VOL 14 ISSUE # 24 November 15, 2016
In This Issue:
- Non Profit Fellowships for Veterans
- Environmental Justice
- Big Read – Community Reading Projects
- Sports for Underserved Females
- Vintage Vehicles
Non Profit Fellowships for Veterans
www.missioncontinues.org
The Mission Continues empowers veterans facing the challenge of adjusting to life at home to find new missions. Through the Mission Continues, veterans serve their country in new ways by engaging in innovative and action-oriented programs. As part of this mission, the Mission Continues’ Fellowship program is designed to harness the strengths, skills, and compassion of post-9/11 veterans and empower them to volunteer with nonprofit organizations in their community on a daily basis. The fellowship requires twenty hours of service per week for twenty-six weeks at a local nonprofit organization. Fellows are encouraged to choose a nonprofit organization to serve based on their own personal passions. Current and alumni fellows have worked at organizations addressing a range of issues, from disaster preparedness, to education for low-income youth, to training service dogs for wounded veterans. Host organizations include Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and many more. To date, more than six hundred unique nonprofit and community organizations have hosted a Mission Continues Fellow. Fellows are awarded a cost-of-living stipend to offset expenses while they are serving their fellowship. To be eligible, applicants must have served in the United States military after September 11, 2001, having attained an honorable discharge and a clean record after a minimum of twenty-four months of time in military service (unless serious injury was sustained preventing further service). Applicants may no longer be serving on active duty or serving in the National Guard or Reserve (IRR/ING status is acceptable).
Environmental Justice
www.epa.gov
The Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program provides funding for eligible applicants for projects that address local environmental and public health issues within an affected community. The EJSG Program is designed to help communities understand and address exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks. Applying organizations are encouraged to have a direct connection to the vulnerable affected, community impacted by environmental harms and risks.
Big Read – Community Reading Projects
www.neabigread.org
The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, aims to restore reading to the center of American culture. Community organizations participating in the Big Read develop and produce reading programs that encourage reading and participation by diverse local audiences. These programs include activities such as author readings, book discussions, art exhibits, lectures, film series, music or dance events, theatrical performances, panel discussions, and other events and activities related to the community's chosen book or poet. Activities must focus on a book or poet from the Big Read Library. Previous grantees must select a different reading choice from their previous programming. Eligible organizations may apply for grants ranging between $5,000 and $20,000. Grant funds may be used for such expenses as book purchases, speaker fees and travel, salaries, advertising, and venue rental.
Sports for Underserved Females
www.womenssportsfoundation.org
The Women’s Sports Foundation, with support from espnW, Sports 4 Life, national grant program works to increase the participation and retention of African-American and Hispanic girls in sports. The program is designed to create and expand developmental youth sports programs that serve African-American and Hispanic girls between the ages of 11 and 18. To that end, grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 will be awarded to help underwrite the costs of coaching, equipment/uniforms, transportation, facility rental, tournaments, and/or team-building activities.
Vintage Vehicles
rpm.foundation
The RPM Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that skills necessary to preserve and restore collectible vehicles are not lost. To that end, the foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations in support of programs that provide hands-on education and the teaching of the specialized skills and knowledge needed to maintain vintage cars, trucks, and boats. Grant amounts are determined on a project-by-project basis.
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