Nominations due Friday, Sept. 22

Nominations for the 2006 Arts Awards are due this Friday, September 22. Nomination form for this year's "Revolutionary Visionaries is available from arts.council@cshore.com. Please fax completed forms to 772-2262 or mail to the Arts Council offices. Feel free to nominate more than one person!

New Books Just into Business Department

True To Yourself: leading a values-based business, by Mark Albion
Hurdle: the book on business planning, a step-by-step guide to create a thorough, concrete and concise business plan, by Tim Berry
Selling Beyond ebay: foolproof ways to reach more customers and make big money on rival online marketplaces, by Greg Holden
Fast Company's Greatest Hits: 10 years of the most innovative ideas in business

New Haven Symphony offers help for vision impaired audiences

New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut (NFBC) to provide Braille and large-print programs for concerts in the Symphony Series at Woolsey Hall throughout the 2006-07 season. These special programs are available upon request from the ushers on the ground floor. www.newhavensymphony.org.

Esward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy Lecture Series – Fall 2006
at William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St., Room 116
Fridays, 11:30 - 12:30

Free and open to the public. Details at www.yale.edu/bushcenter

September Lectures:
9/15 Head Start, State Pre-Kindergarten, and the Public Schools
Walter Gilliam, Director, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine.

9/22 Improving the Quality of Child Care in America: 35 Years of Failure
Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus and Director, Emeritus, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University

9/29 A Research-Based Early Childhood Policy Proposal
Lawrence Schweinhart, President, High/Scope Foundation, Ypsilanti, MI

Funding/Other Opportunities

Nominations are due by Sept. 29 for annual NewAlliance Bank Teacher Excellence Award, honoring outstanding New Haven public school teachers. Forms may be mailed or faxed to Denise Canning at Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon St., New Haven CT 06510; fax: 787-6584. Forms available at www.cfgnh.org.

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Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute at U California, Santa Barbara are offering $10,000 to authors for scripts dealing with science and technology; a staged reading with professional actors and participation in an awards event; and the opportunity to go through the Professional Artists Lab's development process. Deadline is Jan. 15. http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/stage/index.html

The Rodale Institute offers cash prizes of $250, $500, and $1,000 to three schools in the United States that use organic methods in school gardens. October 31 deadline. http://www.kidsregen.org/gardens/index.shtml

American Council of Learned Societies is offering stipends up to $30,000 to help graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences to complete their dissertations. Deadline is November 15. http://www.acls.org/ecfguide.htm

Yves Rocher Foundation offers up to $7,000 to three US women working on programs that benefit nature and humankind. The deadline is October 31. http://www.yves-rocher-fondation.org

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offers a $1 million award to charitable, private, or public institutions from any country that have developed processes for improving health, especially in resource-poor settings, with measurable results. October 31 deadline. http://www.globalhealth.org/conference/view_top.php3?id=609

Grant digest prepared by Joseph Cirillo, Quinnipiac U. intern for NHFPL. Source: www.foundationcenter.org

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Arte Inc. focuses on developing and promoting Latino art and culture. September 1 is deadline for applying for the annual Arte scholarships to Latino students and individuals of any age interested in pursuing performing or visual arts, including music, dance, theater, painting, drawing, architecture and other art forms. Scholarships may be awarded for art classes, workshops, lessons, supplies, tuition assistance and other purposes the awards committee deems appropriate. Info at greco@sbcglobal.net, (203) 469-4536 or (203) 787-2783.

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New Haven Chorale invites high school juniors and seniors to audition for the Paul F. Mueller Student Singer Program, which sponsors membership in the Chorale. Details: www.newhavenchorale.org or 248-9760 or 453-8818.

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The Environmental Protection Agency will award a total of $1 million to about 10 nonprofits working to address local environmental and/or public health issues in the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program. Applications due by Oct. 23. CFDA No. 66.306. Contact Ayako Sato (202) 564-5396 or sato.ayako@epa.gov. Also, the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program funds collaborative partnerships working to identify local environmental and/or public health issues. Contact Sheila Lewis at (202) 564-0152. Search both grants at www.grants.gov.

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James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation funds research projects in historic preservation undertaken by individuals with at least 10 years professional experiences and academic credentials. Sept. 15 is deadline. www.fitchfoundation.org.

