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Open Competitions

Annual Grant Competition
The USIP will grant 25-30 awards of up to $120,000 for projects that bring awareness to conflict resolution and peacebuilding worldwide.
Art Works
This NEA program, newly restructured in 2011, encourages and supports creation, engagement, learning and livability in communities.
Bridging Cultures through Film
This NEH program supports projects that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities through documentary films.
Challenge America Fast-Track
The goal of this NEA program is to support small- and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the arts to underserved populations that have limited access to the arts.
Digitizing Historical Records (DHR)
The purpose of this National Archives program is to support projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage that is essential to understanding history...
Grants for Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums
This program from the Institute of Museum and Library Services provides up to $100,000 for projects that create media Learning Labs for youth. Deadline: 6/15/12.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
This NEH program funds efforts to extend the life of important collections of books, photographs, sound recordings, movings images, artifacts, art and material culture and digital objects.
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The NEH will grant awards of up to $75,000 for projects that strengthen and enrich humanities education at historically black colleges and universities.
Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge
The Knight Foundation and the NEA are awarding planning and implementation grants in eight cities nationwide.
Kresge Foundation
Kresge is currently accepting applications in the areas of facility investment, arts and community building, and pathways to college -- all of potential interest to public media.
LEF Foundation
The foundation supports the creation and presentation of contemporary works in the fields of visual art, performing art, new media, literary art, film, architecture and design.
MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T.
The foundation supports programs intended for national public broadcast to help ensure a diversity of viewpoints. The foundation has a special interest in youth and digital media.
NEH Challenge Grant
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements and support for their humanities programs and resources while strengthening their commmitment to the...
Preservation and Access Education and Training
The purpose of this NEH program is to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage resources including books, manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, electronic records and...
Preservation and Access Research and Development Grant
The NEH will grant up to $350,000 to support projects that address challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources.
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
This NEH program provides funds to help small and mid-sized institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections.
PROHIBITION Community Engagement Grants
WETA is offering grants to help stations explore themes and issues related to this new film by Ken Burns.

