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At MPC, our community investment strategy is centered around strengthening communities and helping make people's lives better. We focus on contributions and partnerships with charitable organizations that reflect the priorities of our community stakeholders, align with our core values, amplify our sustainability strategy and enable us to make a positive, measurable impact.

Charitable Contributions and Grants

MPC and our employees provide support to 501(c)(3) non-profit and government-related organizations and agencies in the form of foundation grants, corporate contributions and sponsorships and workplace giving and volunteerism. While we will accept requests from eligible organizations across our marketing area, preference will be given to communities where the company has a significant operational and employee presence.

We strategically focus community investments on three core areas where it can make a positive, measurable impact: workforce development, sustainability and thriving communities.

Communities Investment Priorities

Workforce Development

From engineers to pipefitters, chemists to accountants, IT specialists to welders, MPC’s success relies on our ability to recruit and retain employees with exceptional skills-based experience. Our goal is to invest in workforce initiatives that better prepare individuals for professional success by increasing access to high-quality educational training and career readiness resources inclusive of vocational, technical and skilled trades.

Sustainability

Consistent with our commitment to meet the needs of today while investing in a sustainable future is our support of community programs involving environmental conservation and sustainability. MPC supports environmental government agencies, community groups, trade organizations and professional and industry associations devoted to protecting, conserving and sustaining natural resources. These efforts may include life sciences and breakthrough research, protecting biodiversity, preserving or creating parks and green spaces, improving air and water quality and increasing access to clean water and food.

Thriving Communities 

We are committed to making our communities stronger, safer and thriving places to live, work and play. MPC provides funding for programs that promote the resiliency of our shared communities including helping to address basic needs, supporting youth development programs and creating opportunities for economic vitality. This also includes safety projects and efforts that help communities better prepare for, mitigate the risks of and respond to disasters, hazards and emergenciess

What does this program do?

Provides grants to qualified organizations to help them carry out local self-help housing construction projects. Grant recipients supervise groups of very-low- and low-income individuals and families as they construct their own homes in rural areas. The group members provide most of the construction labor on each other’s homes, with technical assistance from the organization overseeing the project.

What is an eligible area?

Utilizing the USDA Eligibility Site you can enter a specific address for determination or just search the map to review general eligible areas.

How may funds be used?

• Give technical and supervisory assistance to participating families
• Help other organizations provide self-help technical and supervisory assistance
• Recruit families, help them complete loan applications and carry out other related activities that enable them to participate

Our Mission, Our History

Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury Foundation was founded in 1988 with the mission to use the platform of basketball to provide meaningful resources and support to strengthen and bring together the diverse communities we serve across Arizona. Due to the generosity of fans and partners, and underwriting by the team, the Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury Foundation distributes more than $3M annually to hundreds of local diverse communities impacting more than 400,000 children annually. Since its inception, Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury Foundation has donated more than $45M to worthy Arizona organizations focusing on programs that are basketball inspired.

Grantmaking

An internal committee of Suns/Mercury team members score videos based on using basketball inspired programming to better the lives of children.

In addition, the committee assesses:

• reach & access (how many kids have access to the programming),
• need (what is the community need applicant organization is fulfilling),
• demographics (are underserved diverse communities being reached)

"Basketball inspired programs" can be playing basketball. The committee also loves programs that teach math and science skills through basketball analytics, the teaching of media/technology journalism through the sport of basketball and keeping kids healthy through activity!

Funding Amounts

Grants are dedicated to basketball-inspired programming and typically range from $10,000 to $100,000. When planning your grant proposal, please keep in mind that requests for $10,000 or $15,000 are more commonly awarded.

RFGA2025-004 Psilocybin Research Clinical Trials Grant

Background

The mission of the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) is to identify and support innovative biomedical research to improve the health of all Arizonans. The ABRC is focused on leveraging existing resources, maximizing partnerships, cultivating communication, and promoting innovation. The ABRC manages multiple initiatives, which are guided by input from leaders and professionals from Arizona’s universities, nonprofit research institutions, hospitals, medical centers, and patient advocacy groups. The ABRC’s initiatives have evolved into three (3) distinct programs: Research Grants, Arizona Public Cord Blood Program, and Research Education.

