Other Funding Opportunities
These are other funding possibilities beyond grant opportunities at the Meyer Foundation.
Use this page to learn about funding opportunities outside Meyer, ways to strengthen nonprofit organizations, research about people and communities that Meyer cares about, and useful links for nonprofits and grantmakers.
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Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofits
The Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management is an annual award presented to a Washington, DC, metropolitan-area nonprofit organization for outstanding achievement in organization management.
Actuarial Foundation
Actuarial Foundation supports viable mentoring program involving actuaries in the teaching of mathematics to children, primarily grades 4-8, in private or public schools. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations.
Awards for Local Arts and Education Programs
Barnes and Noble provides in-store fundraising opportunities, sponsorships, and donations to organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or K-12 education. Applicants must be located in the communities with company stores and should serve the greater good of the local community or region. For donations and sponsorships, interested nonprofits should submit a proposal to the community relations manager or store manager at their local Barnes & Noble store.
Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional responsibility, economic and social equity, and peace and security.
Business and Communities Grants Program
The Hitachi Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for projects that enable economically-disadvantaged individuals retain employment, earn a living wage, and accumulate savings.
Child Welfare Grants
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation supports projects that contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth and can be adequately used by society.
Citigroup Foundation Grants
The Citi Foundation supports community development programs that help build and revitalize neighborhoods and education programs that prepare students for college and careers. Applicants must have IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status and a federal Employer Identification Number, or they must be a registered school, university or government entity. The Citi Foundation reviews proposals by invitation only from organizations with demonstrated successes in the areas of microfinance... Read more
Community Reconciliation
The Andrus Family Fund supports social change through a variety of programs, including its Community Reconciliation program, which addresses hate violence and police-community relations.
Digital Media and Learning Competition
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the Digital Media and Learning Competition, a $2 million open competition for ideas with the potential to transform learning using digital media.The competition seeks designers, inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and others to build digital media experiences — the learning labs of the 21st century — that help young people interact, share, build, and explore in new and innovative ways.
District At-Risk Youth and Families Grant
The Moran Family Foundation supports innovative pilot programs being initiated or expanded by organizations that promote healthy mental, physical, and emotional development of at-risk children and at-risk families in DC.
Economic Relief Loan Fund for Human Service Agencies
In response to the economic crisis and the impact it is having on front-line human service organizations, The Kresge Foundation has established a 24- to 36-month, interest-free program-related investment fund offering bridge loans of $250,000 to $500,000 to high-performance organizations so that they may be better able to meet the ever-increasing demand for their services.
Energy Grants for Maryland Nonprofits
Maryland nonprofits can apply for low-interest loans to lower their energy bills and grants for efficiency projects. The money is part of a new $8 million program from the Maryland Energy Administration.
Federal Funding for After School Snacks
Nonprofits, schools, and local government agencies that serve snacks to children who attend their afterschool enrichment programs in low-income neighborhoods can be reimbursed by the federal government for the cost of the snacks.
Flashpoint Incubator Residency Program
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for Flashpoint's Incubator Residency Program. Residents are provided workstation(s) and file storage space; access to shared conference room, resource library and periodical subscriptions; access to office equipment; as well as priority use of the dance studio and theatre lab for productions and events.
Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships
Supported by the William and Eva Fox Foundation and administered by the Theatre Communications Group, the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships are designed to further an actor's artistic and professional development, to deepen and enrich his/her relationship with a not-for-profit theater, and to ensure his/her continued professional commitment to live theater.
Funding for Education and Hunger Relief
The Food Lion Charitable Foundation supports organizations dedicated to improving their community through providing primary and secondary education or feeding the hungry.
Funds for Career Development Programs for Theater Directors and Designers
The National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group Career Development Programs for Theater Directors and Designers provides grants of $22,500 each to seven stage directors and seven designers who are exceptionally talented and see a career in America's not-for-profit professional theater.
Funds for Community Health Organizations
The Health Clinic Opportunity Fund is targeted to free clinics, public health clinics, and designated federally qualified health center look-alikes and is designed to support and strengthen clinics' capacity to meet both the immediate and long-term health needs of their constituents.
Funds for Programs Helping Children and Families in Poverty
The foundation supports innovative programs that promote healthy development of children and families whose lives are impacted by the challenges of poverty. Organizations initiating or expanding such programs, and whose budgets are less than $1.5 million, are encouraged to apply.
Funds to Support Advance Drug Policy Reform
The Promoting Policy Change and Rapid Response/Special Opportunities funding program seeks to promote policy change and advance drug policy reform at the local, state, and national levels by strategically funding smaller, geographically limited, or single-issue organizations and projects.
