Best Shelby County Grants for Nonprofits in Illinois

Women Giving to Women Scholarship

Women Giving To Women (WGTW) provides intellectual and emotional support for women of diverse backgrounds. WGTW scholarship was established to empower women to complete a bachelor’s degree and become leaders in the community. WGTW also provides financial support for the following community endeavors: The Child Abuse and Neglect Council (CAN) Great Lakes Bay Region, The McNally House of Covenant Hospital, Underground Railroad of Saginaw and The Women’s Studies Section of the Frankenmuth Wickson District Library.

Evaluation Criteria

• Scholastic record (25)
• Community involvement (15)
• Leadership (10)
• Essay (25)
• References (15)
• Non-traditional field of study (10)

Village of the Living Dead Kenneth Fulton Memorial Scholarship

Kenneth Fulton was a member of the St. Charles Haunted House since its very beginning in 1985 until his passing at the haunted house in 1998. He volunteered and also brought along with him his kids and brothers to volunteer as well. Ken was a quiet gentle man that loved what the haunted house stood for and who it was all about – the kids. His favorite character to play was Michael Myers. He was tall and quiet and was able to scare the patrons with his eerie silence. He loved the members of the haunted house as his own family. He is greatly missed and would be so proud to be a part of this scholarship.  

Evaluation Criteria

• Community service (50)
• Financial need (25)
• Letters of recommendation from two volunteer organizations (13)
• Extracurricular/school activities (12)

About Us

Making a Difference, Together

The Community Foundation of Monroe County (CFMC) builds a thriving, inclusive community through the power of philanthropy. By connecting generous donors with local causes, we help ensure Monroe County remains a place where everyone can thrive. Since our founding, we’ve been a trusted steward of community resources, fostering impactful collaborations and sustainable solutions to address challenges in education, health, poverty, and community development.

Scholarship Opportunities

Whether you’re heading to college, pursuing a technical career, or furthering your education as an adult, there’s a scholarship for you.

Grattan and Stephen T. Gray Scholarship

Awarded to Monroe County high school graduates entering the field of journalism.

Innovation in Religion and Spirituality Seed Grants Call for Proposals

The Religion and the Public Sphere program at the Social Science Research Council aims to foster research on the wider implications of new forms of religious and spiritual life. This program is offered with the support of the Luce Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

Overview

In recent years, scholars have noted that religious and spiritual life is being substantively reshaped. “Innovation” is one way of framing these changes, but it remains a partial and contested analytic lens, and is popularly associated with the sudden emergence of a “new” element introduced into an otherwise static tradition. Scholarship on religion and spirituality, however, points to a more complex set of processes. The essays in an ongoing forum for The Immanent Frame have set out some initial parameters of these dynamics: rather than invention ex nihilio, what we often see is the strategic recombination of existing elements within a broader context of social, political, and cultural change.

Research Themes

This request invites proposals that examine the dynamics of religious and spiritual change that fall within the frame of “innovation.” Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Explorations of innovations within transnational or diasporic religious and/or spiritual communities within the United States, particularly related to the circulation of ideas and culture from or to the Global South.   
• Gendered knowledge of innovation. 
• Studies of the process by which an innovation attains—or does not attain—legitimacy, relevance, or authority within a given community or institution. 
• The relationship between contemporary economic conditions—poverty, economic insecurity, and competitive pressures for time and money—and innovations in religion and spirituality. 
• Historical studies of innovations in religion and spirituality; the creation, reception, transformation, and longevity of an innovation over time.  
• Civic participation and the social mobilization of new or innovative religious identities, as well as the reinterpretation of religious or spiritual traditions or ideas in the service of particular political or ideological projects.

Program Terms 

The program offers research support over a period of up to 6 months. The grant funds will be up to $10,000 per award.

Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities (EC-SDC) Grants - Illinois

The Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities (EC-SDC) Grant will utilize grant funds provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist small or disadvantaged communities in the State of Illinois where emerging contaminants have become a problem or appear likely to become a problem in the near term. The Illinois EPA will use the awarded funds to make sub-awards to eligible water systems for projects that will further quantify these problems and help to remediate them. 

