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Welcome to our new improved Rich Tips. We've changed the look and feel but the great content you have received in the past will continue as always. As you will notice, the links on the left-hand side of the page will direct you to various areas of our new (yes, NEW!) web site that we recently launched. We are especially excited about our new bookstore and would love any nonprofit-focused book recommendations you may have. Send them to nicolle@richardmale.com. Please help us with the next installment of Rich Tips: Board Self-Evaluation. Send us your tips on this topic. Send to nicolle@richardmale.com This week's tips: Faith-Based Funders Of all sources of funding for nonprofits, the religious community can be both the easiest and the most difficult to access. The difficulty stems from its decentralized nature and the relationship among the different levels of the religious structure. There are numerous religious entities and many of them have local, regional and national levels—presenting a bewildering number of entry points for the grantseeker. However, if you take the time to understand the process and work with the religious community, you will generally find a more stable and flexible source of funding than is available from foundations and corporations. In addition, your organization will have access to a group of caring and committed volunteers. Religious communities support nonprofit organizations as a way of living out their “faith in action.” They see nonprofits as partners in meeting their outreach or mission goals. Your success in raising funds from them depends on how well your issues match their mission and whether you can establish a solid relationship of trust with the congregation. More than 45 percent of all charitable contributions made in America go to support organized religion. That amounts to about $75 billion in giving to religious and faith-based organizations, with millions of those dollars going back into the community in the form of grants and loans to nonprofit organizations. Individuals account for almost 90 percent of all charitable giving and religious individuals are the most charitable of all—the majority of individual giving goes to religious institutions. Here are some tips for raising money from the religious funding base: • Build the relationship first, then ask for money. • Attend a religious service to get a feel for the congregation's interests and to meet key lay and religious leaders. • Read current and past editions of the religious group's bulletins and newsletters. • Speak about your organization and the issues it confronts at church or synagogue meetings whenever possible and always when asked. • Always pass around a sign-up sheet at religious meetings to get names, addresses, and e-mail addresses for your newsletter and direct mail appeals. • Invite a priest, minister, rabbi or key lay leader to be on your board or a committee. • Invite members of the congregation to a meeting at your organization, or take them on a tour of your project or neighborhood. • Travel at least once a year to the regional and national office to meet the key funders. It is critical that they know who you are. If possible, have the congregational leader make the introduction for you. The religious community in America is the most philanthropic group of people in the country. Almost every social movement in America has had its roots in religious communities. They are looking for opportunities to support projects, people, and organizations that support their faith goals. If you are willing to take the time to understand their issues and develop relationships, their support can be long-term and sustaining.------------------------------- New Grant Opportunities (if you need grant research or grant writing help, please contact us! We have an experienced team of grant writers with a tremendous track record who will be happy to handle your grant research, grant calendars, grant writing, and grant tracking. For more information be sure to contact Nicolle Fogleson at RMA at nicolle@richardmale.com. Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to collections, which, because of their intellectual content and value as cultural artifacts, are considered highly important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. Collections may include, but are not limited to, books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of art and material culture. For detailed information go to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html Reference Materials Grants These grants are given to support projects to create reference works and research tools. For detailed information go to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html Recovering Iraq's Past: Request for Proposals to Preserve and Document Iraq's Cultural Heritage NEH invites proposals for projects to preserve and document cultural resources in Iraq's archives, libraries, and museums. Projects can also disseminate information relating to the materials and bibliographic records of civilization in Iraq from the earliest times to the present. For detailed information go to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/iraq.html#program Croatia Trafficking Prevention Activity Activities under this program should aim to increase public understanding of the realities and risks of trafficking in human beings, especially of women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation, as well as to contribute to Croatian Government efforts to prevent trafficking and apprehend, prosecute, and convict traffickers. Preference will be given by USAID Croatia to activities that support the Government of Croatia efforts in particular activities focused on prevention, awareness raising, victim identification and assistance, and capacity