Grant Opportunity: Hometown Programs
Due Date: Spring 2025
Focus: Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Workforce Development
Region(s): United States
Funding Range: not listed
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: Target Foundation supports organizations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, nationally and globally that are dedicated to civic engagement and community development.
Grant Opportunity: TJX Community Grant
Due Date: letters of interest are accepted on a rolling basis
Focus: Basic Needs (food, clothing, and shelter), After-school Activities, Workforce Readiness, Safety from Domestic Violence
Region(s): United States
Funding Range: none listed
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: TJX Foundation supports organizations that are 501c3 registered for at least 1 year, and serve families and children.
Grant Opportunity: Inspire Awards
Due Date: January 2025
Funding Range: $10,000 - $250,000
Focus: Career Pathways, Economic Mobility, Strengthening Small Businesses
Region(s): United States
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: The Truist Foundation is committed to Truist Financial Corporation's purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities. Established in 2020, the foundation makes strategic investments in nonprofit organizations to help ensure the communities it serves have more opportunities for a better quality of life. The Truist Foundation's grants and activities focus on building career pathways to economic mobility and strengthening small businesses.
The Truist Foundation and MIT Solve are thrilled to be partners in launching the inaugural Inspire Awards to identify innovative nonprofit-driven solutions that provide support to grow, develop, and sustain racially diverse and/or women-led small businesses in the United States.
Due Date: July 15, Oct. 15, Dec. 31
Funding Range: $250 - $5,000
Focus: Healthy Eating, Human Services, Quality of Life, Education, Community and Economic Development, Diversity and Inclusion Public Safety, Environmental Sustainability
Region(s): near Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: Walmart accepts application at their stores for local community grants. There are eight (8) areas of funding:
Community and Economic Development: Improving local communities for the benefit of low-income individuals and families in the local service area
Diversity and Inclusion: Fostering the building of relationships and understanding among diverse groups in the local service area
Education: Providing afterschool enrichment, tutoring or vocational training for low-income individuals and families in the local service area
Environmental Sustainability: Preventing waste, increasing recycling, or supporting other programs that work to improve the environment in the local service area
Health and Human Service: Providing medical screening, treatment, social services, or shelters for low-income individuals and families in the local service area
Hunger Relief and Healthy Eating: Providing Federal or charitable meals/snacks for low-income individuals and families in the local service area
Public Safety: Supporting public safety programs through training programs or equipment in the local service area
Quality of Life: Improving access to recreation, arts or cultural experiences for low-income individuals and families in the local service area
Grant Opportunity: Great Learning - High School Completion, Civic Engagement
Due Date: rolling deadline (Letter of inquiry)
Focus: Education and Learning, Creative Communities, Watershed Protection
Region(s): Philadelphia and surrounding areas
Funding Range: $5,000 and up
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: The William Penn Foundation underwrites efforts that build evidence, expand service, improve quality, encourage collaboration, transform systems, or change policy to yield transformational and sustainable educational improvements for children.
Grant Opportunity: National Days of Service Lead Agency Grants
Due Date(s): application opens September each year
Funding Range: $3,000 - $6,000
Focus: Volunteerism, Philanthropy Youth Development, Leadership
Region(s): United States
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: In partnership with AmeriCorps and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Lead Agency program offers grant funding, capacity-building training, and ongoing support to effectively engage young people in meaningful service and service-learning activities.
Volunteering for the first time in childhood is an expressway to a lifetime of civic participation. National days of service – such as 9/11 Day of Service, MLK Day of Service, and Global Youth Service Day – are the perfect introductions. By engaging youth as volunteers on national days of service, Lead Agencies fulfil a vital role to increase youth participation in their community.
Grants up to $6,000 will be awarded based on the number of youth volunteers engaged. Applicants may work locally, regionally, statewide, or in multiple states and must be based in the United States.
Grant Opportunity: Youth Service Zones Grants
Due Date(s): May 20, 2023
Funding Range: $15,000
Focus: Volunteerism, Philanthropy Youth Development, Leadership
Region(s): United States
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: Youth Service America believes that youth, communities, and our democracy thrive when we all work together for the common good. Even though youth participation rates (volunteering, voting, and joining) are at or near record-high levels, we’re still leaving 3 of every 4 young people out of actively participating in our democracy. Participation rates are even lower among youth from low-income and minority communities.
Funded by AmeriCorps (Corporation for National and Community Service), YSA’s Youth Service Zone grants offer organizations and schools an opportunity to work collaboratively to increase the youth volunteer rates in their community. Each zone will receive a grant of $15,000 ($5,000 to each of the three collaborative leaders) to support program activities that build partnerships and capacity in order to increase youth volunteer participation.
Grant Opportunity: Youth Service Zones Grants
Due Date(s): application opens April each year
Funding Range: $15,000
Focus: Volunteerism, Philanthropy Youth Development, Leadership
Region(s): United States
Learn More: Apply Online
Overview: Youth Service America believes that youth, communities, and our democracy thrive when we all work together for the common good. Even though youth participation rates (volunteering, voting, and joining) are at or near record-high levels, we’re still leaving 3 of every 4 young people out of actively participating in our democracy. Participation rates are even lower among youth from low-income and minority communities.
Funded by AmeriCorps (Corporation for National and Community Service), YSA’s Youth Service Zone grants offer organizations and schools an opportunity to work collaboratively to increase the youth volunteer rates in their community. Each zone will receive a grant of $15,000 ($5,000 to each of the three collaborative leaders) to support program activities that build partnerships and capacity in order to increase youth volunteer participation.