The EC-SDC Grant Program will be utilizing $40,249,646 from the EPA EC-SDC Grant Program which congress appropriated from the State and Tribal Assistance Grant (STAG). The Illinois EPA expects to award a total of $40,249,646 in grant awards with an award ceiling of $15,000,000 per applicant. 

Boat Access Area Development Program

The Boat Access Area Development (BAAD) Program provides financial assistance to local government agencies for the acquisition, construction, and expansion/rehabilitation, including necessary A/E services, of public boat and canoe access areas on Illinois' lakes and rivers. Eligible sites are limited to navigable public bodies of water. The program provides up to 100% of approved project construction costs and 90% of approved land acquisition costs. Grant awards are limited to a $200,000 maximum for motorized launch sites and $80,000 maximum for non-motorized launch sites.

Applications for grant assistance must be received by IDNR between the dates posted on the Notice of Funding Opportunity each fiscal year in which the program is active. Grant awards are typically announced the following spring. Revenue for this state funded program is derived from marine motor fuel tax and boat registration fees.

Examples of eligible project activities include:

• Water frontage land acquisition for public access areas; and
• New construction or renovation of
• Boat/canoe launching ramps and courtesy docks;
• Restrooms and security lighting;
• Parking areas, access roads and walkways; and
• Other boating related facilities deemed appropriate by IDNR.

About The Community Foundation

The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties is a community-based social impact investor whose mission is to engage, invest, and lead—working toward a vision of community vibrancy with opportunity for all. Our team of experienced staff and dedicated trustees is committed to boldly leading and supporting transformational community investments. We channel charitable contributions from donors through nonprofit partners that are meeting current community needs and steward community resources responsibly to ensure greater capacity for the future.

Adirondack League Club Scholarship

Established by Adirondack League Club to award scholarships to students in the Central Adirondack region of the Adirondack Park.

Candidates are identified by a committee.

Saginaw Area Health Care Administrators Scholarship

The Saginaw Area Health Care Administrators Scholarship was established in 1987 to help advance health care for the elderly and ill elderly. The scholarship provides cash awards to assist employees of association members in meeting educational expenses. Each year, employees in the areas of administration, nursing, dietary, maintenance, and other health-related occupations are invited to apply for scholarships.

Terrance Lavell Winters Memorial Scholarship

The Terrance Lavell Winters Memorial Scholarship was established to honor the life and legacy of a loving son, father, brother and uncle – Terrance Lavell Winters. He was born October 7, 1983 to his parents Barbara Ezell and Ray Henderson. Terrance had one son, Trevontae Lavell Winters, whom he considered his true love.

Sometimes shy, Terrance was loved by his smile. He enjoyed buying cars, repairing them and then selling the vehicles. He was known by his family as “Mr. R.P.M.”

Since Terrance’s passing on April 26, 2005, his mother Barbara has promised to keep his memory alive. To honor her son, Barbara created the Grandma Barb’s World-Class Students program. She bought and filled book bags for nearly 300 students for nine years. Barbara also organized a successful rally, prayer vigil and march to remember and honor her son in April 2015. By establishing this scholarship, Barbara hopes to keep the memories of Terrance alive.

FFY27 93.041 Special Programs for the Aging_Title VII, Chapter 3_Programs for Prevention of Elder Abuse

Description 

To support activities to develop, strengthen, and carry out programs for the prevention, detection, assessment, and treatment of, intervention in, investigation of, and response to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (including financial exploitation), including:

The Mentoring/Scholarship Program provides educational support, college access assistance, and therapeutic support to assist youth in gaining the skills and confidence to reach their full academic and developmental potential. This is accomplished through a meaningful and supportive mentoring relationship, which is the main delivery system for higher education readiness and access. Students are also invited to attend college road trips, adventure therapy trips, and volunteer/service opportunities. This combination of these efforts facilitates positive youth development and academic achievement.

Each youth is matched with a one-on-one college educated mentor, who has been vetted and trained by Provider staff. Mentors meet weekly with youth to ensure educational success through individualized sessions to meet program benchmarks.