Objective

The goal of this funding opportunity is to fund phase one (1), two (2), and/or three (3) clinical trials that are capable of being approved by the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and authorized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), for evaluating the effects of whole mushroom psilocybin in the treatment of various conditions, disorders, or illnesses.

he State of Arizona and USDA Forest Service are expected to provide funding assistance to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM) for fire prevention, critical infrastructure protection, and forest and watershed restoration through reduction of hazardous vegetation on State, Federal, Tribal, and private lands in Arizona.Total funding of approximately $1.5 million will be made available through sub-awards (grants) from DFFM on a reimbursement basis and awarded through a competitive process with emphasis on community protection and forest health. Multiple awards not exceeding $500,000 are expected. Organizations may submit more than one project application, but total funding may be limited to $500,000.

Drone Delivery: Law Enforcement Life-Saving Services

The Arizona Attorney General (AGO) is looking to partner with local emergency services in the development of a program utilizing drone technology equipped with life-saving equipment.

To achieve this goal, the AGO proposes $170,000 be immediately available in grant funding to be distributed to a fire department (city or county) that would establish services with a drone delivery company on or before February 28, 2025, for purposes of ensuring life-saving measures are taken when there is a 911 call where emergency responders or EM’s vehicle/units would be time delayed.

Funding for this opportunity is made possible through the Anti-Racketeering Revolving Fund resulting from forfeiture assets collected as part of financial remedies of criminal activity with a purpose.

Trust Overview

The Trust for Civic Life is a cross-ideological team of philanthropy and private sector funders making critical investments in the communities that will define the future of the country.

The Trust runs two grantmaking cycles every year:

• Civic Hub Grants and Civic Experiment Grants.

Through a community-led nomination process, local leaders help us identify and direct resources where they are needed most. This process leads to faster, more effective investments that can drive meaningful progress in our local communities.

Civic Experiment Grant

Civic Experiment Grant grants are for individuals and small organizations leading experimental new programs that get their community actively participating in shaping a community vision, identifying challenges, and working together to solve them.

Civic Experiment grant funding goes toward specific programs.

What we look for

The Trust for Civic Life funds a wide range of non-partisan entrepreneurs, programs, organizations and innovative digital leaders who play a key role in their local and regional civic ecosystems. Selection is informed by these key characteristics:

• Embedded in Community: Lives within the communities they serve.
• Rural Focus: Focuses on rural communities specifically in the Black Belt, Central Appalachia, Tribal Lands, Southwest Border, and communities in transition in the rural U.S.
• Community-Led Action: Leads or supports community members to identify problems and work toward solutions.
• Inclusive: Brings together the voices, views, experiences, and participation of the entire community.
• Community Champions: Identifies and celebrates the solutions, innovations, and programs doing great work.
• Bridge Builders: Builds and strengthens community networks by regranting, connecting people to resources, supporting new ideas, leveraging digital tools, and working across sectors.
• Long Lasting: Focuses on programs that create long-lasting civic infrastructure and a thriving community that all residents feel welcome to participate in.

Funding

• Grants Available: ~100
• Grant Amount: Up to $25,000

About

The Preservation Leadership Forum of the National Trust for Historic Preservation is a network of preservation leaders — professionals, students, volunteers, activists, experts — who share the latest ideas, information, and advice, and have access to in-depth preservation resources and training.

Southwest Intervention Fund

Grants from the National Trust’s Southwest Intervention Fund are intended to further preservation efforts of the traditional cultures of the Southwest region, exclusively in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, West Texas (West Texas is defined as the area west of US Route 281 from the Oklahoma border to San Antonio proper and north of US Route 90 from San Antonio proper to Del Rio) and Utah. The Fund provides support for preservation planning efforts and enables prompt responses to emergency threats or opportunities in the eligible states. Local partners, nonprofit organizations and government agencies that have strategic opportunities to save sites or help jumpstart preservation projects are eligible for the fund’s small, catalytic grants. Grants generally range from $2,500 to $10,000.

The Fund can support assistance for a single prehistoric or historic place or actions affecting an entire state or part of a state, or several states, so long as all of the states are among the five designated states. Actions aimed at direct intervention to save historic and cultural sites and at capacity building are eligible.

