Nearly six in ten (59 percent) Americans say they would rather have a donation made on their behalf to their favorite charity than receive a gift for themselves this year, a report from Fidelity Charitable finds. Based on a survey of more than fifteen hundred American adults, the report, Year-end Charitable Giving: A 2021 Snapshot of How Americans Plan to Give, found that 64 percent of respondents said they participate in year-end charitable activities, including giving money (53 percent) or donating goods (46 percent) to charities, donating cash or goods directly to families in need (27 percent), performing random acts of kindness (25 percent), and volunteering (20 percent). To view the full report, go to www.fidelitycharitable.org/content/dam/fc-public/docs/resources/2021-end-of-year-giving-snapshot.pdf.
From Philanthropy News Digest website, accessed Dec. 3, 2021.

While public trust has been relatively steady since 2017, overall donor participation rates continued to decline in 2020, a report from BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s Give.org finds. Based on a survey of more than twenty-one hundred adults in the United States and more than a thousand adults in Canada, the report, Give.org Donor Trust Report 2021: Profiles in Charity Trust and Giving, found that the share of respondents who say they “highly trust” charities has ranged between 16.8 percent and 19 percent over the last four years. To view the full report, go to www.give.org/docs/default-source/donor-trust-library/2021-donor-trust-report.pdf.
From Philanthropy News Digest website, accessed Dec. 3, 2021.

 

SOURCE: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2022.
$ AVAILABLE: $12.8 million for 32 awards. States must match at least 40 percent of federal funds provided under this grant.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants include only Governor-designated, state government entities, such as the office of state’s dental director or a state-run university or dental school. In addition to the 50 states, eligible applicants include the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Private institutions are not eligible to apply. 
PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to help states develop and implement innovative programs to address the dental workforce needs of designated dental health professional shortage areas (Dental HPSAs) in a manner appropriate to each state’s individual needs.
CFDA: 93.236
CONTACT: Please see URL for multiple contacts. For more information, go to www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334467.
From Grants.gov website, accessed Nov. 30, 2021. 
Subject(s): dental health, health professions training.

SOURCE: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Jan. 13, 2022.
$ AVAILABLE: $26.5 million for 80 awards. Institutions are required to provide an Institutional Capital Contribution (ICC) that is equal to at least one-ninth of the award amount.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants are accredited schools of nursing with advanced education nursing programs. Eligible applicants must be in the United States or its territories. Individuals are not eligible. 
PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty nationwide. NFLP seeks to accomplish this by providing funding to accredited schools of nursing to establish and operate a student loan fund and provide loans to students enrolled in advanced education nursing degree programs who are committed to becoming nurse faculty.
CFDA: 93.264
CONTACT: Please see URL for multiple contacts. For more information, go to www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334464.
From Grants.gov website, accessed Dec. 1, 2021. 
Subject(s): nursing, health professions training.

SOURCE: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Feb. 7, 2022.
$ AVAILABLE: $4.5 million for 15 awards.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants include accredited schools of dentistry or dental hygiene, public or private nonprofit hospitals, or other public or private nonprofit entities which the Secretary of Education has determined are capable of carrying out such grants to plan, develop, and operate an approved professional training program in the field of general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, public health dentistry for dental students, dental hygienists, or other approved primary care trainees such as dental therapists that emphasize training for public health dentistry.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to improve the oral health of vulnerable, underserved, or rural populations by enhancing the ability of oral health care trainees’ (predoctoral dental, dental hygiene, other approved public health dentistry trainees) ability to care for populations and individuals with medically complex conditions, special and behavioral health care needs, and focus on patient-centered care, so that students gain a better understanding of the social determinants of health and their impact on oral and systemic health.
CFDA: 93.059
CONTACT: Please see URL for multiple contacts. For more information, go to www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=334449.
From Grants.gov website, accessed Dec. 3, 2021. 
Subject(s): dental health, health professions training, minority health, rural health, underserved populations

