Funding and Resource Opportunities | March 2023

Support opportunities are listed chronologically by deadline, with open-deadline appeals at the bottom. Entries highlighted in orange are newly-added this month. Entries highlighted in green were added after the release of this month’s Funding Opportunities email.

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AWARD opportunities

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation: Shift
Presentation Award
Deadline: March 14
Empowering Native artists and celebrating their powerful, creative contributions to social justice issues. Details.

Citi Foundation
Global Innovation Challenge
Deadline: March 22
Grants of $500,000 will be awarded to projects designed to improve food security and strengthen the financial health of low-income families and communities. Details

Fisher House Foundation / Military Times Foundation
Fisher Service Award
Deadline: March 23
Awards recognize innovative programs that support and strengthen military and veteran communities. Details.

J.M. Kaplan Fund
Innovative Prize
Deadline: April 28
Innovators in early-stage projects seeking to make an impact in the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice may apply for awards up to $175,000. Details

TechBridge
2023 TechBridge Community Leaders Awards
Deadline: May 5
Seeking award nominations for the Ann Cramer Volunteer of the Year, Bill Bolling Nonprofit Leader, Sig Mosley Entrepreneurial Leader, and the Ed Steinike CIO of the Year. Details

GRANTS now available

Department of Health and Human Services
Residential (Secure) Services for Unaccompanied Children
Deadline: March 13
Grants go to care providers with specialized services available for unaccompanied children dealing with substance abuse, anger management, mental health issues, and other behavioral concerns. Details.

Grey Muzzle Grant
Program Grant
Deadline: March 15
Grants, typically ranging from $2,500 to $10,000, go to shelters, rescue groups, sanctuaries, and other nonprofit organizations that have or seek to establish a program specifically for senior dogs. Details.

AARP Community Challenge
Community Challenge
Deadline: March 15
Small grants go to nonprofits helping to make communities more livable for everyone 50 years and older through improvements to walkability, housing, digital connections, and more. Details.

Growing Justice
Equitable Good Food Procurement Grant
Deadline: March 16
Grants ranging from $50,000-$250,000 support community-based organizations and others who are transforming the food system through equitable good food procurement. Details.

Fulton County Dept. of Community Development
Veterans Services Program
Deadline: March 17
Funding is available for veterans’ servi
ces addressing poverty, health and wellness, or housing. Details.

National Endowment for Democracy
Grant Program
Deadline: March 20
Grants are available to nonprofit organizations, such as civic associations and independent media outlets, to foster democratic values and reinforce democratic foundations. Details.

NDN Collective
Radical Imagination Grant
Deadline: March 21 (letters of interest)
Up to $100,000 will support Indigenous artists, artist partnerships/cooperatives, and small nonprofits to imagine, design, and create solutions to our most intractable societal problems. Details.

Bureau of Land Management
Threatened and Endangered Species Program
Deadline: March 24
Grants go toward reducing the effects of climate change, developing strategies to preserve multiple threatened/endangered species, supporting pollinator protection and preservation, guaranteeing habitat connectivity, and more. Details.

Goodwill of North Georgia
Goodwill GIVES
Deadline: March 24
Up to $25,000  for a range of services, including housing and utility services, childcare support, academic support, transportation, legal services, and workforce development services. Details.

The Home Depot Foundation
Veteran Housing Grants
Deadline: March 24 (rolling)
Grants in the amount of $100,000 to $500,000 go to build new supportive housing or rehabilitate existing supportive housing for veterans. Details.

The Workers Lab
Innovation Fund
Deadline: March 27
Leaders with early-stage ideas for supporting US workers are invited to apply for an entrepreneur fellowship featuring the chance at a $200,000 investment. Details.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
International Grant
Deadline: March 29
Grants up to $18,000 awarded to support the creation and presentation of diverse artistic expression. Details.

Gamma Mu Foundation
Service Grant
Deadline: March 31
Grants are available for nonprofits ensuring everyone in the LGBTQ+ community has access to HIV/STD prevention, education, and treatment. Details.

The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative
Climate Change Grant
Deadline: March 31
Cultural institutions that have visual arts as part of their mission and programming may apply for grants from $10,000 to $100,000 for energy efficiency and clean energy generation projects. Details.

Thriving Congregations Initiative
Lilly Endowment Grant
Deadline: March 31
Grants support charitable organizations helping ministries adapt to the changing social and culture environment in the post-pandemic future. Details.

Sunlife
Our Team Up Against Diabetes Grant
Deadline: March 31
Grants from $25,000 to $100,000 support nonprofits that provide programs to improve people’s health, prevent type 2 diabetes, and help those living with type 1 diabetes.  Details.

