Archive for Humanitarian Grants
Have A Favorite Charity? Tell Chase Community Giving
Posted by: | CommentsOne of My Favorite Charities: St. Bernard Project
A few months ago I wrote an article about the St. Bernard Project, citing it as an example of how private funding (and lots of donated labor, let’s not forget) can get your project off the ground and done. (Want to read about them and the house building drives they do…click here).
These guys are in the running for the $25K Gift as well as the $1 Million Gift sponsored by Chase Community Giving. If awarded the $1 Million, according to their figures, this could bring 66 families home in the coming year. Seems like this small organization is outpacing what the federal government is doing for the not-yet-over disaster-stricken New Orleans. You want to vote for these guys to be awarded the $1million? So do I.
Click here to vote for them to be awarded this gift.
SBP is a non-profit organization that seeks to help rebuild the hardest hit parts of New Orleans one house at a time. Scroll down to read their mission statement and their organization information. To keep up with them and check out what they do or go to http://www.stbernardproject.org/ ( or click here to read their facebook link).
Just a few days ago the deadline for the $25K Chase Community Giving voting campaign came and went. They announce omorrow (12/16/2009) which 100 charities received $25K each. (Click here – no earlier than 12/16 – to see who won ).
Now you can also vote at this site (click here) for the next round. Chase Community Giving is now offering $1Million in their next round of giving to charity. The dates you can vote are Jan 15-Jan 22. They announce the winner February 1, 2010 (click here in February to see who won the $1 Million Charity Gift.)
If you want to know how to nominate a charity for the $5 million giving initiative from Chase Community Giving, click here. You can click here if you are a charity and want to be in the running. To nominate your favorite charity, click here.
Don’t have a favorite foundation or charity? Look into the SBP. You could also look here for some ideas, or here, or here, just to get thoughts rolling on what exactly you want to fund.
For information on private funding, click here to read about the Foundation Center.
What If You Could Impact Peace On Your Coffee Break?
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…What if you could find something that helps you see directly YOUR IMPACT in spreading and educating about peace, that directly helps refugees and children of war,as well as gives you free inspirational material from world speakers?
What if this organization were endorsed by the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Arun Gandhi,Grandson of M.K. Gandhi and President of M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence (www.GandhiInstitute.org), Immaculée Ilibagiza a Rwandan genocide survivor and peace activist, Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, NFL ex-quarterback Drew Bledsoe, John Harricharan… and so many more ?
This is 10 Million Clicks For Peace.
What if you and all the people you influence, could get the ball rolling in the span of a coffee break?
Check this real story out. real person, real results, she can measure on her own Global Peace Impact meter: Terry emailed 1500 people on her lists. Know how many she was successful in getting people become members of 10 Million Clicks for Peace? 1575! More people than she actually invited.
In helping together.. they helped feed and shelter 10,000 refugees for one day. They have brought 11,500 friends to 10 M CFP. They have handed out 1825 peace awareness cards into circulation. 1142 have been brought to membership by signature lines in their sites.
But that’s not it: people told the next and so. Terry has made a difference. The world needs our help. Only the individual can make the difference. Join. help create a more harmonious world. We ourselves can create peace.
Visit 10 Millions Clicks For Peace now and GET EXCITED. This just might be the project you have been waiting for.
To add this tag to your site/blog, click the link here.
HOW THEY HELP WOMEN: (among all the places they help)
Link to Founder’s Vision Video
How to get more involved , click Read More.
Department of Health and Human Services Grants How Much To Local Health Care Center?
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OVER $250,000.
Over $250,000.
Granted.
This Month.
To help community health centers. According to the director of Laurel health systems Ferlin Patrick, these grants are going tobe used over the next two years. they have to devise ways to use the money, says Patrick, in such a manner that will be sustainable after the money is gone.
Good point: once you have a grant does not mean you will get it every year. Apparently this grant was made to this and other health care centers across the country in areas where job loss ( and loss of disability/insurance coverage) is substantial.
Thinking of this from a business perspective, Laurel Health Center will be hiring two more physicians. It will be creating and maintaining new protocols for un/underinsured people. These new programs will continue to function even after the grant money is spent. And that’s not all. There’s more the funds are doing. Read the article for details.
THE POINT IS THIS:
This business just grew. Though this looks like a social service grant, it actually serves to grow the business, and to create new jobs.
WHO SAYS THERE ARE NO BUSINESS GRANTS?!?!? Whatever your area of interest, look for your grant NOW – New funds are available this year.
Need help finding how/where to get a grant? This will expedite your efforts. Click here.
CVS Caremark Awards $4.2 Million to Organizations Supporting Disabled Children
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CVS grants to Special Olympics
Who is CVS C.C.T.? It is a private foundation , namely CVS Charitable trust and CVS Caremark All Kids Program.
What is their objective?
To help children with disabilities by making ways for them to play and get some physical exercise, making available rehab and medical services, and getting schools and communities on board with no longer excluding these children from what was formerly inaccessible activity.
“” In today’s climate it’s more important than ever to support organizations that can have a positive impact on children with disabilities and their families,” said Eileen Howard Dunn, Senior Vice President, CVS Caremark Charitable Trust. “The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust selected these grant recipients because they align with our mission to promote inclusion, increase access to medical therapies and improve academic performance of children with disabilities.””
Whom have they gifted?
Government Grants Disbursed To Create Jobs
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Out With The Old and In With The New.. Ideas.
5/5/09 By Ines Q Compton
If there is one thing I would suggest to Americans right now it is to repeat the following phrase: Out With The Old and In With The New.
Out With The Old and In With The New.
One more time:
Out With The Old and In With The New.
Out with the old thinking that there is no money for your business, for your dire straits, for your new idea.
L…O…O…K A…G….A..I..N.
WHY? We have a new federal Administration with new funding plans, and an economic stimulus package that went into effect February 17, 2009. What passed for fair just a year ago now is completely different. Pell grants have doubled in number and increased by $500. The amount rural farms can apply for in help with expanding their business has doubled. There are countless examples of increases and improvements in grants, and these are certainly more available than ever before.
So many people who once upon a time looked into grants and gave up ARE NOW realizing these economic stimulus funds are ready and available.
Gov’t Grants Fund Teens to Clean Up The Environment
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… And the teens are doing it themselves.
In a coastal town in Ca, a local college student applied for a government “micro-grant” to involve teens in cleaning up their community and educating the community on where the problem starts and how to avoid fix it.
The end result is an empowerment of the teens, teaching them not to wait for someone else to do what they see as needed. The program teaches resposibility and follow-through. It shows them how to move into action. It helps teens connect in a social environement which would otherwise be frought with gaming services. Now they regularly interact with real live people on a regular basis. It helps them feel the good feeling one gets from serving.
This teen program that got its funding exclusively from a government grant cleans up the streets and beaches in the county. The kids do not get paid. The funds go to taking before and after pics and raising awareness in the community parents/shoppers, and finally on a website the teens designed and maintain, all with the grant funds. Good for the environment , good for the teens, good for the community. Nice!
Go Team! Go Teens! To see what exactly the teens are doing click “Read More.”
