Search Through Miami-Dade County Grants for Nonprofits in Florida

Mission

The DanPaul Foundation will use its resources to help train teachers and parents in early childhood development, protect children from abuse and neglect, stimulate children's personal social responsibilities, and offer them opportunities for enrichment and growth.

The Foundation will also encourage children to be concerned and informed about the environment and the underprivileged, particularly with regard to clean air and water, and adequate housing and nutrition for all.

Beliefs

The DanPaul Foundation believes that children should have ample opportunities for enrichment in their lives, and thus strives to provide many different ways to enrich and expand children's minds through direct programs and monetary support to organizations doing similar work.

We have provided or currently provide grants related to the following program areas:

• Workshops, Conferences, + Seminars: We strive to offer educational workshops, conferences, and seminars for parents and teachers on topics related to early childhood development.
• Student Scholarships: We aim to help students attending post-secondary education institutions by providing need-based and academic scholarships.
• Scientific Endeavors: We desire to advance scientific endeavors which seek to improve the quality of life for everyone in the world.
• Clean Air + Water: We hope to pass on knowledge and practical life skills to youth regarding their personal responsibility to the environment, teaching them about issues surrounding clean air and water.
• Child Advocacy: We believe in protecting children from abuse and neglect and particularly love to support programs that provide education and assistance to children as well as organizations advocating or caring for vulnerable children.
• Homelessness: We want to encourage young people to take a personal interest in seeing that adequate housing and proper nutrition, especially for the underprivileged and homeless, are available.
• Poverty + Neglect: We seek to help those in poverty as well as educate youth about their responsibility to consider the underprivileged and take care of those most in need of life's basic essentials like adequate housing and proper nutrition.
• Refugee Enrichment: We wish to help refugee youth by supporting programs that provide them enrichment and help them transition to life in a new country.

The DanPaul Foundation provides grants to 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organizations as defined by the IRS. The Foundation is interested in providing funding to programs that directly serve the health, education, development, and welfare of the world's youth.

Grants range from a few hundred dollars up to $15,000 per calendar year.

Global Impact Cash Grants

Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share our vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge.

We identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. We’re looking for programs that fit within our investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. We accept applications year-round from eligible organizations. An initial information form is used to determine whether your organization will be invited to complete a full application.

Social Investment Areas

At Cisco, we make social investments in three areas where we believe our technology and our people can make the biggest impact—education, economic empowerment, and crisis response, the last of which incorporates shelter, water, food, and disaster relief. Together, these investment areas help people overcome barriers of poverty and inequality, and make a lasting difference by fostering strong global communities.

Education Investments

Our strategy is to inclusively invest in technology-based solutions that increase equitable access to education while improving student performance, engagement, and career exploration. We support K-12 solutions that emphasize science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as well as literacy. We also consider programs that teach environmental sustainability, eliminate barriers to accessing climate change education, and invite student engagement globally to positively affect the environment.

What we look for:

• Innovative early grade solutions using the internet and technology to bridge the barriers preventing access to education for underserved students globally.
• Solutions that positively affect student attendance, attitudes, and behavior while inspiring action by students to improve learning outcomes, whether they participate in person, online, or in blended learning environments. 
• Solutions with high potential to replicate and scale globally, thereby increasing the availability of evidence-based solutions that support student-centricity, teacher capacity in the classroom, and increased parental participation to help students learn and develop.

Economic Empowerment

Our strategy is to invest in early stage, tech-enabled solutions that provide equitable access to the knowledge, skills, and resources that people need to support themselves and their families toward resilience, independence, and economic security.

Our goal is to support solutions that benefit individuals and families, and that contribute to local community growth and economic development in a sustainable economy.

We target our support in three interconnected areas:

• Skills development to help job seekers secure dignified employment and long-term career pathways in technology or other sectors, including environmental sustainability/green jobs.
• Inclusive entrepreneurship with small businesses as engines of local growth as well as high growth potential start-ups as large-scale job creators nationally and internationally, in technology or other sectors, including environment sustainability/green businesses.
• Banking the unbanked through relevant and affordable financial products and capacity building services.

Cisco Crisis Response

We seek to help overcome the cycle of poverty and dependence and achieve a more sustainable future through strategic investments. We back organizations that successfully address critical needs of underserved communities, because those who have their basic needs met are better equipped to learn and thrive.

What we look for:

• Innovative solutions that increase the capacity of grantees to deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently
• Design and implementation of web-based tools that increase the availability of, or improve access to, products and services that are necessary for people to survive and thrive
• Programs that increase access to clean water, food, shelter, or disaster relief and promote a more sustainable future for all
  • By policy, relief campaigns respond to significant natural disaster and humanitarian crises as opposed to those caused by human conflict. Also by policy, our investments in this area do not include healthcare solutions.

Climate Impact

Our strategy is to invest US$100 million in Cisco Foundation funds over the next decade to help reverse the impact of climate change, working toward a sustainable and regenerative future for all.

The commitment includes both grant and impact investment funding for early-stage climate innovation. Both categories of support will be focused on bold climate solutions, and the grants side will also concentrate on community education and activation. Grants will go to exceptionally aligned nonprofit organizations, while impact investments will go to highly promising for-profit solutions through the private sector and climate impact funds.