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Barnes and Noble funds programs for K-12 education, literacy and the arts. www.barnesandnobleinc.com. Rolling deadlines.

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National Endowment for the Arts offers Big Read program to libraries, schools and community organizations to promote reading. Apply by Sept. 12: www.neabigread.org or call (612) 341-0755.

Graffiti Hurts National Award Program is offering an award of up to $1,000 and additional awards valued at up to $5,000 to communities with innovative programs to remove graffiti defacement. Deadline is September 15. http://www.graffitihurts.org/awards/index.cfm
Best Buy Interactive Technology in K-12 School Grants will fund innovative interactive classroom technology programs in public, private, nonprofit charter and parochial schools that are within fifty miles of a Best Buy store with up to $250,000 grants. Deadline is September 30. https://bestbuyteach.scholarshipamerica.org/
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is offering up to $65,000 to established nonprofit organizations that have been operating an instructional literacy program for at least two years. Deadline is September 8. http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/nga.html

The International Health Section of the American Public Health Association is collaborating with Colgate Palmolive to offer three $10,000 grants to support young faculty and students in public health schools to conduct community-based field research in behavioral hygiene. Deadline is October 1. http://www.apha-ih.org/CBPHC/cbphccpgrant.htm

Mary Byron Foundation’s Celebrating Solutions Awards program provides $10,000 grants be to established nonprofit or government-based programs that display a creative and fresh approach to confronting and combating domestic violence. Deadline is September 22. http://www.marybyronfoundation.org/work_solutions.html
The Freedom Forum, along with the Associated Press Managing Editors and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, invites nominations for the fifth Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership. An individual, newsroom or team of journalists from a U.S. daily newspaper that has promoted diversity in newspaper content and fostered journalists of color will be eligible for $2,500. Deadline is September 8.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18091
Tilker Medical Research Foundation is accepting applications for its first series of grant awards. $25,000 will be awarded to junior investigators in the U.S. and $100,000 will be awarded with the goal of accelerating stem cell research and nanotechnology. Deadline is September 1. http://www.tilkermedicalfoundation.org/grants.htm

The American Council of Learned Societies is offering up to $55,000 in stipend for an academic year's leave and up to $25,000 for project costs to scholars working on digitally based research in the humanities or humanities-related social sciences. Deadline is September 27. http://www.acls.org/fel-dead.htm

Grant digest prepared by Joseph Cirillo, Quinnipiac University.
Source: www.foundationcenter.org
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Nonprofit organizations may apply for Emergency Capital Repair Grants for Multifamily Housing Projects Designated for Occupancy by the Elderly, to make emergency capital repairs to eligible multifamily projects for elderly tenants. Federal Register pp 29538-64 or (202) 708-3000. Funds will be awarded immediately upon approval.
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Private or public nonprofit organizations or agencies may apply by Aug. 1 for Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, which provides trained volunteers to help elderly with tax preparation and information. Federal Register p. 31260 or call (202) 283-0189.
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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS) will accept applications for new grants pursuant to the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Compassion Capital Fund. ACF will award funds to experienced organizations to deliver capacity building services to faith-based and community organizations through the provision of training, technical assistance, and sub-awards. Intermediary organizations will assist faith-based and community organizations with capacity building activities in five critical areas: 1) leadership development, 2) organizational development, 3) program development, 4) revenue development strategies, and 5) community engagement. Capacity building activities are designed to increase an organization's sustainability and effectiveness, enhance its ability to provide social services, and create collaborations to better serve those most in need. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/index.html.
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CVS/pharmacy Community Grants target programs for children under age 18 with disabilities that address health and rehabilitation services; a greater level of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular programs; opportunities or facilities that give greater access to physical movement and play. Eligibility: Public schools with programs for children under age 18 with disabilities. Applications accepted through October. www.cvs.com/corpInfo/community/community_grants.html
(submitted by pscussel@gnhcc.com)

EZNeighborhood Leadership Institute for Empowerment Zone Residents

Community Mediation is partnering with Empower New Haven for a series of workshops designed to create learning opportunities for EZ residents to improve leadership skills to help reduce miscommunication, violence and other blights that afflict neighborhoods. The first series will meet Sept.21, 23, 28, and 30; second series will meet Oct. 5, 7, 12, and 14. For more information contact Sherry Gray 776-2777 or sherrygray@empowernewhaven.org .