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CNIGA 's Tribal Disaster Relief Fund was set up in immediate response to help Tribal members who sustained damages and losses of life during the Oct-Nov wildfire disaster in Southern California. Jacob Coin, CNIGA Executive Director states, "The fund's mission is to provide immediate temporary assistance to tribal members displaced by disasters." Contributions can be made to:

Kansas University's school of social welfare will receive $350,000 in federal funds for scholarships for students involved in American Indian issues.

The money, from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, will go to the Native American Scholars Project, which will be directed by Alice Lieberman, associate professor of social welfare, and Michelle Levy, a program assistant in the school.

The scholarships will go to American Indian or Alaska native social welfare students and professionals who choose to work with American Indian or Alaskan native tribes.

Threehoops note: Funding Indirect (Federal Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families to NonNative University) providing scholoarships to students or professionals involved in Native American issues

INDIAN TRUST FUNDS "LOST" (10/30/03): Estimates range from $10 billion to $176 billion in funds that have been "lost" by U. S. government agencies. Will mismanaged Indian trust funds ever be repaid? This is the number one question in Indian Country today. The vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Daniel Inouye, says he has been flooded with appeals from Native Americans and questions about whether "any other group of Americans would be singled out in this manner for such treatment."
The momentum of a seven-year march toward justice has suddenly been stalled. Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior put last minute language into the HR 2691 conference report on Interior appropriations, seemingly to delay or derail the prospects for repaying Indian individuals and families. The committee claimed to have the backing of the White House for this tactical maneuver to place the legislative branch over the judicial branch of government. We urge you to implore Congress to honor U. S. trust responsibilities to Native Americans.
ACTION: While the House will probably already have passed HR 2691, the Interior Appropriations bill, on Thursday, October 30 (by the time you receive this message), it is important to hold elected officials accountable. Express your disappointment to your members of Congress that a rider was added late and secretively to Interior's appropriation bill in the conference committee. Last minute riders on appropriations bills are troubling, democratically unfair, and used all too often to trample on the hopes and prospects of Indian people.

Contact: Suzanne Ackerman of the Environmental Protection Agency, 202-564-7819 or ackerman.suzanne@epa.gov

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- To simplify the sharing of environmental data, grants for continued work on the National Environmental Information Exchange Network were announced today by Acting Administrator Marianne Horinko. Forty-three states, two U.S. territories, and 16 Native American tribes received approximately $20 million in grants in the second phase of fiscal year 2003 funding.

Threehoops note: Funding Direct (Federal EPA to States, Territories and Tribes)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Native American leaders today denounced language that has been inserted in a House-Senate conference committee on funding wildfire fighting programs as a blatant attempt to deny them their hard-fought court victories and delay further the long-awaited accounting of their trust fund monies. "This is a cynical and shocking development to Native people," said Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in a seven-year-old lawsuit that has forced the Interior Department to give a full accounting of funds it holds for them in trust accounts. The accounts date from 1887 and their mismanagement by government officials has been well documented and acknowledged by Interior officials. "For seven years we have played by the rules of the court and have won for thousands of Native people, a full and complete accounting of their funds," said Mrs. Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe. "Now that we've secured that fundamental right, some members of Congress are seeking to delay the accounting so the Interior Department can once again appeal the district court's clarification of a judgment that had been unanimously upheld by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia more than 2 1/2 years ago."

NEW YORK, Oct. 28-- Native American Leader Elouise C. Cobell, who has led the fight for a full accounting of trust funds held by the federal government for thousands of American Indians, is one of four women who will be honored Nov. 14 by the Women's Leadership Exchange. Ms. Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe and executive director of the Native American Community Development Corp., will be presented with the exchange's Compass Award during a conference in New York.

In the tradition of their elders, members of the Croatan Indian Tribe offered a prayer of thanks to Father Sky and Mother Earth in celebration of a dream come true. The Orangburg-based tribe had long envisioned a plan that would help preserve and teach the public about Native American history and culture while creating jobs and tourism within the city, county and state. The tribe's months of planning and labor blossomed into reality Thursday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the first of a three-part project to develop a culture center, living village and full-scale Native American museum.
Threehoops note: Funding Direct (Individual donations and grants to Tribe)

$6 million awarded to fight drug use

Fruitvale center focuses on substance abuse problems among Native Americans
By Paul T. Rosynsky, STAFF WRITER, Tri-Valley Herald Online, CA
OAKLAND -- The Fruitvale district-based Native American Health Center received a $6 million injection to help cure the long-standing disease of substance abuse among Native American families.

