Sunday, November 29, 2009

Why Not Give To Your Favorite Charity While Shopping Online This Holiday Season?

This holiday season, did you know there are alternative ways to support your favorite community charities? Consider visiting iShoptoGive when shopping online this year and throughout the years, and you can choose to support nationally recognized nonprofit organizations or those that work in your own community. We also encourage other nonprofits to consider signing up with iShoptoGive to begin taking advantage of this unique online opportunity to meet your constituents, congregation or membership base at another level of giving. Let's face, many of us, our friends and family will make online purchases for ourselves or someone eles within a one-year timespan. Why not check out the site right now to consider giving or joining?
 
                                                       www.ishoptogive.com
- Happy Holidays -
              
 

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO BECOMING A VENDOR?

  1. Vendor receives on-line product exposure.
  2. Vendor has access to a sophisticated web store and back office that allows them to track sales, view accounts and track inventory, to name a few.
  3. Vendor has a complete sales force marketing and directing customers to their products.
  4. All vendors have the satisfaction of knowing that they are playing a significant role in helping others.  Together we can create US jobs, help feed the poor, heal the sick and change the world.
 
iShop To Give, Inc. (iShop) is a webstore that sells a variety of goods and services.  iShop gives a portion of each sale back to the non-profit of the customer's choice.  iShop's web store is an innovative and complex program that manages sales and inventory and automatically calculates and records relevant information from our vendors.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Invites Applications for Offender Reentry Grant Program.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment is accepting applications for fiscal year 2010 grants for the Offender Reentry Program.  The program is designed to expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment and related recovery and reentry services to sentenced juvenile and adult offenders returning to the community from incarceration for criminal/juvenile offenses. Applicants are expected to form stakeholder partnerships that will plan, develop and provide a transition from incarceration to community-based substance abuse treatment and related reentry services for the populations of focus. To obtain additional information, visit: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=50070.

Deadline: January, 19, 2010.   
 

Starbucks Foundation Invites Applications for its Shared Planet Youth Action Grants.  The Starbucks Foundation will accept applications for its Shared Planet Youth Action Grants from organizations that provide young people (ages 6-24) a continuum of services in social entrepreneurship; and young people developing creative approaches that address pressing concerns.  Eligible applicants must be tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Applicants outside the United States must be charitable in purpose and identified as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or the equivalent of a tax-exempt nonprofit organization.  To obtain additional information and applications, visit: http://www.starbucksfoundation.org/index.cfm?objectid=BE688C92-1D09-317F-BBA1CDA8E271C9CB.  Deadline: Open.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Clorox Announces New Grant Initiative to Fund Youth Programs

Clorox Announces New Grant Initiative to Fund Youth Programs

Clorox Clean-Up, a product of the Clorox Company , has announced that its new Power A Bright Future program will award five grants of $10,000 each to kids' programs in hopes of enriching the lives of youth across the United States.

The program invites individuals to nominate nonprofit youth programs for a Power A Bright Future grant by submitting a photo and short essay about the project. A panel of children's advocates will review all submissions and select fifty finalists. From December 7 to January 17, 2010, the public will have the opportunity to vote online for their favorite finalist's program. The final five will be announced by the end of January. Each winner will receive a $10,000 grant to help the project grow.

For more information about the Power A Bright Future grant program, including official contest rules and entry guidelines, visit the program's Facebook page.

Contact:

http://www.facebook.com/cloroxcleanup

 

 

Fred G. Andrews

Planning & Grants

Economic Opportunity Foundation

www.eofkck.org

913-371-7800

 

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