SOURCE: Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation 
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Rolling.
$ AVAILABLE: DRK provides $300,000 of unrestricted capital over three years and, most importantly, the foundation provides rigorous, ongoing support by joining the grant recipient’s board of directors and partnering with its leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale its impact. DRK invests in a wide variety of sectors. The foundation’s current portfolio includes organizations working both domestically and internationally, helping to provide critical access to health care, education, food security, social justice, water, sanitation and shelter.
ELIGIBILITY: 
• Organizations addressing a critical social or environmental issue as the focus of their work.
• Founders who intend to expand their impact significantly over time.
• Organizations operating in the United States, Africa, Europe, India and Latin America.
• Independent nonprofit and impact first, mission-driven for-profit entities, including U.S. 501(c)3 and its non-U.S. equivalents, C corporations, B corporations and hybrid organizations. 
• Fiscally sponsored organizations in select cases where there is a plan to become independent. 
• Post-pilot, pre-scale organizations. This typically means your program, product or service is already in the market or in the field and you have an early indication that your model is having its intended impact. Organizations in this category are usually three to five years old.
• Organizations with one or more founders who are full-time or intend to be. 
Please see URL for more details about eligibility.
PURPOSE: DRK’s hope is to support outsized impact through entrepreneurs and enterprises that create a transformational paradigm shift to meaningfully address a pressing societal problem affecting people’s lives. Borrowed from its venture capital legacy, the foundation finds, funds and supports exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas. 
CONTACT: Please see URL for contact information. For more information, go to www.drkfoundation.org/apply-for-funding/.
From Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation website, accessed Dec. 2, 2021.
Subject(s): child welfare, human services, education, environmental health.

IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Ventures Initiative
SOURCE: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Letters of intent: Feb. 3, 2022.
$ AVAILABLE: $500,000 per project, per year.
ELIGIBILITY: Small for-profit biotechnology companies and academic or research institutions are eligible. Please see URL for more information.
PURPOSE: This grant supports research that advances the discovery or development of a specific product candidate with potential for positive impact in the IBD field. Projects should be approximately 12 months in duration. 
CONTACT: Email: entrepreneurship@crohnscolitisfoundation.org. For more information, go to www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/research/grants-fellowships/entrepreneurial-investing.
From Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation website, accessed Dec. 2, 2021.
Subject(s): medical research.
 

SOURCE: Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2022.
$ AVAILABLE: LCRA supports local communities in its service area through grants of up to $50,000 through the Community Development Partnership Program (CDPP). Applicants requesting more than $5,000 in grant funding must supply matching funds of at least 20 percent of the total project cost. Grants larger than $25,000 are intended for particularly impressive and noteworthy projects with a far-reaching impact on a broad community. The larger grant category is extremely competitive, as funding in the $25,000 plus category is limited to 30 percent of the grants awarded. There is a minimum request of $1,000.
ELIGIBILITY: CDPP grants help local governments, emergency responders and nonprofit organizations fund capital improvement projects that might otherwise not be possible. Grant-funded projects must have physical addresses located within LCRA’s wholesale electric or water service area or areas in which LCRA Transmission Services Corporation provides transmission services. Please see URL for a map of LCRA service areas.
PURPOSE: CDPP grants are awarded twice a year for capital projects for volunteer fire departments, emergency responders, cities and counties, schools, libraries, civic groups, museums and other nonprofit organizations. The projects must benefit or be available to an entire community and must improve the value of a capital asset by building, renovating or purchasing equipment. The CDPP program places emphasis on projects for volunteer fire departments and those that address needs caused by wildfires or drought conditions, or include water conservation, energy efficiency or educational components.
CONTACT: Sheila Slagel. Phone: 800-776-5272, ext. 3140. Email: grants@lcra.org. For more information, go to www.lcra.org/community-services/community-grant-program/.
From Lower Colorado River Authority website, accessed Dec. 3, 2021.
Subject(s): fire & emergency response, human services, education.