Join us in celebrating Global Intergenerational Week 2022! This is an international campaign connecting everyone who is passionate about everything intergenerational. In its third year, the week looks to inspire individuals, groups, organizations, governments, and NGOs to fully embrace intergenerational practice- connecting people of younger and older generations. The campaign will celebrate good practice, ideas, moments, and opportunities local to us where different age groups come together and intergenerational friendships can be formed. Learn more and sign on as a supporter.

ECMC Foundation primarily make grants in two focus areas: Career Readiness and College Success. They are especially interested in those proposals that focus on implementing systemic reforms to increase college success and career readiness for students from underserved backgrounds. The Foundation accepts Letters of Inquiry on a rolling basis. Learn more.

The David Rockefeller Fund aims to foster and embody a more just, creative, and flourishing world. The Fund currently provides support to nonprofit organizations nationally in three program areas: arts, climate, and justice. Letters of inquiry are reviewed throughout the year. Learn more.

The Cornell Douglas Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States that address one or more of the following areas of interest: environmental health and justice, land conservation, sustainability of resources, mountaintop removal mining, watershed protection, and K-12 financial literacy. Requests are reviewed throughout the year. Learn more.

The Aawok Georgiana Trull Memorial Scholarship is an opportunity open to California Native people active in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Applications are due by March 31, 2022. Learn more.

The Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Native Americans is soliciting applications for the Native American Language Preservation and Maintenance program. Applications are due by March 31, 2022. Learn more.

Partners for Places, an initiative of The Funders Network, creates opportunities for cities and counties in the United States and Canada to improve communities by building partnerships between local government leaders, community-led groups, and place-based local or regional funders. Currently, the focus is on equitable climate and green stormwater action in communities through collaborative partnerships. Applications are due by April 13, 2022. The new deadline for Mini Grant applications is March 31, 2022. Learn more.

The Social Justice Fund at the Alaska Community Foundation supports Alaskans in their efforts to address the root causes of social justice issues within their communities and across the state. Nonprofit organizations, tribes, schools, faith-based organizations, local government agencies, and grassroots organizations may apply for programmatic and general operating support. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Foundation staff prior to submitting an online application. Applications will be accepted through April 1, 2022. Learn more.

The Riley's Way Foundation's Call for Kindness program supports youth-led projects that tackle anything from pressing equity and social justice issues to building meaningful connections in schools or communities. The 2022 special topic is mental health. Each project is required to have both a partner organization and an adult mentor. Applications are due by April 1, 2022. Learn more.

The Drug-Free Communities Support Program works to establish and strengthen collaboration among communities; public and private nonprofit agencies; and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth (up to 18 years of age). Applications are due by April 11, 2022. Learn more.

The Kubota Hometown Proud Grant Program will award five local revitalization grants of $100,000 each to nonprofits, cities, towns, or other municipalities that are within a 50-mile radius of an authorized Kubota dealer. Applications are due by April 15, 2022. Learn more.

NEA Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) and Challenge America funding guidelines are now available on the National Endowment for the Arts’ website. The NEA supports projects that rebuild the creative economy and educate the next generation, unite and heal the nation through the arts, and serve the nation’s arts field, in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions. Challenge America applications are due by April 21, 2022. GAP applications are due by July 7, 2022.

Encore.org will award four grants to new cogenerational initiatives and significantly expanded or deepened versions of existing programs that unite older and younger to serve together. This grant is only open to applicants who are current grantees or sponsors in any of the four AmeriCorps programs — State & National, VISTA, NCCC, or AmeriCorps Seniors. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. PT on April 22, 2022. Learn More.

The Workforce Pathways for Youth demonstration grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration supports national out-of-school time organizations that serve historically underserved and marginalized youth ages 14 to 21. These grants will place an emphasis on age-appropriate workforce readiness programming to expand job training and workforce pathways for youth. Applications are due by April 25, 2022. Learn more.

The Medica Foundation provides funding to nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and western Wisconsin. The Early Childhood Health category provides grants for programs that focus on developing healthy families to foster optimal growth and development of young children, birth through age 12. Applications are due by April 29, 2022. Learn more. Note: The Foundation is expanding its philanthropic reach to include funding in Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, and is currently developing relationships and learning about health concerns in these states. The funding process for Nebraska and Iowa will be by invitation only. Please contact Shelly d'Almeida at Michelle.dAlmeidaAraujo@medica.com with questions.

The Foundation for Financial Planning awards grants to community-based organizations and nonprofit organizations nationwide to support the delivery of pro bono financial planning to populations who could not otherwise afford or access financial planning services. Online applications must be submitted by April 30, 2022. Learn more.

The NIH Office of the Director has released a Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity to support one RADx Tribal Data Repository (TDR), which will provide a repository for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) data. Applications are due by May 25, 2022. Learn more.

The Gladys Brooks Foundation provides support to libraries, educational institutions, and hospitals and clinics in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Funds support capital projects, including equipment and endowments. To apply, fill out an online Request Form. The form provides information on developing a Grant Proposal Letter, which must be submitted within two weeks of the Request Form. Grant Proposal Letters are accepted online until May 31, 2022. Learn more.

If you have—or know of—any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to gu@gu.org.

We want Generations This Week to be a resource for you. Please send us any national news on intergenerational issues in addition to upcoming conferences, funding opportunities, research, reports, and webinars. You can connect with other intergenerational enthusiasts through our Facebook group. Please also let us know how we can improve! Email us at gu@gu.org. We'd love to hear from you!