LyftUp is accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Funder: LyftUp

Due: Ongoing opportunity

Funds: Organizations that need delivery services for essential goods—such as groceries, medical supplies, auto parts, and home necessities—who are matched with Lyft drivers that can carry the deliveries out. This can also include trips to the grocery store, pharmacy, healthcare appointments, etc. for those in need.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUiTfWdML2vVHXxNcsooEPxLYNQ8SMN3q4x8ICY8nszgR0Xw/viewform

Funder: Common Counsel Foundation

Due: Rolling deadline, February through November; applications submitted by the first Monday of each month will be reviewed for consideration by the end of the month

Funds: Small rapid response grants to support small community-based groups seeking to meet with other grassroots organizations, build collaborative campaigns, and benefit from organizing, training, and technical assistance opportunities

https://www.commoncounsel.org/grantmaking-initiatives/grassroots-exchange-fund/

Funder: Deaconess Foundation

Due: July 29, 2022

Funds: 1-2 year grants for Deaconess Impact Partners to sustain capacity-building culture and advance child well-being policy

https://deaconess.org/apply-for-funding/

Funder: Build Healthy Places Network

Due: March 18, 2022

Funds: Building local Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)-led community development capacity, supporting community power, exploring innovative community ownership models, and addressing the barriers and gaps within community development and health partnerships to effectively propel racial equity.

https://buildhealthyplaces.org/sharing-knowledge/blogs/news/community-innovations-for-racial-equity-2022/

Funder: Goldman Sachs Group

Due: March 11, 2022

Funds: 50 Black women-led nonprofits will be selected to receive general operating funding ranging from $50,000 to $250,000 over two years. Organizations must align with at least one of the seven impact areas of One Million Black Women: healthcare, education, housing, digital connectivity, financial health, access to capital, and job creation and workforce advancement.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-commitments/sustainability/one-million-black-women/impact-grants/index.html

Funder: Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3)

Due: March 1, 2022

Funds: Grants for programs in Illinois communities that have been harmed by violence, excessive incarceration, and economic disinvestment

https://r3.illinois.gov/

Funder: Olin School of Business at Washington University

Due: December 13, 2021

Provides: Team-based, student-led, applied learning projects at local nonprofits over the course of 10 to 12 weeks

https://olinbusiness.ut1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ELcetkYkWNhCpE

Funder: U.S. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

Due: October 12, 2021

Funds: The Capital Magnet Support program provides competitively awarded grants to fund affordable housing arrangements and community revitalization initiatives that benefit low-income individuals and communities across the nation.

https://www.cdfifund.gov/programs-training/programs/cmf

Funder: Forward Through Ferguson & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Due: April 19, 2021

Funds: Initiatives that: (1) heal individual and community trauma, (2) engage a broader range of residents in systems change work, (3) prepare leaders of color to organize for healing justice, (4) build local capacity to nurture, support, and cultivate healing assets and (5) align resources for long-term sustainability.

https://forwardthroughferguson.org/fundingpriorities/

Funder: St. Louis Community Foundation

Due: April 16, 2021

Funds: The Black Communities Investment Initiative seeks established nonprofit partners working directly with Black Communities in the following impact areas: arts, culture and humanities, civil rights, social action and non-political advocacy, community Improvement and capacity building, education, human Services, including organizations addressing mental health, behavioral health, and trauma, grants will support general operating costs for up to two years or one-time capacity building projects.

https://stlgives.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Black-Communities-Investment-Initiative-RFP.pdf?fbclid=IwAR33KsBg9zs1ZQzeMYKGi192aMeHBnZxCHAxhbGkrMEfSOb3WwRI9dSYJOs

Funder: The National Trust for Historic Preservation

Due: The deadline for letters of intent is January 15, 2021; invited applications will be due May 3, 2021

Funds: The Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. The Fund supports work in four primary areas: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation

https://forum.savingplaces.org/build/funding/grant-seekers/specialprograms/aachactionfund

This fund is accepting inquiries on a rolling basis.

Funder: Enterprise Community Partners

Due: Ongoing opportunity

Funds: In response to COVID-19, this program offers nonprofit community partners a broad range of support to ensure vulnerable, low-income families and individuals can remain in their homes and access support during this crisis.

• Emergency grants to help them stay afloat and meet their residents' and communities' immediate needs.

• Guidance, planning strategies and technical assistance to help them remain viable.

• Assistance in seeking critical government relief funds and other interventions.