Funding comes from the Cisco Foundation and will focus on:

• Identifying bold and innovative solutions that:
  • Draw down the carbon already in the atmosphere
  • Regenerate depleted ecosystems and broadly support the transition to a regenerative future
• Developing curricular initiatives to spur community engagement that can lead to measurable behavioral change and collective action

We will prioritize organizations that can achieve, measure, and report outcomes such as:

• Reduction, capture, and/or sequestering of greenhouse gas and carbon emissions
• Increased energy efficiency and improved mapping and management of natural resources, such as ecosystem restoration, forest treatments, reforestation, and afforestation that also will help repair our water cycles
• Transition to inclusive, just, coliberatory, and regenerative operating models, ways of being, and ways of organizing economies
• Creation of, and increase in, access to green jobs and job training
• Changes in community and individual behavior that lead to carbon footprint reduction, community climate resilience, and localized roadmaps to a sustainable shared climate future for all

Community Grants

State Farm is committed to helping build safer, stronger and better-educated communities.

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​We are committed to auto and home safety programs and activities that help people manage the risks of everyday life.
• We invest in education, economic empowerment and community development projects, programs and services that help people realize their dreams.
• We help maintain the vibrancy of our communities by assisting nonprofits that support community revitalization.

Good Neighbor Citizenship company grants focus on safety, community development and education.

Focus Areas

Safety Grants

We strive to keep our customers and communities safe. That's why our funding is directed toward:

• Auto safety — improving driver, passenger, vehicle or roadway safety
• Home safety — shielding homes from fires, crime or natural disasters
• Disaster preparedness and mitigation
• Disaster recovery

Community Development

We support nonprofits that invest and develop stronger neighborhoods. That's why our funding is directed toward:

• Affordable housing — home construction and repair
• Commercial/small business development
• Job training
• Neighborhood revitalization
• Financial literacy
• Sustainable housing and transportation
• Food insecurity

Education

Our education funding is directed toward initiatives that support the following programs:

• Higher education
• K-12 academic performance
• K-12 STEM
• Pathways for college and career success

Our Mission

To invest in and be a catalyst for collaborations, policy and systems change that improve the health of South Florida communities, with a focus on vulnerable, low- to moderate-income populations. 

Our Vision

All South Floridians have an equal opportunity to achieve optimal health and well-being.

Focus Areas

Learn more about the three goal areas of the Health Foundation of South Florida to determine how your proposed project aligns with our grantmaking approach.

• Access to Care
  • We are interested in projects that:
    • Support outreach, education and enrollment efforts for the children’s health insurance program (i.e. KidCare), Medicaid, and the ACA health insurance marketplace.
    • Increase access to care, patient engagement, and/or improved health outcomes via digital health technology.
    • Expand the adoption of alternate delivery models that increase access to care, especially for uninsured and underinsured (e.g. nurse-managed health centers, telehealth/digital health, use of peers/navigators/CHWs).
    • Provide operating support to safety net clinics to maintain or expand minimum level of patients served and/or improve services.
    • Advocate for and help to inform state and regional solutions that increase access, availability, and utilization of healthcare.
• Health and Social Needs
  • We are interested in projects that:
    • Facilitate connections and collaboration between stakeholders across the healthcare and social services sectors to address the social needs of low-income South Florida residents.
    • Support the adoption of technology platforms, within a collaborative infrastructure, that allow for increased efficiencies in the referral of patients and clients in need of health and social services.
    • Support implementation, evaluation and scaling of social needs interventions, such as medical-legal partnerships and food pharmacies.
    • Advocate for and inform healthcare financing and payment mechanisms for social needs interventions.
• Thriving Communities
  • We are interested in projects that:
    • Increase the understanding of the connection between housing and health.
    • Strengthen the capacity of residents and community-based organizations to advocate for improved housing policies.
    • Pilot projects that couple health and housing, inclusive of supportive services models.
    • Support policy and advocacy activities that help fund, create, or protect affordable housing resources across our region.
  • In relation to our work with anchor institutions, we will fund projects implemented through the South Florida Anchor Alliance, for which membership and participation in work group meetings is required. Project objectives must align with the Alliance’s official Blueprint. We will support projects that:
    • Increase the number of regional institutions aligning internal practices and resources that contribute to an inclusive local economy.
    • Increase community benefit investments in community wealth building.
    • Support workforce pipeline programs targeting unemployed or under-employed individuals and communities.
• Other Community Needs
  • Preference will be given to proposals that demonstrate the following criteria:
    • An identified need is clearly demonstrated.
    • Goals, objectives, and outcomes are realistic and measurable.
    • Project budget fully explains how the Foundation’s funds will be used.
    • Opportunities to collaborate with other community partners are identified.

The Background

Through this funding opportunity, we call upon our partners to share ideas and interests that reduce health disparities and create health equity. We define health broadly to include the underlying social and economic factors that impact overall health and well-being.

Funding decisions will be guided by our mission, our guiding principles, an assessment of proposal elements (need, target population, project implementation, measurable outcomes, etc.) and funding availability.

Funding Guidelines

• The project must align with our mission and guiding principles.
• Unsolicited proposals are accepted year-round and are reviewed in the order they are received.
• The project duration can be 1 to 2 years.
• Funding requests may vary and are dependent on project size and scope.
• Short-term projects may be fast-tracked for a funding decision. All other proposals may require a more detailed proposal application process before going to our Board of Directors for a final funding decision. 