The decision to pursue project funding through the Southwest Intervention Fund must be made in consultation with the National Trust grants office. Please contact us if you would like to discuss your project.  

Trust Overview

The Trust for Civic Life is a cross-ideological team of philanthropy and private sector funders making critical investments in the communities that will define the future of the country.

The Trust runs two grantmaking cycles every year:

• Civic Hub Grants and Civic Experiment Grants.

Through a community-led nomination process, local leaders help us identify and direct resources where they are needed most. This process leads to faster, more effective investments that can drive meaningful progress in our local communities.

Civic Hub Grant

Civic Hub grants are for organizations that play an important role in bringing people together across different communities and sectors to create shared vision, solutions and distribute resources. We welcome you to nominate organizations that align with our Civic Hub grant focus and criteria. Civic Hubs are locally embedded groups that rally community members together around a shared vision, create the capacity and opportunities for people to gather and collaborate, and distribute resources where they are needed most.

​​Our Civic Hub grants will focus strongly on our priority regions (Black Belt, Central Appalachia, Southern Border, and Tribal Lands), with a portfolio target of ~75% from these regions and ~25% from other rural communities in transition

What we look for

The Trust for Civic Life funds a wide range of non-partisan entrepreneurs, programs, organizations and innovative digital leaders who play a key role in their local and regional civic ecosystems. Selection is informed by these key characteristics:

• Embedded in Community: Lives within the communities they serve.
• Rural Focus: Focuses on rural communities specifically in the Black Belt, Central Appalachia, Tribal Lands, Southwest Border, and communities in transition in the rural U.S.
• Community-Led Action: Leads or supports community members to identify problems and work toward solutions.
• Inclusive: Brings together the voices, views, experiences, and participation of the entire community.
• Community Champions: Identifies and celebrates the solutions, innovations, and programs doing great work.
• Bridge Builders: Builds and strengthens community networks by regranting, connecting people to resources, supporting new ideas, leveraging digital tools, and working across sectors.
• Long Lasting: Focuses on programs that create long-lasting civic infrastructure and a thriving community that all residents feel welcome to participate in.

Funding

• Grants Available: 20-25
• Grant Amount: $250,000-$500,000

RFGA2025-005 AZ Health Zone (SNAP-Ed) Program

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity (BNPA), in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) provides a program called the AZ Health Zone. The AZ Health Zone is funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

County Allocation

• Apache $521,181

RFGA2025-005 AZ Health Zone (SNAP-Ed) Program

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity (BNPA), in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) provides a program called the AZ Health Zone. The AZ Health Zone is funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

County Allocation

• Cochise $424,440

RFGA2025-005 AZ Health Zone (SNAP-Ed) Program

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity (BNPA), in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) provides a program called the AZ Health Zone. The AZ Health Zone is funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

County Allocation

• Gila $351,973

RFGA2025-005 AZ Health Zone (SNAP-Ed) Program

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity (BNPA), in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) provides a program called the AZ Health Zone. The AZ Health Zone is funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

County Allocation

• Maricopa $3,338,651

RFGA2025-005 AZ Health Zone (SNAP-Ed) Program

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity (BNPA), in partnership with the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES) provides a program called the AZ Health Zone. The AZ Health Zone is funded by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

County Allocation

• Pinal $553,992

Our Mission

Lead, serve, and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better Arizona.

Arizona Route 66 Grant Cycle

The Arizona Community Foundation in cooperation with the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona are seeking applications from nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, along with local, state, tribal government agencies in Arizona to compete for a grant from the Arizona Community Foundation's Arizona Route 66 Fund.

Grants will be awarded to projects that aim to preserve, promote, and protect Route 66 in Arizona. ACF will accept proposals that benefit and support preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation projects as well as planning, educational, and research projects that focus on Route 66 in Arizona.

ACF encourages proposals that:

• Leverage matching funds
• Positively impact the Route 66 Arizona community
• Promote partnerships between private business and nonprofits.
• Support direct administrative costs associated with carrying out the program, such as staff salary/wages, project management, marketing, consultants, supplies, postage, travel, training or equipment, newly-acquired information technology, etc. Direct costs can also include directly attributable administrative support, legal or accounting functions, with distinct and measured effort on the project.