Owners or operators of affordable housing that are interested in learning more about the program may submit an online inquiry at any time.

https://resilientfutures.enterprisecommunity.org/about-emergency-action-for-resident-partner-stability

Funder: Data Across Sectors for Health with support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Due: December 16, 2020

Prize Funds: 5 awards of $100,000 for targeted funds and direct technical assistance to build the capacity of their community’s data ecosystem to initiate, strengthen, and leverage relationships with the state government to improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes.

https://dashconnect.org/funding-opportunities/lapp/

Funder: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Due: October 28, 2020

Supports: Funds to carry out eligible assessment and cleanup activities with a proposed target area, such as a neighborhood, a number of neighboring towns, a district, a corridor, a shared planning area, or a census tract

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/types-brownfields-grant-funding#tab-8

Funder: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Due: October 28, 2020

Supports: Funds to inventory, characterize, assess, conduct a range of planning activities, develop site-specific cleanup plans, and conduct community involvement related to brownfield sites

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/types-brownfields-grant-funding#tab-2

Funder: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Due: October 28, 2020

Supports: Funds for eligible entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/types-brownfields-grant-funding#tab-4

Funder: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Due: October 21, 2020

Supports: Funds for eligible entities, including nonprofits, to provide technical assistance to communities on the integration of environmental justice and equitable development when developing solutions to brownfields cleanup and revitalization challenges

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/fy-2021-brownfields-training-research-and-technical-assistance-grant-0

Funder: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Due: September 22, 2020

Supports: Funds for eligible entities, including nonprofits, to to deliver Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/fy-2021-environmental-workforce-development-and-job-training-ewdjt-grants-0

Funder: Visa

Due: July 31, 2020

Funds: $10K grant + a 1-year IFundWomen Annual Coaching Membership for Black women-owned businesses

https://ifundwomen.com/visa?fbclid=IwAR2EVNKt9aI-5pkEnz1tGom91pxQmeT7YIhAw6UPLWnBPckiJuIYKclpJOo

Funder: Sara Blakely Foundation

Due: July 13, 2020, 11:00 am CT

Funds: At least 1,000 grants of $5,000 each to female entrepreneurs in the U.S. to help alleviate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis

https://www.globalgiving.org/redbackpackfund/

Funder: Mosaic

Due: June 12, 2020, 11:59 pm PT

Funds: Grassroots nonprofits & networks supporting grassroots nonprofits whose main purpose is environmental protection and/or environmental justice; grants will support tools, technology, training, and resources to help organizations transition to effective remote work and communications as a result of COVID-19

http://mosaicmomentum.org/covid19/

Funder: Invest STL

Due: Rolling deadline

Funds: Formal and informal neighborhood associations and similar organizations to support organizing and connecting with neighbors while upholding physical distancing guidelines.

https://stlgives.org/community-impact/invest-stl-2/neighborhood-solidarity-fund/

This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Funder: Invest STL

Due: Rolling deadline

Funds: Neighborhood-focused community development organizations to maintain core operations, staff and healthy work environments. Grantees may also use the funds to provide additional emergency services or financial support to the neighbors they serve.

https://stlgives.org/community-impact/invest-stl-2/neighborhood-solidarity-fund/

This grant is accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Funder: Invest STL

Due: Opens April 20, 2020; Rolling deadline

Funds: Neighborhood-serving small businesses to maintain staff, facilities and other essential costs. Grantees may also use funds to adapt to remote operations where possible.

https://stlgives.org/community-impact/invest-stl-2/neighborhood-solidarity-fund/

Funder: Enterprise Community Partners and Wells Fargo
Due: February 19, 2020 (first-round RFP)
Funds: Enterprise and Wells Fargo invites innovators to participate in a competitive application process with an opportunity to receive a grant to further scalable housing affordability solutions that specifically address housing construction, housing financing, and/or resident services and support.

https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/announcing-housing-affordability-breakthrough-challenge

Funder: Wells Fargo and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Due: Pre-Proposal due date: February 18, 2020 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time

Funds: Adaption through conservation projects, community capacity building and demonstration projects, adaption focused on affordable housing and small businesses

https://files.constantcontact.com/168520a1201/143ee0f1-96e8-48d3-95de-b6e6e0abfe0d.pdf

Funder: The BALSA Foundation
Due: January 24, 2020
Funds: First-time entrepreneurs working to get their ideas off the ground

http://www.balsafoundation.org/balsa-grant

Funder: The Atlantic & Allstate
Due: December 10, 2019
Funds: Celebrates local nonprofits that are finding creative solutions to America’s most pressing problems

https://www.theatlantic.com/renewal-awards/

Funder: Equifax Foundation
Due: November 8, 2019
Funds: $25,000 grant to fund a capacity-building project for an organization conducting financial education work in St. Louis City.

Download the application here.

Download the application guide here.