Good Capital Funds for Nonprofits
Good Capital's Social Enterprise Expansion Fund (SEEF) provides growth capital to social enterprises. Funding is available for for-profit and non-profit organizations that create new and exciting solutions to society's most challenging problems by using sustainable business models. These solutions include service businesses that hire and train disconnected youth, healthcare delivery systems that provide medical benefits to at-risk populations, and fair trade coffee companies... Read more
Grants for Arts, Education, and Health
The Green Foundation is a private, non-operating foundation that awards grants for both operating and program support. Not-for-profit organizations are eligible to apply for funding in the following areas: arts, education, and health and scientific research.
Grants for Community Projects
The Annenberg Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for projects in the areas of education and youth development; arts, culture and humanities; civic and community; health and human services; and animal services and the environment.
Grants for Financial Education
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation invites nonprofit groups and researchers to apply for funding for projects that support its mission of providing Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary for financial success.
Grants for HIV/AIDS Awareness Projects
Cable Positive's Tony Cox Community Fund is a national grants program designed to encourage community-based AIDS organizations and cable outlets to partner in joint community outreach efforts, or to produce and distribute new, locally focused HIV/AIDS-related programs and public service announcements.
Grants for Literacy, Education, and Children's Health and Wellness
Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., is accepting grant applications as part of its annual giving program. In the company’s twelve-year history, it has donated more than $20 million to organizations that support families, children, animals, and the environment, including the donation of thousands of stuffed animals to comfort children in need.
Grants to Alleviate Hunger, Prevent Disease, and Provide Youth Programs
Applications are accepting on a rolling basis for community improvement grants from the Burger King Corporation's HAVE IT YOUR WAY Foundation. Non-profit, 501(c)(3) organizations dedicated to improving education, alleviating hunger, preventing disease or supporting youth programs are eligible to apply.
Green Communities Grants Program
Green Communities is now offering grants of up to $5,000 each for green affordable housing developers who want to convene intense working sessions with the development team and others who share an interest in promoting health and livability.
Health Impact Project Grants
The Health Impact Project is intended to encourage the use of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to help decision-makers better assess proposed policies, projects, and programs with respect to their impact on health so that they may avoid adverse health consequences and costs and improve health.
Healthy Communities
The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, livable communities through two programs. Its Healthy Community Trees Program supports projects that incorporate trees and landscape into the community development plans of neighborhoods as part of the infrastructure to control storm water runoff, create a sense of place, and provide shaded recreational opportunities.The Foundation's Affordable Housing Built Responsibly Program supports projects that result in the production,... Read more
Hello Tomorrow Fund
Avon Products, Inc. provides funds to assist individuals in realizing a program, project, or idea that will empower women in one of the following areas: business development, community service, or awareness and outreach.
Improving Outreach and Services to Crime Victims
The US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, provides funds of up to $10,000 to improve outreach and services to victims, through support of program development, networking, coalition building, and service delivery. Funds may be used to develop program literature, train advocates, produce a newsletter, support victim outreach efforts, and recruit volunteers.
Justice Grants Administration Releases its FY 2010 Requests for Applications
The Justice Grants Administration (JGA) has released eight separate Requests for Applications (RFAs) for its FY 2010 funding initiatives. Each RFA is a separate funding initiative with specific eligibility criteria, required initiative components, preferred project elements, and concrete outputs and outcomes.
Kresge Foundation Capital Grants
Kresge Foundation works to strengthen organizations that advance the well-being of humanity. The Foundation offers funds to nonprofits that address one of its six fields of interest - health, the environment, arts and culture, education, human services, and community development.
Literacy, the Arts, and K-12 Education
Barnes & Noble's corporate contributions program supports nonprofit organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or education.
Loans for Community Organizations
The Calvert Social Investment Foundation offers below-market interest rate loans to more than 200 community organizations in the United States and abroad, including loan funds, micro-finance institutions, affordable housing developers, and social enterprises.
Maryland Small Grants Program
The Baltimore-based Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has announced its new Maryland Small Grants Program, which involves a simplified and expedited process.
National Arts Projects Fund
As part of a new initiative to help strengthen the national performing arts sector, this program will support select national projects that strengthen the health of the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. During a two-year pilot phase, the National Projects Fund will award a total of up to $1 million in grants to support key national projects in the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. Grants will range from $60,000 to $200,000 each.
National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Storytellers
The All Roads Film Project isupports indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers around the world showcase their works and promote greater knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader, global audience. All Roads includes a film festival, photography program, and seed-grant program.
Nonprofit Training Resource Fund Grant
TD Charitable Foundation announces funds to support eligible organizations for employees to attend approved classes and courses that will enhance their job performance. $300,000 is available to fund awards ranging up to $1,000.
Pathways Out of Poverty Program
The Herb Block Foundation supports programs in the Greater Washington metropolitan area that focus on helping young people and adults gain a quality education. The Foundation supports projects that focus on improving student achievement and development for young people (middle school age and above); and adult-serving projects that provide literacy education, GED preparation, vocational training, and job placement. Awards ranging from $5,000-$25,000 are available.
Prudential Financial Social Investment Program
Prudential Financial's Social Investment Program makes socially responsible investments in the areas of economic development and education. The program will only consider proposals that do not qualify under mainstream investment guidelines.
