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Stewardship Council Building Parks and Playgrounds
The Infrastructure Fund is designed to support efforts to improve community parks and open space to make them more accessible, viable, and safe for children and youth.
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The Disney Friends for Change
YSA (Youth Service America), together with Disney, is now accepting applications from youth around the world for the Disney Friends for Change – YSA Grants. The grant funds youth-led service projects that focus on making environmentally friendly changes and engage youth on Global Youth Service Day, April 15-17.
The Disney Friends for Change program will award 50 $500 grants to youth-led service projects around the world that demonstrate youth leadership, creativity, and the commitment to making a positive impact on the environment. See
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
2011 Call for Proposals-Round 6, Rapid-Response and RWJF New Connections Grant Opportunities
Purpose: Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
This call for proposals is for three types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. The three award types are: Round 6 grants, rapid-response grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program.
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MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards Program
MetLife Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are partnering for the tenth year to recognize, sustain and share the work of innovative partnerships between community groups and police to promote neighborhood safety and revitalization. Through this awards program, MetLife Foundation and LISC will identify and honor partnerships that exhibit tangible accomplishments in their efforts to advance the process, outcome, and/or evaluation of potent police‐community collaborations. Eligible applicants must be member organizations of partnerships that include, but need not be limited to, community organizations and police. Awardees will receive a monetary grant.
The 2011 MetLife Foundation Community‐Police Partnership Awards include two separate categories which emphasize different models of community‐police collaboration. More detailed information on both awards can be found on the following page. You are invited to apply under two separate award categories:
Neighborhood Revitalization Awards: Two first place monetary awards of $25,000 each and four runner up awards of $15,000 will recognize exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yields crime reduction as well as economic development outcomes, such as real estate development, business attraction and job growth. Winners of the Neighborhood Revitalization Awards agree to hold a local event in summer or fall 2011 to announce their award.
Special Strategy Awards: Five monetary awards of $15,000 each recognize exemplary collaboration between community groups and police that yield significant public safety outcomes in one or more of the following areas:
Applied Technology
Aesthetics and Greenspace Improvement
Diversity Inclusion & Integration
Drug Market Disruption
Gang Prevention & Youth Safety
Seniors & Safety
