GrantStation Insider | August 21, 2025

Application deadline: Letter of Interest October 31, 2025
Grant amount: Up to $75,000
Description: The American Association of University Women (AAUW) funds Community Impact programs that create hands-on STEM learning experiences for girls in grades K–12. These initiatives often include mentorship, family involvement, and activities designed to build confidence. AAUW places special emphasis on projects that serve rural and under-resourced communities. By supporting these efforts, AAUW works to expand equity and opportunities for young girls in STEM fields.

Application deadline: The fall deadline is September 25, 2025. (New applicants must submit an account request by September 19, 2025.)
Geographic scope: United States and internationally
Grant amount: Generally $1,500 and $7,500
Description: The Amphion Foundation aims to encourage the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to performing, presenting, and music service organizations. The Foundation’s fall grant cycle is open to presenting and music service organizations for activities including professional development programs, educational initiatives, presenting concerts and festivals, artist residency programs, and archival activity. (The Foundation’s spring grant cycle supports performing organizations.) General operating support is available for organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American concert music and plans to continue that commitment, while project support is available for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary concert music that are out of the scope of an organization’s regular programming. Applicants must have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (or the foreign equivalent) or have a fiscal sponsorship, and have two or more years of performance or program history as an organization.

Application deadline: Pre-applications November 1, 2025
Grant range: $25,000 to $75,000 
Description: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is the U.S. Catholic bishops’ domestic program aimed at addressing the root causes of poverty through community-driven solutions and education. It empowers low-income individuals and communities to break cycles of poverty by supporting self-help organizations and fostering participation in decision-making. CCHD offers two main types of funding: Community Development Grants, which strengthen solidarity and leadership among people living in poverty, and Economic Development Grants, which support community-based businesses that create jobs and build assets. Grant awards typically range from and may include general support, seed funding, capacity building, technical assistance, and implementation support.

Application deadline: None
Grant amount: Book donations are provided.
Description: The Lisa Libraries donates children’s books to nonprofit organizations across the United States. Support is provided to organizations in low-income or underserved areas that need a small library, need to rebuild or add to a library, or serve children who would benefit by being given new books to take home. Some of the libraries established have been at daycare centers, prison visiting areas for children of incarcerated parents, and after-school programs. The book donations are free; however, recipient organizations must cover the shipping and handling costs.

Application deadline: October 1, 2025
Geographic scope: First Winston-Salem, NC; Second NC, Third Southeast; and Fourth Nationally
Median grant: $30,000
Description: The James G. Hanes Memorial Fund primarily supports nonprofit organizations in Winston-Salem, across North Carolina, and, secondarily, in the southeast and nationally. The Fund’s areas of interest are wide-ranging, including arts and cultural initiatives, community-based programs, environmental conservation, health and education, and social services. Grants are awarded for diverse purposes such as project support, seed funding, land acquisition, equipment, facilities, matching and challenge grants, planning, research, and general operating needs. 

Application deadline: 2nd Friday in September
Geographic scope: Priority in Florida and Alabama
Average grant: $15,000 to $20,000
Description: The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation focuses on conserving natural resources in eastern North America and the Caribbean Basin, with priority funding in south Florida and Alabama. Its major program areas include marine resource conservation—especially fisheries—and ecosystem protection in key Florida regions such as the Everglades, Biscayne Bay, and the Florida Keys. Additional funding priorities address Alabama environmental issues, as well as pre-selected initiatives in Washington, DC, and global population-environment programs. Site-specific grants are strictly limited to south Florida and Alabama.

Application deadline: The next quarterly application cycle will open on October 9, 2025. The Foundation accepts the first 600 applications for each open cycle.
Geographic scope: The focus is on areas served by Firehouse Subs restaurants. However, the Foundation recognizes the need of rural and volunteer departments throughout the country, and will consider applications more than 60 miles from a Firehouse Subs restaurant as well.
Grant amount: Grants average $15,000 to $25,000.
Description: The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation seeks to impact the lifesaving capabilities and the lives of local heroes and their communities by providing lifesaving equipment and prevention education tools to first responders, nonprofits, and public safety organizations in the United States. Funding areas include lifesaving equipment, prevention education, disaster relief, support to military veterans, and scholarships and continuing education for individuals pursuing a career in public safety. Fire departments, law enforcement agencies, EMS organizations, municipal and state organizations, public safety organizations, nonprofit organizations, and schools are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: The upcoming quarterly deadline is December 15, 2025.
Geographic scope: Tennessee
Grant amount: Up to $50,000
Description: The Tennessee Center for Health Workforce Development aims to improve the health of Tennesseans by guiding healthcare workforce development in Tennessee. The Center’s Practice Site Recruitment and Retention Incentive program gives rural and underserved primary care practice sites up to $50,000 to use in their efforts to recruit primary care physicians, psychiatrists, psych nurse practitioners, and dentists. Eligible sites include critical access hospitals, federally qualified healthcare centers, rural health clinics, health departments providing primary care, faith-based clinics, or private practices in rural or underserved areas of Tennessee that serve TennCare or uninsured patients. The $50,000 grant can be used for sign-on bonuses, enhancement of benefits, relocation expenses, equipment necessary for improved provision of care, tuition or loan repayments, and other recruitment needs.

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This curriculum for digital literacy programs includes a learner booklet and a trainer guide filled with practical tips, links to trusted resources, and hands-on activities. Whether teaching about spyware, ransomware, cyberbullying, or just staying safe online, this curriculum offers clear, empowering lessons.

When conducting your grants research, do you feel limited by where your organization is located? Think beyond just your organization's location to the full reach of your work. For example, your farmers cooperative is based in Sun Valley, but you deliver food to markets in several adjoining towns and cities. Those towns and cities represent a secondary impact area. When researching, make sure you're including where you are located as well as your secondary impact area. This will help you find additional potential funders.

Webinar date: September 4, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: Getting meaningful feedback on your proposals from grantmakers can be frustrating. Like many grantseekers you probably want to know what worked, what didn’t, and how to improve next time. But the reality is funders often can’t —or won’t— provide direct feedback on proposals. Veteran grantmaker Maryn Boess steps into her funder shoes to give you a candid, practical look at how to navigate this tricky terrain.

Webinar date: September 8, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: A strong approach section tells funders not only what you’ll do, but that you can do it well. As competition intensifies, you need to present a plan that is detailed, logical, responsive to your community, and supported by evidence. With so many factors to consider, it's easy to make mistakes and write an approach that has insufficient detail or is misaligned with other portions of your proposal. During this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will show you how to write an approach that inspires confidence in your program and shows it is well-planned, feasible, and builds on community assets

Webinar date: September 9, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: Successful organizations create complete grants management systems that transform one-time awards into lasting funder relationships and reliable revenue streams. During this webinar, Hannah Wiginton will share a proven grants management process that goes beyond writing individual proposals and instead creates a coordinated strategy to build sustainable funding relationships.

Struggling to explain your true costs to funders?

Join Deborah Steinkopf and Anthony Petchel as they break down the essentials of categorizing, justifying, and communicating your nonprofit’s true costs. Walk away with tools to build fundable budgets, collaborate with finance teams, and overcome the “overhead myth.” This webinar will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 2 PM EDT.

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