Here are notable new RFPs for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
Community Foundation of Northern Colorado
The Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, in partnership with the United Way of Larimer County, is accepting application of grants from the Northern Colorado Covid-19 Response Fund to support local nonprofit organizations that work with people disproportionately affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Specifically, it will give grants to organizations in northern Colorado that are working to address food insecurity, child-care needs, housing, or other disruptions caused by the pandemic. A first round of grants awarded $200,000 on March 31, the second round of grants will be disbursed in mid-April, and a third round will be released at the end of April.
Greater Houston Covid-19 Recovery Fund
The United Way of Greater Houston and the Greater Houston Community Foundation have created this fund to make grants to nonprofit groups in the Houston metropolitan area that serve the region’s most vulnerable neighbors.
Lewis Prize for Music
The Lewis Prize for Music will make $1 million in grants through its Covid-19 Community Response Fund. The program will make 20 grants, worth from $25,000 to $50,000, to creative youth-development organizations that are adapting and responding to the pressing needs of the young people they serve during the pandemic. Applications are due May 8.
National Council on Aging
The National Council on Aging’s Covid-19 Community Response Fund will make grants to hard-hit community-based organizations that are providing direct services to older adults during the pandemic. Eligible organizations must provide services to older people living in their own homes; work with underserved populations such as older women, people of color, LGBTQ seniors, low-income people, and rural residents who are at greatest risk of being admitted to a hospital as a result of Covid-19; develop public campaigns or projects to address the crisis; provide resources to help older people adapt to remote work; or run programs to support access to health care, health testing, services, or government aid and relief programs.
New York Women’s Foundation
The New York Women’s Foundation is accepting applications for grants from the 2020 Resilience-NYC: Covid-19 Response Fund to support the growing organizational needs of nonprofit groups that meet the immediate needs of girls, women, transgender people, and their families. Current and former grantees may apply for a six-month grant worth up to $25,000 for general operating support or program-specific support. Priority will go to organizations with budgets of $2 million or less. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis up until July 1.
Richard King Mellon Foundation
The Richard King Mellon Foundation is offering a request for ideas for grants through its Covid-19 Economic Impact and Recovery program for organizations in the Pittsburgh area that are dealing with the pandemic’s economic fallout. Priority will go to projects that focus on the impact on employees, especially small businesses and organizations that employ low- and moderate-income employees; social safety net, including mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, animal shelters, and support for basic needs such as housing and food; employment and work-force training; academic assistance to remedy gaps in academic attainment created by closures in schools and universities; and jump-starting the regional economy. Proposals are due April 26.
St. David’s Foundation
The St. David’s Foundation has committed $10 million in grant making through its Covid-19 Recovery Fund: Lifting Up Central Texas Today and Tomorrow. The fund will provide grants to cover both the immediate and intermediate needs of frontline nonprofit groups that are working to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable people who live in Central Texas. Grants will be awarded in three rounds, with deadlines of May 7, August 13, and October 15.
We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service
The WEC Energy Group companies will make $1 million in grants through their charitable foundations to help Wisconsin communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The foundations will provide grants worth between $1,000 and $2,000 to nonprofit organizations that are supporting front-line efforts, primarily hospitals, first responders, and food pantries. Applications for Covid-19 grants are due April 30. The foundation also has a Rewarding Responders grant opportunity, with grant awards worth up to $2,000, that is due June 15.
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