Cold Noses Foundation
Grant Program
Deadline: March 31
Up to $5,000 funds special projects relating to the humane treatment of animals, finding homes, non-lethal alternatives to euthanasia, and humane education. Details.

New Belgium Brewing
Bicycle Advocacy Grant
Deadline: March 31
Grants up to $5,000 for organizations focused on increasing ridership in communities facing historic and systemic inequities. Details.

Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund
Grant Program
Deadline: April 1
Up to $200,000 available to youth- (up to age 25) or intergenerationally-led nonprofits that are using technology to address social, cultural, political and/or environmental problems. Details.

Terra Foundation
Convening Grant
Deadline: April 3 (letters of inquiry)
Grants between $10,000 and $25,000 for programs that foster exchange and collaboration that support research and professional practice in American art. Details.

Mary Kay Ash Foundation
Domestic Violence Shelter Grant
Deadline: April 30
Awards grants up to $20,000 to programs providing critical, life-saving services to abused women and children seeking safety. Details.

Innovative Fitness
Chris Conti Memorial Grant
Deadline: June 1
Provides a new fitness center to a nonprofit in Georgia, including consultation, design, fitness equipment, delivery and installation assistance. Details.

Previously-listed OPEN deadlines

  • Anthem Foundation | Social drivers of health issues. Details.
  • Auto Club Group Foundation | Traffic safety, tourism, education, community service. Details.
  • Awesome Foundation | Arts, tech, and community development. Details.
  • BoatUS | Safe and clean boating practices. Details.
  • Borealis Philanthropy | Police accountability. Details.
  • Borealis Philanthropy | Help for trans-led organizations. Details.
  • Bob Barker Company Foundation | Reentry post-incarceration. Details.
  • Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation | Education, arts, outreach. Details.
  • Community Heart & Soul | Community programs for small municipalities. Details.
  • Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Civic engagement, childhood education, environment. Details.
  • Cisco | Internet-enabled education, fiscal empowerment, crisis response. Details.
  • Cornell Douglas Foundation | Environmental health and justice, K-12 financial literacy. Details.
  • Craig Newmark Philanthropies | Grassroots efforts. Details.
  • D’Addario Foundation | Free or low-cost music education. Details.
  • David Rockefeller Fund | The arts, criminal justice, environment. Details.
  • ECMC Foundation | Postsecondary student success. Details.
  • First Horizon Foundation | Atlanta-area arts and culture, education, leadership, environment, financial literacy, health, human services. Details.
  • The Glaser Progress Foundation | Measuring progress, independent and unheard voices. Details.
  • Google | In-kind search advertising. Details.
  • Groundswell Fund | Grassroots efforts for reproductive justice. Details.
  • Invest Atlanta | Low-interest loans for small nonprofits. Details.
  • Kars4Kids | Education, mentoring, youth development. Details.
  • The Lisa Libraries | New children’s books for underserved families. Details.
  • Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation | Advance racial equity and social economic justice in the South. Details.
  • MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation | Youth baseball and softball. Details.
  • MUFG Union Bank Foundation | Atlanta-area affordable housing, economic development, social and economic justice. Details.
  • National Geographic | Remote learning in science, social studies, or geography; COVID-related. Details.
  • Nasdaq Foundation | Diverse entrepreneur support; quarterly. Details. 
  • NBA Foundation | Black youth transitioning to workforce. Details.
  • Oak Hill Fund | Restoring diminished native forest species. Details.
  • Open Technology Fund | Human rights. Internet freedom. Open societies. Details.
  • PEDIGREE Foundation | Animal welfare nonprofits dealing with emergencies or puppy mills. Details.
  • Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People | Relief for systemic oppression and poverty. Details.
  • Progressive Multiplier | Progressive movement-building. Details.
  • Public Welfare Foundation | Criminal and youth justice system reform. Details.
  • Resist | Efforts in response to timely political or cultural events. Details.
  • Rising Tide Foundation | Freedom in Practice. Details.
  • Roddenberry Foundation | Original projects with global impact. Details.
  • School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network | School-based telehealth programs; COVID-related. Details.
  • The Skatepark Project | Public skatepark construction. Details.
  • Sony Electronics | STEAM education, workforce development, underserved groups. Details. 
  • South Arts | Touring artists in rural communities. Details.
  • South Arts | Professional development for arts organizations. Details.
  • South Arts | Arts accessibility efforts. Details.
  • The Solutions Project | Transition to clean energy. Details.
  • T-Mobile | Small-town community projects. Details.
  • William Talbott Hillman Foundation | Creativity, democracy, ending gun violence. Details.
  • Wish You Well Foundation | Literacy skills for adults. Details.
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Vulnerable children. Details.


► These opportunities have been sourced from Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest, GrantStation, and Grant Gopher, as well as grantmakers’ online notices.

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