Grant Writing News

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the largest U.S. grantmaking foundations ranked according to its market value of assets, has awarded a huge amount of grant this year to a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization. The grant recipient, Center for Public Integrity, aims to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make […]

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has just announced that its organization will be awarding grants geared in the proliferation of digital media, more specifically in the arena of video game development. NEA’s grant category of The Arts on Radio and Television has been replaced with The Arts in Media. It focuses in intensifying

Cambridge, Mass. – March 9, 2011 – Student entrepreneurs in Harvard have won $50,000 in grants to support further development of innovative ventures in the Harvard College Innovation Challenge (I3). Five teams were selected as winners and runners-up from an applicant pool of 84 teams—double the number of hopefuls in last year’s contest—for projects ranging

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports all of the American states and the International community started funding since 1994. In fact, the foundation has ranked first in the list of top 100 US foundations by asset size. The list was released by the Foundation Center. As of 2009, the foundation had assets of $33,912,320,600. Just

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is dedicated to advancing environmental conservation and scientific research around the world, as well as helping to improve the quality of life in its homeland for more than 70 years, San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation is devoted to the inspirational vision articulated by its founders: “creating positive outcomes

Lindsey Stilley, a 16-year-old high school student of New Bern High School, was one of the 14 awardees of the $2,000 grant promoting the prevention of suicide among teenagers in the United States. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the grant opportunity intensifying its campaign in the prevention of youth suicide.

Kathryn Pantell, a senior high school student at The Willows Academy located in Des Plaines, has been awarded with the National Merit Scholarship grant of $2,500. Pantell is only one of the 2,500 high school students to win the prestigious scholarship. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSP) was established in 1955 to help and recognize

February 11, 2011 – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) has won a $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support highly qualified, economically disadvantaged, students to study Computer Science and Information Technology and to revitalize interest in those fields. “The Advancing Computing Education through Synergistic Support (ACESS) program provides scholarships, mentoring, leadership activities, and other opportunities

Scientists at General Electric (GE)’s technology arm, GE Global Research, with the Air Forces Research Laboratory, State University at Albany, and university of Exeter, have received a four-year, $6.3 million award from the Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) to develop new bio-inspired nanostructured sensors for faster, more selective detection of dangerous warfare agents and