Sheltering: How Can We Address Veteran Homelessness?

 

How Can We Address Veteran Homelessness? You can help VA reach out to fellow Veterans by providing your input and letting us know your experience with homelessness, or those of friends and family. Visit the link below to share your concerns and thoughts about Veteran homelessness.

 

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Grant Opportunity: $20K-$30K awards. Ben & Jerry's Foundation.. Deadline: October 1, 2024

Ben & Jerry’s Foundation invites applications from grassroots organizations

May 14, 2024

Deadline: October 1, 2024

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation was created to fund organizations in Vermont and around the country that are working for progressive social change.

The foundation invites applications to its National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO), which offers two-year, unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year—with an average grant size of $20,000 per year—to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations across the United States and its territories.

While the foundation’s broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, its primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of our grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing. The foundation is interested in supporting groups that are carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities.

The foundation is guided by common principles of community organizing, in general these are: the organization is led by the people directly impacted by the issues the organization works on, and those people have clear decision-making power; a plan with clear goals to gain rights, win collective political power, and create positive community change; an assessment of the problem being addressed and best tactics to employ; outreach, networking, and ally-gaining activities that build support and momentum; and educational activities and events that inform and motivate and build support.

To be eligible, applicants must have an annual operating budget under $350,000; use grassroots, collective-action organizing campaigns as the primary strategy for creating social change; be a nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status or have a fiscal agent with this status; and be U.S.-based and U.S.-focused.

The revised application process for 2024 is open for the year, and will remain open until October, when the foundation will pause to update its forms and details for the upcoming year.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation website.

Link to complete RFP

Grant Opportunities: Washington D.C., Maryland, Virgina (DMV). Cafritz Foundation in five program areas: arts and humanities, community services, education, environment, and health and wellness

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation invites applications from nonprofits in the D.C. area

May 13, 2024

Deadline: July 1, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET

Founded in 1948, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is deeply committed to improving the quality of life for all Washington, D.C. metropolitan area residents.

The foundation invites applications for its grants program, through which it aims to improve the lives of D.C.-area residents, with an emphasis on creating a more equitable region. Grants are awarded in five program areas: arts and humanities, community services, education, environment, and health and wellness. While most of the foundation’s grants are for general operating support, there are some instances when project-specific requests are more appropriate, including national organizations with local affiliations, large institutions such as universities and hospitals, as well as other organizations that would like to restrict their grant to support a specific need. 

To be eligible, applicants must be IRS-registered, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organizations with a public charity status of 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2) only. Organizations must serve residents in the District of Columbia, the Maryland counties of Prince George’s or Montgomery, or the Virginia counties of Arlington or Fairfax or the cities of Alexandria or Falls Church.

The portal opens on June 1, 2024, for the July 1, 2024 deadline.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation website.

Link to complete RFP

Representatives from nonprofits considering applying to the Foundation for funding are invited to a virtual meeting with a member of our staff.  Attendees will have the chance to learn about the Foundation’s interests and giving priorities and to ask questions about the proposal and review processes.  This conversation is most relevant for Executive Directors or development staff from organizations that have not received prior grants from the Foundation. Sessions are held in February, June and October, the month before each of the Foundation’s deadlines.  The forums are free, but registration is required to attend. June 6 Register Here June 13  Register Here June 20  Register Here June 26  Register Here   For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations, please contact the Foundation.    Please give two weeks advance notice if requesting accommodations.

Global Health, Pandemic: Tuesday, May 14, 2024. From Negotiation to Action: Strengthening Governance of and Building Financing for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

 

View on web           Event: From Negotiation to Action: Strengthening Governance of and Building Financing for Pandemic Preparedness and Response           Register Event webpage   Tuesday, May 14 8:30am - 1:30pm ET Spanish Cultural Center - Embassy of Spain 2801 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20009   About the event In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for robust governance and sustainable financing mechanisms for pandemic preparedness and response has never been more urgent. The multilateral response has so far been underpinned by a new Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank. The pandemic agreement, which could provide a multilateral framework for action to facilitate prevention, preparedness, and response to new infectious disease emergencies, is currently in the final phase of negotiations. But the difficulties of these negotiations demonstrate the complexity of the elements at stake.  This in-person seminar will convene an array of experts to discuss the governance and financing of initiatives relating to pandemic preparedness and response. In particular, the event will focus on the roles of the European Union and the United States This event is co-hosted by the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C., the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), and the Center for Global Development (CGD). Visit the event webpage for the full agenda. If you have questions for our panelists, please submit them to events@cgdev.org. Register     Featuring Keynote       Javier Padilla, Secretary of State of Health & Cecilia Robles, Director General for the United Nations and Global Issues, Government of Spain     Panelists - Panel 1   ●    Hillary Carter, Acting Principal Deputy Coordinator for Global Health Security and Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State ●    Jim Campbell, Director of Human Health Workforce, WHO ●    Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, Pandemic Fund Civil Society board member ●    Ciro Ugarte, Director, Health Emergencies, PAHO ●    Javier Sancho, Head of Global Issues and Innovation EU Delegation to the US Moderator: Gonzalo Fanjul, ISGlobal   Panelists - Panel 2   ●    Priya Basu, Pandemic Fund ED, World Bank ●    Fernando Jiménez-Ontiveros, Director of Multilateral, Horizontal and Financial Cooperation, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation – AECID ●    Nidhi Bouri, Deputy Assistant Administrator (PPR), USAID ●    Pablo Ibarrarán, Chief of the Social Protection and Health Division, IADB Moderator: Javier Guzmán, CGD

Environment: Poll Finds Black Americans Are More Concerned About Environmental Pollution Than White Americans

 

	Poll Finds Black Americans Are More Concerned About Environmental Pollution Than White Americans According to a new Gallup poll, 4 million Black Americans have relocated temporarily, and 2 million have relocated permanently, due to pollution concerns in the last 12 months alone.