Adapted PE - Special Education
Funding Sources
Professionals in health, physical education, recreation, and dance are constantly looking for ways to improve their programs and services. Doing so, however, can often be expensive, and with tightened budgets it may be difficult to finance the purchase of equipment, additional training, or improvement of facilities. Perhaps you are considering special projects for 2010 that will need resources unlikely to be available within the tight budget constraints expected over the next year.
Good places to start your search:
Grants.gov
An online list of federal grant opportunities in a variety of categories including health, arts, food and nutrition, and education. A month the agencies that provide grants and funding through Grants.gov are the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Endowment of the Arts. Offers funding for a variety of research programs under the categories of Science and Technology and other Research and Development, as well as Health, Food and Nutrition, and Education. For a list of research grant opportunities, select the category you are interested in and do a basic or advanced search using the keyword "research."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Awards grants to assist health-related and research organizations that contribute to CDC's mission of health promotion through health information dissemination, preparedness, prevention, research, and surveillance.
Shaping America's Youth
Initiative web site has a list of organizations that fund childhood obesity-related projects and programs.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Provides grants for projects that improve the health and health care of all Americans. Eligible projects must address one of the seven program areas, which include childhood obesity, public health, quality/equality, and vulnerable populations.
Corporate Philanthropy and Grants on the Web
AT&T, Bank of America, The Coca Cola Company, the GE Foundation, IBM Corporation, MetLife Foundation, and the Verizon Foundation to name a few.
The Michigan State University Libraries
This web site has a list of grants for individuals and nonprofits in categories such as "The Aged," "Children and Youth," "Education," "Arts and Cultural Activities," "Recreation," and "Health."
Community Contacts
There may be a number of local opportunities available o you if you review the major employers and businesses in your area. If your project requires $5,000 or could be helped through in-kind support, consider discussing your idea with community contacts.
American Association for Health Education (AAHE)
United Health HEROES service-learning grant
A program for youth-led community education projects. The grants of up to $1,000 support teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health professions to implement service-learning projects around childhood obesity and engage children and youths ages 5 to 25 as volunteers.
Kellogg Foundation
Focuses on improving individual and community health, and improving access to quality of health care, especially among vulnerable individuals and communities.
MetLife Foundation
Supports educational, health, civic, cultural organizations in order to promote good health and improve education. Grants are directed toward national health promotion and education initiatives, substance abuse prevention, youth health and fitness, healthy aging, and research on Alzheimer's disease.
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation
Grants given to provide equipment, outreach programs, staff positions, screening and education materials. Health education for at-risk children and their parents, support for the critically ill, and AIDS/HIV education programs have received awards.
American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Is committed to improving results and outcomes for people with disabilities of all ages, provides an array of grants and other funding opportunities through its programs and activities. These include National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) grants and funding opportunities that serve individuals with disabilities and their families.
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Offers programs that provide individuals with disabilities inclusive recreational activities and experiences that can aid them in their employment, mobility, socialization, independence, and community integration. Recreation projects may include leisure education, physical education and sports, scouting and camping, dancing, and art, among others.
Play On!
Includes a section on playground funding that contains information on proposal writing in order to obtain funding for your playground project.
Boundless Playground
"Get Ready...Get Set...Go Play!" program provides communities guidance and assistance for inclusive playground projects.
The U.S. Golf Association
Helps organizations develop introductory golf programs and alternative golf facilities for youths from disadvantaged backgrounds, minority youth, girls, and individuals with disabilities. The USGA has already dedicated millions to positively impact hundreds of thousands of children and people with disabilities.
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport
The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) is sponsoring the Mary Jennings Sport Camp Scholarship Fund, a fund to help support young female athletes who would like to attend a sport camp to develop their skills. The fund will provide financial support for female athletes ages 10-14 to attend the sport camp of their choice.
Woman's Sports Foundation
Programs to provide girls and women with educational materials and scholarships, research on leadership development and opportunities to participate in sports and physical activity. Grants are awarded to girl-serving organizations that strive to provide diverse, underserved populations of girls ages 8 to 19 with a way to get involved in sport and physical activity.
LPGA-USGA Girls Golf
Provides an opportunity for girls, ages 7 to 17, to learn to play golf, build lasting friendships and experience competition in a fun, supportive environment, preparing them for a lifetime of enjoyment with the game.
Baseball Tomorrow Fund
Promotes and enhances the growth of youth participation in baseball and softball. Grants finance new programs, expand or improve existing programs, undertake new collaborative efforts, or obtain facilities or equipment necessary for youth baseball or softball programs.
Responsible Sport Community Grants
Check out this site for equipment upgrades, facility repairs, and scholarship programs for families in need of assistance.
National Association for Sport and Physical Education
NASPE Research Grants
Provide substantial funding for critical applies research projects in the field of physical education and sport. The grant program will enable NASPE to support significant research questions that require higher levels of funding.
Champions for Healthy Kids Grant Program
The General Mills Foundation, in partnership with American Dietetic Association Foundation and the President's Council on Physical Fitness developed this program. Grants are awarded to community-based groups that develop creative ways to help youths adopt a balanced diet and physically active lifestyles. The General Mills Foundation also sponsors up to 50,000 young people each year to participate in the President's Challenge.
NFL Youth Football Fund Grassroots Program
Provides non-profit, neighborhood-based organizations with financial and technical assistance to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of local football fields.
Baseball Tomorrow Fund
Grants finance new programs, expand or improve existing programs, undertake new collaborative efforts, or obtain facilities or equipment necessary for youth baseball or softball programs.
U.S. Soccer Foundation
Provides grant support to local communities and soccer organizations. Grants focus on projects and programs that develop players, coaches, and referees in economically disadvantages urban areas. The Foundation also provides assistance to develop fields, including state-of-the art synthetic grass surfaces, irrigation, and lighting.
National Dance Association
Capezio grants program
Supports dance and certain other national, state, and local organizations that provide essential services to the field. The grants program is open to application from non-profit organizations that qualify under the guidelines and criteria and established by the Trustees. Grans are for general operating support, programs and special projects.
National Endowment for the Arts
Assists all forms of professional concert dance by funding dance companies and presenters, and projects of all sizes. Dance projects funded by the Arts Endowment represent a multiplicity of forms, styles, techniques, and histories that come from every continent in the world and the many different styles--neoclassical ballet, modern dance, jazz, folkloric, tap, hip-hop, and other contemporary forms--that can be found in the United States.
Fundsnet Services Web site
List of Arts & Culture Grants
Research Consortium
National Institutes for Health
Offer grants to support a variety of research-related programs including discrete, specified, circumscribed research projects; pilot or feasibility studies, collection of preliminary data, secondary analysis of existing data, and development of new research technology; and exploratory and development research projects, among others.
RWJF Grant web page
Current and pending grant opportunities can be found on this site.
Updated September 2009
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