Proposed Project Categories

Applications for projects outside these specified areas will also be accepted.

Preservation, Restoration, and Rehabilitation Projects

• The preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of transportation-related properties on Route 66 are eligible project activities.
  • Properties must be on, or within view of a Route 66 road alignment; be in their original location; and retain some historical and architectural integrity.
• Eligible property types include:
  • gas stations, automotive repair shops, and other automobile-related businesses
  • restaurants and cafes
  • motels, hotels, and campgrounds
  • curio shops, tourist trading posts, tourism-related attractions
  • original road pavement and associated road features (e.g., bridges, culverts)
• Eligible activities include, but are not limited to repair, rehabilitation, or restoration of:
  • Doors and Windows
  • Light Fixtures
  • Historic Signs (in Historic Locations)
  • Bridges
  • Historic Road Pavement
  • Roofs
  • Floors
  • Foundations
  • Structural Elements
  • Plumbing, electrical, HVAC

Planning, Research, Interpretive, or Educational Outreach Projects

Planning, research, interpretive or educational projects are eligible project activities. Examples of eligible activities include:

• Project Planning and Architectural Drawings for preservation, rehabilitation or restoration of eligible historic properties.
  • Plans and drawings must be prepared by a registered historical architect or other related professional, and comply with the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
• Historic Structure Reports for properties listed on or determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Other properties relating to the 1926-1970 period of significance may also be considered.
  • Reports must be prepared by a historical architect.
• Building, Road and/or Archeological Surveys by local, state, and tribal governments that identify and describe historic properties within an area or region along Route 66, and assess the significance, cultural value, condition and/or threats to the properties.
• Road Alignment or Pavement Preservation Plans prepared by local, state, and tribal governments.
• Local Corridor Preservation Management Plans prepared by local, state, and tribal governments
• Planning, development, and production of Research, Oral Histories, Interpretive or Educational Activities that directly advance the understanding, preservation, and prestige of Route 66.

Funding

Proposals may be submitted for a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum of $50,000. The total granting pool depends on fund availability at the time.

Festival Grant

Festival Grants support the presentation of quality arts and culture programming through festival activities, connecting artists and culture bearers (or their artistic work) with communities.

Festival grants support in-person, virtual, and hybrid festivals.

For the purposes of this grant program, a festival is defined as a periodic celebration or gathering that…

• happens in a condensed period of time,
• features a varied and curated program of events, and
• has an easily identifiable and unifying theme or specified focus.

Introduction

The Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff was founded in 1987 and is dedicated to providing a continuing source of funding support to the Flagstaff nonprofit community. The Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff is a regional office of the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF). The Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff secures, manages and allocates donor gifts for charitable purposes in the Flagstaff area, working to improve the quality of life for all residents. 

Awarding grants to Flagstaff’s nonprofit organizations is at the center of the Foundation’s service to the local community. In this effort grant applicants are our partners, bringing services and programs directly to people throughout the community. To help carry out this mutual goal, the Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff provides a variety of funding opportunities that enable schools, organizations and community groups to carry out projects, and maintain ongoing, high-quality services and programs.

The Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff seeks to build on the strengths and assets of Flagstaff nonprofit organizations by offering a competitive grant program focused on Fields of Interest or initiatives in one or more of the following areas:

Flagstaff Education Fund

This fund shall be used exclusively to benefit organizations whose purpose is education, both public and private programs. For example, past recipients have included community classes for adult literacy and young authors summer camp scholarships.

 Flagstaff P-12 Educational Resources Fund

Donor intent for this fund is to Increase educational opportunities for children in pre-school through 12th grade, their teachers, and their families in the community of Flagstaff. This fund supports the following:

• Outdoor and environmental educational programs by non-profits organizations and public-school programs. Emphasis should be on expanding the offering to children and students of lower economic status and a wide range of cultures
• Public school classroom projects and related materials that encompass environmental, community service and experiential learning or
• Early Childhood Education programs.

Flagstaff Environmental Education and Conservation Fund

This fund is used exclusively to benefit organizations whose purpose it is to sustain the environment in Flagstaff. For example, past recipients have included youth summer forestry and environmental programs and general operating sustainability funding for a local environmental education center.

