New Grants

Deadlines

• 2/24/2012: Other

  New York

  Grants of up to $1,000 each from the Catalyst Program in Soundview Park, administered by the City of New York Parks and Recreation department and the City Parks Foundation. Grants will support local community participation to revitalize this waterfront park in the Bronx, helping engage park users organize recreational, educational, artistic, and waterfront activities for the Soundview Park Festival on July 14.

  E-mail: cmartinez@cityparksfoundation.org

  Web site: http://www.partnershipsforparks.org

• 2/24/2012: Social services

  Nominations for the William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship to the founder or leader of a clearly effective organization who has emerged as a prominent public leader in his or her field. The award carries with it a personal honorarium in the amount of $100,000. The Institute also annually presents the Richard Cornuelle Awards for Social Entrepreneurship to as many as five nonprofit organizations that provide a direct service to the public. Each organization will receive $25,000.

  E-mail: mhennessey@manhattan-institute.org

  Web site: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/se_nomination.htm

• 2/27/2012: Arts and culture

  Minnesota, New York

  The 2012 Travel and Study Grant Program will award grants to emerging creative artists (choreographers, film and video directors, poets, spoken word artists, fiction and creative nonfiction writers) living in Minnesota or the five boroughs of New York City. Minnesota-based executive and program administrators working for nonprofit organizations in dance, film and video, and literature are also eligible to apply.

  E-mail: info@jeromefdn.org

  Web site: http://www.jeromefdn.org