Rolling Deadlines

Alphawood Foundation
Nonprofits in metropolitan Chicago whose mission involves the arts, arts education, social change advocacy or domestic violence intervention can receive general operating grants from this...
Argosy Foundation
This foundation makes grants in arts, education, environment, health care, humanities, human services, international affairs and public policy.
ArtPlace
This collaborative funding initiative supports “creative placemaking” and will announce its next funding cycle in September 2012.
Arts Council of New Orleans
The Arts Council provides funding to support arts and cultural activities in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes. It serves as one of eight regional distributing agencies for state...
Atherton Family Foundation
This Hawaii foundation supports organizations working in the areas of arts/culture, human services, education, environment, community development, health and religion/spiritual development.
Baltimore Community Foundation
The Foundation will focus discretionary giving increasingly on education and will double its investment in education beginning in 2012.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
This foundation makes grants locally and nationally and special emphasis is directed toward programs that address critical issues in local communities.
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
This foundation works with its donors to connect them to nonprofits meeting community needs. It also invests in projects that have the potential to change the community.
Bloch Fund
The Bloch Foundation has identified the following areas of interest: arts, education, family services, federated giving programs, higher education, human services, religion.
Boston Foundation
Competitive grants are made through the Foundation's Permanent Fund for Boston in the areas of education, health/wellness, civic/cultural vibrancy, job growth, increasing the...
Brown Foundation, Inc
Support from this foundation is principally for education, the arts and community service. The current emphasis is on improving public education within the state of Texas.
C.E. Bennett Foundation
This foundation makes a small number of grants in the area of arts, including to public media.
Cades Foundation
Organizations working in the areas of arts/culture, environment, human services and education receive support from this foundation.
Champlin Foundations
Giving from this foundation is primarily for conservation, education, libraries, health, hospitals, cultural activities, historic preservation, and social and family services.
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Grants from this foundation are available in the areas of youth, education and community services for work in Charlottesville, VA, and the surrounding counties.
Chicago Community Trust
This Trust makes grants in five programs: arts and culture, basic human needs, community development, education and health.
CIRI Foundation
The major goal of The CIRI Foundation is to encourage the education and career development of The Foundation's Alaska Native beneficiaries. Project grants are made in Education and...
Citizens Charitable Foundation
This foundation supports projects that address affordable housing, basic human needs, community-based services for low- and moderate-income families and economic self-sufficiency efforts.
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina
This foundation fosters philanthropy for the lasting good of the community, primarily for education and human services.
Collins Foundation
Grants in arts, children and youth, community welfare, education, environment, health and science, humanities and religion are awarded by this foundation.
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
This foundation is a prospect for public media organizations serving the 23-county metropolitan Atlanta region. Most grants are for general operating or capacity-building support.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
This foundation prefers projects that reflect regional thinking and cooperation, promote civic participation, foster innovation, help move the region forward and leverage public and private...
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
The Foundation makes grants in the areas of early childhood education, dropout prevention, economic security, health and vibrant communities. Next grant cycle: June.
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
This foundation's Community Partnership Program makes Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants and Research and Initiatives Grants.
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
This foundation is dedicated to enriching the quality of life in middle Tennessee but has also funded media projects in other parts of the country.
Community Foundation of Sarasota County
This foundation's grantmaking is focused in arts, culture and the humanities; civic engagement and community capacity-building; education; the environment; healthcare and human...
Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia
The primary focus of this foundation's competitive grantmaking is their Strengthening Families - Strengthening Communities program that promotes youth and community development and...
Dade Community Foundation
Serving the Miami-Dade community, this foundation addresses education, health, human services, arts and culture, environment, economic development, youth, homelessness, social justice and...
Dakota Charitable Foundation
Primarily, this foundation gives for education and human services but is also interested in the arts, community and economic development and higher education.
Dallas Foundation
Aging, arts, education, early childhood development, environment, health, human and social services and public/civic benefit are all areas of interest to this foundation.
Daniel Foundation of Alabama
Areas of interest for this foundation are civic and community, education, health, and arts and culture.
Davis Family Foundation
This foundation supports higher education, medical programs, and arts and culture organizations that promote music, theater, drama, history and literature.
Denver Foundation
The Foundation is undergoing a change in strategy, but is maintaining a strong interest in education (including dropout prevention), especially focused on low-income and underrepresented...
Dodge Foundation
This foundation works towards a more humane society and more livable world and therefore supports projects that use media to educate the public and improve communities in New Jersey.
Educational Foundation of America
Primarily, this foundation supports programs in the arts, democracy, education, the environment, reproductive health and rights, peace and security, and health and human services.
Elizabeth B. and Arthur E. Roswell Foundation
The major priorities of this foundation are arts and culture and environmental protection.
Ettinger Foundation
This foundation makes grants to pre-selected organizations in diverse areas, including independent film.
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation
Seeking to enrich the quality of life in the Fargo-Moorhead area, this foundation funds programs in arts and culture, community betterment, education, environment, health and human rights.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is committed to advancing social justice through its work, and diversity is a high priority. It has a long history of support for public media.
Ford Motor Company Fund
This foundation supports innovation and education, community development and auto-related safety education. There is a fit for public media projects that expand or promote diversity.
Fresno Regional Foundation
The Fresno Regional Foundation will begin making grants of $100,000 - $300,000 from its new Fund for the San Joaquin Valley in 2012.
General Mills Foundation
This foundation supports organizations that improve communities through social services, youth nutrition and fitness, education, and arts and culture.
George Gund Foundation
Founded to contribute to human well-being and the progress of society, this foundation supports the arts, education, economic development, the environment and human services.
George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
With a mission to enrich Utah, this foundation makes grants in arts and culture, community, education, health care, and preservation and conservation.
Gertrude C. Ford Foundation
Primarily, this foundation supports education, health and youth-serving organizations in Mississippi.
Gilhousen Family Foundation
Focusing its support in Gallatin County, Montana, this foundation makes grants in community-building, children's and human services, the arts, health care, education and the...
Gill Foundation
The foundation's top priority is support for organizations that advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. It supports public media through its Gay & Lesbian...
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Promoting racial diversity and inclusion is a priority for this foundation that seeks to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
This foundation's highest funding priority is supporting creative efforts that address issues of poverty, particularly grants focused on education, employment and strengthening...
Greater New Orleans Foundation
This foundation focuses on community revitalization, environment, regionalism, community impact and economic and workforce development.

WEBINARS/CONFERENCE CALLS

Strategies for Grantseeking Success: Identifying Potential Funders
Join us for the third session in the Grant Center's webinar series: Strategies for Grantseeking Success. Identifying Potential Funders will take place on Thursday, June 22, 2012, at 2:00 p....
Partnership Opportunities with IMLS
Watch the recording and download the resources from this Grant Center webinar from April 27, 2012 about funding opportunities from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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