Flagstaff Healthcare Fund

The scope of this fund is to exclusively benefit organizations whose purpose is to provide community health care services to the Flagstaff community. For example, past recipients have included education and awareness programs for juvenile diabetes and medical cost assistance for a reproductive health program.

Flagstaff Music Education Fund

The scope of the fund is to exclusively benefit schools and organizations that provide music education to the Flagstaff community. Services and programs shall include, but are not limited to, school music programs, music scholarships, cultural enrichment programs, music performances, and guest musicians. For example, past recipients have included a bilingual music show in school, scholarships for a children’s choir and operating expenses for a symphony.

Pickard Arts & Culture Fund For Flagstaff

The scope of this fund is to exclusively benefit organizations and schools providing Arts and Cultural services to the Flagstaff community. Services and programs shall include, but are not limited to, artist in schools residencies, arts scholarships, visual art community showcasing, cultural enrichment programs, and operational support for arts in education. For example, past recipients have included dance studio facility improvement, youth poetry exhibition and a summer theater series.

Flagstaff Social Services Fund

The scope of this fund is to exclusively benefit projects whose purpose is to provide social services (basic needs) in Flagstaff. For example, past recipients have included relative and caregiver assistance, homeless assistance, school-based services and general operating expenses.

Flagstaff Victim Services Fund

This fund is to benefit organizations whose purpose it is to provide services to crime victims, their families and others affected by crime, in such areas as advocacy, protection, shelter, training, counseling, transition, and similar programs. For example, past recipients have included victim assistance/advocacy, crime scene cleanup, and general operating expenses.

Flagstaff Youth Fund

The scope of this fund is to exclusively benefit organizations whose purpose is to promote and provide programs that benefit all youth in grades K-12 and younger. For example, past recipients have included scholarships for local youth clubs and funding for career and financial education for middle school children.

Flagstaff Animal Welfare Fund

This fund provides grants to local animal welfare organizations for a variety of programs including low cost spay and neuter services, animal rescue and rehabilitation.

Flagstaff Substance Abuse Prevention Fund

The scope of this fund shall be used exclusively for researched-based prevention and reduction of substance abuse for youth (Preschool-12th grade) through information, education, advocacy or innovative drug-free alternative activities..

Use of Funds

Funds can be used to:

• build the capacity of the organization
• support direct service projects and programs
• support capital expenditures
• provide general operating support and indirect/direct administrative costs
• support one-year and/or renewable funding proposals (there is no guarantee for second year funding)

The purpose of this program is to support projects that will treat invasive plant infestations that threaten forested, woodland, or rangeland areas. The theme for the FY 2024 funding cycle is grasses and grasslands. Projects may occur on state, federal, tribal, and private lands in Arizona.

This program focuses on the prevention, control/removal, and eradication of invasive plants and aims to achieve the following objectives:

• Target and treat invasive plants that are capable of transforming native plant communities in forests, woodlands, deserts, or rangeland
• Assist in preventing fire and flooding, conserving water, and restoring habitat to wildlife
• Use an integrated weed management (IWM) approach when treating areas infested with invasive plants through the utilization of available tools, including manual, cultural, mechanical, chemical, and biological control methods

Funding:

A total of $970,000 is available to support awards ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 through this program. Funds will be provided on a reimbursement basis.

Background

The Momentum Maker grant was established thanks to a generous gift from the Thiru Family Trust. The Foundation shares with the Thiru Family Trust the commitment to inspiring new paths to mental health and well-being in Arizona.

Each year, this special grant identifies a specific area of mental health-related need— then awards a single grant of resources and funding valued at $75,000 to address this need.

Momentum Maker grant funding helps grantees build capacity, innovate, test proof of concept, or expand early-stage projects that address our state’s most urgent mental health challenges.

Focus Area

This year, the Momentum Maker grant is focused on improving mental health in schools. We recognize that the pandemic and school safety issues have created unprecedented stress, anxiety, and uncertainty for students, teachers, and staff in Arizona.

Award Information

We’ve designed a grant package with three dimensions of support valued at $75,000:

• Expert guidance provided by a local community partner to offer support regarding policies, practices, and guidance to bolster well-being and resilience.
• Trainings and skill-building sessions (e.g., mindfulness, well-being promotion, etc.) provided by a local community partner expert in building teacher and staff capacity that strengthens their mental health.
• $25,000 that the grantee determines how best to use for mental health activities that address school needs.

