Healthy Living, Events & Funding

This program seeks to maximize the use of sport/physical activity as an educational intervention and social asset in order to enhance the wellness of girls as they navigate between childhood and early womanhood. The program provides $200,000 in financial assistance to sports and physical activity programs seeking to add new or expanded program participation opportunities for an under-served population of girls, particularly economically disadvantaged girls and/or girls from populations with high incidences of health-risk behaviors. Non-profit organizations must be able to deliver girls' sport/physical activity programming to girls in third to eighth grades.
Deadline: March 15, 2006

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has available approximately $7.3 million to invest in national programming projects in radio. Anyone is eligible to apply for funds. This year's categories include a talent search project, news, public affairs and music programming, plus an open category, "Producer's Choice." Complete RFP and application guidelines are on-line.
Deadline: March 31, 2006

The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism are designed to inspire and recognize exemplary reporting on children and families. The Winning stories will be well-crafted, illuminate complex issues, and contribute to public awareness. Judging is conducted by a panel of prominent journalists and journalism educators. Work must focus on children and families in the United States.
DEADLINE March 1, 2006

The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism are designed to inspire and recognize exemplary reporting on children and families. The Winning stories will be well-crafted, illuminate complex issues, and contribute to public awareness. Judging is conducted by a panel of prominent journalists and journalism educators. Work must focus on children and families in the United States.
DEADLINE March 1, 2006

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched "Healthy Eating Research," a five-year, $16 million program to evaluate changes in policies and environments that can promote healthy eating among children. The program was created to build and strengthen evidence needed to halt the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and will fund research that identifies, analyzes, and evaluates environmental and policy approaches that promote healthy eating and prevent obesity among children, particularly in low-income and racial/ethnic communities where childhood obesity is most prevalent. This first round of funding focuses on school food policies and environments. DEADLINE March 7, 2006. Complete program details and application on-line.

Nominations are open for the Purpose Prize, five $100,000 investments in Americans over the age of sixty who are combining their passion, creativity, experience, and entrepreneurial skills to tackle issues of social significance. The program will also honor sixty semi-finalists ("60 at 60+") for their social innovations. To be eligible for the prize, the nominee must be at least 60 years old, a U.S. resident, and currently working in a leadership capacity in an organization or institution (public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit) to address a major social problem. Self-nominations accepted. Application information on-line.
Deadline: February 28, 2006

Nominations are open for the Purpose Prize, five $100,000 investments in Americans over the age of sixty who are combining their passion, creativity, experience, and entrepreneurial skills to tackle issues of social significance. The program will also honor sixty semi-finalists ("60 at 60+") for their social innovations. To be eligible for the prize, the nominee must be at least 60 years old, a U.S. resident, and currently working in a leadership capacity in an organization or institution (public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit) to address a major social problem. Self-nominations accepted. Application information on-line:
Deadline: February 28, 2006

Get the recognition you deserve for your successful Sound Partners programming! Here's a listing of half a dozen opportunities for awards and funding with deadlines in the month of February. You can find this listing in the Sound Partners Programming and Production Toolkit.

It's awards season! And your Sound Partners projects are wrapping up. We know you have award-winning programming. So take a look at these awards and find the right match for your project. We want you to get the recognition you deserve!

Here's a web resource to help strengthen and diversify the funding bases of community groups. "Promising Practices in Revenue Generation" addresses these questions:
• How can we raise more money?
• What attitudes contribute to succeed grassroots fundraising?
• What staff skills are needed to increase income?
• What types of fundraising do highly effective organizations focus on?
• When is government funding useful? When is it risky?