"We have some pretty horrendous statistics," said Sandra Beauchamp, family services coordinator for the center. "We have been expanding our system of care for a number of years now and, with this grant, we can expand again."

The center was one of seven agencies across the country that received funds from the latest round of grants doled out by the federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The agency awarded the funds last week as part of its Children's Mental Heath Initiative. It will give the center about $1 million a year for the next six years.

"They just did outstanding work on the grant," said Jill Erickson, public health adviser for SAMHSA.

Threehoops note: Funding Direct (Federal Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to NA Nonprofit)

MASHANTUCKET -- The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center has received a $1.85 million grant from the National Science to fund scientific outreach to Native American and other minority youth.

The grant will fund four "pathways" for Native American youth, including pilot-testing of field research in archeology with two middle schools in New Haven, enhancement of the museum's public education programs, replicating field archeology with Navajo youth and reach out to larger audiences via technology, and person-to-person and Internet based professional development to other tribal nations and their institutions...

Museum officials hope the award could provide a model to train other Native American and research center programming staff. more

DENVER, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Reader's Digest named the Denver-based American Indian College Fund as the best charity in education, according to a list in its Nov. issue, which recently hit newsstands. The piece listed the best charity to which to trust donations in 12 different categories, including education. more

Three Named to Blue Cross Foundation Board

Including Kathleen Annette, M.D. of White Earth Band of Chippewa

Source: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, MN

EAGAN, Minn., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation has named three Minnesotans to its board of directors. Bemidji-area physician, Kathleen Annette, M.D., Blue Cross chief financial officer,...

Kathleen Annette, M.D., is director of the Bemidji Area Indian Health Service, which provides health services for American Indians in a five-state region through tribal and urban health clinics, community health nursing stations, walk-in first aid centers, and hospitals...She is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians and a Minnesota native.

(Blue Cross Blue Sheild Foundation in MN) ... is the state's largest grantmaking foundation to exclusively dedicate its assets to improving the health of Minnesotans. Through 2003, the Blue Cross Foundation will continue to support projects that help people with unique cultural needs navigate the health care system. In 2004, the foundation will announce new funding priorities to guide its work with community organizations and others to discover innovative ways to improve the social conditions that influence health. more

Threehoops note: Funding Opportunity

Ten years in the making, a $4.5 million Native American Student and Community Center opens this week at Portland State University. Through persistent fund-raising and outreach, former students Ray Tate, Brian EagleHeart and William Elk, among others, made it happen.
By AMANDA PENNELLY Issue date: Tue, Oct 21, 2003 The Tribune, OR

Elk said he met with former PSU President Judith Ramaley and persuaded her to put up an initial $35,000 and tentatively reserve land for the project. He also shared his vision with Jean Vollum, widow of Tektronix Inc. co-founder Howard Vollum, during a PSU ceremony in her honor. "The next day I got a call from the president's office," Elk said. "When I got in there, they all started high-fiving me." Vollum had donated $500,000 -- the first significant contribution to the center. Then the students hit the road.
Elk, who now works as an information systems manager for the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla, traveled to the tribes ... The Grand Ronde Spirit Mountain Community Fund eventually donated $250,000, and some public grants and other private donations followed. more

Threehoops note: Funding Direct (Native Tribal to NonNative) to support benefits to Native & NonNative students at NonNative University.

Alaska Senator says state to hold funds
Stevens clashes with tribal sovereignty
Posted: October 20, 2003 - 11:32am EST by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today
WASHINGTON - Three riders that would regionalize programs and give funding to the state of Alaska instead of the Alaska Villages and tribes were attached to bills by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
The riders do not require the necessity of a hearing or consultation with the tribes and would give money to the state to run tribal law enforcement or court systems and would also regionalize Native American Housing and Self Determination Act funds. Alaska has 227 recognized tribes...more

Threehoops note: Senator trying to DIVERT DIRECT CONTROL of Tribes already limited funding.

Nominations Invited for Second Annual Volvo for Life Awards
Deadline: January 16, 2004
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Two of Connecticut's top elected officials are advising the University of Connecticut law school not to accept funding for a proposed American Indian policy center from state's Indian tribes or the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.

