Funding Opportunities this August: Serve DC Funding Alert

Funding Alert: August Issue

The Funding Alert is a free resource produced by Serve DC highlighting grant opportunities and resources for community-based, faith-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and District government agencies. In response to the District’s current public health emergency, the Funding Alert also includes coronavirus (COVID-19) related funding opportunities!

For all current District Government agency grant opportunities, click here to visit the District Grants Clearinghouse.

For all current District volunteer opportunities, click here to visit the Volunteer and Donation Portal.

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DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)

Are you an organization that can coordinate high-quality out-of-school time programming for justice system involved students in DC?

Apply for this new grant opportunity today! Learn more.

Serve DC Highlights!

We have an opening on our team! Join Serve DC and become our Grants Management Specialist.

In cooperation with the Director and Deputy Director of Finance and Compliance, you'll have the opportunity to design and maintain a financial and grants management system including writing policies and procedures and a fiscal manual for use by programs.

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Board Position: 3-year Term on Serve DC's Commission for National and Community Service:

Serve DC is looking for engaged residents to join the Commission for National and Community Service. The Commission's purpose is to encourage community service and volunteer participation as a means of community and state problem-solving; to promote and support voluntary citizen involvement in government and private programs throughout the District of Columbia; to develop a comprehensive vision and strategic plan for community service initiatives in the District of Columbia; and to serve as the District's liaison between national and other state organizations in concert with the District of Columbia strategic plan.

Interested residents engaged in the nonprofit, youth, philanthropic, business, and labor communities are particularly encouraged to apply.

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Youth and Families

W. K. Kellogg Foundation

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Available Funding: varies Deadline: Varies

Public Welfare Foundation | Organization: America's Promises Alliance

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Available Funding: Varies Deadline: Rolling

Education

Just Films | Ford Foundation

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Available Funding: varies Deadline: Year Round

Community & Economic Development

Community Possible Grant Program

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Available Funding: Rolling Deadline: Varies

DC Fem Tech Grants

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Available Funding: $500 Deadline: Rolling

Policies to Build and Sustain Economic Security and Wealth for Families and Communities of Color

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Available Funding: varies Deadline: September 7

Special Event Fee Relief Fund | DMPED

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Available Funding: Varies Deadline: September 30

Commercial Property Acquisition Fund | DMPED

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Available Funding: Varies Deadline: Rolling basis

Health and Human Services

Maternal and Child Health Grant

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Available Funding: Varies Deadline: August 31

AHRQ Administrative Supplements for Grants in Health Services Research | NIH

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Available Funding: Up to $100,000 Deadline: October 26

Racial Justice

Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation Grant | Organization: Blaustein Philanthropic Group

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Available Funding: varies. Deadline: rolling.

Public Welfare Foundation

Until We are All Free: Dismantling the structures that have caused generations of harm to people of color in the United States; local community members of color that build cross racial solidarity and community power; and/or communities who bear the brunt of the mass incarceration crisis and advance efforts to reinvest back into those communities.

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Available Funding: Varies  Deadline: Rolling

Transportation

Cornell Douglas Foundation Grants | Organization: Cornell Douglas Foundation

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Available Funding: $10,000.00. Deadline: Rolling.

Transportation Alternatives Program l DDOT

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Available Funding: Up to $820,000 Deadline and Application opens: Fall 2022

Resources and Other Opportunities

Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser

COVID-19 Vaccination Resources

Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments Job Board

#ObviouslyDC

Capacity Building Resources

Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington

Points of Light

America Nonprofit Academy

Center for Nonprofit Advancement

Connect for COVID-19

D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center: Legal Assistance and Resources for Community Organizations

D.C. Paid Family Leave Fact Sheet

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Capacity Building

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

Candid: Foundation Center + GuideStar

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

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