Best Limestone County Grants for Nonprofits in Texas

Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program (ETEP) : ETEP – Graduate Medication Education (GME) Program

The Emergency and Trauma Care Education Partnership Program (ETEP), established in 2011 by the 82nd Texas Legislature, provides funding to support partnerships between hospitals and graduate medical education (GME) programs that increase the number of emergency medicine and trauma care physician residents and fellows (GME grants).

Contingent on the number of qualified residencies filled during the Grant Period and the amount of appropriation available, THECB expects to award approximately $4,984,406 for the ETEP GME. THECB anticipates an approximate award of at least $24,500 per year for each residency position awarded and filled during the Grant Period, not to exceed $50,000 per year per residency position per awarded Eligible Applicant. The THECB retains sole discretion to determine the final award amounts, which may vary based on the availability of funds and the number of eligible residency positions. 

About Sawyer Foundation Charitable Trust Our mission is to support partner organizations that share the gift of clean drinking water to under-resourced communities. Our vision is to see all of our global community have access to clean, safe drinking water.Through our partnership with Sawyer, our nonprofit partners have access to affordable, point-of-use filters designed to provide reliable access to clean water for 10+ years.‍

Sawyer partners with over 140 non-profits in more than 100 countries, providing clean water to families lacking access to clean water – for long-term relief and in disaster situations.About Sawyer Foundation Grant We prioritize projects that demonstrate a strong commitment to:

• Long-term sustainability in water filtration and access.
• Training, follow-up, and local engagement that strengthen best practices.
• Data collection or research that improves project implementation and outcomes.
• Unique expertise, partnerships, or approaches that enhance global impact.

Parrot Head Emergency Phund Guidelines

Purpose

The purpose of the Emergency Phund is to aid Parrot Heads with financial assistance during difficulties resulting from a natural disaster. The Phund is maintained by the Board of Directors on the Lone Palm Foundation and applications will be reviewed by this board. Assistance approval is based on Board review and availability of funds.

Application Procedure

Please be as detailed as possible when completing your application. This will ensure The Lone Palm Foundation Board has all the information they need to review and make a decision on your application. Once your complete application and verification documents have been submitted, it will be reviewed in the order it was received. If the Lone Palm Foundation Board should need additional information, please be sure to provide this in a timely manner. Failure to provide the information in a timely manner could result in loss of consideration for funding.

Repayment and Donation

There is no requirement for repayment of the financial assistance provided through the Lone Palm Foundation Emergency Phund. We do encourage all Parrot Heads to help The Lone Palm Foundation continue its operations by making a donation once the crisis has passed. This donation will allow us to help many other Parrot Heads who find themselves in the same situation.

About the Grant: The Rebecca Broussard Developing Rider Grants are bestowed by the Broussard family through the USEA Foundation in memory and honor of Rebecca Chaney Broussard. “Becky” supported numerous international riders through both her generous financial contributions and horse ownership. The Rebecca Broussard Developing Rider Grants are designed to assist and to encourage the education and development of event riders at the highest level of the sport. These grants are awarded to offset some of the travel and training expenses in the pursuit of achieving the qualities of an international rider. These grants are not available to any rider that has already achieved the honor of representing the United States at the Pan American Games, Olympics or World Equestrian Games.The Rebecca Broussard Developing Rider Fund is separated into three types:

1. Rebecca Broussard International Developing Rider Grant (also known as the “Big Becky”) awards $50,000 for the educational development of an international quality rider based on competition in eventing on the global stage. 

2. Rebecca Broussard National Developing Rider Grant (also known as the “Little Becky”) awards $15,000 for the educational development of an international quality rider based on competition in eventing on the national stage. 

3. Rebecca Farm Travel Grants are smaller grants made available to better assist riders to visit The Event at Rebecca Farm in order to interview for the Developing Rider Grants. 

Student Success Acceleration Program (SSAP) 

The goal of the SSAP Grants is to support students’ persistence and completion of credentials of value leading to successful career and labor market outcomes in Texas. This Request for Applications (RFA) solicits proposals from Texas public institutions of higher education for the development, enhancement, and scaling of evidence-based programs and initiatives for an identified target student population in at least one (1) of the following:  

Program Areas

• Academic Supports 
• Career Services and Advising 
• Financial Supports 

SSAP Grants support an important priority of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)—to positively impact metrics related to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. This includes funding programs that improve retention rates (1-year), increase existing capacity to serve more students (scaling), expand program impact (scope), or otherwise increase credential attainment/graduation rates, academic achievement, and affordability for students. 