...Charles F. Bunnell, the Mohegans' chief of staff for external and governmental affairs, said he wondered where Newton could look for funds if she could not turn to the federal government, tribes or the state. Bunnell had said earlier that the Mohegans would consider donating money to the law school. "If the argument is that tribal or federal funding is going to bias the research, I assume that same argument means that state funding would taint it also, because the state is involved in or potentially involved in lawsuits against tribes," Bunnell said. Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press more

Threehoops note: State Governor and Attorney General attempt to politicize potential Tribal philanthropy

MARION STATION -- The Accohannock Indian Tribe's application for a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant to build an American Woodland Indian Theme Park has been denied by state officials because the project does not meet the criteria for funding. more

Threehoops note: State CDBG funding denied to Tribal Economic Development project.

by U.S. Department of Education
Contact: Melody McCoy, 303-447-8760, CO
BOULDER, CO - The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) to augment NARF's tribal
education project by establishing the Tribal Education Departments
National Association (TEDNA). TEDNA will be a nonprofit organization
composed of American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Departments of
Education. This award is one of nearly $122 million in grants that will be
distributed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Indian
Education to Indian tribes, organizations, schools, and state and local
agencies. more

Threehoops note: Funding direct (NonNative Federal to Native Nonprofit) benifitting Tribal Colleges & NA College students

Superintendent Al Davidson received word during the first week in October that Atkins schools have been awarded $147,601 for three years. The funds, available for Native American studies through the U. S. Department of Education, will be used to improve skills in writing, math, vocabulary, science, cultural art and Native American history.

In addition to the three years of the grant, Atkins can re-apply for the same money for five more years, making grant's potential worth $1.2 million.

The district will purchase computers and appropriate software to strengthen learning in the above academic areas. Some of the money will be used for activities and speakers. Davidson said the grant is by far the largest ever received by Atkins schools... more

Threehoops note: Funding indirect (NonNative Federal to NonNative Public Schools)

Nov 7 Professional Development Workshop for Teachers & Educators
* Discussion about Thankgiving
* Live cultural presentation
* Hands on and interactive activities
* Traditional lunch provided
* Lesson planning and small group planning
* Resource book distributed
Only $35!!! Call the AIC and request a registration by Oct. 27th.

Powwow Sponsorship is NOW AVAILABLE!
We are encouraging groups of people, other community organizations and individuals to consider sponsoring a dance category for our 50th Annual Powwow on November 14-16, at the UIC Pavilion. See:www.aic-chicago.org or call Joe Podlasek Executive Director/ Powwow Chairman: 773-275-5871
Ongoing, DAUGHTERS OF TRADITION: A program designed especially for Native girls ages 8-12yrs for more info. 773.275.5871
ThreeHoops note: Funding direct opportunity (Native or NonNative to Native)

In upgrading FCNL's staffing for the Native American Program, we have taken a financial risk, but the current assaults by some in Congress on policies for Native Americans seemed to us to demand a strengthened FCNL response.

Our evaluation and assessment resulted in a plan to further upgrade the staffing for FCNL's Native American program... going back ten years or more, FCNL's Native American Advocacy program was developed and sustained through the work of talented legislative interns, under the guidance of one of our lobbyists. Then we gradually increased the level of attention from full-time intern, to Legislative Assistant, to Legislative Associate, and now a full time lobbyist with an intern.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Patricia Powers to the position of Legislative Secretary for Native American Advocacy. She has begun monitoring current legislation. Pat is also getting ready to resume publication of FCNL's quarterly Indian Report and periodic posting of the Native American Legislative Updates (the NALU). In the future, access the Indian report (or to) sign up for the NALU . These should be up and running starting January 2004. Pat is assisted by a legislative intern, Derek Gilliam. Derek is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University. He interned at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) the summer of 2002.

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Five agencies in Wyoming have been awarded a total of $1.2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Justice. The grants include $491,000 for the city of Cheyenne to launch a program to improve response to domestic violence. The state Department of Health will get $358,000 to enforce laws against minors buying and consuming alcohol.
Meanwhile, the Shoshone and Arapaho Joint Business Council will get $309,000 to help tribal governments to improve response to violent crimes against American Indian women.

Threehoops note: Funding direct (NonNative Federal to NonNative State & Municipality and Tribes)

By ALLISON FARRELL, Lee State Bureau and The Associated Press, Montana Standard , MT

HELENA - Economic development on tribal lands was a leading concern of the American Indian leaders who met with Gov. Judy Martz at their third annual government-to-government meeting Friday. From developing a wind power facility on the Crow Indian Reservation to restarting the idled pencil factory on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, tribal leaders said they need to kick start the economy on their respective lands. And they're hoping that about $154,000 that sits in the State-Tribal Economic Development Commission's operating budget will help rev their economic engines.

