Grants

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Fund Your Mission

Upcoming Grant Deadlines

Museum Assessment Program

Strengthen your museum and add ammunition to your next grant proposal by participating in the Museum Assessment Program. These are free to organizations with less than $125,000 in budget, and require modest match for those above. Applications accepted on a rolling basis through November 30, 2009.

CAP GRANTS AVAILABLE

Conservation Assessment Program grant applications for 2010 are available starting September 4, 2009. Application deadline: December 1, 2009. Contact CAP for more information, 202-233-0800.

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities announces a new preventive conservation grants program, Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections. Two categories are offered: planning and evaluation grants and implementation grants. Deadline: December 8, 2009. Guidelines to be posted September 2009. Contact NEH, 202-606-8570, for more information.

AASLH Internship Grant Program

American Association for State and Local History offers their Alderson Internship Grant program to three member organizations to hire summer interns at their own institutions. Get more information and apply online. Deadline: December 9, 2009, 5 p.m.

Green Building Grants

Kresge Foundation offers challenge grants to support environmental construction and renovation of nonprofit and government-owned buildings.

FELLOWSHIP FOR WEBINAR SERIES

Small Museum Administrators Committee of AAM offers one $25 fellowship for each of the 2009 AAM Museum Essentials webinar series. Fellowships also good for on-demand version of previous webinars. Submit online application.

Minnesota Tourism Grants

Organizational Partnership, Innovative Marketing, and Scenic Byway grant guidelines for 2010 are now available.

Grant Resources

LEGACY GRANTS

Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants are now available. Find guidelines, training information, and application information online.

Free Corporate Grants Research Portal

Visitors to the NonProfit Times can search by business name or by recipient cause or location. Results include donor, recipient, donation amount range, year of donation and recipient city and state.

GoogleGrants AdWords

Designed for non-profit organizations, the GoogleGrants AdWords program awards advertising on the Google.com site. GoogleGrant recipients use their award of free AdWords advertising on Google.com to raise awareness and increase traffic. Each organization awarded a grant receives at least three months of in-kind advertising. Deadline: Ongoing.

Grants and Loans Book

American Grants and Loans Book is now available from Canada Books. This publication contains more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the US federal government.

Minnesota state grant website

This website is a first stop for organizations interested in learning about grant opportunities at 23 state agencies.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINES

Deadlines for grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Show Me the Money is an online guide to federal grant programs for historic properties.

Economic Resources

Four Steps for Success

Minnesota Council on Foundations provides timely advice for Nonprofit Survival: Four Steps to Take Now.

Nonprofit economic resources

Minnesota Council on Foundations posted a page on The Economy and Philanthropy to guide both grantseekers and grantmakers.

Free Webinar on Finding Funding

Foundation Center offers a free webinar for new nonprofit organizations on "First Fundraising Strategies for Startup Organizations" including handouts.

Philanthropy trend in Minnesota

Giving Forum reports on a growing 2009 trend to support education, which is at the core of missions for historical organizations.

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