The Arizona Community Foundation of Yuma, founded in 1993, leads, serves, and collaborates to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better Yuma County. ACF of Yuma is an endowment organization that connects community needs to donors who have a passion for meeting those needs. Thanks to the individuals, families, and corporations who have created more than 70 philanthropic funds, ACF of Yuma invested over $1 million in grants and programs to the community last year. With assets exceeding $19 million, it has provided more than $10 million to the Yuma community since inception. ACF of Yuma has been able to increase their competitive grant-making activities in Yuma County through generous annual contributions from Sturges Charitable Trust.

Funds can be used to:

• build the capacity of the organization
• support direct service projects and programs
• support capital expenditures. Please review the funding range available
• provide general operating support and indirect/direct administrative costs
• support one-year and/or renewable funding proposals (there is no guarantee of second year funding)

Arizona Department of Health Services

The Arizona Department of Health Services promotes and protects the health of Arizona’s children and adults. We strive to set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy, and leadership.

ADHS Mission: To promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona.

RFGA2025-021 Naloxone Training & Education

The objective of this Naloxone Training and Education Grant is to equip community members, first responders, and healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize the signs of opioid overdose and effectively respond by administering naloxone. By doing so, the program aims to reduce opioid-related fatalities, enhance community response capabilities, and promote access to resources and support for individuals affected by opioid use disorder. Expected outcomes include increased awareness, improved readiness to respond to overdose situations, and greater distribution of naloxone within the community.

Approximately $170,000.00 of federal funds shall be available for up to two (2) Awardees for a two (2) year grant period (Upon award through August 2027).

WESTAF’s TourWest Grant provides flexible funding for presenters/presenting organizations within the WESTAF region to support their regional touring program. WESTAF also encourages the inclusion of community/educational outreach as part of an organization’s presentation of touring artists. 

TourWest is a competitive grant program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to provide subsidies to arts and community organizations in the 13-state WESTAF region and jurisdictions, including Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa for the presentation of touring performers and literary artists. 

Through TourWest, WESTAF and the National Endowment for the Arts aim to encourage the presentation of performing arts programming to culturally diverse audiences and those that do not typically enjoy ready access to the performing arts. In order to understand local needs and interests, WESTAF advocates working directly with individuals and groups from the communities that your organization seeks to serve. Community engagement and participation are key components of a successful TourWest grant application. 

WESTAF defines regional touring as programming that presents out-of-state touring artists and/or in-state touring artists traveling at least 50 miles to your venue. Presenters/presenting organizations are defined as organizations that present or host guest artists for engagements in their communities. Presenters can include but are not limited to community cultural organizations, community centers, churches, schools/colleges/universities, libraries, museums, film festivals/series, and performing arts centers. Typically, producing organizations or performing arts groups are not considered presenters, and are encouraged to contact WESTAF to discuss eligibility.

TourWest seeks to support the engagement of new audiences as well as collaboration between the presenters, artists, agents, and communities. In addition to working collaboratively with the artist(s) and/or community partners in planning the project, WESTAF encourages presenters to take advantage of opportunities such as block booking, presenter networks, and booking conferences to reduce costs and make artistic opportunities available to a broader audience. Partnerships and collaborative efforts between presenters are considered in the panel’s evaluation of an application and project.

Program Overview

Creative West’s TourWest grant program, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, provides funding to presenters and presenting organizations to bring touring performers and literary artists to communities throughout the Western region.

Regional touring is defined as:

Programming that brings out-of-state touring artists to your venue, or In-state artists traveling at least 50 miles from their home base TourWest focuses on expanding access to the performing arts, especially in underserved communities.

To support this goal:

• Creative West encourages working closely with local individuals and groups to understand and meet community needs.
• Applicants are urged to include community engagement or educational outreach activities in their projects.
• Collaboration with artists, agents, and community partners is highly encouraged, along with strategies like block booking and using presenter networks to reduce costs and maximize impact.

