The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles‘ Cutting Edge Grants Initiative is an annual grant program designed to inspire and motivate creative thinkers and social entrepreneurs to propose transformative projects that address critical needs in the Los Angeles Jewish community. The program awards grants of up to $250,000 for up to three years. Nonprofit organizations and social entrepreneurs with fiscal sponsors

The Welcome Back Awards is an annual program established by Eli Lilly and Company to recognize outstanding achievements in the fight against depression and the stigma often associated with the illness. An independent panel of national mental health experts will select honorees in five categories: Lifetime Achievement, for an individual whose perseverance has helped him or her overcome clinical depression and

Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. The award program invites library users across the United States to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college, and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Each nominee must be a

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Humanities Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Coordinación de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — (UNAM) are cooperating to foster the exchange of information and advance research in the humanities. The endowment is inviting applications for scholarly conferences through the Collaborative Research program. United States nonprofit institutions and organizations are

Part of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund manages an annual cash awards program to support efforts to study and protect the world’s wildlife and ecosystems that also involve community participation and address human needs. Over the past decade, DWCF has provided a total of more than $15 million for the study of wildlife, protection of

Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group are encouraging youth to create and implement programs addressing childhood obesity in their local communities through the Heroes program. The Heroes program is a service-learning, health literacy initiative designed to encourage young people to partner with schools and nonprofits to create and implement local hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. Now in its third year,

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has announced that it is accepting applications for its waiting list reduction grant, a new program. Responding to increased demand for adult literacy services, the new grant program is designed to help nonprofit adult literacy organizations remedy their waiting list issues and get more students involved in educational programs sooner. The waiting list reduction grant will

The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area has announced its 2010 Heritage Grants Program, which will provide funding for projects that preserve and promote the heritage of Western North Carolina. The program offers matching grants to provide and leverage funding for innovative projects across the region which preserve, protect, and promote the historical, cultural, and natural heritage of Western North Carolina while

The mission of the Ripley Memorial Foundation, a donor advised fund of the Minneapolis-based Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, is to honor the legacy of Dr. Martha Ripley, one of America’s first female physicians, by funding programs that foster and enhance the health and well-being of women. The Ripley Memorial Foundation has issued a Request for Proposals for direct-service programs that focus on

For a third year, the Chicago Foundation for Women will be raising dollars to match funds provided by the Groundswell Fund’s core program, the Catalyst Fund, a national initiative of the Tides Foundation to bring new funding and technical assistance to reproductive justice work led by women of color in the Chicago area.. The foundation will award up to $175,000 in total advocacy