building for the judicial sector, including border security. For detailed information go to: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/AID/OM/BUD/RFA-160-04--16/Grant.html 2005 Artists Fellowships Fellowships are awarded to practicing professional New Jersey artists to enable them to pursue their artistic goals. Fellowship awards are based solely upon demonstrated artistic excellence. The categories available for the 2005 awards are interdisciplinary-performance, playwriting, poetry, prose, crafts, photography, and sculpture. (In 2006, the following categories will be offered: music composition; media; choreography; emerging & new genres; visual arts; design; painting; and works on paper.) For detailed information go to: http://www.njartscouncil.org/ Third National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations The Yale School of Management, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts have joined together to form The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. As its signature event, The Partnership runs the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, open to nonprofits seeking to start or expand successful profit-making ventures with substantial cash prizes and technical assistance offered to the winners. For detailed information go to: http://ventures.yale.edu/aboutcompetition.asp Museum Grants The National Endowment for the Arts supports museums and other exhibiting institutions and organizations that serve the field and the American public through grants for projects of the highest artistic quality. The Arts Endowment is committed to supporting a broad range of activity that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. For detailed information go to: http://www.arts.endow.gov/grants/apply/GAP05/index.html FY 2004 Tribal Criminal History Record Improvement Program The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is providing this notice to announce a criminal record improvement pilot program in Indian Country, and identify the pilot program priorities. The Tribal Criminal History Record Improvement Program (T-CHRI) will provide support to Federally-recognized tribes and State criminal records repositories to promote participation in and improve the interface among tribal, State, and national criminal records system. For detailed information go to: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/tchrippsol.htm Maddie's Fund The purpose of the Community Grants Program is to support community-wide collaborations of no-kill organizations, animal control and traditional shelters, and private practice veterinarians, working together to implement an adoption guarantee and end the killing of healthy (adoptable) shelter dogs and cats in their community within five years. For detailed information go to: http://www.maddies.org/grant/comm_grants.html --------------------------------- Federal Grant Opportunities (if any of the following grants sound appealing, please contact Mourene Tesler to learn more about the application procedure - mtesler@tcg-systems.com) Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES The purpose of these grants is to support the collaborative planning and development of innovative, comprehensive and replicable services for responding to violence against women and men with disabilities. Projects funded under this priority area will address the needs of disabled persons in order to remove the barriers they face to accessing safety and justice. It is anticipated that some of these grants will support the initial design of collaborative initiatives and some will support efforts presently underway at a State, tribal, county or local level. Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate collaboration between recognized domestic violence service providers or state and tribal domestic violence coalitions and agencies providing services for, or involved with, the institution, maintenance and/or development of policy on the needs of persons with disabilities who have been abused. Collaborations may also include faith-based programs working with the disabled community. Combined Notice of Funding Availability for Programs to Improve Minority Health and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES This announcement is made by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or Department), Office of Minority Health (OMH) located within the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS), and working in a ``One-Department'' approach collaboratively with participating HHS agencies and programs (entities). The mission of the OMH is to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through development of health policies and programs that will address health disparities and gaps. OMH serves as the focal point within the HHS for leadership, policy exchange, coalition and partnership building, and related efforts to address the health needs of racial and ethnic minorities. As part of a continuing HHS effort to improve the health and well being of racial and ethnic minorities, the Department announces availability of FY 2004 funding for the following three programs: Community Programs to Improve Minority Health, bilingual/Bicultural Service Demonstration Program, and HIV/AIDS Health Promotion and Education program. ----------------------------------------------------------- Other Announcements 22nd ANNUAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE ACLU's 4th of July Liberty Run and Festival of Rights! *Feel free to forward this email to a friend. **To unsubscribe to this newsletter, please send an email with the words "Unsubscribe Rich Tips" in the subject line to nicolle@richardmale.com . ***To subscribe, send an email with the words "Subscribe Rich Tips" in the subject line to nicolle@richardmale.com .
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