NFL Charities

NFL Charities is a nonprofit organized founded by member clubs of the National Football League. Awards are granted for youth education, recreation, and physical fitness.
> www.nfl.com

National School Fitness Foundation

Schools that have an extra 1,800 square feet and interested staff members could qualify for free athletic equipment, including weight machines and computers that measure body fat and heart rates. The offer, valued at $200,000 to $250,000 per school, comes from the National School Fitness Foundation, a Utah-based nonprofit organization that seeks to increase physical activity among school children. The equipment includes treadmills, exercise bicycles, resistive cords, shoulder presses, leg extensions, and pectoral decks, as well as timed circuit clocks, heart-rate and blood-pressure monitors, body composition analyzers, computers, fax machines, and printers.
> www.fitnessfoundation.org

Nickelodeon Announces Giveaway Program to Encourage Healthy Play

Children’s television network Nickelodeon will distribute more than $1 million from September 2005 to June 2006. The "Let’s Just Play" Giveaway offers kids around the United States the opportunity to take action and enter for a chance to improve their school or community program’s fitness resources.
Maximum Award: $5000
Eligibility: Kids (6-15 years of age), partnering with teachers and other community-based leaders.
> www.nick.com/all_nick/everything_nick/

Youth Nutrition & Fitness Grant Program

General Mills Foundation Champions Youth Nutrition and Fitness grant program to encourage communities in the United States to improve the eating and physical activity patterns of young people, ages 2-20. Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations and agencies working with communities that demonstrate the greatest need and likelihood of sustainable impact on young people’s nutrition and activity levels through innovative programs.
Maximum Award: $10,000
Eligibility: community-based groups.
> www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx

Bowling Foundation Announces Grant Program

The Bowling Foundation (www.BowlingFoundation.org), the philanthropic arm of the bowling community, sponsors the Bowler’s Ed Youth In-School Bowling Program (www.BowlersEd.com), which promotes lifelong physical activity by providing elementary and middle school teachers with free bowling curriculum enhanced with math, spelling, physics, and other important skills.

The Bowling Foundation is accepting applications to help teachers implement the Bowler’s Ed In-School Bowling program. Funds can be used to purchase in-school bowling equipment or host an in-school bowling training seminar.

Educational institutions and nonprofit organizations serving youth are eligible to apply.
> fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001784/Bowling

Nike Bowerman Track Renovation Program

The Nike Bowerman Track Renovation Program provides matching cash grants to community-based, youth-oriented organizations that seek to refurbish or construct running tracks.
Maximum Award: $50,000
Eligibility: community-based, nonprofit or nongovernmental organization (NGO) organizations serving youth that employ at least one full-time staff person and maintain a viable track program serving boys and girls, ages 14-18.
> www.nike.com/nikebiz/gc/ca/pdf/BowermanGuidelinesRFP2006.pdf

U.S. Soccer Federation Grants Program

U.S. Soccer Federation Grants Program is accepting proposals for programs that develop players, referees, and coaches through programs, field enhancements or the Foundation’s All Conditions Fields Program, with special emphasis on the economically disadvantaged in urban areas.
Maximum Award: varies.
Eligibility: Anyone with a soccer-specific program or project that benefits a non-for-profit purpose and meets the established focus for the 2006 grant cycle.
> www.ussoccerfoundation.org/site/c.gpLPJQOpHkE/b.879945/k.A80B/Grants_Overview.htm

Carnegie Corporation

Grants are given to support programs which advance literacy, and focus on urban school reform and teacher education reform.
Arts, early childhood, ESL/bilingual/foreign language, general education, health/PE, professional development, reading
Public school, private/charter school, higher education, other
> www.carnegie.org

Baseball Tomorrow Fund

Deadline Date: Quarterly: January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1
The Baseball Tomorrow Fund a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association. The purpose of this program is to promote and enhance the growth of youth participation in and softball throughout the world by funding programs, fields, coaches’ training, and the purchase of uniforms and equipment to encourage and maintain youth participation in the game. The program will review all grant applications and will be most interested in projects that help:

• Increase the number of youth participating in baseball and softball programs;
• Improve the quality of youth baseball and softball programs;
• Create new or innovative ways of expanding and improving baseball or softball programs;
• Address programs for children aged 10-16;

A letter of inquiry (consisting of no more than three pages) must be submitted to determine whether the project meets the basic criteria of the Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF). Please submit the letter of inquiry to: Baseball Tomorrow Fund
245 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10167
Grant Amount: $50,000
Contact Email: BTF@mlb.com