Roadmaps to Health Community Grants posted

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Roadmaps to Health Community Grants program will support communities working to implement policy or system changes to address one of the social or economic factors that, as defined by the County Health Rankings, most strongly influence health outcomes in their community. These include education, employment and income, family and social support, and community safety. For more information, visit the Health and Physical Education Funding Opportunity website.

Investing in Innovation Fund RFP to be released

The request for pre-proposals for the Investing in Innovation Fund will be released February 27, 2012. More information about this U.S. Department of Education funding opportunity can be found at http://wouspteachered.blogspot.com/.

RGK Foundation grants in Education, Community & Health

RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Health/Medicine.

The Foundation's primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education.

Within Community, the Foundation supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the Foundation include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The Foundation supports a variety of Community Improvement programs including those that enhance non-profit management and promote philanthropy and voluntarism. Youth development programs supported by the Foundation typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life. The Foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.

The Foundation's current interests in the area of Health/Medicine include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and Foundation-initiated programs focusing on ALS.

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New Grant opportunities posted

New grant opportunities have been posted in Health & PE, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Teacher Education.

New grants: Endangered Language; NEA Our Town

Two new grants, the Endangered Language Fund (Humanities Funding Opportunity webpage) and the NEA Our Town grants (Creative Arts Funding Opportunity webpage) have been posted.

Criminal Justice Grant Opportunities

Two new CJ focused opportunities have been posted on the Criminal Justice Funding Opportunity webpage.

Education and Social Science opportunities updated

Three new grant opportunities have been posted: (1) Ashoka Changemakers competition on the Social Sciences website; (2) Autism Speaks on the Special Education website; and (3) NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program on the Teacher Education website.