General Funding Links and Tools

Afterschool Alliance Funding Tools
While afterschool programs serve a variety of communities, from rural to urban to everything in between, at least one thing is common: the need for sustainable funding. Programs that are successful at raising money share another common characteristic: they reach out and ask for support.
Funding Publications: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/funding.cfm
Fund-Raising Links: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/funding_links.cfm

After School Tool Box
The PASE/TASC Youth Funders Database provides the youth services community with the latest public and private funding information, including ongoing funding sources, as well as time sensitive RFPs. http://www.tascorp.org/toolbox/fundingdb

Edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/grants/index.html

Finance Project and the Forum for Youth Investment
The Finance Project has recently finished several new publications which build upon our previous work in this area and include information on finding funding, suggestions for applying financing strategies and strategies for partnership building. Please visit The Finance Project's website at http://www.financeproject.org/irc/yp.asp to access the series and to learn more about the project.

A Guide to Successful Public-Private Partnerships for Youth Programs
http://financeproject.org/publications/PublicPrivate_PM.pdf

Creating Dedicated Local and State Revenue Sources for Youth Programs
http://financeproject.org/publications/DLR_PM.pdf.

Finding Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Youth Programs
http://financeproject.org/publications/findingfunding_PM.pdf.

Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Youth Programs
http://financeproject.org/publications/Thinkingbroadly_PM.pdf.

Profiles of Promising Practices
http://financeproject.org/irc/yp/profiles.asp.

Funding Opportunity to Increase Participation in After school and Summer Nutrition Programs
From March 10-May 30, 2008, Share Our Strength will be accepting grant applications from current sponsors of summer and after school meal programs for children that utilize USDA-reimbursement and organizations that increase participation through advocacy and outreach. Grants from Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale will support efforts to increase participation among low-income school-age children in afterschool and summer meal programs. Share Our Strength is specifically interested in increasing participation in meal programs that utilize USDA-reimbursement through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), National School Lunch Program (NSLP), or Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). Nonprofit organizations that work to increase the number of children that receive nutritious afterschool and summer meals may be eligible to apply for funds raised through Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale. Grant awards will range from $1,000 to $10,000.
http://www.greatamericanbakesale.org/grants

Nellie Mae Education Foundation
To learn more about grants awarded, click on one of the categories below. The Foundation provides grant awards on a rolling basis throughout the year, so you will find that grants for the current year are updated each quarter.
http://www.nmefdn.org/Grantmaking/Grants.aspx

School Funding Center
The School Funding Center monitors more than 4000 websites, newsletters, and other grant sources to give you the one central location where educators can find every federal, state, & foundation grant available to their schools. Requires email sign-up for free grant search or subscription for full availability.
 http://schoolfundingcenter.info/(pc2mtn55grm1frejmlztlt24)/index.aspx