Grants

The following grants may help supplement literacy activities in your program. includes notes regarding funding priorities. Listing will be updated regularly.


 * ~ Organization ||~ Grant Program ||~ Web Link ||
 * BNSF Railway Foundation || BNSF Foundation Grants || [] ||
 * Ways to Help || Ways to Help Grants || [] ||
 * Costco Charitable Giving || Warehouse Donations, Office Donations, and Grants || [] ||
 * Target Grants || Field Trip, Early Childhood Reading, Arts, and Target Foundation Grants || [] ||
 * Classics for Kids || Stringed Instrument Grants || [] ||
 * Verizon Foundation || Verizon Foundation || [|http://www.verizonfoundation.org/grants/guidelines/#Overview] ||
 * Wellmark Foundation || Healthy Communities Small Grant Program || [|http://www.wellmark.com/foundation/apply/HealthyCommRFP_2014.pdf] ||
 * Principal Foundation || Community Grants Program || [] ||
 * Dollar General Literacy Foundation || Summer Reading || [|http://www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/grant_programs.aspx#summer_reading] ||
 * Dollar General Literacy Foundation || Youth Literacy || [|http://www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/grant_programs.aspx#ylg] ||
 * Greater Des Moines Community Foundation || Capacity Building Grants || [] ||
 * Ronald McDonald House Charities || RMHC Global Grant || [] ||
 * Variety Club || Variety Club Funding Grant || [] ||
 * Build a Bear || Literacy and Education Grants || [] ||
 * Wells Fargo || Wells Fargo Corporate Giving Grants || [] ||
 * Barnes & Noble || Barnes & Noble Charitable Donations || [] ||
 * Iowa Farm Bureau || Teacher Supplement Grant Program || [] ||
 * Polk County || Community Betterment || [] ||
 * Verizon Foundation || Grants || [] ||
 * Lowe's || Grant Program || [] ||
 * Ezra Jack Keats Foundation || Minigrant Program || [] ||
 * Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries || School Library Program || [] ||
 * Captain Planet Foundation || Small Grant || [] ||
 * Union Pacific Foundation || Community-Based Grant Program || [] ||
 * Mockingbird Foundation || Grants || [] ||
 * Best Buy || Technology Inspired Le@ding Store Donation Grants ||  ||
 * First Book || Book Donations || [] ||
 * Kids Need to Read || Book Donations || [] ||
 * Library of Congress || Surplus Books || [] ||
 * Lisa Libraries || Book Donations || [] ||
 * Literacy Empowerment Foundation || Reading Resource Project || [] ||
 * Roads to Reading || Reading Resource Project || [] ||
 * Iowa Arts Council || Project Grant || [] ||
 * Iowa Arts Council || Job Creation Grant || [] ||
 * Iowa Arts Council || Operating Support Grant || [] ||
 * Iowa Arts Council || Endowment Support Grant || [] ||
 * Iowa Arts Council || Big Yellow School Bus Grant || [] ||