Peacock Foundation, Inc. enhances and promotes the good health and  well-being of South Florida’s children and families.

Founded in 1947, Peacock Foundation, Inc.’s mission is to enhance and promote the good health and well-being of children and families through contributions, gifts, and grants to eligible nonprofit organizations located in and/or of significant benefit primarily to residents of Miami-Dade County.

Peacock Foundation, Inc. supports specific projects and general operations in these interest areas:

• Human Services
• Education
• Health
• Children/Youth
• Elderly
• People with Disabilities
• Arts for Educational Purposes
• Environmental Education

The Board of Peacock Foundation, Inc. meets four times per year to review grant proposals and evaluation reports. It is only through strong partnerships with our grantees that Peacock Foundation, Inc. may accomplish its mission to serve our beloved community. Working together in relationships of trust ensures the achievement of our shared goals.

Although multi-year grants are made in special cases, our support should not be viewed as a continuing source of funds. The Foundation receives many more requests than available funds to distribute in any one fiscal year.

About the Foundation

Jesse W. Couch lived a life of zeal, honor, and dedication to the betterment of his community. The Couch family now humbly stewards the foundation he created to carry on his legacy of service for future generations. We believe that impact is best accomplished through partnerships with local organizations that know the people and communities they serve. We invest in and support efforts to protect the environment, further conservation and preservation initiatives, and save historical architecture that preserves community heritage. We also support initiatives that promote wellness and mental health and organizations seeking to provide and further education for all communities.

Annual Grant Focus

Each year, we seek to partner with and support non-profit organizations making an impact in the focus areas listed here.  The focus areas for 2025 are:

• Animal Wellbeing: We are dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations that nurture compassion and respect for all living animals. We must have animal-focused organizations that advocate for animal rights and provide humane treatment across all spectrums.
• Early Childhood Education: We are looking for schools that are providing young children with a creative and balanced approach to education. Things we love in early childhood curriculums:
  • Life Skills
  • Collaboration With Their Peers and Teachers   
  • Having Fun   
  • Montessori Teachings   
  • Project Based Teachings   
  • Diversity   
  • More Time Outside   
  • Less Screen Time
• Teachers: Teachers are essential to providing children with the best possible education. We must invest in their future and are always looking for teams that help them succeed in educating future generations.
• Get Outside: Being outside can improve memory, fight depression, lower blood pressure, and more! We support organizations that facilitate and encourage more outdoor activities that help create healthier communities. 

Our mission: We, Allegany Franciscan Ministries and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming, healing presence within our communities. We are guided by this mission and rooted in the vision of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany.

Our Vision: The communities we serve will become ever more just, equitable, and caring; everyone in our communities will be welcomed and have the resources to thrive.

Program Description

Allegany Franciscan Ministries’ FY25 Tau Grants will offer unrestricted general operating support for nonprofits that provide services to the following marginalized groups: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQ+, Individuals with disabilities, and/or Other historically disenfranchised groups.

General operating grants support the organization’s overall mission and goals not specific projects or programs. General operating support grants should help strengthen the organization or further its charitable purpose. Examples include strategic planning, technology upgrades, and infrastructure costs such as utilities, rent, and personnel. 

The Summer Arts & Science Camps for Kids (SAS-C) Grants Program was created as a joint initiative of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and The Children’s Trust. The SAS-C Grants Program is funded by The Children’s Trust, a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County.

The objective of the SAS-C Program is to grant funding to nonprofit organizations to provide underserved children in Miami-Dade County with opportunities to attend high quality cultural arts and science summer camp programs at little or no cost. Funding through the SAS-C Grants Program is intended to augment established, high quality programs, providing more children with the opportunity to participate in cultural arts and science summer camps.

Priority attention is given to projects that address children whose ability to participate in such programs may be limited by geography, economics or disability, projects in which unduplicated children underwritten by SAS-C funding will attend the camp program for four weeks or more, and projects that are able to expand program offerings and/or capacity in order to reach a broader population of underserved children and youth.

Applicants to this program must have a minimum one-year track record of providing high quality, comprehensive and specialized cultural arts or science camp programs for children and/or youth in Miami-Dade County.

Applicants to this program must be the entity directly responsible for managing, overseeing and implementing all administrative aspects of the proposed camp program, including but not limited to camper registration, program design, implementation, contracting for outside artists/services, scheduling, reporting, data collection, etc.

Corporate Contributions

Community involvement and corporate citizenship are an example of Insperity’s mission in action. We are committed to helping the communities where we live and work because together, we know we can make great things happen.

Grants

Philanthropic grants are a strong part of our community outreach and aid institutions needing financial support to meet important service goals.

Event Sponsorship

Fundraising events are an important part of nonprofit support. Insperity provides event sponsorships to approved charities to assist them in meeting their financial and community goals.

The Dudley T. Dougherty Foundation Vision

The Dudley T. Dougherty Foundation, "A Foundation for All", was established in 2002. It was begun in order to give a clear voice for those who wish to be a part of the many, worthy, forces for change in our world.

We are a foundation whose purpose is to look ahead towards the future, giving the past its due by remembering where we came from, and how much we can all accomplish together. We aim to make the critical difference on our planet by recognizing and having respect for our ever changing world. We respect all Life, the Environment, and all People, no matter who they are.

