1. The Ray Solem Foundation - Grants to Help Immigrants Learn English in Innovative Ways, P.O. Box 3589, Washington, D.C. 20027-0089,
(202) 625-6448, Fax: (202) 625-0343, rraysol@aol.com

Application Deadline: July 31, 2007

Award Amount: $10,000

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit organizations

Focus of Interest: The foundation aims to find creative ways to help poor immigrants advance within the United States and become productive citizens. Grants will support resources and programs that assist immigrants further their verbal English language and communication skills.

More info: http://www.raysolemfund.org/grants.html

2. Keep America Beautiful, Inc. , Attn: Graffiti Hurts, 1010 Washington Blvd.
Stamford, CT 06901, (203) 323-8987, graffitihurts@kab.org,

Application Deadline: June 29, 2007

Award Amount: $2000 each

Eligible Applicants: State and local governments; nonprofit youth and community-based organizations; school districts; public/state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and other groups dedicated to eradicating graffiti vandalism.

Focus of Interest: Funding aims to help communities begin or sustain a local graffiti prevention program. Grants may also be used for one-time projects that have the potential to help reduce graffiti in the community. Grants will be offered in two categories based on community population. Proposed projects can address initiatives such as graffiti prevention and education; rapid removal; or enforcement of local anti-graffiti laws.

More info: http://www.kab.org/

http://www.graffitihurts.org/grant_program/2007/grant_application.pdf

3. HHS - Domestic Violence/Runaway and Homeless Youth Collaboration on the Prevention of Adolescent Dating Violence

Application Deadline: June 8, 2007

Award Amount: $600,000 (eight awards)

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit organizations; local public agencies; and faith-based and community-based organizations.

Focus of Interest: Funding affords organizations the opportunity to design and develop collaborative services to address the intersection of services for youth by the domestic violence and runaway and homeless youth communities. Opportunities for collaborative approaches to the needs of youth in this intersection are many and varied, for example: efforts to design and provide more responsive services and improved outreach; the development of training materials and curricula to be used in a learning environment; the collection of mutually useful data that may lead to more intensive service approaches; and the development of protocols for effective strategies of prevention/intervention that may lead to improved patterns of service delivery.

More info: www.grants.gov
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-ACYF-EV-0103.html

4. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Attn: Sandra Lopacki, Deputy Director,
Route 1 and College Rd. East, P.O. Box 2316, Princeton, NJ 08543-2316,
(609) 275-4128, slopacki@lifp.org

Application Deadline: July 10, 2007

Total of Awards: $5.8 million

Eligible Applicants: Public entities or nonprofit organizations.

Focus of Interest: The foundation funds promising, original projects that aim to significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in the applicant’s community. Projects must be new, innovative, collaborative and community-based.

More info: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19831