communities - to support civic organizations and activities that serve the needs of our community; and Disaster Relief - to support disaster relief efforts of recognized national, regional and local agencies, and to provide disaster relief to Office Depot associates who have experienced catastrophic loss. An online eligibility survey and grant application can be found on the Grant Making Guidelines page. Applications are retrieved on a monthly basis and are reviewed by a committee. Please allow at least 12 weeks after you submit your completed application before you receive a response. Grant amounts will be a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $3,000 (very limited). The majority of grants issued are in the vicinity of $1,000 and are supported by in-kind donations when inventory allows. The Office Depot Foundation will accept applications for the current funding cycle through November 15, 2010. Learn more at: www.officedepotfoundation.com/funding.asp
AmeriCorps State and National (Deadline: January 25)
CNCS is looking for high-impact organizations across America to submit their strongest applications for how to use AmeriCorps members to address pressing social problems. If the President's fiscal year 2011 budget request is fully funded, the agency anticipates approximately $311 million to be available for new, recompeting, and continuation grants in all of the AmeriCorps State and National grant categories, and $1 million for AmeriCorps planning grants. This funding will make a focused investment in the six national issue priorities identified in the Serve America Act of improving education, energy conservation, the health of all Americans, and economic opportunity for economically vulnerable individuals; increasing service by and for veterans; and providing disaster services. Public or private nonprofit organizations, including labor organizations, faith-based and other community organizations; institutions of higher education; government entities within states or territories (e.g., cities, counties); Indian Tribes; partnerships and consortia; and intermediaries planning to subgrant funds awarded are eligible to apply. The Corporation encourages organizations that have never received funding from the Corporation or AmeriCorps to apply for these grants.
Applications to the Corporation are due January 25, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and successful applicants will be notified in early June 2011. For more information, please click here:
WaysToHelp.org Grants (Deadline: Ongoing)
WaysToHelp.org invites teens in the United States to apply for grants to fund their community service ideas across any one of 16 issue areas. You can apply for a grant, by visiting www.waystohelp.org and for any issue area, selecting "See Ways To Help" followed by "Apply for a Grant". Applications are short - just 5,000 words or less - and should summarize: how the project will involve others, who it will help, what effect it's expected to have, when it will start and how the funds will be used. Grant requests are reviewed and responded to on a monthly basis. www.waystohelp.org
