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Small Grants Program is sponsored by Clif Bar Family Foundation. The Clif Bar Family Foundation's Small Grants program provides general operating support grants as well as funding for specific projects that align with one or more of the Foundation's focus areas: project Earth's beauty and bounty; create a robust, healthy food system; increase…
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Regenerative and Organic Farming Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches. Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized. Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate. Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials. Clif Family Foundation currently offers two types of grants, Open Call and By Invitation Only. Click on the below links to learn more.
These grants support general operating costs and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. The Foundation reviews applications twice a year; the deadlines are March 1 and August 1 . Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline.
Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.
Priority is given to applicants that: Advance our strategic priorities and align with our values Focus their work primarily in the United States and its unincorporated territories Demonstrate strong community ties Have operating budgets under $8MM Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage After school academic-based programs Capital construction (construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building) Chapters of national organizations Faith-based or religious organizations Food banks (unless engaged in wider systemic change) Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala) Local and state public sector or government agencies Media projects (such as films, books, radio) Medical or health centers Natural disaster/emergency first response Primarily pass-through grant programming PTAs/PTOs, or individual school boosters We have done our best to provide complete information for our grants program on our website and application portal, but if you still have unanswered questions you may email us at info@cliffamilyfoundation.
org By Invitation Only Grants Our By Invitation Only (BIO) grants support nonprofit organizations in the U.S. working on critical issues that are aligned with the Clif Family Foundation’s strategic priorities and values . There are two main programs for BIO grants: 1.
Food Systems Transformation, focused on: Farmworker Justice, Health and Safety Increased Access to Good Food (i.e., healthy and equitably/regeneratively produced food) for disadvantaged communities Organic and Regenerative Farming, emphasizing human/social and equity dimensions Ann Thrupp, Senior Program Officer in Food Systems Transformation, Ann[at]cliffamilyfoundation[dot]org 2.
Climate Justice, focused on: A Resilient Built Environment: helping communities secure climate- ready structures—places that are safe, affordable, healthy and carbon positive Economic Justice: enabling solutions to come from, benefit, and create jobs in disadvantaged communities including community ownership of energy systems, and community-stewarded lands A More Powerful Climate Movement: helping grow from the bottom up a more effective movement that ensures this moment of unprecedented federal climate support reaches disadvantaged communities Sierra Martinez, Senior Program Officer in Climate Justice, sierra[at]cliffamilyfoundation[dot]org Please do not contact Sierra or Ann for inquiries regarding the Open Call Program; please review the Open Call guidelines and, if you still need assistance, use info[at]cliffamilyfoundation[dot]org Across these programs, Clif Family Foundation aims to support the following pathways: Power and movement-building of disadvantaged communities, including organizing, leadership of historically marginalized communities, and healing injustice Policy initiatives and advocacy, at local, state or national levels Job building, workforce development and/or innovative education/empowerment programs Narrative work in service of building movements Market transformation efforts or other efforts to advance systemic change Local government and/or state government agencies Biofuels, offsets, hydrogen and/or nuclear Food banks and community/school gardens (unless engaged in wider systemic change) Direct air capture or carbon capture and sequestration (not including nature-based sequestration solutions like working lands)
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: While the summary doesn't explicitly mention individuals, private foundations often fund organizations. Further investigation into their guidelines for individual applicants is recommended. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.
The Homeless Youth Program is a grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services that funds services for homeless and at-risk youth across Illinois. Administered through the Office of Community and Positive Youth Development, it supports nonprofit organizations delivering shelter, outreach, and support services to young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Eligible applicants are Illinois-based nonprofits with demonstrated capacity to serve youth. Awards range from $100,000 to $800,000 per year under CSFA number 444-80-0711. This is a FY 2026 funding opportunity with an application deadline of May 21, 2025.