Grants
There are thousands of grant and award opportunities out there. This will be a place you can find grants or awards/competitions that are open for any nonprofit in the United States (and often times the world). Grants or competitions included below will either have an online focus or be especially creative. If you know of a current grant or award opportunity that is not mentioned here please add it as a comment below.
Current Opportunities:
[They are] awarding $250,000 to the collaboration (two or more nonprofits) that present the most compelling evidence as to how business was streamlined, a cause advanced or a group’s quality of life was improved by virtue of the collaboration.
The money will be split between the organizations involved in the collaboration. You can nominate any nonprofit (including your own) but the collaboration must have been going for 18 months before the nomination. Nominations will be accepted June 1 to July 21 for a full list of requirements and suggest a nominee visit The Collaboration Challenge website.
Ideablob.com
Small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits have the opportunity to present an idea. Website visitors can visit the site and vote for the idea they like the best. Every month whoever has the most votes wins $10,000.
Notable Past Opportunities:
America’s Giving Challenge
Parade and the Case Foundation held a competition on the Causes application on Facebook. Awards were given to organizations that recieved the highest number of donors each week and the $50,000 grand prize was awarded to the eight organizations who had the most supporters.
Netsquared Mashup Challenge:
Every year NetSquared allows “social innovators” to submit projects they are working on usually with a technical slant. This year they are highlighting 21 of these projects and $100,000 will be awarded to the best projects. There end goal is to promote social innovation through web-based tools.
