Subject: Education, Community Organizing, Community Development, Music
Deadline: Apr. 9, 2019 (Prelim. Answers) | Apr. 13, 2019 (LOI) | May 3, 2019 (Applications)
“The Sparkplug Foundation is a family foundation that funds start-up organizations and new projects of established organizations in music, education and community organizing. We aim to support the development of emerging democratic movements and communities working on issues of local democracy, justice, and sustainable energy in the rebuilding of the U.S. and global economies.
- Community Organizing – Sparkplug aims to support communities to address institutional injustices, and to build a just society.
- Education – Sparkplug aims to support projects that deal with “the whole student” and with learning as a community activity. In the past, this has included literacy projects that bring parents & kids together to learn, projects that use a neighborhood as a classroom, projects that help teachers share ideas about creative, relevant curricula, etc. We’re especially interested in supporting critical and investigative thinking, and projects that address class disparities in education.
- Music – Sparkplug supports the development of music by helping to launch new voices and ideas. Generally, this means we fund emerging professional musicians or music-development programs.”
Funder: The Sparkplug Foundation
Eligibility: Generally nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations. “Not all projects fit into a larger organization, so we sometimes make grants to individuals. And sometimes it doesn’t make sense for an organization to be a 501(c)3, since that label places legal limits on the kinds of work it can do — so we make grants to non-501(c)3 organizations too.”
Amount: Unspecified
Contact: Link.
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