Cutler Bay Community Fund

Mission Statement

The Cutler Bay Community Fund was created to support nonprofit organizations that endeavor to improve the life of residents in the Town of Cutler Bay through educational, aesthetic (community beautification), environmental, cultural, social services and other philanthropic programs and services. (Resolution #13-57)

About the Cutler Bay Community Fund

The Town of Cutler Bay established the Cutler Bay Community Fund (Resolution #13-57) in 2013 with the goal of establishing partnerships that will help to improve the quality of life of residents in our community, as well as supporting local nonprofit organizations. The Fund is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that is overseen by a Board of Directors consisting of the current Cutler Bay Mayor and Town Council. Grant awards range between $500 to $2,500 and only one application per organization will be accepted each year.

100% of the funds collected through the community fund are solely used for charitable purposes with priority given to organizations that provide services within the Town of Cutler Bay. The Fund currently has six service categories (priority areas) that direct our grant making; education, aesthetic, environment, culture, social services, and other philanthropic activities.

Cutler Bay Community Fund Priority Areas

Education

The purpose of this fund is to impact student achievement by supporting 501(c)(3) organizations that serve both children and youth, from the time they enter daycare through completion of grade 12, who reside in or attend schools in Cutler Bay. Activities include but are not limited to; out-of-school programs, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, educational field trips, teacher incentive programs, curriculum enhancement/development activities, educational equipment/supplies, personal safety/prevention activities (i.e., anti-bullying, distracted driving awareness, abuse prevention), parenting skills training, life skills training, civic engagement, and college/career preparation.

Aesthetic

The goal of this fund is to support 501(c)(3) organizations that implement programs to enhance the overall safety and anesthetics of our community. Examples include but are not limited to community beautification projects, assistance with code compliance matters for the elderly or low-income residents, graffiti abatement, community message boards, landscaping, community gardening, preserve/enhance green spaces, and/or any other general aesthetic improvements.

Environmental

The Town of Cutler Bay was the first municipality in Miami-Dade County to receive “Certified Silver” designation as a Florida Green Building City. In keeping with our initiative to “Go Green”, the Cutler Bay Community Fund supports 501(c)(3) community programs that promote environmental responsibility. Examples include but are not limited to “green” education and awareness activities, community gardening, recycling, alternative transportation (bicycle, walking programs), conservation, maintenance of environmentally sensitive lands, and/or any other general environmental improvement activity.

Cultural

Culture is represented through art, literature, and music, but mainly through the customs and traditions of a particular nation, people, or other social group. It is the common bond that brings the people of a community together. This Fund aspires to ensure that cultural activities are accessible to all residents regardless of age, ability, or economic status. To this end, 501(c)(3) organizations that provide the following activities will be supported through the Fund; concerts, art in public places, heritage festivals, cultural awareness programs, community festivals, intergenerational activities, artistic performances, monthly cultural displays at Town Hall (Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc.), history preservation, and other general cultural activities.

Social Services

The objective of this fund is to support local 501(c)(3) social service agencies for projects that help Cutler Bay residents in need. Examples include but are not limited to; workforce development, healthy living (community bike events, nutrition activities, anti-bullying campaigns, etc.), youth development (support for programs that encourage youth leadership and assists in their transition to adulthood), basic needs (utility assistance, food, and emergency shelter, etc..), outreach efforts, aging in place programs, housing, and other generally defined social services.

Other Philanthropic Programs/Services

The needs of the citizen’s in the Town of Cutler Bay continually evolve. This Fund targets support of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that meet the unforeseen needs of this community or needs that do not fit in any of the other funding priority areas. Examples may include but are not limited to; disaster relief/preparedness, fitness activities, sporting events, healthcare, transportation for the elderly or disabled, efforts that fulfill urgent need in the community, and other generally defined philanthropic services.

Our Mission

The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc. is an independent foundation dedicated to managing and distributing funds through grants that support charitable, religious, scientific, literacy and educational purposes with a primary focus on benefiting the communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Monterey County, California.   

The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc. is particularly interested in making an impact by supporting projects in the areas of education, youth activities, heath care, cultural, civic and community services.

What We Fund

Our areas of concentration include cultural, educational, health and human services, and youth activities.

The Foundation may make grants to qualified agencies that engage in activities that DDF determines will improve some aspect of the community. DDF may choose the states and communities in which it provides grants. 

Arts & Culture

Music, voice, dance, arts, museums and educational programs.

Education

Supporting excellence in education.

Human & Health Services

Supporting access to quality healthcare, research, and improving wellbeing.

Community

Supporting programs that provide benefit to the community

Funding Priorities

The Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation primarily focuses on supporting programmatic grants, with occasional consideration given to capital grants. We prioritize projects and programs that demonstrate clearly defined and targeted outcomes, as outlined in the nonprofit’s grant proposal.

What We Fund:

• Arts
• Civic
• Community Services
• Cultural
• Educational
• Health & Human Services or Healthcare
• Youth Activities

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Ameriprise Financial Grantmaking

At Ameriprise Financial, giving back is deeply rooted in our culture. We’ve initiated positive change in the communities where we live and work for more than 120 years. We believe our community involvement enables us to actively live our values. Through grant making, volunteerism and employee and financial advisor gift matching programs, we support a diverse group of over 6,000 nonprofits across the country.