Funding is available to support the SSAP Grant through biennial appropriations approved during the regular session of the 89th Legislature. Contingent upon the amount of funding available, award sizes are based on submitted applications and are up to $300,000.00. The grant period will be approximately twenty-four (24) months. 

THECB estimates that as many as twenty (20) or more (depending on available funds) will be awarded for the grant period. Applicants may submit a single application. Funding for the SSAP 3.0 Grant will be awarded to applicants on a competitive basis. Awards are made based on rank order of reviewed applications until the allocated annual funding is exhausted. 

Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program

The Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program supports the development or expansion, and administration of accredited forensic psychiatry one-year fellowship training programs at health-related institutions in Texas.

Contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds, THECB anticipates awarding approximately nine Grant Awards. Each Grant Award is limited to a $555,555.55 maximum as set forth in Section 2. 2.

The Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program will provide funding to support accredited forensic psychiatry fellowship training programs in Texas. Eligible Applicants are health-related institutions that sponsor accredited psychiatry fellowship programs. Grant funds may be used to support the development or expansion, and administration of one-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited forensic psychiatry fellowship training programs, including the salaries and benefits of training physicians and training directors, provided they are a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).

Funded programs shall provide appropriate forensic clinical rotations for all fellows and must comply with all ACGME program requirements for graduate medical education in forensic psychiatry.

Grantees will be expected to collaborate with other health-related institutions who received funding under this FPFP grant to develop or expand the FPFP by providing support for the development and implementation of shared didactic curricula and other educational experiences that strengthen forensic psychiatry training statewide

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a partner, resource, and advocate to higher education institutions across the state.  

We work in partnership with the legislature, businesses, and other key stakeholders to ensure our state’s higher education goals are aligned with our state’s economic and talent needs. We are a steward to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. 

And we help Texas students and families access the tools they need to choose a postsecondary pathway while connecting them to financial resources to support them on that pathway. We also help ensure transitions – from high school to postsecondary, between postsecondary institutions, and from postsecondary into the workforce – are efficient. 

Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Grant Program

Intent

The goal of the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Grant Program is to support public higher education institutions to create, redesign and expand short-term career training and education programs in high-demand occupations.

TRUE Grant Program funding will be awarded competitively through a Request-For-Applications (RFA) process. The projects proposed are required to be for career training and education programs shorter than six months in duration, industry-aligned, in high-demand fields, and developed with the participation of key workforce actors such as employers, workforce boards, economic development corporations, and trade associations.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a partner, resource, and advocate to higher education institutions across the state.  

We work in partnership with the legislature, businesses, and other key stakeholders to ensure our state’s higher education goals are aligned with our state’s economic and talent needs. We are a steward to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. 

And we help Texas students and families access the tools they need to choose a postsecondary pathway while connecting them to financial resources to support them on that pathway. We also help ensure transitions – from high school to postsecondary, between postsecondary institutions, and from postsecondary into the workforce – are efficient. 

Open Educational Resources Grant Program (OERGP)

Intent

Established in 2018, the OER Grant Program is a competitive program that provides grants to Texas public institutions of higher education to adopt, modify, redesign, or develop courses using only OER.

An Open Educational Resource (OER) is a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution of the resource by any person. 

THECB expects to award two categories of grant awards under this Request for Applications (RFA): Nursing OER Adoption Grants and Workforce OER Collaborator Grants 

Nursing OER Adoption Grants

For applicants to redesign and scale OER adoption for two or three courses using existing Nursing OER developed as part of the OER Nursing Essentials Project. Undergraduate Nursing courses closely related to the following Nursing CIP codes 51.38, 51.3801, 51.39, and 51.3901 in the Texas CIP Codes Data Base are eligible.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a partner, resource, and advocate to higher education institutions across the state.  

We work in partnership with the legislature, businesses, and other key stakeholders to ensure our state’s higher education goals are aligned with our state’s economic and talent needs. We are a steward to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. 

And we help Texas students and families access the tools they need to choose a postsecondary pathway while connecting them to financial resources to support them on that pathway. We also help ensure transitions – from high school to postsecondary, between postsecondary institutions, and from postsecondary into the workforce – are efficient. 