Reducing Poverty and Empowering Low-income Families
The Moriah Fund supports programs that address the social and economic obstacles facing low-income families, particularly those headed by single women. The fund seeks to assist parents to increase their income and provide healthy environments for children and youth in DC.
Regional Community Health Grants Program Targeting Obesity and Health Literacy
Through its Regional Community Health Grants Program, the Aetna Foundation will award grants in support of philanthropic initiatives focused on fighting obesity and increasing health literacy in selected communities across the United States.
Relief Loans for Human Service Agencies Responding to the Effects of the Economic Crisis
In response to the economic crisis and the impact it is having on front-line human service organizations, the Kresge Foundation has established a 24- to 36-month, interest-free program-related investment fund offering bridge loans of $250,000 to $500,000 each to high-performance human service organizations so that they may be better able to meet ever-increasing demand for food, shelter, and other emergency services.
Renovating Running Tracks
The Bowerman Track Renovation Program, a philanthropic initiative of Nike, Inc., provides matching grants of up to $50,000 to community-based, youth-oriented nonprofit organizations to refurbish or construct running tracks. The application deadline is rolling. Organizations applying for the grant must demonstrate a need for running track refurbishment or construction. Grant recipients will provide track access to neighboring communities.
Seed Grants for Programs Supporting Relatives as Parents Programs
The Relatives as Parents Program is designed to encourage and promote the creation or expansion of services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of parenting when biological parents are unable to care for their children. The program will award seed grants of $10,000 over a two-year period to local, regional, and state public agencies.
Shared Planet Youth Action Grants
The Starbucks Foundation supports organizations that: provide training to young people to develop necessary skills and knowledge to incubate ideas, identify and assess community needs, create a plan of action, execute a plan and evaluate outcomes against goals; build ongoing leadership capacity and long term engagement of young people; and communicate young peoples' success stories through various media (print, video, web based).
Social Change Program Grants
The JEHT Foundation supports organizations in the United States that address social change. Applicants should focus on the criminal justice process, programs that promote fair and participatory elections, the strenghtening of palliative care in a variety of health care settings, the expanding of the constructive role the United States can play in promoting international justice.
Staples Foundation Job Skills and Education Grants
The Staple Foundation for Learning works to teach, train, and inspire by funding national and local charities that provide educational opportunities and job skills for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000.
Support for Criminal Justice Issues
The Open Society Institute (OSI) aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. The Gideon Project, a program of the OSI U.S. Justice Fund, works to improve the fair administration of criminal justice in the United States. The project awards grants in three areas affecting youth and adults in the criminal justice system: improving public defense services, death penalty reform, and racial profiling. Letters... Read more
Support for Next Generation of Community Health Leaders Serving Vulnerable Populations
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders aims to enhance the leadership capacity of community-based nonprofit health organizations serving vulnerable populations. Ladder to Leadership focuses on developing critical leadership competencies for 270 early- to mid-career professionals through an innovative, sixteen-month leadership development curriculum.
Support for Public Interest Litigation
The Impact Fund provides grants to nonprofit legal firms who seek to advance social justice in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, and/or poverty law. The fund seeks to provide funding for public interest litigation that will potentially benefit a large number of people, lead to significant law reform, or raise public consciousness. The average grant size is $10,000 to $15,000. The maximum grant amount awarded to any single applicant per year is $25,000.
Support for Youth Baseball and Softball Programs
The Baseball Tomorrow Fund is designed to promote and enhance the growth of youth participation in baseball and softball around the world by funding programs, fields, coaches' training, uniforms, and equipment. Grants are intended to finance a new program, expand or improve an existing program, undertake a new collaborative effort, or obtain facilities or equipment necessary for youth baseball or softball programs.
Sustainable Housing Design Projects
The Oak Hill Fund supports educational initiatives that promote and encourage sustainability and affordability in residential design, and initiatives that focus on the incorporation of the principles of sustainability in the construction of affordable residential housing. The Fund makes grants of varying size. Grant requests should be made, therefore, on organizational need. Interested organizations should submit a letter of inquiry. All letters will be answered... Read more
Virginia Neighborhood Assistance Program
The Virginia Department of Social Services' Neighborhood Assistant Program emphasizes partnerships between the private and public sector to assist the economically deprived. State tax credits are provided as an incentive for businesses and individuals to contribute directly to an approved nonprofit organization designed to benefit impoverished people.
Wealth-Creation Strategies
The F.B. Heron Foundation supports organizations that help low-income people to create wealth and take control of their lives. The Foundation makes grants to programs in urban and rural communities engaged in wealth-creation strategies, including home ownership, enterprise development, access to capital, quality child care, and community development.
Youth Literacy Programs
The Starbucks Foundation awards grants of up to $20,000 to fund programs for youth that integrate literacy with personal and civic action. Specifically, applicants should work with underserved youths in the fields of arts literacy and environmental literacy.