Vince Big Thunder, tribal chairman from the Rocky Boy Reservation, said the tribes could use even small shares of the money to obtain economic development funding from other sources. "Twenty-thousand dollars isn't much, but it's $20,000 more than we had before," he said... more
Threehoops note: Funding future unclear (NonNative State to Tribal Nations)

MISSOULA -- The University of Montana has launched a new program to help its growing population of Native American students succeed.

The American Indian Student Support Services program helps students with all facets of college life, said interim director Patrick Weasel Head.

Weasel Head said. Some 460 Native American students are enrolled at UM, the university's largest Indian enrollment ever. more

2003 - 2006 Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning Project

Contact: AACC, One Dupont Circle, NW - Suite 410, Washington DC 20036, Tel: 202 728 0200,

The program is designed to address the need for service-learning training and technical assistance at community colleges nationwide so that they can increase their capacity to meet local community needs. The effort is made
possible with the support of the Corporation for National and Community Service and its Learn and Serve America program.
Through the program, ten community colleges will be selected to become model service-learning institutions and will be known as Horizons mentee colleges. The ten colleges will be mentored by five experienced service learning practitioners selected through the grant competition.
Horizons Mentee College Applications: Proposals are invited from the CEOs of AACC member institutions. Proposals from tribal, historically black, and Hispanic-serving colleges are especially welcome. AACC will select up to ten colleges to receive grants of $12,000 for the period January 1 through September 30, 2004. Preference will be given to colleges new to service learning or that lack organized campus-wide service-learning programs,
initiatives, or infrastructure. An additional two years of funding is anticipated, pending Congressional authorization more info

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Threehoops note: Funding indirect (NonNative to NonNative) regranting provides possible direct benefit opportunity to Tribal Colleges.

Contact: Nedra Darling, US Department of the Interior, 202 219 4152, Washington DC

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Aurene M. Martin today announced that the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College (SCTC) in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., and the Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC) in Sells, Ariz., have been deemed eligible for assistance under the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-471). Under the Act, the Secretary of the Interior has authority to make grants to tribally-controlled colleges or universities for the purpose of continued and expanded educational opportunities for Indian students. Both tribal colleges have been granted initial candidacy for accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of six regional institutional accrediting associations in the United States. "I congratulate Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College and Tohono O'odham Community College for the tremendous progress they have made since their founding," Martin said. "These institutions are valued members of the higher education community and will be welcome additions to the family of BIA-funded tribal colleges." The BIA currently funds 25 tribally-controlled colleges and universities across the country. more info

Threehoops note: Funding direct (NonNative toNative), the BIA currently funds 25 Tribally-controlled colleges and universities. There are over 560 federally recognized Tribal Nations in the US.

Money to GSE program to offer continuing education in rehabilitation counceling

By Patricia Donovan, Contributing Editor, University at Buffalo Reporter, NY

The Region II Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RRCEP) in the Graduate School of Education has received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).

It will be used to make high-quality human resource and organizational development activities available to state and Native American rehabilitation agencies, independent living centers, client assistance programs, consumers and workplace partners that serve disabled populations in DOE's Region II, consisting of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. more info

Frances Gray "Peggy" Richards who raised $15 million for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe as a grant writer and advocate of economic development died Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003.

She also worked for decades as a judge, public servant and philanthropist. Mrs. Richards, 83, died of a heart attack after an extended illness at home in Durango, said her son, Joel Richards.

"Peggy was the driving force behind the first comprehensive community planning document for Ignacio, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the surrounding area," said Donna Young, Mrs. Richards' successor as executive director of the Southwest Colorado Community Action Programs Inc. "She was pleased this summer when the late Tribal Chairman Leonard C. Burch reported to her that all of the plans included in that 1968 planning document had come to fruition. "Many of the most successful community development initiatives in the Ignacio area are the result of seeds planted by Peggy Richards." Her long career in public service began in Pagosa Springs in the mid-1950s, when she served as town clerk and justice of the peace. She ran for and served as county judge for Archuleta County from 1961 to 1965, while simultaneously serving as chief judge of the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Council.

Memorial services for Frances Gray "Peggy" Richards will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Durango. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Mark's Memorial Fund, 910 East Third Ave., Durango, CO 81301 or to San Juan Basin Health, P.O. Box 140, Durango, CO 81302 more info

WASHINGTON - Advocates of tribal governance in Alaska say Sen. Ted Stevens should apologize for remarks he made last week while explaining why he is trying to prevent Alaska tribes from receiving certain federal grants. more info

Threehoops note: Legislator tries to decrease or eliminate Funding DIRECT (NonNative to Native)

The program will develop an infrastructure to promote prevention of inhalants and methamphetamine use among an American Indian community ranging in age from 13 to 52 years, but focusing on adolescents. The program is expected to receive the same amount in both the second and third year.

