Funding Organization: Major League Baseball & Major League Baseball Players Association
Title: The Baseball Tomorrow Fund
Objective: Purpose is to provide funding for incremental programming and facilities for youth baseball and not as a substitute for existing funding or fundraising activities or to provide routine or recurring operating costs or funding for construction or maintenance of buildings. Grants from the Baseball Tomorrow Fund are designed to be sufficiently flexible to enable applicants to address needs unique to their communities. Must be non-profit.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding: $39,000 is the average, although there is no specified amount
Application deadline: 01/01, 04/01, 07/01 & 10/01 of every year
Email address: btf@mlb.com
URL: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/community/btf.jsp?content=grant_process
Funding Organization: The Clorox Company
Title: The Clorox Company Foundation
Objective: The mission of The Clorox Company Foundation is to improve the quality of life in communities where Clorox employees live and work. Community involvement is an integral part of our business and is carried out through a program of grant-making, volunteerism and leadership in community service.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding:
Application deadline: 01/01, 04/01, 07/01 & 10/01 of every year
Email address: cloroxfndt@eastbaycf.org
URL: http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/corporate-responsibility/purpose/clorox-company-foundation/
Funding Organization: Bikes Belong
Title: Featured Grants
Objective: Bikes Belong will accept requests for funding of up to $10,000 for facility and advocacy projects. We do not require a specific percentage match, but we do look at leverage and funding partnerships very carefully. We will not consider grant requests in which our funding would amount to 50% or more of the project budget. All proposals must: •Address the goals of the grants program strategic plan ?Encourage ridership growth ?Support bicycle advocacy ?Promote bicycling ?Build political support ?Leverage funding •Address the project objectives of the facility or advocacy funding categories (following). •Propose a specific program or project that is measurable. Bikes Belong will not fund general operating costs. Priority is given to: •Bicycle organizations, coalitions, and associations—particularly those that have not received Bikes Belong funding in the past. •Projects that build coalitions for bicycling by collaborating the efforts of bicycle industry and advocacy. Because of our limited funds, we rarely award grants to organizations and communities that have received Bikes Belong funding within the past three years. Please review the following specifics of the facility and advocacy programs to ensure that your proposal meets our guidelines.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding: Up to $10,000
Application deadline: 05/28/2010, 08/27/2010 & 11/30/2010
Email address: mail@bikesbelong.org
URL: www.bikesbelong.org/grants/ Funding Organization: National Institutes of Health & Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Title: School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors and Weight Outcomes
Objective: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), is issued by the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (CDC). The FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to: (1) foster multidisciplinary research that will evaluate how policies (federal, state and school district levels) can influence school physical activity and nutrition environments, youths’ obesogenic behaviors (e.g., nutrition and physical activity behaviors), and weight outcomes; (2) understand how schools are implementing these policies and examine multi-level influences on adoption and implementation at various levels (e.g., federal, state, school district, and school); and (3) understand the synergistic or counteractive effect of school nutrition and physical activity polices on the home and community environment and body weight.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding: Up to $250,000
Application deadline: 06/05/2010 (Cycle 2) & 10/05/2010 (Cycle 3)
Email address: wolfreyc@mail.nih.gov
URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-052.html
Funding Organization: Health Impact Project
Title: Grant
Objective: The Health Impact Project call for proposals (CFP) is seeking applicants to undertake health impact assessment (HIA) demonstration projects. The goal of the CFP and subsequent HIAs is to demonstrate the effectiveness of HIAs and promote their incorporation into local, state, tribal, and federal decision-making. Government agencies, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding: Between $25,000 and $150,000
Application deadline: Rolling
Email address: healthimpactproject@pewtrusts.org
URL: http://www.healthimpactproject.org/project/opportunities
Funding Organization: Kellogg Foundation
Title: Multiple grants offered
Objective: Health programming at the Kellogg Foundation focuses explicitly on improving individual and community health, and improving access to and the quality of health care. The goal over the next five years is to promote health among vulnerable individuals and communities through programming that: empowers individuals, mobilizes communities, engages institutions, improves health care quality and access, and informs public and marketplace policy.
