Funding for Postsecondary Education

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USA Funds is offering a grant to organizations that help students successfully transition into and succeed in postsecondary education.

The Key Transitions in Postsecondary Education grant funds programs that support recent high school graduates and adult learners in their transition to postsecondary education. Services and support can start during senior year of high school, and special emphasis is placed on students transitioning from the first year to the second year of study at a community college.

Grant range: $400,000 - $800,000.
Deadline: May 24, 2013.
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The Sustainable Environments Program

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The Sustainable Environments Program is working to overhaul our country's outdated and crumbling infrastructure with a new approach that will foster healthier, sustainable, and just communities. We believe in the potential of what we call "next generation infrastructure" to improve transit systems, make buildings more energy efficient, better manage our water systems and rebuild regional food systems. Focusing on urban areas and their surrounding suburbs, we seek solutions that connect and improve these infrastructure systems in ways that maximize positive impacts and minimize negative environmental, economic and social consequences.

The Sustainable Environments Program seeks to create just and sustainable economies in four ways:

1. Sustainable Transportation Networks & Equitable Development Patterns We support clean, affordable, equitable, high-quality and efficient transportation and land use development that better connects critical services, jobs, schools, housing and other regional destinations.
2. Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment We support efforts to help people make homes, businesses and other buildings more energy efficient.
3. Urban Water Management We support efforts to capture storm water and slowly release it into the existing network of drains, pipes and sewers, or reuse it where it falls to cultivate natural green spaces.
4. Regional Food Supply We support ways to make it easier to get local, sustainably produced food from our farms to the markets closest to where it's grown, and to better connect food producers and consumers.

For more information, click here. 

Refugee Microenterprise Development Projects

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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is pleased to announce the availability of funds for the Refugee Microenterprise Development Project. ORR has supported microenterprise development projects since 1991 through the award of discretionary grants to a variety of public agencies, community economic development agencies, local mutual assistance associations, and voluntary agencies. The broad goals of this program are to:

1. Assist refugees in becoming economically self-sufficient by owning and managing a small business,

2. Provide seed money to refugee serving organizations to start and develop microenterprise program that will serve refugees at sustained and expanded levels, and

3. Help mainstream organizations develop the experience of serving refugee populations.

In order to achieve these objectives, award recipients under this announcement will provide pre-business and post-business technical assistance as well as capital to refugee entrepreneurs.

Apply by June 10th.  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2013-ACF-ORR-RG-0569

Wick Kenney Fund - Western Watersheds

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The Wick Fund makes grants to protect and restore watersheds in the Western United States. In the simplest of terms, we are interested in keeping western rivers flowing with ample volumes of clean water.

The Foundation makes only discretionary grants.

Discretionary grants are given to projects that:

• Provide a real opportunity to change western water policy on a local, state or national level; or
• Defend environmental laws critical for the protection of all western rivers; or
• Focus on a specific strategy for protection of a biologically important western watershed; or
• Research and analyze issues that affect western water. Research topics might include alternatives for managing water demand, mechanisms for transferring water to environmental and recreational use, commentary on federal and state actions that affect water policy. Grants may be used for arranging meetings. Preference will be given to projects that will be disseminated to reach advocates for the West's rivers.

Groups interested in applying for a discretionary grant may do so by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with Discretionary Grant Inquiry in the subject line.

For more information: http://kenneybrosfdn.org/grant-information/