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Organization Funding

• New Jersey Historical Commission | FY2025 Project Grant Guidelines Release | The New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) is now accepting Declarations of Intent (DOI) to apply for its annual Project Grant program. Applicants can ask for up to $20,000 for eligible New Jersey history proposals. This includes, but is not limited to, research, conservation of historical materials, educational initiatives, editorial and publication projects, exhibitions, media, public programs, and capacity building. For FY 2025, a 1-year pilot initiative will allow prospective applicants with organizational budgets of at least $50,000 to apply directly to the NJHC for project grant support. This is a decrease from the traditional $100,000 threshold of previous years. This budget figure should be based on income received for the applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year. | Guidelines | Declarations of Intent (DOIs) to Apply are due by 3pm on March 8, 2024. Full applications will be due by 3pm on April 12, 2024. | February 28th - Virtual Workshop | March 1 - Virtual Workshop | To register for the in-person workshop, please email Shawn.Crisafulli@sos.nj.gov with your name and/or organization and how many will attend no later than Monday, March 4th.
• Council on Library and Information Resources: Recordings at Risk | Application deadline: April 17, 2024 | Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories
  Grant amount: $10,000 to $50,000 |Description: Recordings at Risk, a national regranting program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources, supports the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. The grants cover the costs of preservation reformatting for fragile and obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound). Applicants must be U.S. nonprofit academic, research, or cultural heritage organizations. (Government units and their agencies focused on cultural heritage and Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations are also eligible.)
• Wilhelm Family Foundation | Arts Organizations Funded in California and Nationwide | Application deadline: April 12, 2024 | Geographic scope: National, but with emphasis on California | Description: The Wilhelm Family Foundation supports nonprofit arts organizations with the goal of helping improve the quality of life of artists and creative communities nationwide. While applications are welcome from across the U.S., most grants support organizations in California. The Foundation’s mission is to help expand artists’ access to resources by supporting organizations making creative expression, experimentation, public programming, and discourse accessible to all people, artists and non-artists alike. Grantmaking focuses on nonprofit arts organizations of all types and sizes, with an interest in organizations and programming that prioritize diversity, inclusiveness, community, and freedom of speech. Organizations that utilize art and programming to engage diverse, marginalized, at-risk, or underserved communities of all kinds are of particular interest. Generally, the Foundation’s grants are given to small nonprofit organizations that use their staff, programming, and resources to further dialog around creativity, cultural issues, and environmental and social justice issues for the benefit of artists and the communities in which they operate.
  
• Grants Address Needs in Company Communities | Walmart Spark Good Local Grants | Application deadline: Applications are accepted quarterly during the following periods: March 1 to April 15, May 1 to July 15, August 1 to October 15, and November 1 to December 31, 2024.| Geographic scope: Communities with Walmart stores, Sam’s Clubs, and distribution centers | Grant amount: $250 to $5,000 | Description: Walmart’s Spark Good Local Grants aim to address the unique needs of the communities where Walmart operates in the United States. Grants are provided to organizations that operate locally and directly benefit the service area of local facilities in U.S. communities where Walmart stores, Sam’s Clubs, and distribution centers are located. Grants support a variety of organizations, such as animal shelters, elder services, and community clean-up projects. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations; state or local government entities, including law enforcement or fire departments; K-12 public or nonprofit private schools, charter schools, and higher education institutions; and churches or other faith-based organizations with a proposed project that benefits the community at large, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, and clothing closets.
  
• Investors Foundation | Grants Enhance Community Initiatives in NJ and the NYC Area | Investors Foundation is dedicated to supporting impactful initiatives of diverse community organizations in communities the former Investors Bank served, including New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island in New York. Areas of interest include arts, education, health and human services, youth, and affordable housing. | Application deadlines: February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1, annually | Geographic scope: New Jersey and New York City and Long Island, NY
  
• Performing Arts Readiness | Network Grants | Up to $7250 will be awarded to 24 performing arts organizations to create individual, institutional emergency preparedness or Continuity of Operations (CoOP) plans. | Rolling Deadline: submit between August 1, 2023, and March 1, 2024.