Weekly Newsletter

For the week of  July 26, 2010

 

Upcoming Workshops

Show Me The Money: Obtaining Federal Funds for Nonprofit Organizations in Touch Economic Times

July 31, 2010
9:00 am- 12:00 pm
Main Library - Huntington Meeting Room
Course Description: In this interactive workshop you will learn innovative ways to pursue government funding, new rules on earmarks and how they affect nonprofits, legislative opportunities to advance your cause, and what agencies are looking for in grant applications.  Click here for details and registration.

 
Using the Logic Model to Guide Program Planning - PORT CLINTON

August 11, 2010
9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Holiday Inn Express - Port Clinton
Course Description: This interactive workshop covers the five steps of planning:  identifying community needs, identifying outcomes, logic model development and evaluation, and data collection. The workshop will include opportunities for participants to develop a logic model and performance measure indicators for their organizations.   Click here for details and registration.

 

Intermediate Grant Writing Series

August 18 & 19, 2010
9:00 am- 4:00 pm
Main Library - Huntington Meeting Room
Course Description: This intensive two-part workshop was created for individuals with at least one-year of grant writing experience.  Through instruction and practical exercises, the workshop will teach participants a step-by-step approach to preparing successful proposals and then provide the opportunity for proposal review and feedback.  The workshop will familiarize participants with the stages of preparing a winning proposal including: program planning, creating measurable objectives, outcomes and timelines, targeting funding research and reading "between the lines" of foundation grant guidelines.  Click here for details and registration.

Click here to see the full list of 2010 workshops. Our workshops are offered free of charge to nonprofit staff, volunteers and board members; however, we request 48 hours notice if you need to cancel your registration. Individuals who fail to cancel a registration twice will be charged $35 for future workshops.

 

 

Upcoming Events

You do not need to be a member of the sponsoring organization to attend these events. For more information about a particular event, click on the link; or for a complete listing of events, visit The Center for Nonprofit Resources' Calendar of Events.

 

 

Tips & Tidbits

IRS Offers Small Charities 'One-Time Relief' Through Extended Deadline

The Internal Revenue Service today announced how it will help thousands of small charities keep their tax-exempt status even if they missed their May 17 deadline for filing a new online form or are about to miss subsequent deadlines. Small groups at risk of losing their exemptions because they failed to file required informational tax returns for 2007, 2008, and 2009 on May 17 or later can preserve their status by filing returns by October 15, 2010, under "a one-time relief program," the IRS said. "We are doing everything we can to help organizations comply with the law and keep their valuable tax exemption," said Douglas Shulman, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. "So if you do not have your filings up-to-date, now's the time to take action and get back on track," he said. Click here to read the entire article.

 

The Nonprofit Paradox - Why Organizations Are So Often Plagued By The Very Ills They Aim To Cure 

In the 1980s, when I was a young executive director of a children's mental health organization, I first noticed a phenomenon that I later discovered to be widespread throughout the nonprofit sector. The emotionally troubled young clients of one of our day treatment programs were increasingly acting out, reaching dangerous levels of distress and even violence. I had to find out why, and also how to reverse this dangerous behavioral trend. Observing the program in action, I immediately noticed that the staff members caring for these children were tense and unusually contentious, openly bickering among themselves and in front of the children. We held an off-site retreat for the staff soon thereafter. I encouraged participants to talk not about the kids, but about their own relationships with one another. They expressed their pent-up anger and frustration, and it was clear that communication within the group had broken down. Amid lots of tears and hard work, we first identified the main problems troubling the group: tensions about who worked harder, and longer, and better. Once the staff articulated their issues and feelings, they agreed to try to rebuild the team's cohesion. As the retreat drew to a close, some people wondered aloud whether this clearing of the air would do anything to reduce the kids' acting out. As staff members began to show each other increased respect and care, the kids did indeed calm down. Click here to read the entire article.

 

Do You Know Where Your Next Board Leaders Will Be Found?

Does your nonprofit have a plan to build board leadership skills to enable a seamless transition from one term to the next? When nonprofits think about succession planning, they often equate it only with staff - what do we do when our Executive Director is planning on retiring? But succession planning is a serious issue for nonprofit boards as well. This issue has always been a part of board life, but has been exacerbated in recent years by the rapid changes in demographics, and in the change in the way people now volunteer. To ensure appropriate leadership skills are present in the next generation of board leaders, organizations need to implement a process that will ensure training and development, and not leave to chance that the next leader will have the skill sets required. Click here to read the entire article.