Focus Areas

Awarding grant dollars to nonprofits is one way we strengthen our communities and help individuals on a path to financial independence. To ensure we're meeting the needs of our communities and making an even greater collective impact, we focus on three key giving areas when awarding grants.

Volunteer engagement is a priority across all focus areas:

The engagement of Ameriprise employees and financial advisors is a critical component of our philanthropy. Whether it’s serving on a nonprofit board, engaging friends, clients and community members in volunteering or providing skills-based support, our relationships with nonprofits go deep. For this reason, we give priority across all focus areas to applications where there is active volunteer engagement of Ameriprise advisors and employees. 

Meeting Basic Needs

At Ameriprise Financial, we help clients achieve financial security and peace of mind. That’s satisfying, meaningful work. We also help the people in our neighborhoods who struggle to meet basic needs such as where their next meal comes from, where they’ll sleep tonight or how they’ll find a higher wage job. We’re here to help them through the three platforms of our Meeting Basic Needs focus area.

Consideration is given to applications addressing the following: 

• Hunger
• Food banks, food shelves and food pantries, daily meal programs or meal services for the homebound
• Hunger-relief programs targeted to meet the special needs of children, ethnic populations or veterans
• Food programs run by nonprofits where hunger is not their sole focus, for example a youth meal program at the YWCA or a backpack program run by a Boys & Girls Club
• Shelter
• Emergency shelter, including youth homelessness
• Transitional housing, permanent supportive housing and efforts to end chronic homelessness
• Housing-first models (programs quickly providing housing and then addressing needed services)
• Achieving and maintaining home ownership, repair and maintenance efforts helping keep seniors, veterans and other populations in their homes 
• Adult Self-Sufficiency: Programs serving adults age 21 and older that help address the following areas:
• Basic hard and soft skills that help adults achieve economic and family stability
• Basic financial and budgeting skills
• Increase employability and wages, including work readiness and job transitions
• Employment of disabled adults

Supporting Community Vitality

We believe communities should be strong, healthy and resilient. We want livable places for all, where neighbors look out for one another, cultural events are well-attended and people pull together in times of crisis and joy. We work to create economic vitality and cultural enrichment through the following areas of focus.

Consideration is given to applications addressing the following: 

• Community Development
• Neighborhood revitalization
• Economic development
• Strengthening and supporting small businesses and nonprofits through technical expertise
• Cultural Enrichment
• Arts education
• Access for underserved populations
• Diverse artists and performances that spark topical community conversations 

Volunteer Driven Causes: Ameriprise employees and financial advisors are outstanding volunteers who serve in teams and also as individuals bringing personal skill-sets to nonprofits. Volunteering is part of the culture at Ameriprise and we are proud to support communities through contributions of both service and financial resources. 

Funding for Volunteer-Driven Causes is determined by current Ameriprise volunteerism. In general, funding is in proportion to the size of the Ameriprise volunteer team supporting a nonprofit. A team may include employees, financial advisors and/or staff or a combination of any Ameriprise volunteers. 

About the Society

The Society is the professional home for more than 9,000 PA practitioners, academics, and students, with its South Florida Chapter consisting of 1,000 members strong and growing. The Chapter embraces the society's original concept of finding ways of assisting its members to work better in their profession under the auspices of the national founder.

ASPA was established 70 years ago to professionalize the public service, to keep members on the cutting edge of good government, and to help answer the enduring question of how to make a government work better. Over the years, the Society has played a major role in achieving these ends.

 The Society is a non-for-profit internationally recognized Society committed to excellence in public service. ASPA provides its membership with education, research, technical assistance, and networking opportunities between academics and practitioners.

Dewey W. Knight Jr. Scholarship

Applicants compete for a scholarship of up to $750 and no less than $500.

Funding Priorities

The Roblee Foundation is committed to promoting equity in areas of race/ethnicity and gender, with a preference for early, catalytic, upstream, or movement-building approaches. 

Focus Areas

We accept funding requests in race, ethnicity, and gender equity. Within our emphasis on equity (race, ethnicity, and gender), we prefer to fund in the following areas:

Women’s Issues and Economic Empowerment

• Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
• Strategies that simplify and streamline women’s access to support services
• Initiatives to coordinate duplicative service delivery among domestic violence programs
• Protecting a women’s right to choose
• Training, education and coaching to accelerate economic empowerment, including women who have been recently incarcerated
• Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children

Opportunities for Youth of Color and LGBTQ+ Youth

• Proposals focused on youth ages (9-21) are preferred
• Youth mentoring programs
• Youth engagement initiatives that organize and empower youth of color at the grassroots level
• Alternatives to juvenile detention and strategies to reduce incarceration
• Support for racial justice and equitable policing
• Anti-bias/anti-racism training for middle and high school teachers in racially diverse schools
• Advocacy efforts that increase public funding for children in foster care and youth in under-resourced areas

Early Childhood Education (0-8)

• Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
• Collaborative initiatives to expand access to high quality early childhood education
• Advocacy efforts to increase support for child care subsidies, medicaid, early childhood education, early childhood home visiting, and public schools
• Anti-bias/Anti-racism training for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and parents
• Two-generational approaches that support parents and their young children
• Evidence-based early childhood home visitation programs serving vulnerable families.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

San Antonio Area Foundation

We Are San Antonio's Community Foundation We are in the business of building community.

