Funding Opportunities

U.S. Mission to Bangladesh

Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) 2025

Predicted Deadline: Jan 15, 2025

Amount: Max US $35,000

The U.S. Embassy's Public Diplomacy Section in Dhaka invites proposals for the 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Bangladesh. Eligible organizations must be legally recognized non-profits or non-governmental entities that comply with U.S. and Bangladeshi technical and legal standards for implementing Public Diplomacy programs, as outlined in Section B. The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) equips women with the knowledge, tools, and connections needed to start and grow successful businesses. By fostering entrepreneurial skills and promoting financial independence, the program creates opportunities for women to overcome barriers to economic participation. With a focus on empowering women from underserved and marginalized communities, AWE prepares participants to thrive in the private sector and contribute meaningfully to their local economies.

United States Department of Agriculture

Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program

  • Due Date:  Feb 13, 2025

  • Amount: $10,000 - $115,000

The Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program (SLSNCGP) program supports innovative, education-based approaches to addressing disaster preparedness and specific responses related to natural and human-made disasters. Within the states and territories, the Cooperative Extension System has repeatedly served as the trusted community organization that has helped to enable families, communities, and businesses to successfully prepare for, respond to and cope with disaster losses and critical incidents.

Topics:

  • Human Sciences

  • Community Vitality

Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation Inc

Fighting Hunger Grants

Predicted Deadline: Feb 1, 2025

Amount: Max US $10,000

The Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States and Canada who fight hunger in our communities. Grantable programs may include, but are not limited to local food pantries, food banks, and meal assistance programs for children, families, seniors and more. Grants are focused on three strategic areas:

  • Direct food assistance or food distribution in communities

  • Food rescue

  • Nutrition education related to food assistance

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (Forecasted)

Estimated Post Date: Feb 28, 2025

Due Date: Jan 15, 2025

Amount: Max $ 800,000

The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections award will support a recipient as a trusted source for research and policy related information for the child care and early education field., The focus will be on improving access to research information to support Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) lead agency staff and their partners. The recipient will establish and operate a resource website for the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections library database (hereafter referred to as “Research Connections”). The interactive website (http://www.researchconnections.org) will house a comprehensive and up-to-date database of resources derived from rigorous research, including scholarly peer-reviewed research and ‘gray’ literature (e.g., rigorous research published as policy briefs, state and federal government reports, foundation reports), as well as relevant publicly available assessment instruments. Research should be relevant to community based child care serving children birth through 13-years, child care and early education (CCEE) programs, home-based child care, family child care, Head Start, public pre-kindergarten (Pre-K), and after-school programs.​The recipient will engage in continuous expansion of the research database, marketing and outreach, and efforts to increase the field’s use of the evidence base.​ The award is expected to be for a 60-month project period, with five 12-month budget periods. The ceiling for the first budget period is $800,000. It is expected that the 12-month budget periods for each subsequent year (years 2-5) will not exceed $800,000 each.​

Centene Charitable Foundation

Centene Charitable Foundation Grants

Due Date: Letter of inquiry (Nov 9, 2024), and the full proposal (Nov 13, 2024)

Amount: Unspecified amount

The sentencing of women under the U.S. criminal legal system has exploded profoundly and alarmingly over the past 25 years. According to the Sentencing Project, the number of women in prison in the United States increased by 700% between 1980 and 2014, growing from just 26,378 women behind bars in 1980 to 215,332 in 2014. As a result of this seven-fold jump in the criminalization and incarceration of women—the majority for drug and other nonviolent offenses, the incarceration rate for women has now surpassed that of men and continues to accelerate.

The Oak Foundation USA

Issues Affecting Women

Due Date: Rolling

Amount: More than US $25,000

The goal of this CFP is to fund research on policies that can advance the full social, economic, and civic inclusion of immigrant children and families. The intention is to spotlight policies that can transform systems/structures that ensure equal access to (and take-up of) goods and services, including public benefits, irrespective of immigration status.

CJI Foundation

Until She's Free

Due Date: Letter of inquiry (Nov 9, 2024), and the full proposal (Nov 13,2024)

Amount: Unspecified amount

The sentencing of women under the U.S. criminal legal system has exploded profoundly and alarmingly over the past 25 years. According to the Sentencing Project, the number of women in prison in the United States increased by 700% between 1980 and 2014, growing from just 26,378 women behind bars in 1980 to 215,332 in 2014. As a result of this seven-fold jump in the criminalization and incarceration of women—the majority for drug and other nonviolent offenses, the incarceration rate for women has now surpassed that of men and continues to accelerate the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.