Brush the Dirt Off Your Shoulders: What to Do While Waiting for the Stimulus Bill to Pass

While the post below in this New LinkedIn Newsletter from Seliger + Associates is from 2009, it's still relevant today. Go to?www.seliger.com?to sign up for FREE WEEKLY GRANT ALERTS and click on BLOG to read more than 600 posts about grant writing at Grant Writing Confidential.

Last week, I wrote about?Getting Your Piece of the Infrastructure Pie: A How-To Guide for the Perplexed, but smart nonprofits won’t sit around whining about dwindling donations while Congress vacillates. Instead, like Jay-Z, you need to brush the?Dirt Off Your Shoulders.* In that spirit, take a look at a great grant opportunity currently available that will help get your mind off your funding troubles: the?Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP). The RFP for this federal gem was just issued by the Department of Education and 95 grants up to $500,000 may be awarded this year to fund physical education activities for school-age children and youth during the school day and after school. Among the many aspects of the program that make it so attractive are that eligible applicants include nonprofits and school districts; in addition, the funds can be used for staff, exercise equipment, nutrition education and lots of other things that most schools and youth service providers already do. If your donations are down and you want to keep the young folk busy, consider the Carol M. White PEP. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2009/01/24/brush-the-dirt-off-your-shoulders-what-to-do-while-waiting-for-the-stimulus-bill-to-pass/