Grant: The Trust seeks to foster healthy development and future independence by increasing opportunities for children and youth up to age 25. Organizations should strive to achieve a long-term, sustainable difference in the lives of the people they serve, offering a comprehensive set of services designed to break the cycle of poverty rather than simply providing a service to meet immediate needs. Programs of greatest interest offer direct services to disadvantaged children and youth, such as academic enrichment and support, mentoring and youth leadership, arts outreach integrated with school curriculum, and recreational activities and camps incorporating youth development objectives.

Funder: The May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust

Eligibility: Organizations working to achieve a long-term, sustainable difference in the lives of children and youth are eligible to apply.

Amount: Multiple awards of varying amounts will be granted to select applicants.

Contact: http://www.adminitrustllc.com/may-and-stanley-smith-charitable-trust/

Grant: We Choose Health is a multi-year effort to encourage and to support population-based obesity and tobacco prevention in Illinois communities. We Choose Health is a sub-award program to fund organizations and coalitions working on chronic disease prevention at the local level.

Funder: Illinois Department of Public Health

Eligibility: Local government entities, schools systems, community organizations, and coalitions ready to take on this important work for the health of Illnoise and its residents are eligible to apply. Please note that due to restrictions placed on the Illinois Department of Public Health by the CDC, this grant cannot fund communities in the five largest counties of Illinois (Cooke, DuPage, Lake, Will or Kane Counties).

Amount: $3.3 million dollars, with maximum awards of up to $300,000 per year for a period of four years.

The We Choose Health initiative offers applicants the opportunity to mix and match among a variety of strategies covering these target areas.

Contact: If you have questions, submit them to DPH.wechoosehealth@illinois.gov. Questions and answers will be posted on the FAQs page so visit this page frequently.

Below are links to the Request for Application (RFA), an instruction packet for completing the RFA, a policy briefing book that will provide more detail on the interventions We Choose Health is looking to fund, and a letter of intent form. Please review all documents carefully.

To apply for this funding, you must submit a completed letter of intent form via e-mail by 5pm, May 18, 2012. Completed applications are due by e-mail no later than 5pm, June 15, 2012.

We Choose Health urges all interested to attend one of the RFA information sessuib scheduled for May 10th and May 15th.

RFA Instructions

Letter of Intent

Grant Application

RFA Policy Brief

Applicant Task List

PTO Today, Inc. is celebrating the hard work and dedication of parent groups by giving away a grand prize of $3,000; and $500 to each category winner for Outstanding Family Event, Outstanding Community Service Project, Outstanding New Group, and more.

Details and entry form: http://www.ptotoday.com/pgy/details-and-prizes

Grant: offering sub-award grants to community groups in Southeast Alaska interested in improving the health of their communities.

Funder: Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). The national Community Transformation Grant program, which includes SEARHC, is funded by the Affordable Care Act's Prevention and Public Health Fund. The program is expected to run for five years and reach more than one in three U.S. citizens - about 120 million Americans.

Eligibility: according to the funding objectives, projects should be policy-driven and have a well-planned strategy to address at least one of the three focus issues: tobacco-free living; active living and healthy eating; and high-impact quality clinical and other preventive services to prevent and control high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Amount: Grant amounts will vary depending on the project and the number of people served. Organizations can choose to apply for grants of $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 or $24,750. If funding allows, SEARHC expects to offer the chance to apply for sub-awards every year until 2016.

Contact: For more information or to get the request for proposal, contact Martha Pearson at 966-8783 or martha.pearson@searhc.org.

The Freeport Community Foundation in Northwest Illinois is accepting applications for drug prevention and treatment grants. The grants will go to organizations with educational, prevention or treatment programs that focus on youth. A Grant Seekers meeting will be held on April 18, 2012, from 12:00pm-1:00pm at the Foundation Office.

Funder: The Freeport Community Foundation.

Contact: Applications and grant forms are at www.freeportcommunityfoundation.org or call 815-801-3035.

Grant: The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources announced that communitities across the state can apply for grants to create healthier places to live, work and play through the Transform Wisconsin Fund.

Funder: U.S. Centers for Disease Control Community Transformation Grant

Eligibility: The fund will competitively award community grants to more than 30 coalitions, nonprofit organizations, and local governments across the state of Wisconsin. Grants will be awarded based on three strategic directions: tobacco-free living, health food systems and active communities.

Amount: a total of $6.6 million will be award to community coalitions and partnerships.

Applicants can submit a proposal for one direction or all three, depending on organizational capacity. The clearinghouse will award "Transformation Grants" for up to four coalitions ready to immediately target all three directives. Those organizations targeting one issue-specific directive will be considered for one of 30 "Impact Grants."

Contact: http://www.transformwi.com/

Grant: To provide direct support for children in the areas of health and wellness such as childhood disease research foundations, child safety organizations and organizations that serve children with special needs. Previous winners include Adoptions Together, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals of CoxHealth, Mississippi Food Network, The Center for Grieving Children, and Youth Emergency Services and Shelther.

Funder: Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation

Amount: Multiple grants of $5,000 will be awarded to select applicants. Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada are eligible to apply.

Contact: Please contact the Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation for more information and to apply for this funding: http://www.buildabear.com/shopping/contents/content.jsp?catId=400002&id=700010

Source: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS)

Grant: The WellPoint Foundation invests in domestic initiatives that help improve the lives of people and the health of local communities. The Foundation promotes healthy behaviors, health-risk prevention, and healthy environments. Focus areas include childhood obesity prevention. The Foundation considers both local and national initiatives whose outcomes predominantly impact any of the 14 states in which WellPoint, Inc. does business.

Funder: The WellPoint Foundation.

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations are eligible.

Amount: award amounts vary.

Contact: http://bit.ly/J3HtOg

Grant: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to promote positive parenting skills and behaviors, school readiness, parental school involvement, adult education, community economic development, and civic engagement for a simultaneous impact on both parents and children in order to break the cycle of poverty.

Funder: AVANCE

Eligibility: Eligible entities include nonprofit organizations serving low-income, high-need Hispanic families.

Amount: Awards of up to $50,000 will be available.

Contact: http://www.avance.org/2012/05/50000-grants-available/

Grant: The CVS Caremark Community Grants program awards funds to nonprofit organizations targeting children under the age of 21 with disabilities, projects focusing on healthcare to the uninsured and underserved, and to public schools.

Funder: CVS Caremark

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations targeting children under the age of 21 with disabilities.

Amount: Selected organizations meeting the above criteria will be eligible for receiving awards amounts up to $5,000.

Contact: http://info.cvscaremark.com/community/our-impact/community-grants/