Science & Technology

Mission/Giving Statement: We seek to strengthen communities in the places we operate around the world by providing technology, talent, and funding to support cutting-edge programming and innovation.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Health & Wellness; Community; Arts & Culture

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions: 

Education: We support non-profit educational programs that create access to 21st centruy technoogy and help students learn the accompanying skills they need to succeed.

Health & Wellness: We work with organizations focused on improving health and wellness in their local communities.

Community: We support communities around the world by providing tools and funding to help mitigate serious social issues.

Arts & Culture: We work with organizations that use technology to change for the better the way individuals work and live.

Type of Funding/ Funding Restrictions: Must serve communities in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida. Oregon. Georgia. Texas or Pennsylvania; howvever can be an online or national program. Must be a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) non-profit orginzation or an NCES school or school district.

Application Instructions: Application available online.

Mission/Giving Statement: To create healthier communities worldwide.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Access to Health Care; Science Education; Develpoment of Communities

Grantmaking Program Area Description: 

Access to Health Care: To address this issue by designing, partnering on and implementing innovative programs to expand access to health care services for the world's most disadvantaged populations, by training doctors, building facilities in underserved areas or engaging in other locally appropriate initiatives.

Science Education: Serving as a catalyst by stimulating community investment and engagement. Engages and inspires students, families and teachers in scientific exploration in out-of-school informal settings. Encourages young people to be more proficient in science and attracts more scientists to the field. Builds strong partnerships that are systemic, replicable and sustainable for multiple years and multiple locations.

Development of Communities: Healthy communities possess vibrant and diverse institutions that serve the public good. These institutions range from health and human welfare agencies such as food banks, homeless shelters and health clinics to museums, libraries and universities. The Abbott Fund supports creative programs that address unmet needs of local communities. When natural disasters and emergencies strike communities, the Abbott Fund responds with Grants to trusted humanitarian relief partners. Grants are directed to both immediate needs and longer-term reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts.

Applications Instructions: Grant application instructions online.

Notes: Request for Proposals will be listed online during times the fund accepts proposals.

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:  Projects that improve conservation practices and increase knowledge about the birds, habitats and people within our boundaries. It supports and promotes habitat conservation for wintering, migrating and breeding birds that occur on playa lakes, saline lakes, marshes, riparian areas and associated uplands.

Application Instructions: See proposal instructions online.

Email Proposal To:  [email protected]

Mission/Giving Statement: The Verizon Foundation is in the business of improving lives in literacy, knowledge and a readiness for the 21st Century.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Literacy; Domestic Violence Prevention; Healthcare & Accessibility; Internet Safety

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: List of restrictions available online.

Application Instructions: The Foundation only accepts electronic proposals through its Apply Online process. 

Mission/Giving Statement: The Foundation's grantmaking philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities, rather than be a source for narrowly defined projects. As such, it develops thoughtful, long-term collaborations with grant recipients and invests sufficient funds for an extended period to accomplish the purpose at hand and achieve meaningful results. 

Grantmaking Program Areas: Conservation & the Environment; Higher Education & Scholarship; Museums & Art Conservation; Scholarly Communications & Information Technology

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Conservation & the Environment: Plants Initiative - a partnership of more than 150 herbaria from over 55 countries working to create a database of high quality images of plant type specimens of primarily African and Latin American plants.

Higher Education & Scholarship: Supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen the institutions that sustain scholarship in the humanities and "humanistic" social sciences, primarily research universities but also a small number of centers for advanced study and independent research libraries. 

Museums & Art Conservation: Supports basic research intended to enable curators, conservators, and other professionals to devote intensive study to the objects in their care, and to make their knowledge and professional expertise available to others in new as well as in more traditional ways.

Scholarly Communications & Information Technology: Scholarly communications covers a broad range of activities, including the discovery, collection, organization, evaluation, interpretation, and preservation of primary and other sources of information, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly research.  Information technology includes the design, development, implementation, and support of computer-based systems for converting, storing, protecting, processing, retrieving, and transmitting information in electronic form.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Unsolicited proposals are rarely funded.