SAMHSA is a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment and mental health service delivery systems.

BEAVERTON, Ore. - Work force development programs that promote economic growth and jobs and technology projects that increase the capabilities of charitable agencies in Oregon are receiving grants totaling more than $115,000 from Verizon Foundation.

The one-year grants will go to 14 educational institutions and community-based nonprofit groups in the Portland area, Salem, Coos Bay and Wallowa County. Verizon Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, the nation's largest local telecommunications provider. more info

According to a recent report by the Points of Light Foundation, nationally less than 1/20th of 1% of grants over $10,000 made by charitable foundations go to "Native American" issues.

The McKnight Foundation in Minnesota appears to be helping to change that number for the better; it's grantmaking is closer to population parity.

On a national level, Native American people represent 1.4% of the population. In 2002, over 1.2% of the number of grants made by the McKnight Foundation went to American Indian charitable efforts in Minnesota, including:

BOSTON, Oct. 6 -- A coalition of government agencies, environmental groups, a Native American tribe and a power company announced a plan Monday to improve the habitat for threatened Atlantic salmon and other fish in Maine by removing or altering a string of hydroelectric power plants on the state's longest waterway.

"This project is an uncommon collaboration towards a common goal -- a renewed Penobscot River," Laura Rose Day, director of the Penobscot River Restoration Project, said in a news conference on the banks of the river, in Old Town, Maine. more info

Threehoops note: Funding and project colloboration: Tribal Nation, NonNative Nonprofits and Utility with funding from private donations, nonNative Foundation grants and State/Federal agencies. (NonNative & Native to NonNative & Native).

GRAND RAPIDS - The Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services has announced that $36 million in grants have been awarded to 165 Native American tribal police departments in 25 states, under the Tribal Resources Grant Program.

The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Superior Chippewa is among the recipients of a COPS grant, of $47,168 for equipment and training. Five other tribes in the Western District of Michigan will also receive grants. They include the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Natural Resources which will receive $225,000 for additional officers and $95,240 for equipment and training.

Contact: Brian Hosmer, Director, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Newberry Library,

60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610, (312) 255-3564, fax (312) 255-3696, hosmerb@newberry.org

Application Deadline: January 20, 2004, for long-term fellowship; January 15, April 15, September 15, 2004, for short-term fellowships.

From 2002 until 2005, the Newberry Library will award one long-term fellowship and a series of short-term fellowships each year to nourish research and teaching in Native American studies. The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry invites applicants whose research projects articulate a commitment to interdisciplinary synthesis, the implications of diversity among Indian communities, and/or the collegial exploration of the methodological implications of different epistemological traditions. Long-term fellowships ($40,000) support postdoctoral research in residence at the Newberry for a minimum of 10 months. Short-term fellowships ($3,000 per month plus $1,000 travel reimbursement), open only to community-based tribal historians and tribal college faculty, support one to three months of research in residence. more info

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Threehoops note: Funding indirect (NonNative to NonNative) fellowships provide direct benefit to Native American people.

Contact: Corporation for National and Community Service, 1201 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20525, phone: 202-606-5000, TTY: (202) 565-2799

Deadline: November 17, 2003
"The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced the availability of approximately $4 million for the purpose of making Next Generation Grants to eligible nonprofit organizations. The purpose of the grants is to foster the next generation of national service organizations by providing seed money to new and start-up organizations, as well as established organizations with new projects or programs, to plan and implement service programs that have the potential of becoming national in scope.

Grants awarded through the program are intended to fund innovative strategies designed to effectively engage volunteers in service and that result in measurable outcomes to beneficiaries and participants. The Corporation for National and Community Services is seeking innovative models that fall under at least one of three service areas: programs that engage individuals in an
intensive commitment to service in communities (defined as serving at least 40 hours per week); volunteer programs for seniors (age 55+); and programs that connect service with education. Organizations may focus on various issue
areas, including, but not limited to, education, the environment, health and human services, homeland security, public safety, and other critical areas.

Nonprofit charitable organizations, including public charities, community organizations (faith-based and secular), private foundations, and individual schools, are eligible to apply. Applicants other than individual schools generally must have an annual operating budget of $500,000 or less. Submissions are encouraged from community organizations (faith-based and secular), from
organizations with little or no experience with federal grants, and for projects where a grant could dramatically increase community involvement in service. Applicants cannot have received a previous grant award from the corporation, and must be able to develop programs that have the potential for becoming national in scope or provide a compelling statement that the model could be
replicated in other locations." more info

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