The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
Welcome to this List
Serv sponsored by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Rural Funding
Coordination Project. These messages
provide information about current government and private grants and contracts,
conference and training opportunities, and potential funding sources.
The Denali Commission has funds available for its Community
Priorities Program that is administrated by the Alaska Department of
Community and Economic Development. The
program is designed to provide economic development opportunities to rural
Alaska. The program has quarterly grant
cycles, and the next deadline is February 18.
For more information, contact Nelda Warkentin at 907-269-4568 or visit www.denali.gov.
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is
accepting applications for its small projects funding program. Each small project is limited to a maximum
of $10,000. The purpose of these grants
is to create innovative new program ideas, substantially improve and supplement
existing activities, or significantly increase the quality of ongoing
projects. The deadline is February
1. For more information, call
907-269-7960 or 800-770-8973 or visit www.mhtrust.org.
The Alaska Center for Rural Health (ACRH) was
created to improve access to a comprehensive, culturally relevant health care
system for rural Alaska by providing information, coordination, technical
assistance, and professional development to rural health providers and
systems. ACRH is a private, nonprofit
corporation housed within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the
University of Alaska Anchorage. It also
publishes Alaska Rural Health Notes. For more information, contact Dennis DeGross at 907-786-6575 or
visit www.ichs.uaa.alaska.edu.
The U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities assists
people with developmental disabilities to reach their maximum potential through
increased independence, productivity and community integration. It administers four programs. The State Councils on Developmental
Disabilities (SCDD) and the Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Program
are supported by formula grants. The
University Centers for Excellence (UCE) is a discretionary grant program
for public and private nonprofit agencies affiliated with a university. The Projects of National Significance
(PNS) provides funding to public or private nonprofits to enhance people
with developmental disabilities. For
more information, call 202-690-6590 or visit www.acf.dhhs.gov.
The Community Toolbox for Children’s Environmental Health, a project
of the Tides Foundation, supports organizations working to protect children
from lead poisoning. Grants are
provided to assist community-based, new and small groups to strengthen their
leadership programs and fundraising.
The deadline is March 15. For
more information, call 206-706-6490 or visit www.communitytoolbox.org.
The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation supports
health and human services that improve the quality of life for disadvantaged
children, youth and families, seniors, and people with special needs. Priority is given to efforts to enhance
program effectiveness and/or extend successful programs to people or
communities not currently served. The
deadline is March 31. For more
information, visit www.paulallen.com/foundations.
Alaska Village Initiatives promotes the well being of
rural Alaskans through economic development assistance, networking, advocacy
and education. Examples of community
programs and services include board training, strategic planning, technical
assistance, loan programs, and enterprise development. Nonprofit organizations such as Rural Alaska
Community Action Programs, the 12 Native Corporations, IRA’s, Tribal
governments, and rural cooperatives are eligible to apply. For more information, contact Gretchen
Mannix at 907-274-5400.
Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 2nd Edition, published
by Amherst H. Wilder Foundtion, outlines how nonprofits can tackle complex
issues like poverty, crime and education.
The authors distilled 20 factors that predict the success of a given
collaboration. The book describes how
organizations can examine their own collaborative projects, and includes a
worksheet to help with this assessment.
The cost is $20. For more
information, call 800-274-6024 or visit www.wilder.org.
The beneficiaries of
the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority include those Alaskans who experience
mental illness; mental retardation or similar disabilities; chronic alcoholism with
psychosis; or Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. You can learn more about the Trust at www.mhtrust.org.
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