Open Educational Resources Grant Program (OERGP)

Intent

Established in 2018, the OER Grant Program is a competitive program that provides grants to Texas public institutions of higher education to adopt, modify, redesign, or develop courses using only OER.

An Open Educational Resource (OER) is a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution of the resource by any person. 

THECB expects to award two categories of grant awards under this Request for Applications (RFA): Nursing OER Adoption Grants and Workforce OER Collaborator Grants 

Workforce OER Collaborator Grants

For applicants to develop new or substantially improve existing OER for three, four, or five courses from the Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM) that use only OER, with priority for courses that are taught in support of THECB’s FY26-FY27 High-Demand Fields.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a partner, resource, and advocate to higher education institutions across the state.  

We work in partnership with the legislature, businesses, and other key stakeholders to ensure our state’s higher education goals are aligned with our state’s economic and talent needs. We are a steward to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. 

And we help Texas students and families access the tools they need to choose a postsecondary pathway while connecting them to financial resources to support them on that pathway. We also help ensure transitions – from high school to postsecondary, between postsecondary institutions, and from postsecondary into the workforce – are efficient. 

Graduate Medical Education Expansion Programs (GME Expansion)

Intent

The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Expansion Program provides funding to establish or expand nationally accredited residency programs in Texas, increasing the number of first-year residency positions available across the state. The program supports the Texas goal of maintaining at least 10 percent more first-year residency positions than the number of graduating Texas medical students.

Through these efforts, the GME Expansion Program strengthens the state’s physician workforce pipeline by enabling more medical graduates to remain in Texas for residency training and future practice. Since 2014, the program has supported the creation of 508 new first-year residency positions.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a partner, resource, and advocate to higher education institutions across the state.  

We work in partnership with the legislature, businesses, and other key stakeholders to ensure our state’s higher education goals are aligned with our state’s economic and talent needs. We are a steward to the state’s strategic plan for higher education, Building a Talent Strong Texas. 

And we help Texas students and families access the tools they need to choose a postsecondary pathway while connecting them to financial resources to support them on that pathway. We also help ensure transitions – from high school to postsecondary, between postsecondary institutions, and from postsecondary into the workforce – are efficient. 

College Readiness and Success Models (CRSM)

Intent

The goal of the CRSM grant program is to continue scaling effective strategies that promote systemic reforms that improve outcomes for students who are academically disadvantaged. This program also focuses on implementing, scaling, and enhancing innovative initiatives in areas such as pathways advising, embedded tutoring, teaching/learning technologies, and professional development opportunities for faculty and support staff—all focused on improving evidence-based practices for acceleration strategies, persistence, and course pass rates helping to build students’ momentum towards successful and timely completions.

The Allen Foundation, named in honor of William Webster Allen, operates under the laws of the State of Michigan with offices in Midland. Grants are limited under the terms of the foundation's charter to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.

Policies and Priorities

• To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
• To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
• To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices. 
• To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits. 
• In limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.

The connections between diet and health remain a basic and primary priority, and consideration has always been given to projects that benefit nutritional programs in the areas of education, training, and research.

Low priority has traditionally been given to proposals that help solve immediate or emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. The foundation welcomes proposals that develop and advance:

• the inclusion of mandatory courses in nutrition in medical schools;
• bringing the promise of nutrigenomics or nutritional genomics to realization; and
• the promotion of environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsive, and sustainable food and agricultural systems.

We also support environmental initiatives that strengthen sustainable food systems and address the root causes of hunger and inequity through sustainable agriculture, academic research, and promoting long-term community health and resilience.

The Allen Foundation, named in honor of William Webster Allen, operates under the laws of the State of Michigan with offices in Midland. Grants are limited under the terms of the foundation's charter to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.

Policies and Priorities

• To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
• To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
• To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices. 
• To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits. 
• In limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems.

The connections between diet and health remain a basic and primary priority, and consideration has always been given to projects that benefit nutritional programs in the areas of education, training, and research.

Low priority has traditionally been given to proposals that help solve immediate or emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. The foundation welcomes proposals that develop and advance:

• the inclusion of mandatory courses in nutrition in medical schools;
• bringing the promise of nutrigenomics or nutritional genomics to realization; and
• the promotion of environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsive, and sustainable food and agricultural systems.

We also support environmental initiatives that strengthen sustainable food systems and address the root causes of hunger and inequity through sustainable agriculture, academic research, and promoting long-term community health and resilience.