Together, mentors and youth complete a College Readiness Inventory which is used to assess whether the youth has mastered tasks related to post-secondary preparedness as well as skills necessary for successful adulthood. Using the results of the Inventory, youth and mentors evaluate remaining needs and set goals to work toward together.

The mentor works as both an advocate and coach for the student, identifying and gathering resources and then empowering the youth to make informed decisions about their education. Mentors connect their youth to supports like scholarships, tutors, and financial aid offices, and coach the student through new experiences like job interviews, understanding financial aid award letters, and communicating with officials in their desired academic institutions. Students are thus provided much needed assistance and opportunities to practice self-advocacy skills in their journey to independence.

Each time a student meets with their mentor, they earn $100 in scholarship money, which they can access when they are enrolled in a post-secondary program for tuition, room and board, fees, transportation, personal needs, etc. Upon receiving financial aid award letters, youth share all award letters with their mentor to compare offers and assess whether they will be in need of additional funding to attend the school. When necessary, mentors help students communicate with financial aid offices and caseworkers to obtain additional paperwork, including tax documents and court order documents as proof of independent status.

In addition to College Access Mentoring, there is a second program component, Travel and Service-Learning Opportunities. Youth are also invited but not required to attend college road trips and other travel and to participate in service opportunities.

Referrals

DCFS/CWCA workers may refer any youth interested in pursuing higher education after high school. Foster Progress Program Staff will follow up with each referral and invite the youth to submit their own application. Youth may also submit applications without being referred by workers. Program staff will then interview the young person. Youth must exhibit a commitment to continue their education and a desire for the support of a weekly mentor to work on that goal. If no mentor is immediately available, youth will be invited to participate in group activities and program staff will support their educational goals until a mentor can be recruited, vetted, and trained. All eligible participants are accepted until all openings are filled.

The Department will keep the Provider informed of policy and procedures that affect youth ages 14-21, especially as they relate to education. The Department will inform all 14 and 15 year olds in substitute care of the programming annually through the Foster Parent Newsletter, DCFS DNet, and Regional announcements and will include the Provider on the Spider website and the Education and Transition Services webpage. DCFS/POS workers coordinate and communicate with program staff and mentors regarding placement and any details that impact client’s capacity to transition successfully into adulthood, especially details such as IEPs and 504 plans in school, mental health concerns. DCFS/POS staff will inform Foster Progress program staff when there is a change in placement, new contact information for a client, or a new worker assigned to the client.

Initial contact is made with youth upon receipt of their program application via a formal interview by Program Staff. Subsequent contact includes the Match Meeting and weekly one-on-one meetings with the youth and their mentor.

Ongoing contact is maintained through quarterly individual communication and follow up with Program Staff, and periodic communication of scholarship and employment opportunities, as well as group activities. Program-wide activities include College Road Trips, Student Leadership and Service Committee, annual FAFSA Workshop, College Decision Day, and our end of the year Graduation and Scholarship Dinner.

Further contact includes youth-initiated requests for support between mentoring sessions and quarterly outreach from Program Staff, which youth seek out as-needed.

Target Population

Client: Youth in substitute care, aged 16-21, who intend to pursue higher education after high school. There are no minimum grades or test scores, all that is required is a commitment to the goal of furthering their education and the desire for the support of a mentor.

Inclusions: The agency will accept referrals for youth for whom the Department has legal responsibility are between 16 through 20 years of age, who exhibit, through the application and interview process, the desire to continue their education after high school. The agency will attempt to contact any referred client who is deemed appropriate by their DCFS or agency caseworker, POS worker or caregiver and to invite them to apply.

About Enterprise

Enterprise is a national nonprofit that exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one. We support community development organizations on the ground, aggregate and invest capital for impact, advance housing policy at every level of government, and build and manage communities ourselves. Since 1982, we have invested $92 billion and created 1.1M homes across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands – all to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging.

Request For Proposals: General Support for Program Evaluation and Related Services

Purpose

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) has initiated a Request for Proposals (RFP) process to select one or more qualified consultants who can provide a range of evaluation-related supports to its in-house Impact and Evaluation department on an as-needed basis.

