Featured Grant Opportunities
Need funding for your next initiative? Check out these federal grant opportunities.
Grants often require an independent evaluation to assure the funder that the project is meeting its goals and objectives and accomplishing outcomes. At the grant application stage, Shaffer Evaluation Group will help you craft measurable goals and objectives and prepare an evaluation plan to improve your competitiveness to win a grant. Post-award, we work closely with you to collect meaningful data and generate the reports you need to remain compliant with your funder's reporting requirements. Contact us today for more information.
Economic Advancement Grants for Local Empowerment
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Administration for Children and Families
Program Areas include: Seventh-Generation Greenhouses to expand affordable, nutritious food production and local enterprise; Microgrids to enhance energy reliability, resilience, and independence; Welders to Elders to promote workforce development and community resilience; Tradition in Action—A Native Elder Program to support cultural education, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and leadership pipelines; and Indigenous Designs to Empower and Advance Self-Determination (IDEAS) to enable community-designed solutions to priority needs.
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Deadline: August 27, 2026
Scholarly Editions and Translations
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The purpose of the Scholarly Editions and Translations program is to support collaborative teams who edit, annotate, and translate foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are not available in adequate editions or translations. This year’s competition is limited to projects on American history and culture or Western civilization.
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Deadline: September 16, 2026
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The purpose of the program is to advance the preservation and availability of physical and digital collections important for research, teaching, and public engagement in the humanities. Planning and implementation projects may include conservation and preservation; digitization and description; enhancement of long-standing digital resources in the humanities; and preservation services or education and training for students and professionals in collections stewardship.
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Deadline: December 15, 2026
Foundations Supporting Education
Selected foundations supporting education projects are listed to the right. Please visit the foundations' websites for more information about available funding and application process.
Michael and Susan Dell Foundation - https://www.dell.org/grants/
The foundation funds schools and districts that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, with an emphasis on problem solving and making measurable progress.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation – www.wkkf.org
Focus areas of interest include educated kids, healthy kids, Indigenous communities, secure families, racial equity, and community/civic engagement.
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation – www.macphilanthropies.org
Focus areas of interest include natural resources and animal habitat protection; natural disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery; Native arts initiatives; arts, music, and human creativity; human services; animal welfare; professional development for educators; and special projects.
SC Johnson Foundation - https://scjohnson.com/en/community/grants
Education grants fund “programs that emphasize student academic achievement, with a focus on academic enrichment and advancement, such as early childhood education, K–12, post-secondary, technical and vocational schools.”
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community – www.shakopeedakota.org
Supports educational projects for tribes and Native organizations across the country. Only tribal governments, Native American organizations, and Native American schools may apply.
Walmart Foundation - https://www.walmart.org/how-we-give
Funding focuses on creating opportunity, advancing sustainability, and strengthening community. The foundation invites proposals directly and also publishes requests for proposals and accepts letters of inquiry.
William T. Grant Foundation - https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding
Programs support high-quality research studies in our focus areas, career-development awards for promising early-career faculty, grants that encourage research institutions to make structural changes that encourage engaged research, and programs of good-neighbor grants that support nonprofit youth service providers in New York City.