We help people make meaningful gifts to improve the quality of life today and for generations to come.

We provide a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving so your contributions can have an everlasting impact on the community. We contribute through grants and scholarships fueled by you, helping nonprofits further and strengthen their mission, and providing leadership for key community issues.

Since 1964, the Area Foundation has distributed millions in grants and scholarships to educate youth, preserve the environment, protect animals, fund research and provide services that enhance the quality of life for people living in and around San Antonio.

Rapier Education Fund

Course of Study: Available for all areas of study

Geographic: USA

Enrolment status: Full-time

Degree Level: Associate, Bachelor's Degree, Technical/Vocational Certificate or Degree

Renewable: Yes

Renewal Term: 3 Years

Funding Type: Tuition, Fees, Books

Community Grants

The Miami Foundation seeks to build a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive through our signature Community Grants program. As a permanent resource for Greater Miami, Community Grants invests in an organization’s mission with two years of general operating support.

What We Fund

This year with the partnership with The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, Miami-Dade County, and the State Attorney’s Office of Miami-Dade County, we will invest $6 million over two years across the seven funding priorities listed below.

• Access to Health and Wellness |  Improve health outcomes by connecting people to quality health resources and education, reducing health disparities, or tackling contributing social determinants of health.     
• Economic Stability |  Improve residents’ ability to meet local affordability challenges by providing access to opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, entrepreneurship, financial independence, or personal stability.
• Inclusion | Expand opportunities for people with disabilities to promote inclusion and opportunity across all aspects of community life.
• Inspiring Arts and Culture |  Apply the power of arts and culture to strengthen community. This category will catalyze work that champions the diversity of our community, expands access to arts and culture experiences for residents, or increases opportunities for artistic expression.
• Safer Communities | Promote safety in local communities through crime prevention and deterrence, efforts to reduce substance abuse and addiction, initiatives that combat human trafficking, support for survivors of violence, and youth development programs that encourage safety practices and promote overall community safety.
• Sustainable Environment |  Develop a healthier, more resilient community by promoting environmental education and action on the restoration of Biscayne Bay (One Water, One Bay), preservation of the Everglades, protecting our communities from the effects of extreme heat, amplifying opportunities for water preservation, or expanding awareness and action on the climate crisis and its local effects.
• Thriving Youth and Families | Expand opportunities for families (from early childhood to elder-aged) to excel through high-quality education, personal development, and work to ensure their safety and stability.

What We Prioritize

Our funding priorities are rooted in the values we aim to model together with our nonprofit partners. Because they guide our application review, we encourage you to consider these values when creating your proposal.

• Advance opportunities for marginalized individuals and communities | We prioritize support for organizations working directly with communities that face marginalization to tackle disparities around race, age, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, mixed-abilities, and other lines of difference.
• Focus on progress | We support organizations whose work is guided by clear goals for the growth of individuals and communities. All partners will have a strong potential to create timely, impactful opportunities for individuals and communities to advance and thrive.
• Build solutions | We prioritize partners pursuing long-lasting change for individuals and communities. Organizations should highlight underlying barrier(s) or challenge(s) they currently address so our residents can pursue their greatest potential.
• Collaborate with community | We prioritize organizations with leadership that is representative and inclusive of the communities they serve, especially those that intentionally gather community feedback to guide their work. We believe in authentic community relationships and resident leadership.
• Sustainability | We support high-quality, viable work and prioritize investments that will strengthen organizations serving those most affected by marginalization and lack of access to opportunity. We exclusively welcome proposals that will use awarded funds to strengthen their capacity and expertise to serve Miami’s most underserved.

Funding

Award sizes will be dependent on an organization’s annual operating budget ranging from $40,000 to $70,000 for two years. Total awards, distributed over a two-year cycle, in accordance with an organization’s annual operating budget are:

• Under $500K | $40,000 Total Award
• Between $500K - $1M | $50,000 Total Award
• Between $1M - $5M | $60,000 Total Award
• Above $5M | $70,000 Total Award

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan was established in 1984 to ensure residents in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, Livingston and St. Clair counties can thrive. Since then, we have grown to be among the top 25 community foundations in the United States. We’ve distributed more than $1.4 billion through more than 85,000 grants to nonprofits in fields as diverse as arts, children and youth, economic stability, health and human services, and the environment.

We convene partners to solve regional challenges and serve as a trusted philanthropic advisor for donors who want to do good.

Miguel Cabrera Family Scholarship

The purpose of the Miguel Cabrera Family Scholarship Fund is to provide educational scholarships that benefit students graduating from high schools in Michigan, with a preference for students from Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, Livingston and St. Clair counties, or Florida, with a preference for students from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Initially, the Fund will award $1,000 to one student from Michigan and $1,000 to one student from Florida. Scholarship awards will be renewable awards for each year of attendance, up to four years. If a suitable candidate from Florida is not identified, then a second student from Michigan may be awarded the scholarship.

At the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, we strive for our grants to create real and lasting impact within the local and greater community. By creating an impact everyone can feel, KBCF is dedicated to making and facilitating change in Miami-Dade County, elsewhere in the U.S., and around the world. Through our discretionary grants, as well as the donor recommended grants, we have provided grants for everything from art programs for children hospitalized with cancer to healthy aging opportunities for seniors, and from disaster relief for Haiti post-earthquake to the Key Biscayne Citizen Scientist Program. The goal of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation is to use evidence-based programming to extend the reach of residents on the Key to the greater community, creating a lasting impact on families in need, and the environment.

