First lady Michelle Obama presents her Let’s Move! campaign to provide options for ending childhood obesity. Part of that campaign includes the Apps for Healthy Kids competition in which software developers, game designers, students, and other innovators are challenged to “develop fun and engaging software tools and games that drive children, especially “tweens” (ages 9-12) – directly or through their parents– to eat better and be more physically active.”

The competition offers $60,000 in prizes. The submission period ends June 30, 2010. You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the Apps for Healthy Kids website.

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Non-profits that collaborate effectively to gain greater impact by working together are invited to apply for the 2011 Collaboration Prize.

Criteria needed for collaborations to be eligible to apply:

• demonstrates improved effectiveness in achieving social good,
• more effectively uses human and financial resources,
• represents an innovative response to a specific challenge or opportunity, and
• exhibits characteristics that would demonstrate that the collaboration is a field/sector/community model.

Applications are accepted from June 1 to July 26. Each of eight finalists will receive $12,500 and the grand prize winner will receive an additional $150,000. For additional information click here.

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The General Commission on Religion and Race (CORR) has a mission of “investing in community organizations, churches, conferences, seminaries, and ecumenical bodies that nurture programs focused on dismantling racism”. This year, their funding for racial justice is looking at programs that provide action and advocacy efforts related to sanctuary and assuring the rights of racial ethnic immigrants, groups, and refugees. CORR makes grants of up to $40,000. To apply your must return the downloadable application by June 30th. To learn more, click here.

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has just issued a call for proposals for impact evaluations under its third Open Window Round. They accept proposals for the impact evaluation of social and economic development interventions in low and middle income countries in any sector. 3ie will award up to US$10 million in grants under this round.

Preferences:

• Evaluations of large scale programs with high policy impact and include a clear communications strategy
• Proposals with close partnership with the implementing agency
• Proposals produced by developing country researchers and/or evaluators or through a partnership between developed and developing country partnership of research teams
• Evaluation designs based on the theory of change underlying the program with evaluation questions addressing the causal chain

Background

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) works to improve the lives of people in the developing world by supporting the production and use of evidence on what works, when, why and for how much. 3ie is a new initiative that responds to demands for better evidence, and will enhance development effectiveness by promoting better informed policies. 3ie finances high-quality impact evaluations and campaign to inform better program and policy design in developing countries.

Letters of inquiry are due by July 7. For more information on this RFP go to Arun Virk, Programme Officer at ow3@3ieimpact.org and to see a details visit www.3ieimpact.org/openwindow.

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(Having a teenage son, this one really struck a note for me).

The Best Buy Foundation is supporting non-profits across the United States for providing positive experiences designed to help teens in the following areas:

• to excel in school
• to engage in their communities
• to develop leadership skills

501(c) (3) tax exempt nonprofits can apply to the Foundation’s “@15 community Grants Program” which intends to grant a total of $2 million to a group of selected applicants.

“Special consideration will be given to programs that serve a diverse population in local or regional communities; build social, academic, leadership, and/or life skills in early adolescents (ages 13-18); show positive results against a demonstrated community need; and reach at-risk children in working families.”

The deadline to apply is July 1, 2010.

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The priority of the Needmore Foundation is to give support to those organizations that work toward improvement of people’s social, economic or political conditions which might bar their access to participation in a democratic society. The Foundation provides both regional and national grants. Their national grants “support grassroots community organizing groups that link the power of faith, labor, and community organizations into powerful local, state, and regional organizing networks that represent the interests of low- and moderate-income communities”.

Pre-application forms will be due this May on the 31st. Click here for more details on the Foundation’s grants and their priorities.

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State Farm Operation Centers accept grant requests for local non-profit initiatives including those for educational institutions and governmental agencies. The types of grant requests State Farm focuses on are in the following areas:

1. Safe Neighbors (auto & roadway, home, fire, natural disaster, personal finance)
2. Strong Neighborhoods (affordable housing, 1st time home owners, community revitalization,
economic development)
3. Education Excellence (teacher development, service learning, systemic improvement)

The grant cycle runs from January 2 to October 31. Each grant area has a separate application which can be accessed by clicking here.

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A competitive grant opportunity for State and local government entities, Indian tribal governments, public universities and colleges, and faith-based and community-based nonprofits is available from the Department of Justice. The DOJ offers the Second Chance Act for funding “mentoring and other transitional services to help reintegrate juvenile offenders into their communities.” Youth in programs must be younger than 18 years old.

The deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 27, 2010. For more information, click here.

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