Resource Center

The Resource Center is exactly what its name suggests for the local non-profit community.  It is a Foundation Center Cooperating Collection and offers access to the Foundation Directory Online, which lists more than 92,000 foundations that fund non-profit organizations.  The Resource Center is stocked with grant writing manuals, statistical publications and journals relating to children and families - all of which are used by non-profit agencies to obtain grant dollars. In addition, the Resource Center provides links to local, state, and national requests for proposals.

e-mail:  jsparrow@jwbpinellas.org

phone:  (727) 547-5671

Recent Grant Announcements

USF Student Philanthropy Boards
Funding for nonprofit groups in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties.
Award: up to $5,000
Due: March 22, 2010

Food Stamp Outreach Grants
The Department of Children and Families ACCESS Florida Program is seeking responsive information from qualified community based organizations with the capacity to provide Food Stamp Program Outreach services. This program requires interaction with individuals and households who are potentially eligible for Food Stamp benefits, but are currently not receiving such benefits. The community organization must be able to go on site to community locations where potential Food Stamp applicants may congregate regularly for other services and activities, such as food pantries, church feeding programs, schools, or offer other outreach initiatives to increase participation in the
Food Stamp Program.
Due: April 22, 2010

got breakfast?
This program works to ensure that every child, regardless of background, starts the day with a nutritious breakfast in order to learn, grow and develop to his or her fullest potential.Grants will be awarded to public and private schools, local governments, youth sports programs, and other Summer Nutrition Program participants working to ensure that every child starts the school day with a nutritious breakfast.
Award: up to $10,000
Due: various dates

World of Children Awards
The World of Children honors leaders and grants them funds to support the proven, high-impact programs they have created. These awards assure that more children's lives will be touched, and changed, forever.
Award: up to $50,000
Due: May 1, 2010.

Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida IMPACT Health Care Grants Program
The current focus for the IMPACT Health Care grants program is on community-based health clinics and outreach programs.The foundation makes IMPACT grants to nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and public agencies, including state and local governments (for example, health departments). A public entity may serve as a fiscal agent for a charitable organization or be part of a coalition or consortium applying for funding. Applicants must directly serve Floridians and be located in Florida.
Award: Grants are made in amounts between $10,000 and $100,000 each. Multiyear commitments of up to three years may be made.
Due: For the summer 2010 round, the application deadline is March 12, 2010. The winter 2010 round opens on July 15, 2010, and closes September 10, 2010.

Pinellas County Community Development
Pinellas County is issuing its Notice of Funding Available for Community Development Block Grants, HOME Investment Partnerships and Emergency Shelter Grant Programs.
The application cycle ends Friday, April 2, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.

Robert Wood Johnson Local Funding Partnerships Peaceful Pathways 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a matching grants program that connects the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with local grant makers to fund new, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. This special solicitation seeks nominations from diversity-focused funders for projects to reduce violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity or rural/frontier location.
Award: Up to $1 million is available in 2010. Up to eight matching grants of between $50,000 and $200,000 each will be awarded.
Due: Various deadlines.

Doing Good 101 The Pepsi Refresh Project
Pepsi is awarding grants in amounts of $5,000 - $250,000 to individuals and nonprofits.

Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth 
Learning in the Arts projects may take place in school-based or community-based settings and should focus on children and youth in the general age range of 5 through 18 years.
Award range: $10,000 - $100,000
Due: June 10, 2010

NEA Challenge America Fast-Track, FY 2011  
The Challenge America Fast-Track category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Age alone (e.g., youth, seniors) does not qualify a group as underserved; at least one of the underserved characteristics noted here also must be present. This category, as an essential component of the Arts Endowment's goal of providing wide access to artistic excellence, supports local projects that can have significant effects within communities. Grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development.
Award: $10,000
Due: May 27, 2010

Shade Structure Grants for Programs Serving Children and Youth 
The American Academy of Dermatology's Shade Structure Program awards grants in the amount of $8,000 each for the purchase of permanent shade structures designed to provide shade and ultraviolet (UV) ray protection for outdoor areas. 
To be considered for grants, applicants must be a nonprofit organization or public school that primarily serves children and teens 18 and younger; demonstrate an ongoing commitment to sun safety and skin cancer awareness by having a sun safety and skin cancer awareness program in place for at least one year prior to application; and be sponsored by an AAD member dermatologist.
Award: $8,000
Due:  April 12, 2010.

Finish Line Youth Foundation 
The Finish Line Youth Foundation offers funding for youth athletic programs, such as community-based programs addressing active lifestyles and team-building skills; and camps, particularly those emphasizing sports and serving children who are disadvantaged or have special needs.
Award: $1,000 - $5,000
Due: March 31, 2010

Make a Powerful Difference Contest for Women 
The makers of Pine-Sol cleaners, a product line of the Clorox Company, have launched the 2010 Make a Powerful Difference Contest, which will award grants online to women who are helping improve their communities and are making extraordinary change.
One grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 to make a difference for their community or cause, while an additional nine finalists will each receive $1,000 to help support their initiatives.
Award: $1,000 or $10,000
Due: March 22, 2010

Drug Free Communities Support Program 
DFC grant funds are intended to support eligible community-based coalitions focused on addressing youth substance use.
Award: 150 grants, up to $125,000, up to 5 years.
Due: March 19, 2010