The Funding Tree | 5
Nonprofits
Opportunities for
Colleges and Universities
Big Read, Awards from $5,000 to $15,000. Deadline is January 24. Provides organizations with grants and comprehensive resources that support efforts to inspire their community to read and discuss a single book or the work of a poet.
MAXIMUS Charitable Foundation, Awards from $2,500 to $5,000. Deadline is January 31. Awards grants to organizations that help disadvantaged individuals and underserved communities.
SPIE International Society for Optics and Photonics, Awards vary. Deadline is January 31. Offers Education Outreach Grants that increase the awareness of optics and photonics and encourages careers in these fields.
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, Awards vary. Deadline for Letter of Inquiry is February 1. Provides environmental and arts education to children and youth by supporting programs for educators and artists to improve and apply their teaching skills in these subjects.
Clif Bar Family Foundation, Awards up to $7,000. Deadline is February 1. Supports specific projects in the following areas; protecting the Earth’s beauty and bounty; creating a robust, healthy food system; and increasing opportunities for outdoor activities.
Sam J. Frankino Foundation, Award is $1,000. Deadline is February 1. Supports nonprofit organizations that reach out to youth, particularly children who are homeless or within foster care, and that offer physical education programs.
Shakespeare in American Communities, Awards up to $25,000. Deadline is February 8. Supports high-quality, professional productions in Shakespeare’s plays and related educational activities for middle and high school students in underserved schools across the U.S.
American Kennel Club Humane Fund, Awards vary. Deadline is February 15. Provides temporary or permanent housing for victims of domestic abuse and their pets.
Women in Mathematics, Award is $5,000. Deadline is February 1. Helps women develop a long-term working and mentoring relationship with a senior mathematician to assist her with establishing her research program and eventually receive tenure.
American Society for Radiation Oncology, Award is $4,500. Deadline is February 2. Designed to introduce medical students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine to the discipline of radiation oncology early in their medical education.
Noble Research Institute, Awards up to $4,800. Deadline is February 6. Offers scholars the opportunity to work alongside agricultural professionals at one of the nation’s foremost agricultural consultation and research organizations.
EarthScope, Awards vary. Deadline is February 17. Provides a framework for broad, integrated studies across the Earth sciences, including research on fault properties and the earthquake process, strain transfer, magmatic and hydrous fluids in the crust and mantle, plate boundary processes, large-scale continental deformation and more.