Preserve Route 66 Grant Fund

The most enduring highway in our public consciousness, Route 66 represents a unique moment in history that continues to define the nation’s identity: the rise of the automobile and its implications of freedom, mobility, and a quintessential American story. Grants from this fund will help preserve and enhance historic places on or connected to Route 66 for future generations.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preserve Route 66 Grant Fund provides financial support to public agencies, tribal governments or nonprofit organizations to preserve and interpret historic places along the Route 66 corridor. The National Trust has a special interest in illuminating the narratives of communities whose places and stories have been historically underrepresented, which may include communities and neighborhoods along the Route 66 corridor associated with People of Color (including but not limited to indigenous peoples, Latinx, Black Americans and others), women, immigrants, LGBTQIA communities, veterans, and economically distressed communities.

Grants made from the Preserve Route 66 Fund will generally range from $2,500 to $10,000.

STOP Violence Against Women Grant (AZ)

The STOP (Services • Training • Officers • Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Grant supports prosecution and law enforcement strategies that combat violent crimes against women and aids in the development and/or strengthening of victim services. Authorized through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and administered on the federal level by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, the STOP grant provides funding that fosters partnerships with courts, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim-serving organizations, and tribal communities, as well as state, county, and local governments.

Funding

The GOYFF aids in administering the dollars described above through a competitive grant application process. Each year, the GOYFF is awarded approximately $3.3 million to support programs throughout the state. The grant invests in programs to support Courts, Law Enforcement, Prosecution, Victim Services, Training, and Special Projects that focus on increasing victim safety and offender accountability.

By statute, the awards are disbursed as follows:

• 25% for law enforcement,
• 25% for prosecution,
• 30% for victim services (10% has to be distributed to culturally specific community-based organizations),
• 5% to state and local courts,
• and 15% for discretionary distribution.

There is a 25% match, non-federal match-cash, or in-kind.

Veterans Donation Fund Large Grant A.R.S. 41-608

The Arizona Veterans' Donation Fund (VDF), established in 1999 by the Arizona legislature (A.R.S. § 41-608), funds programs that benefit Veterans and their families throughout Arizona. Arizona State law specifies that tax-deductible donations to, and monies held in, this account can never revert to the State General Fund.

The VDF consists of monies, gifts and contributions donated to the department and donations made through the purchase of Veteran, Women Veteran, and Freedom Special License Plates. The assets held in the account can only be used to benefit Veterans in the State of Arizona through small grants and large grants, each with their own documented application process.

The purpose of this program is to support programs, projects and events that will benefit Arizona's veterans. Through this program, the funding agency intends to engage the community and veterans

services organization in the efforts to inform Arizona's 600,000 veterans about benefits and lawfully assist them in their claims for benefits. Generally, supported initiatives must be compatible with the following objectives:

• Veteran Employment
• Veteran Health/Mental Health
• Legal
• Women/Minority Veteran Specific Issues
• Veteran Homelessness
• Tribal or Rural
• Transportation
• Social Determinants of Health

About Arizona Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family

The Governor's Office of Youth, Faith, and Family (GOYFF) distributes state and federal funds annually. Public and private sector organizations that address one or more of the issues identified by GOYFF can apply for these funds. Grants are then awarded through a formal application process.

Arizona SFY25 AmeriCorps State Formula Grant

Governor Katie Hobbs’ Office of Youth, Faith and Family, in partnership with the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism, issues this Request for Grant Application (RFGA) Solicitation concerning the AmeriCorps State Formula Grant Program in accordance with A.R.S. §41-2701. 

Approximately $4 million will be awarded to programs throughout Arizona to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices that extend organizational capacity to address critical community needs in one of six AmeriCorps focus areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and services for veterans and military families.

Funding

$100,000.00 (min) - $500,000.00 (max)

This is a 12-month contract that may be renewable for two (2) additional twelve (12) month periods. Successful applicants may be eligible for continuation funding for a second and third program year contingent upon the availability of federal appropriations, compliance with terms and conditions, programmatic and financial performance, and through the submission of a renewal application. 

Match may or may not be required in your application and is dependent upon multiple factors.  The number of awards will depend upon the number and quality of applications received.

Fire Incident Management System Grant

The Arizona Department of Administration, State Grants Office, is publishing this notice to announce the availability of funds for the Fire Incident Management System Grant. The program is designed to provide grants to municipal fire departments and fire districts for hardware and software.