Application Instructions: Grant inquiries should be made, by writing or email, to the appropriate program officer and program area.  LOI guidelines available online. 

Mission/Giving Statement:  To position New Mexico as a national leader in the energy and natural resources areas for which the Department is responsible.

Grantmaking Program Areas/Divisions:  Energy Conservation & Management; Forestry; Mining & Minerals; State Parks; Youth Conservation Corps

Grantmaking Program Areas/Divisions Descriptions:

Energy Conservation & Management:  Develops and implements effective clean energy programs- renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, clean fuels and efficient transportation- to promote environmental and economic sustainability for New Mexico and its citizens.

Forestry:  New Mexico State Forestry has stuatory responsibilites for wildfire suprression on all non-federal, non-municipal, non-tribal and non-pueblo lands.  NMSF also provides technical advice on forest and resource management to private landowners based on their objectives.  NMSF also participates in NM Re-Leaf, Tree New Mexico and other similar programs.

Mining & Minerals: Promotes the public trust by ensuring the responsible utilizations, conservation, reclamation and safeguarding of land and resources affected by mining.

State Parks: New Mexico has 35 diverse State Parks which offer family-friendly settings, endless recreational opportunities and hundreds of special events and educational programs each year.

Youth Conservation Corps:  Provides a process to employ youth in public projects.  Participants learn employment skills, work ethics, as well as self-discipline and self-esteem.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions:  See specific RFP for type of funding and funding restrictions.

Application Instructions:  See specific RFP for application guidelines.

Mission/Giving Statement:  The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) invests in clean energy technologies that strenthen the economy, protect the environment, and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:  EERE provides financing and incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects for the home, business, industry, utilities, and government.  To find current funding opportunities, click on the Funding tab of their website.

Application Instructions: Each grant, when announced through www.grants.gov, will provide instructions for that particular grant. Typically you willl have 4-6 weeks to respond. Most federal discretionary grant applications can be filed electronically on www.grants.gov .  It is also recommended that you send a hard copy of your grant request by overnight mail to the grant officer listed on each grant announcement.  Please note, applications must include a Dun and Bradstreet Data Univeral Numbering System (DUNS) number and register with the Central Contractor's Registry (CCR).  It is suggested that this be completed at least 30 days in advance of the application due date.

Notes: The EERE website also has an option called "Find Grants and Financial Assistance" for more information and contacts for EERE financial opportunities.

Mission/Giving Statement: To engage citizens of New Mexico of all ages and backgrounds in community based service to address the state's human, educational, environmental, public safety, health, housing, and other needs. To increase opportunities for civic engagement (volunteerism, community service, service learning, and civic participation).

Grantmaking Program Areas: Civic Engagement Activities

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions:  See individual grants for eligibility and restrictions.

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions are online and vary for each grant. 

Notes: Contact the New Mexico Commission for Community Volunteerism for additional information.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing Google's philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy and the arts.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Google Grants In-kind Advertising

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Google Grants In-kind Advertising: Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program that harnesses the power of its flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to nonprofits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Organizations awarded a Google Grant receive a free AdWords account from Google.com. These accounts do not have a set expiration date and there is no need to reapply. However Google AdWords is an online, advertiser-managed program. Organizations selected to receive a grant, should expect to commit time and effort into managing your campaigns and accounts can be canceeled if they are not actively managed. Grantees are also expected to respond to emails and surveys. See website for funding restricitons. 

Application Instructions: Grant application instructions available online. Applications are more likely to be successful if organizations have a basic understanding of the Google AdWord program and the Google Grants Program Guidelines. Applicants will be asked to provide sample keywords, ad copy, and a brief statement about how your organization will benefit from participating in the Google Grants program.

Notes: Google Grants Help is available at www.google.com/support/grants.