 

 

 

Job Postings

Items in red are new for this week...

 

 

Funding Opportunities

From Grantstation.com

 

From Philanthropy News Digest

Kids In Need Foundation Accepting Applications for Teacher Grants - The School, Home, & Office Products Association's Kids In Need Foundation offers Kids In Need Teacher Grants to provide K-12 educators in United States with funding to implement innovative learning opportunities for their students. The Kids In Need Teacher Grants are funded by retail and education credit union sponsors.  All certified K-12 teachers in the U.S. are eligible. Applications are judged on the basis of innovativeness and merit, clarity of objectives, replication feasibility, suitability of evaluation methods, and cost effectiveness.

 
 

State Grant Opportunities - Items in red are new postings.

K-12 Environmental Education Programs Funded NEA Green Across America Grant Award Program
SUMMARY: The goal of NEA's Green Across America Grant Award Program is to create sustainable education programs to encourage K-12 students to increase earth-friendly behavior in their neighborhoods and communities.
ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to educators employed by public or private K-12 schools throughout the country.
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.neamb.com/green

Mentoring Children of Prisoners Statewide Projects (Department of Health and Human Services)
SUMMARY: The intent of this program is to support the establishment or expansion and operation of mentoring programs, using a network of public and private community entities, in states with substantial numbers of children of incarcerated parents. ELIGIBILITY: State, Local and Special District Governments; Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Others
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CV-0083

Family Violence Prevention and Services/Expanding Leadership Opportunities within the Domestic Violence Field for Members of Underrepresented Groups (Department of Health and Human Services)
SUMMARY: This funding opportunity will support a collaboration of technical assistance providers to develop a leadership academy and promote leadership within the domestic violence field by members of underrepresented groups.
ELIGIBILITY: Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit Organizations
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-EV-0017

Mentoring Children of Prisoners (Administration for Children and Families)
SUMMARY: This program supports the creation and maintenance of one-on-one mentoring relationships between children of incarcerated parents, and caring, supportive adult volunteer mentors. The intent of this program is to support the establishment or expansion and operation of mentoring programs, using a network of public and private community entities in areas with substantial numbers of children of incarcerated parents.
ELIGIBILITY: State and Local Governments; Independent School Districts; Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Others
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CV-0070

Health Access Programs Recognized Premier Cares Award
SUMMARY: The Premier Cares Award was established to recognize exemplary programs nationwide that have made health services more accessible to the medically underserved, particularly as demonstrated in superior health outcomes.
ELIGIBILITY: Public and Private Nonprofit Organizations
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.premierinc.com/about/mission/social-responsibility/cares/index.jsp

Fatherhood Capacity-Building Grants (Office of Family Assistance)
SUMMARY: Through a competitive bidding process, top applicants will receive funds for the specific purpose of increasing capacity to develop their fatherhood programming, and to improve their financial sustainability by becoming more familiar with-and better qualified to receive-federal or private philanthropic support.
ELIGIBILITY: Local community, faith-based or grassroots fatherhood agencies.
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.fatherhood.org/grant

Small Grants to Public Libraries: Louisa May Alcott, The Woman Behind Little Women (National Endowment for the Humanities)
SUMMARY: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women-Library Outreach Programs" has been designated as part of the NEH's We the People initiative, exploring significant events and themes in our nation's history and culture and advancing knowledge of the principles that define America. The NEH Small Grants to Libraries program brings traveling exhibitions and other types of humanities public programming to libraries across the country.
ELIGIBILITY: State, Local and Special District Governments; Nonprofit Organizations
DEADLINE: July 30, 2010

Support for National Performing Arts Projects Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: Fund for National Projects
SUMMARY: The Fund for National Projects, an initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, supports projects that strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theatre fields. In addition, the Fund works to improve conditions for the national community of performing artists in the targeted fields.
ELIGIBILITY: Single nonprofit organizations and consortia are both eligible to apply.
DEADLINE: August 2, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.ddcf.org

Department of Health and Human Services (Projects of National Significance: Family Support and Community Access Demonstration Projects)
SUMMARY: These grants will provide an opportunity for ADD to support innovative family support demonstration projects that rely on collaborative efforts and community-based solutions to reach un-served and underserved families, and to encourage systemic change and improved community capacity to support families of individuals with developmental disabilities.
ELIGIBILITY: State, Special District and Local Governments; Nonprofit Organizations; Public and Privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Others
DEADLINE: August 2, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ADD-DN-0031

