Grants, Awards and Funding Opportunities

There are a variety of funding opportunities for youth groups planning service projects during different times of the year. Please feel free to browse this list to find funding resources for your Service Learning projects.
 

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SAGE Youth Venture Grants - Youth Venture (YV) strives to reach and support any young person nationwide who has a dream about how to make a difference, and the dedication to make it happen

Disney Minnie Grants - The Walt Disney Company and Youth Service America are excited to announce grants of up to $500 to support youth-led service projects. These grants support youth (ages 5-14) in planning and implementing service projects in their community (January deadline)

State Farm - Grant requests for local initiatives are considered by State Farm field offices

The Captain Planet Foundation - Support for hands-on environmental projects for youth in grades K-12

Pay It Forward Foundation - Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community.

Google Grants Program - The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing our philosophy of community service, and with a strong mission to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.

“Mix it Up” Grants - The Mix It Up Grants Program funds small-scale, youth-directed activist projects that focus on identifying, crossing and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities.

Start Something Scholarship Program - Target Stores and the Tiger Woods Foundation have restructured Start Something, a program that helps young people pursue their dreams and goals and encourages youth leadership and community stewardship.

Do Something Grants - Having trouble finding the funds to get your project off the ground or take it to the next level? Well, we are here to help. This site offers a variety of grants to support youth projects.

Teaching Tolerance - Teaching Tolerance offers grants of $500 to $2500 to preK-12 classroom teachers for projects designed to reduce prejudice among youth, improve intergroup relations in schools and/or support educator professional development in these areas.

Teens for Planet Earth Service Awards - The Teens for Planet Earth Service Awards recognize teens around the world for Service Learning projects that demonstrate their commitment to the environment

Sprint Ahead for Education Grants  - The Sprint Foundation will award grants to school districts, and individual schools to fund the purchase of resource materials, supplies, equipment and software that facilitates and encourages character education among k-12 students.

Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes - The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes honors outstanding young leaders who have made a significant positive difference to people and our planet.

Green Works Grant for Environmental Projects - Project Learning Tree® (PLT), the environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation, is now accepting applications for GreenWorks! grants to help fund “learning-by-doing” environmental neighborhood improvement projects that partner PLT educators and their students with local businesses or community organizations

ING Unsung Heroes - Each year, 100 educators are selected to receive $2,000 to help fund their innovative class projects. Three of those are chosen to receive the top awards of an additional $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000

LSA School-Based Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - The Corporation for National and Community Service announces the availability of approximately $2 million of Learn and Serve America funds to implement and support School-Based Service Learning programs that address outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

EnergyNow! Funding to Combat Childhood Obesity -  EnergyNow! is a results-based grant program that will enable schools to combat the alarming trend of obesity in our children. With an emphasis on building physical education and nutrition education programs that are doable, sustainable and effective

Go Overboard Challenge Grant - Burton Snowboards and Girl Overboard author Justina Chen Headley, in partnership with Youth Venture, are co-sponsoring the Go Overboard Challenge Grant to find the best youth-led ideas to change the world.

K-12 Grants for Immigration Education from the American Immigration Law Foundation - The American Immigration Law Foundation will award grants nationwide for the 2008-2009 school year, of $100 to $500, to fund a limited number of K-12 grade level projects that provide education about immigrants and immigration.

NEA's Learning and Leadership Grants - Grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment.

History Channel's Save Our History Grant Program - Each year, the History Channel awards grants to organizations across the country that partner with schools or youth groups on community-preservation projects that engage students in learning about, documenting, and preserving local history.

Garden Crusader Awards - The Garden Crusader Awards were created by Gardener's Supply in 2001 to honor individuals who are improving the world through gardening

Staples Foundation for Learning - The mission of Staples Foundation for Learning is to provide funding to programs that support or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth.

Save the Redwoods Grant - Encourage classroom teachers to teach about redwoods as a topic and use the redwood forest as a laboratory to master state content standards through curriculum development or continuing education opportunities.

Healthy Sprouts Support Awareness of Nutrition and Hunger - These awards support school and youth garden programs that teach about nutrition and the issue of hunger in the United States.

