Grants

Lisa Halstead, board president of GreaterGood.org, announced that grants totaling more than $2.7 million have gone to 109 charities and nonprofits operating in the United States and around the world between January and September 2011.

Foundation Source, provider of outsourced support services for private foundations, announced the launch of GrantSafe™, a free online service that lets private foundations quickly and easily confirm the IRS status of any public charity before making a grant. GrantSafe’s new public availability furthers the company’s mission to encourage informed and responsible philanthropy among the nation’s private foundations.

As part of its “Celebration of Service” initiative to honor U.S. military veterans, The Home Depot Foundation announced $1 million in grants to human service charity Volunteers of America to address the critical need for housing and services for U.S. military veterans.

Grants announced include $750,000 for 11 Volunteers of America homeless veterans programs in 10 cities. These grants will be used to build or refurbish transitional housing for 242 veterans, and to provide eight single-family homes for lease or lease-purchase by veterans with families.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has received $1 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Leadership U[niversity], a grant program to support the development of theatre leaders at various points in their career. The overall intent of this program is to strengthen the field by developing the individuals who are the core and the future of theatre.

Dr. Bev Browning shares 10 steps to getting that grant your organization is going for.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter announced nearly $500 million in grants to community colleges around the country for targeted training and workforce development to help economically dislocated workers who are changing careers. The grants support partnerships between community colleges and employers to develop programs that provide pathways to good jobs, including building instructional programs that meet specific industry needs.

Twin Cities Rise is a nonprofit that trains unemployed and under-employed people for good jobs. Now this Minneapolis organization is receiving international attention and a $50,000 grant. The eBay Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers awarded the grant to Twin Cities Rise because of the way it funds its operations.

The Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh has received a $3.54 million grant from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation. Pitt is one of only five universities nationwide to receive the foundation’s Coulter Translational Partnership II Award; the five-year grant to the Swanson School’s Department of Bioengineering will fund research that employs engineering techniques to develop improvements in health care, with the ultimate goal of accelerating the introduction of new technologies into patient care.

Sean Penn's Haiti relief charity has been given a boost after receiving a $2.25 million grant from officials at the World Bank to help victims of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization will use the money to repair homes, assist more than 500 needy families, and build solar-powered water kiosks, according to the Associated Press.

One hundred nonprofit organizations from 44 states and the District of Columbia received grants under the Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs Act (PRIME), the U.S. Small Business Administration announced.

Grants will be used to provide business-based training and technical assistance to low-income and very low-income entrepreneurs to help them start, operate or grow a small business. Grants will also be used to better equip community-based nonprofit organizations to provide training.

View the list of grantees here.