Motorola Mobility Foundation Empowerment Grants

Posted by on February 19, 2012

Motorola Mobility Foundation Invites Applications for Empowerment Grants
Deadline: March 23, 2012

The Motorola Mobility Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola Mobility, is accepting applications for the 2012 Empowerment Grants, a funding program designed to help United States-based nonprofit organizations develop mobile applications and use mobile technology that will help transform and benefit the communities they serve. The program addresses four areas of focus — education, health and wellness, community, and arts and culture.

Successful applications must demonstrate the ways that digital, mobile, and social technology can be used to further a nonprofit organization’s mission. Examples include producing a crowd-sourcing site for community resource mapping, creating a digital storytelling application that captures oral histories of a community, developing a resource for social media use to further engage volunteers, and using new ideas of “gamefication in education” to engage students.

Applications may be submitted by groups including nonprofits, teachers, individual schools, school districts, student clubs, affiliates of national nonprofit organizations, librarians, and community organizers. To be eligible, applicants must be a U.S. registered or incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or an NCES school or school district; must serve communities in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, Oregon, Georgia, Texas, or Pennsylvania, or be an online or national program; must be actively collaborating with at least one other nonprofit, social enterprise, or community group; and must be aligned with funding priorities in education, health and wellness, community, or arts and culture.

The total amount of funding for the Empowerment Grants program is $500,000; the program will fund approximately twenty grants. The average grant size is $25,000.

Until March 1, 2012, organizations can download the Empowerment App APP from Android Market. The app will provide more information about the grants program and the invitation code needed to access the full online application. After March 1, organizations can visit http://www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants to apply.

Visit the Motorola Mobility Web site for complete program guidelines, an FAQ, application procedures, and information on last year’s grant recipients.

http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/empowermentgrants/