Spreading Love Through the MeDia
Submission Window: January 7–March 24, 2025
The Greater Good Science Center’s Spreading Love Through the Media initiative, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is a three-year effort to harness the transformative power of love to tackle social challenges like polarization and loneliness. This initiative seeks to broaden the concept of love beyond romantic relationships, highlighting its role in fostering compassion, altruism, and social cohesion.
We are offering grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 to fund projects that showcase love’s power to build connection and resilience. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Spreading Love Through the Media initiative will award approximately two dozen grants to support nonfiction content and reported stories exploring love in its many forms— compassionate, familial, romantic, and beyond.
Company Communities Supported in WA, OR, CA and ID
Application Deadline: None
Banner Bank’s community support program, Banner Gives, prioritizes nonprofit organizations that empower youth in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. Key areas of focus for youth programs include academic achievement, civic involvement, financial literacy, and physical and emotional development. While also supporting housing, financial education, and economic development, Banner Gives specifically emphasizes programs that directly benefit young people, such as tutoring, mentoring, after-school programs, and youth leadership initiatives.
Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation for Education
Deadline: Multiple Dates
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation was established to support education and the education and the arts. While the Foundation has historically supported nonprofit organizations in Florida and Indiana, requests from around the country are considered. The Foundation primarily supports education, art, and outreach programs and projects. Grants of between $1,000 and $10,000 receive greater consideration. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
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Forecasted Opportunities
Transitional Living Program
Estimated post date: February 28, 2025
Estimated application due date: May 1, 2025
The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides shelter and comprehensive supportive services to youth ages 16 through 21 for up to 18 months or, under extenuating circumstances, 21 months. In addition to shelter, TLPs provide comprehensive services that support participating youth’s transition to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living. Through the combination of shelter and services, TLP youth are expected to show improvements in four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education or employment, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being.
Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life)
Estimated post date: February 28, 2025
Estimated application due date: May 1, 2025
The Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life) grants will be targeted exclusively to projects designed to provide healthy marriage and relationship education skills, parenting (for young fathers and mothers as applicable), financial management, job and career advancement, and other activities, to youth that are high-school aged (grades 9-12) or in late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 14 to 24), including parenting and/or pregnant youth.
Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Works – Adults (FRAMEWorks)
Estimated post date: February 28, 2025
Estimated application due date: May 1, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) announces its plan to solicit applications for the competitive award of grants that support “healthy marriage promotion” activities as authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult individuals or adult couples, defined as persons who are age 18 and older.
Fatherhood – Family-focused, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential (Fatherhood FIRE)
Estimated post date: February 28, 2025
Estimated application due date: May 1, 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) announces its plan to solicit applications for the competitive award of grants that support “activities to promote responsible fatherhood” under each of the three broad categories of promoting or sustaining marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult fathers, defined as fathers that are age 18 and older.
Additional Funding Possibilities
Not for Profit Hospital (NFP) Funds
All NFP hospitals have an obligation to the IRS to provide some form of community benefit work. There are designated funds to provide community programming that aligns with the needs shown by the hospital’s Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). This information is collected every three years and publicly posted. By researching your local NFP’s CHNA results, you may find opportunities to partner with their community benefit program to deliver teenage programs. Examples include classes for expecting or parenting teens, mental health support, nutrition courses, and more.
Questions to ask your local NFP Tip Sheet
Or, read this case study to see how one NFP in Arkansas funded their program for Love Notes
Blue Cross Blue Shield Community Partnerships
Blue Cross has partnerships with communities in each U.S. State. There are ongoing funding opportunities and grants to deliver improvement for community health. Learn more about the opportunities near you.
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Despite your best efforts, you’ve just learned that your federal grant proposal was not funded or your grant non-continued. Bummer. We’ve been there too. After an appropriate amount of time to grieve, time to roll up your sleeves and get back to it! The youth you serve need relationship education. But how? Join Kay Reed and Aaron Larson in this webinar just for Dibble clients to explore alternative funding possibilities. California ACES grant was just announced, see below for this new opportunity.
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