Retailer Best Buy has announced community awards of up to $10,000 for local and regional nonprofit organizations through its Children’s Foundation Youth Technology Grants. Intended to support local activities, grants will be given to organizations that provide direct services to teens ages 13 to 18, providing opportunities to explore field such as mobile app development, [...]
ACET, Inc. Blog: Grant Alerts: Best Buy Children’s Foundation, The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, The World We Want Foundation
May 6, 2013 By
ACET, Inc. Blog: Grant Alerts: National Weather Association and the McKnight Foundation
April 29, 2013 By
Grants of $750 are now available through the National Weather Association for projects intended to improve K-12 education related to meteorology and similar sciences through the Sol Hirsch Education Fund. There will be four grants awarded in all. Funds may be used to purchase classroom, school, or community materials, attending accredited workshops, courses, or conferences, [...]
ACET, Inc. Blog: Grant Alerts: National Storytelling Network, MVAT Foundation, and Red Rover
April 2, 2013 By
The application period is open for the National Storytelling Network’s Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling, promoting projects that change that storytelling can bring to communities and individuals. Projects must have oral storytelling at their core, but otherwise may focus on traditional tales or personal narratives, and the work may be conducted by professional storytellers or [...]
ACET, Inc. Blog: Grant Alerts: Target, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and Land O’Lakes Foundation
March 21, 2013 By
Retailer Target’s charitable initiative Arts, Culture & Design in Schools supports nonprofit organizations and schools that bring arts and cultural experience programs directly to K-12 students. Awards of $2,000 are available to 501(c)(3) institutions, and funded programs must take place between September 2013 and August 2014. Examples of funded programs include workshops, in-school performances, and [...]
ACET, Inc. Blog: Grant Alerts: Laura Jane Musser Fund and Catholic Campaign for Human Development
September 18, 2012 By
The Laura Jane Musser Fund is dedicated to the promotion of understanding and cooperation between groups of differing cultural backgrounds through cross-cultural exchange projects. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, forming organizations that have a documented fiscal agent, and organizations located in Wyoming, Minnesota, Michigan, Hawaii, Colorado, and Ohio may apply for funds that will cover the costs [...]
Participatory Evaluation Forum - Refocus Institute: Olympic Impacts Leave Communities Wanting
August 7, 2012 By
By: Cindy Banyai, Ph.D.
With the world’s attention on the Olympics it’s a good time to think about the impacts, positive and negative, of sports mega-events like this. London has hosted the games and other mega-sports events in the past and understan…