Monday's Grants: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Positive Childhood Development: No Deadline

Monday's Grants

As we all know, women play so many roles, we're mothers, we're daughters, we're friends, we're wives, we're amazing!  One of my roles is that of a social worker.  I've been a stay at home mom for the past 5 years and I have loved it!  But during that time, I also continued my education and received my Master's in Social Work.  I really believe that I was put on this earth to make a difference in people's lives and be a change agent.  In order to provide change as a social worker, you often need funding!  I keep updated on grants and funding that is available and I thought since I'm doing the research anyway, I might as well share my found information with individuals or groups who could also use it. So I've decided to start Monday's Grants. I will post grants weekly that may be useful to nonprofits, groups, teachers, individuals and more.  Many grants will be RFP's (Request for Proposals), but I will try to include a selection of different grants. Enjoy!

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Grants for Positive Childhood Development

Deadline: Applications Accepted Year Round
Amount: Up to $10,000 

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to their larger community and society. The Foundation approach is one of whole child development: ensuring the emotional, social, cognitive, physical, cultural, and civic development of young children, ages 0-8, within the context of families and communities. The Foundation’s work, which embodies a commitment to racial equity and civic and community engagement, focuses on educated kids, healthy kids, and secure families.

There is no application deadline--applications are accepted year around.

To apply, please visit their online application at WK Kellogg Foundation

Embracing Diversity at Home

I'm trying to start a non-profit after school program and one aspect that I would like to focus on is embracing diversity and cultural competence.  I found a great article on ways that this can be done at home called:
Messages for Parents: Embracing Diversity Teaching Your Child to Appreciate the Differences That Make People Special

Some of the tips given for helping your child to embrace diversity include:

*Read books or watch videos with tolerance, diversity and multicultural themes with your children.
*Encourage your childrens’ friendships with people who are different from them.
*Work with your child’s school or PTA to start a diversity book list or diversity organization. Let your child’s school board know that diversity in schools is important to you.
*Enroll your child in schools, camps, learning programs, day care and after-school programs that celebrate diversity.
*Be honest about differences between people. Tell children that people are not all the same; Explain that we all experience the world in different ways and those experiences are important. Help your children to understand the viewpoints and ideas of others.

To read more of the tips, go to:
Messages for Parents: Embracing Diversity Teaching Your Child to Appreciate the Differences That Make People Special