KBCF Impact Goals Include:

• Create change in the way community problems are addressed and solutions are implemented.
• Respond to emerging or changing needs through the provision of services or programs.
• Strengthen the capabilities of nonprofit agencies both in the delivery of programs and in organizational management, so that the unmet needs of our communities can be filled.

With our numerous philanthropic partners, KBCF supports nonprofit organizations and public institutions in fields such as the environment, science & technology, the arts, civic engagement, education, health & human services, and other areas of need as diverse as our region itself.

Foundation Priorities

The Foundation is most likely to fund projects that:

• enhance the quality of life in the local , greater, and global community (for example, the arts, the environment, and educational programs for persons of all ages);
• build on the strengths and assets of people and organizations of the local, greater, and global community and engage in effective community development and problem solving;
• promote cooperation and collaboration among the organizations of the local, greater, and global community;
• promote the leadership and development of resources in identifying and meeting local needs; and
• respond creatively and in a timely manner to existing or emerging community interests and challenges.

Types of Grants

• Social Change Grant
• Youth Development Grant
• Community Transformation Grant
• Donor Advised Fund

The Capital Development (CAP) grants program provides funding assistance to non-profit cultural organizations for capital improvement projects that are designed to expand, renovate, construct, and/or equip cultural facilities located within Miami-Dade County. These capital projects assist the nonprofit cultural community in providing increased public service, greater access, enhanced exhibition or performing space and in developing cultural facilities that can be operated more effectively and efficiently. Programs in facilities for which grants have been provided must be ADA accessible and promoted to the general public.

Projects must have strong evidence of prior planning and imminent completion or “readiness” factor, as well a documented, secured maximum possible public and/or private match. Facilities improvement projects should be designed to improve the artistic capabilities of and/or the audience ability to experience programs in the applicant facilities. Grants are intended to have a major impact on the applicant organization, the patrons served by that organization and the surrounding community. Priority consideration will be given to facilities proposing ADA-compliance improvements.

Applicants compete for scholarships up to $1,000 and no less than $500.

Applicants compete for a scholarship of up to $1,000 and no less than $500.

Priority Community Programs

Miami-Dade County has been identified as the next community for intentional Foundation funding to advance coalition and community-driven solutions to improve health.

This funding opportunity builds on best practices and lessons learned in other communities.

Program expectations

Foundation applicants are expected to demonstrate the capacity to implement and evaluate community-driven and community-led solutions to meaningfully impact health outcomes with a focus on chronic cardiometabolic conditions and maternal/child health.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to:

• Apply as part of multi-sector coalitions, teams, or partnerships, and
• Articulate alignment of efforts to the most recently completed Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

The applicant is expected to describe intended outcomes of the proposed initiatives and illustrate the capacity to leverage local resources and partnerships to sustain program implementation and evaluation efforts.

Example outcomes

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Community-clinical linkages - Novel approaches to delivering and coordinating sustainable healthcare and supportive community services for chronic cardiometabolic conditions and maternal/child health (eg, diabetes, CVD, hypertension). Types of interventions could include care coordination via community health workers (CHW), promotoras or doulas, telehealth, and mobile care.
• Increased use of diagnostic testing and screening - Leveraging the value of no-cost testing through Quest Diagnostics to support grant-related activities and increasing patient engagement and activation through health education
• Social drivers of health - Efforts that emphasize the importance of social drivers of health (eg, food security, transportation) that lead to improved clinical and community health, and aligned with the most recently completed Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).

Funding

• Estimated funding range - $100,000 to $1,000,000 per year
• Estimated period of performance - 1 to 2 years

Arts Access Miami aims to bring the transformational power of arts and music education to all youth. With the launch of this re-envisioned grant program, we will offer nimble capacity building and programmatic grants that help close arts education gaps as highlighted from data in artlook® Miami and help foster stronger arts partnerships within the Miami-Dade County Public Schools ecosystem.Strengthening a network of leaders working toward the common goal of music access for all youth in Miami-Dade. 

Catalyst Grants are multi-year grants (up to $20,000 distributed over two years) for arts education programs, initiatives, and organizations in Miami-Dade. Grant funds are intended to address opportunities for strengthened arts partnerships between nonprofit organizations and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In addition to the grant funds, The Miami Foundation will work closely with each selected grant partner throughout the grant period to provide guidance, additional resources, and facilitate further opportunities for collaboration and learning.

Funding Priorities

In addition to our eligibility requirements, we will prioritize funding organizations that: 

Focus on access to arts education

• We will support projects that not only engage youth in the arts, but also demonstrate a clear strategy to increase their access to these opportunities.  

Advance Equity

• We will prioritize organizations working with communities that face marginalization based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, mixed-abilities, or other lines of difference.    

Collaborate

• We will prioritize organizations that can link their programmatic success to collaboration with a community, school, or partner organization.   

Use data as a guide

• We will prioritize projects that are guided and informed by data directly from artlook Miami.   

Are grassroots organizations

• We will prioritize organizations with budgets under $750,000 annually and that may lack the resources to navigate the complexities of school partnerships effectively.  