Heal Profession Opportunity Grants to Serve TANF Recipients and Other Low-Income Individuals (Health and Human Services)
SUMMARY: Cooperative agreements, awarded under this Funding Opportunity Announcement, will support demonstration projects that are designed to provide eligible individuals with the opportunity to obtain education and training for occupations in the health care field that pay well and are expected to either experience labor shortages or be in high demand. Individuals who are eligible to participate in funded programs are those receiving assistance under a State TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program and other low-income individuals.
ELIGIBILITY: State governments, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3), public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education and others.
DEADLINE: August 5, 2010
FULL ANNOUCNEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-OFA-FX-0126

Initiative to Reduce Long-Term Foster Care (Administration for Children and Families)
SUMMARY: Grantees will engage in substantial systems change efforts with the goal of reducing long-term foster care and implement programs and practices which can be shown to reduce the length of time children and youth spend in foster care.
ELIGIBILITY: State and Local Governments; publicly and privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Others
DEADLINE: August 9, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CT-0022

How OCSE Grantees Can Support & Building Assets for Fathers and Families (BAFF) (Department of Health and Human Services)
SUMMARY: These funds will provide cooperative agreements to States, Tribes, and counties with the goal of addressing grantee specific issues which cause children and youth to remain in foster care longer than three years.
ELIGIBILITY: State and Local Governments; Nonprofit Organizations; Public and Privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Others
DEADLINE: August 9, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-CT-0022

Department of Health and Human Services (AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) (D43))
SUMMARY: The Fogarty International Center (FIC), together with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), encourages renewal and new applications in the AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP).
ELIGIBILITY: Public and Privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Others
DEADLINE: August 16, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-219.html

Grants for America's Media Makers (National Endowment for the Humanities)
SUMMARY: The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.
ELIGIBILITY: State, Local, and Special District Governments; Nonprofit Organizations; Public and Privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Others
DEADLINE: August 18, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AMM.htm

Informed Decision-Making in Young Adolescents at Risk for HIV/AIDS (Department of Health and Human Services)
SUMMARY: The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) invites interdisciplinary formative research projects attempting to explore the neurological basis of HIV/AIDS risk avoidance decision-making among young adolescents.
ELIGIBILITY: State, Special District, and Local Governments; Nonprofit Organizations; Public and Privately Controlled Institutions of Higher Education; Others
DEADLINE: August 31, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NR-10-008.html

Community Small Grant Program
SUMMARY: The Ohio Attorney General's Office is offering funding for projects that address local needs related to youth and families, the elderly, people with disabilities and others.
ELIGIBILITY: 501(c)(3) organizations
DEADLINE: September 15, 2010
FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/CommunitySmallGrant

 

Federal Deadlines

Department of Health and Human Services: Mentoring Children of Prisoners (Application deadline: July 30, 2010) - This program provides support to create quality, lasting, one-on-one relationships that provide young children of prisoners with caring adult role models for future success. Priority will be given to intervention efforts on the part of caring adult mentors that interact with mentees on a regular and consistent basis to provide support, encouragement, and advice.

Department of Health and Human Services: Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System (Application deadline: August 2, 2010) - This program provides support for comprehensive multi-faceted diligent recruitment programs for a range of resource families for children in foster care, including kinship, foster, concurrent, and adoptive families.

Department of Justice: Technical Assistance Program (Applications: August 3, 2010) - This program provides support to grantees and subgrantees to enhance the success of local projects implemented with Violence Against Women Act grant funds. Support is also provided to build the capacity of criminal justice and victim services organizations.

Department of Agriculture: Rural Cooperative Development Grant Program (Application deadline: August 9, 2010) - This program provides support to improve the economic condition of rural areas through cooperative development via the establishment and operation of centers that assist individuals or entities in the startup, expansion, or operational improvement of rural businesses, with emphasis on cooperative or mutually-owned businesses.

National Endowment for the Arts: The Arts on Radio and Television (Application deadline: September 2, 2010) - This program provides support for the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts. Priority will be given to artistically excellent programs that have the potential to reach a significant national audience, regardless of the size or geographic location of the applicant organization.

National Endowment for the Humanities: Picturing America School Collaboration Projects (Application deadline: October 7, 2010) - This program provides support to local and regional projects that foster collaboration between K-12 teachers and humanities scholars to encourage engagement with the rich resources of American art to tell America's story. Priority will be given to collaborative projects designed to help teachers incorporate Picturing America images into the teaching of core subjects in the following Picturing America historic themes: leadership, freedom and equality, democracy, courage, landscape, and creativity and ingenuity.