Children’s Environmental Health

Posted by on August 13, 2004

Community Toolbox for Children’s Environmental Health Issues Request for Proposals
Deadline: September 13, 2004

Community Toolbox for Children’s Environmental Health (<a href="http://www.communitytoolbox.org/">http://www.communitytoolbox.org/</a>) has issued its 2004 request for proposals and grant application packet for community-based, parent/grandparent, and/or emerging groups working to prevent childhood lead poisoning and other children’s environmental health hazards.

Grants will be awarded through the Maurci Jackson Fund for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and the Children’s Environmental Health and Justice Program.

Community Toolbox welcomes applications from nonprofit community-based organizations or emerging groups working to build organizational capacity as part of their effort to prevent childhood lead poisoning or prevent environmental threats to children’s health in communities at highest risk. These groups should be working primarily on childhood lead poisoning prevention or children’s environmental health and justice. If working on several issues, groups must be able to prove an existing budgetary and staff commitment to childhood lead poisoning prevention or children’s environmental health and justice. Parent/grandparent and emerging groups will be given special consideration.

In 2004, Community Toolbox is providing funding through a two-phase process. During Phase One, applicants are asked to submit a brief application (LOI) telling Community Toolbox about their organization and proposed project. Successful Phase One applicants will receive a $500 grant award and will be invited to submit a brief capacity building project proposal. During Phase Two, Community Toolbox anticipates making ten to twenty grant awards in the amounts of $2,500 to $20,000. Most awards will be in the $4,000 to $12,000 range.

Further information about Community Toolbox and the complete RFP can be found at the program’s Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.communitytoolbox.org/grantmk.htm">http://www.communitytoolbox.org/grantmk.htm</a>

For additional RFPs in Environment, visit: <a href="http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_environment.jhtml">http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_environment.jhtml</a>