Enterprise seeks to select contractor(s) who can:

• Conduct quantitative data analysis, using primary and secondary data sources
• Conduct qualitative data collection and analysis
• Provide evaluation-related training and technical assistance
• Prepare reports, presentations, white papers, blog posts, landscape analyses, literature reviews, etc., for a wide range of audiences and purposes

RFP proposals may address all service areas or only one or two. Proposals may also address only a subset of capabilities within a particular service. We do not expect that all proposals will address all competencies and capabilities. Enterprise may select individual consultants, and/or small and large firms, to meet the variety of evaluation-related activities for which we may need support. Preference will be given to those consultants who have experience in the housing and community development fields. 

Illinois Department of Aging

The mission of the Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) is to serve and advocate for older Illinoisans and their caregivers by administering quality and culturally appropriate programs that promote partnerships and encourage independence, dignity, and quality of life.

The Department has an annual budget of over $1.6 billion and provides both federal and state funding to a network of community-based providers throughout the State of Illinois that provide services and supports to older adults to help them remain in their homes and communities. The Department also monitors the community-based providers that comprise the Aging Network to ensure high-quality and culturally appropriate services. IDoA administers the largest Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) Medicaid waiver in the state, the Persons Who are Elderly Waiver. This waiver, also known as the Community Care Program (CCP), serves over 150,000 older adults age 60+ in the State of Illinois. Under CCP, eligible older adults may receive services such as in-home care, adult day service, emergency home response technology, and medication dispensing technology.

Special Programs for the Aging_Title III, Part D_Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Services

Description

To develop or strengthen preventive health service and health promotion systems through designated Agencies on Aging.

About All Points North Foundation

All Points North Foundation is dedicated to navigating communities upward.

All Points North Foundation was founded in 2011 by a family who believes passionately that everyone has a “true North” – a place of achievement – and that everyone should have equal opportunity and access to realize their goals.

Our Vision

We envision a nation where the middle school years are seen as an important, vital time in the lives of youth, and where the public middle school education experience in underserved communities measurably improves

We also envision a nation where the integration of solar benefits families, local economies and the environment.

Our Priorities

All Points North Foundation funds grantees in two areas – public middle school education (grades 6-8) and solar – that have the power to help communities nationwide navigate upward.

Grant Making

All Points North Foundation seeks collaborative partnerships with grantees in our two priority areas.

Solar Energy

All Points North Foundation is focused on finding ways to significantly advance the penetration of solar through education, job training and use of solar electric technologies in the United States.

All Points North Foundation has three priority areas:

The cost of solar has dropped dramatically over the last decade, however the upfront cost of going solar remains a hurdle for most families, communities and nonprofits.

All Points North Foundation does consider funding solar projects outside of these focal areas, but the programs must demonstrate how solar will have a broader impact on local communities (e.g., economic, social or environmental), as well as showcase the potential for replication across the nation.

Mission & Vision

Mission:

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Vision:

A community connected to the resources it needs to thrive.

Your Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico (CFSNM) serves as a vehicle for people of all means to make a lasting impact on quality of life in our region now and in the future. Our organization is supported by a broad base of individuals, families, corporations, and institutions connected by the desire to improve Southern New Mexico. We manage over 300 endowments, including 48 non-profit organizational endowments in Southern New Mexico, and are home to over 40 scholarships and nine annual grant cycles. As a center for charitable giving we support the arts, feed the hungry, expand literacy, improve health, and support countless other meaningful causes in the twelve counties including: Catron, Chaves, Doña Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Sierra & Socorro. 

Apply for a Scholarship

Your CFSNM offers scholarships that support students from all walks and stages of life in pursuing various avenues of their educational and professional journeys. 

With a wide range of categories, your CFSNM offers scholarships for everyone including, but not limited to:

• BiPOC
• Students with disabilities
• LGBTQIA+
• Healthcare
• Volunteerism
• CTE, Trade, Vocational
• In-state and out-of-state
• All degree paths for undergraduate to post-grad
• Students returning to school

Good Samaritan Scholarship

To support students pursuing a degree in nursing, social work or certified nursing