Dollar General Literacy Foundation: Adult and Family Literacy

Posted by on February 18, 2005

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Offers Support for Adult and Family Literacy Programs
Deadline: April 8, 2005

Since 1993, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has increased the functional literacy of adults by providing grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to the advancement of literacy. The foundation funds nonprofit programs designed to serve adults or families in need of literacy services.

Nonprofit organizations are invited to submit applications in one of the two following program areas: 1) Literacy instruction for adults, including Adult Basic Education, GED preparation, and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL); or 2) Family literacy. Note: Organizations can only submit an application in one program area.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards grants in the amount of $15,000 or less (with $15,000 as the exception). The funds available through the foundation are dispersed throughout Dollar General’s thirty-state market area based on the quality of proposals submitted. For fiscal year 2005-06, the foundation will award a minimum of $1 million in grants through its annual RFP process to qualifying nonprofit literacy providers.

The program is open to organizations that are recognized as nonprofit charitable entities with 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service; provide literacy-based programs and services to adults or families in the thirty states where Dollar General stores are located; have not received a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation more than once in the last two years; and have met all reporting requirements from their most recent Dollar General Literacy Foundation grant.

See the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and a list of eligible states.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/518/dgeneral">http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/518/dgeneral</a>

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