Nature of Learning Grants to support Environmental Education Partnerships - The Nature of Learning is the FWS National Wildlife Refuge System’s community-based environmental education initiative that seeks to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to learning that seeks to enhance student academic achievement and utilize field experiences and student-led stewardship projects to connect classroom lessons to real world issues

State Farm Youth Advisory Board Grants - The Youth Advisory Board grants funds for student-led Service Learning projects in the United States. These grants address in a structural way the issues of disaster preparedness, driver safety, accessing higher education/closing the achievement gap, and financial education.

NEA Foundation Learning & Leadership and Student Achievement Grants - The student Achievement Grants provide $5,000 to improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students’ habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection

Youth Ventures - The YSA Youth Venture Program accepts applications from young people nationwide who are interested in starting their own sustainable social Ventures.

Kids in Need Foundation: Teacher Grants - Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students

The SeaWorld/Busch Gardens/Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Awards - The "SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards" provides school and community groups with a monetary award, national recognition and some well-deserved fun at one of our parks.

Fund for Wild Nature Grants - The Fund for Wild Nature (Fund) provides money for campaigns to save and restore native species and wild ecosystems, including actions to defend wilderness and biological diversity

“My Hometown Helper” Grant Program Hamburger Helper will fund initiatives to help hometowns across America with monetary grants of up to $15,000.00 per project

Lego Early Childhood Learning Grants - The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs that support The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs that support early childhood education and development, technology and communication projects that advance learning opportunities or sport or athletic programs that concentrate on under-served youth

Youth at the Center Grants - Youth Service America (YSA) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice were pleased to offer $2,000 grants to programs that involved youth in addressing the world’s most pressing social issues, such as climate change, hunger, disease, nutrition, literacy, disaster relief, poverty, and more.

National Schools of Character Awards - Every year, CEP names 10 public and private schools and districts (K-12) as National Schools of Character (NSOC) for their outstanding work in character education. Winning schools and districts receive a $20,000 award, half of which is used for outreach to other schools and districts.

Global Action Awards for High School Students Focused on Global Poverty Efforts - Global Action Awards honor high school students in the United States who have organized and led a project that has impacted people in poor countries, or raised awareness about global poverty in their own communities

Coming Up Taller Awards - Each year the Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and reward excellence in after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs for underserved children and youth.

Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers - Toyota TAPESTRY recognizes outstanding educators who are making a difference by demonstrating excellence and creativity in science teaching

Best Buy Scholarship Program - Scholarship winners not only hit the books - they help their communities

Project Orange Thumb Community Gardening Grant Project Orange Thumb is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education.

The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women - The Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund for Young Women grants to young women 19 and under who propose to develop and lead projects that are focused on activism and social change.

Intel Schools of Distinction Program to Honor Excellence in Math and Science Education - Every year, Intel honors U.S. schools that have demonstrated excellence in math and science education as Intel Schools of Distinction. One elementary, one middle and one high school in each of two categories - math and science - receive $10,000 cash grants and more than $100,000 in products and services from sponsors.

STOP Hunger Scholarship - The Sodexho Foundation seeks nominations to recognize students in the fight against hunger in America.

Real Girl of the Year Award - Awards for girls has been involved in community service over a 12 period.

Win a Trip to the Junior 8 Summit - The Junior 8 program gives you the chance to develop your own ideas about the most pressing global issues today, discuss them with your friends, classmates and young people from around the world, and present them to the leaders of eight of the most powerful countries in the world.

American Young Ambassadors Program - The American Young Ambassadors is an unprecedented global leadership program for 30 exceptional high school students, ages 15-18

Students Serve Grants - This funding is for college students who create innovative Service Learning projects that has the potential to make a significant impact on a community in need

A+ for Energy - The A+ for Energy program supports and rewards teachers who implement innovative energy education activities in their classrooms.

Ecology/Environmental Teaching Award Ecology/Environmental Teaching Award will be given to a secondary school teacher who has successfully developed and demonstrated an innovative approach in the teaching of ecology/environmental science and has carried his/her commitment to the environment into the community

Arsalyn a non-partisan program of Ludwick Family Foundation - promotes youth civic and political engagement.

Project Learning Tree GreenWorks! - offers grants to implement community action and Service Learning projects. GreenWorks! projects should address an environmental issue and involve students from pre-school to high school in hands-on community action.

2009 Global Youth Service Day Lead Agency
Here's a way to increase participation in your programs and connect with the larger youth service movement! Eligible groups can receive a $2,000 planning grant and direct assistance from Youth Service America. For more information, contact Andraéa LaVant at alavant@ysa.org. Deadline: July 11.

 

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