Focus Areas

We want to prioritize real-time needs in arts access that have been identified through our artlook Miami data. For this grant cycle, we will prioritize organizations focused on: 

• Artist residencies and professional development: Our artlook data reveals that there is a need for more partnerships that provide artist residencies and arts education-centered professional development for teachers. 
• Dance & Theatre: While there is more access to visual arts and music, there is less access to dance and theatre. 
• School Needs: artlook® Miami works with schools to collect data about needs for arts education partnerships and programs.  We will welcome applications that reference a discovery from the artlook Miami data that is not highlighted above that has informed their proposed programming.

Grant size and duration, requirements, and use: 

Grant Amounts: $20,000 distributed over a two-year cycle  

To ensure ongoing alignment and optimal use of funds, The Miami Foundation will review each grantees’ progress and address any areas of potential improvement prior to confirming the continuation of funding for the second year.  

Funding Note: We understand that creating, building, and launching an arts education program requires the appropriate resources. To that end, this grant is not intended to build a full-scale program, but rather as general operating support to seed a component of, scale an existing program, fund an initiative within, or to foster a new relationship with a school or partner. Our hope is that this funding will help our grant partners foster sustainable relationships that increase access to arts education. 

Background

The Women’s Impact Initiative provides grants from the Greater Miami Jewish Federation/UJA Annual Campaign to non-profit organizations that inspire and empower self-identifying Jewish women and girls in Miami, as well as improve our local community through programs that achieve social, economic, religious and political equality. While we will give preference to strengthening Jewish nonprofits and programs based in Greater Miami, we also encourage partnerships with those outside the Jewish community to bring high-quality programs to our community. Nonprofits that have current Federation grants must be in compliance with the terms of those awards to be considered.

Funding Priorities

Our funding priorities include:

• creating a safety net for the vulnerable
• educating and advancing Jewish identity
• building community

Grants will range from $5,000 to $15,000 and will be competitively awarded to support new programs or the expansion of existing programs advancing the mission of Federation’s Women’s Impact Initiative. Projects that will be considered for grants must serve a majority Jewish population.

The gender lens used must consist of a deep examination of how culturally entrenched gender norms affect women and girls and must take these distinctions into account when identifying both problems and solutions. The aim is to ensure that our local Jewish community is “gender aware” and that outcomes achieve social, economic, religious and political equality by being inclusive of and responsive to the needs and issues of Jewish women and girls.

About Us

Established in 1967, The Miami Foundation is the foundation for people who are passionate about Miami. The Miami Foundation is focused on building a stronger Miami forever.  Over the last 50 years we have invested more than half a billion dollars into our community, and we house more than $427 million in assets focused on strengthening Greater Miami.

We’ve worked hard to understand Greater Miami and what makes this unique community tick. We’ve learned that the desire to make our city a better place to live rests in every Miamian. The Miami Foundation connects that passion with efforts to enhance quality of life for everyone who calls Miami home through:

• Civic Leadership: Stepping up to shine a light on important community issues, and informing and inspiring leaders to incite action toward solutions.
• Community Investment: Purposefully guiding Fundholder resources to invest in the people and organizations who drive social change in Miami.
• Philanthropy: Stewarding a diverse portfolio of charitable investments and providing individualized philanthropic services, allowing people to make a positive impact through their giving.

Safe Communities Program

The Safe Communities Program strives to ensure safety and opportunity for all Greater Miami residents. We do this by investing in education and economic mobility, health services to overcome substance dependence, and collective action to improve community safety. The Fund is particularly focused on supporting survivors of human trafficking, gun violence, and other crimes as well as people who were previously involved in the justice system.

The Miami Foundation collaborates with over 1,000 fundholders that seek to invest in the Greater Miami community. Among those, we manage two field of interest funds set up with the State Attorney’s Office for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida. To effectively invest these community resources, the Safe Communities Program was established as one comprehensive grant program in 2021. The program will continue to pursue the Funds’ shared mission to ensure Greater Miami is a safe community that offers opportunities for all residents.

What We Fund

The Safe Communities Program supports nonprofit work in five categories. The descriptions below are intended only to provide guidance and do not exclude other potential approaches. Proposals in each category are considered equally.

Eligible organizations may submit only one application in only one category.

• Crime Prevention and Deterrence
  • Build a safe community that offers opportunity for all people by activating residents to improve community safety as well as investing in economic and educational mobility to develop alternatives to illicit activity, particularly for people who were previously incarcerated or involved in the justice system.
  • This may include job training or placement programs as well as educational programs about illicit substances to prevent impaired driving.
• Human Trafficking
  • Support minors or adults who are survivors of human trafficking through high quality services such as health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health services, housing, immigration services or other critical needs.
• Substance Dependence Services
  • Guide people to overcome substance dependence or misuse by providing wraparound services that may include substance abuse counseling and treatment, mental health services, or support strategies to develop personal resilience.
• Survivor Assistance
  • Help survivors and their loved ones overcome the financial, health, or other challenges they face as a result of being victims of gun violence or other crimes.
  • This may include education assistance.
• Youth Development
  • Prepare youth to successfully reach their full potential in academics, career, and life by supporting youth whose life experiences or environments put them at risk for becoming involved in crime or violence.
  • This may include mentoring, educational support, employment and career preparation, or personal development.