The Springboard Prize for Child Welfare invests in new, exciting ideas focused on preventing child neglect and abuse, lifting up children and families within the child welfare system, and assuring their well-being beyond. The Aviv Foundation is sponsoring the Springboard Prize for the second time as part of its goal to invest in solutions with the potential to create systemic change. In 2025, four awards of $400,000 each will be given to launch new, or expand existing, early-stage innovative projects with the potential to improve the lives of children and families. Applications for Round 1 opened on January 6 and will close on February 17. Learn more.
Point32Health Foundation supports organizations advancing equity in aging in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Foundation is currently accepting inquiry forms for grants focused on organizing, policy, advocacy, and systems improvement. Areas of interest include improving access to nutritious and affordable food for older adults, supporting caregivers, providing civic engagement and social connection opportunities with older adults, developing community approaches to improved mental health of older adults, proposing housing solutions that positively impact older adults, and devising transportation and community development strategies that provide improved access for older adults. Supported work must be community-based, have the potential to dismantle racist systems, and target communities experiencing historic disinvestment. The application for organizing, policy, advocacy, and systems improvements grants is February 20, 2025 (There is a separate deadline in the fall for social and racial justice grants). Learn more.
The AARP Purpose Prize award supports AARP’s mission by honoring extraordinary nonprofit founders 50 and older who tap into the power of life experience to build a better future for us all. Up to five winners will receive $75,000 for their organizations and a year of supports and resources to help broaden their impact. Applications are due February 28, 2025, by 5 p.m. ET. Learn more.
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund’s 2025 Capacity Building Initiative seeks proposals to support the core functions of organizations and their collaboratives through organizational and collaborative capacity building grants. This grant program aims to: Assist health-focused, community-based organizations in becoming stronger, more effective institutions in their communities, allowing them to spend more time focused on their mission and collaborative efforts. Increase or improve collaboration among providers, service agencies, the business community, and community-based organizations within a community to address health issues in a sustainable way. Concept papers are due for the second cycle on June 10, 2025. Learn more.
The International Paper Foundation provides support in the United States in the communities where the company operates. (Memphis, TN, funding requests are by invitation only.) Areas of interest include education, with a primary focus on literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade; hunger, including food banks and other agencies addressing hunger and food security for children, families, and seniors; health and wellness, with a focus on promoting healthy living habits and improving health and wellness; and disaster relief, including helping communities prepare for and to recover from natural disasters. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Applications are accepted through mid-September, annually. Learn more.
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. Funding priorities include democracy, with a focus on initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, including the implementation of democracy through exercising the right to vote and other direct forms of civic involvement; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of environmental, political, and social issues; environment, with a focus on efforts on a national scale or in New York State that promote clean drinking water as well as statewide efforts in New York that decrease reliance on fossil fuels; and animal welfare, including nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. Additional funding priorities focus on sustainability, community needs, and school food and nutrition in Tompkins County, NY. Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry. Learn more.
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation partners with organizations and networks working to alleviate poverty and increase social and economic justice in 11 Southern states. The Foundation seeks the most promising opportunities to support power building work to advance racial equity and social and economic justice, and provides support along three primary pathways: democracy and civic engagement, supportive policies and institutions, and economic opportunity. Organizations may use funds for general operating support, project support, “glue” support for networks of grassroots and partner organizations, and organizational development. Application deadline: None for organizational summaries. Learn more.
If you have—or know of—any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to gu@gu.org.