Term of Funding: Varies
Amount of funding: Varies
Application deadline: Rolling
Email address: proposalsprocessing@wkkf.org
URL: http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=63&ItemID=6&NID=41&LanguageID=0
Funding Organization: MetLife Foundation
Title: Health
Objective: MetLife Foundation was established for the purpose of supporting educational, health, civic and cultural organizations. Goals are to strengthen communities, promote good health and improve education. Health: To help people make more informed decisions about their health, grants are directed toward national health promotion and education initiatives, substance abuse prevention, youth health and fitness, healthy aging and research on Alzheimer's disease. Must be non-profit.
Term of Funding: Varies
Amount of funding: Varies
Application deadline: Rolling
URL: http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,4132,P296,00.html
Funding Organization: UniHealth Foundation
Title: Community Health Improvements
Objective: UniHealth Foundation is committed to supporting community health improvement activities of hospitals by funding health education, prevention and treatment programs. Health education includes information dissemination on a broad range of topics, including health systems navigation and informed consumerism or the development of culturally sensitive educational materials. Prevention, in addition to clinical preventive services, might include injury and violence prevention or caregiver support services. Funding for treatment services targets activities aimed at improving health status and quality of life, including aspects of chronic condition management, dental care, end-of-life care and rehabilitation services.
Term of Funding: One, two, or three year terms
Amount of funding: Up to $675,000
Application deadline: Rolling
Email address: webadmin@unihealthfoundation.org
URL: http://www.unihealthfoundation.org/community_health.html
Funding Organization: Sara Lee
Title: Food Related Programs such as Food Insecurity, Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles
Objective: The Sara Lee Foundation places funding priority on grants to nonprofits that create collaborative and innovative initiatives focused on nutrition and nutrition education . They are of significant interest, particularly in programs that distribute food provided by the government, so that information is available on how to prepare the food in healthy and nutritious ways. Finally, in taking a holistic view on issues of food, we consider projects that deal with issues of food in relationship to healthy lifestyles through programs that address the need for increased physical activity.
Term of Funding:
Amount of funding:
Application deadline: Rolling
URL: www.saraleefoundation.org/funding/process.cfm
Funding Organization: The Gerber Foundation
Title: General
Objective: The Foundation’s mission focuses on infants and young children. Priority is given to projects that improve infant and young children nutrition, care and development from the first year before birth to three years of age. Programs should support a specific nutrition intervention and have defined outcome parameters.The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving community problems in our defined program areas. Deadlines for grants occur three times throughout the year: February 15, May 15 and September 15 .
Term of Funding: Three-year limit
Amount of funding: $50,000 to $1,000,000
Application deadline: Rolling
Email address: tgf@ncresa.org
URL: http://www.gerberfoundation.org/
Funding Organization: PepsiCo Foundation
Title: Health and Wellness
Objective: PepsiCo Foundation's charitable giving programs provide grants through targeted initiatives focused primarily on health & wellness, the environment, diversity & inclusion, and thought leadership. Recipient organizations may include registered charities, nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit educational, health-related and cultural organizations. Major grants are program requests of more than $100,000. Applications of particular merit and fit may be recommended to the PepsiCo Foundation Board, which meets twice a year, in the spring and autumn. Requests $100,000 and under are accepted throughout the year on a rolling basis and are evaluated by the PepsiCo Foundation's Executive Committee, made up of three Foundation officers.
Term of Funding: Varies; see above
Amount of funding: Varies; see aboe
Application deadline: Varies; see
URL: http://www.pepsico.com/Purpose/PepsiCo-Foundation/Grant-Guidelines.html
Title: Community-Based Partnerships for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to enhance childhood obesity research by fostering the formation of local, state, or regional teams consisting of researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, public health practitioners or officials, educators) in order to identify research questions and hypotheses, design and implement the relevant research, and translate the research into evidence relevant to potential policy efforts in this area.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: May 7, 2012
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
Title: Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measures
Description: This grant will be awarded to applicants who plan to: (1) conduct evaluation research on obesity-related natural experiments (defined here as community and other population-level public policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal of this FOA is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans.
Link to Full Announcement: LINK TO FULL ANNOUNCEMENT
Last Day to Apply: January 7, 2013
Number of Grants Available: See Full Announcement
Grant is administered by the: National Institutes of Health
For more grant opportunities, visit www.shapingamericasyouth.org/programs.aspx?page=featured
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