Summary of Contents

• Generation RX Grants
• Unexpected gifts
• 4-H endowment match
• Grant Opportunities

Generation RX Grant success

Last month, the Advancement Office learned that Extension programs in Scioto, Cuyahoga, and Lake counties are being awarded a total of $139,984 from Cardinal’s Generation Rx Prescription Drug Misuse Prevention Education for Youth grant program. Those funds were made available due to the great partnership between CFAES Advancement and the Extension offices in these three counties.

Unexpected Gifts from strong relationships

This fiscal year, John Biss, an active Grange member in Lorain County, presented a $2,000 check to Kyle White on behalf of Pomona Grange No. 79. After a decision to close the chapter, Pomona Grange No. 79 selected The Ohio State University Lorain County Extension office as the cause to support with the largest contribution from the available dollars. This particular gift was unexpected, but it brings to mind the importance of maintaining strong ties with local service organizations. Help keep OSUExtension top of mind in these circles. Volunteer-based partnerships could turn into to monetary support. Have a conversation with your local service leaders. Explore ties that influential club members have with agriculture, 4-H, business and more. You never know what can unfold.

4-H Endowment Match

The Ohio 4-H Foundation is offering to match up to $1,000 per county in support of local county endowment funds. If all 88 counties participate and are successful at raising funds, the Foundation will provide $88,000 for existing endowments or as seed money to create new county endowments.  These funds are available for the 2018 calendar year.

77 counties currently have 4-H endowment funds housed at The Ohio State University Foundation and are automatically eligible for the match.  Each county will receive up to $1,000 in matching funds provided that they have raised $1,000 when the annual endowment report is run at the beginning of the 2019 calendar year.

11 counties do not have 4-H endowment funds at the Ohio State University Foundation:  Ashtabula, Champaign, Columbiana, Hamilton, Huron, Lucas, Mercer, Morgan, Noble, Preble, and Summit.  These counties are eligible for $1,000 in seed money to support the establishment of a county endowment for their county.

Counties without an endowment fund must complete the Qualtrics survey to be eligible.  The survey will be shared on June 1, 2018 and will remain open through December 31, 2018.

If you have questions, please reach out to Beth Frey at frey.215@osu.edu or (614) 292-6943

Available Grant Opportunities

Below are a series of grant opportunities. If you wish to apply for these grants, please contact your CFAES development liaison in your county. Pablo Villa at villa.36@osu.edu or Jera Oliver at oliver.170@osu.edu.

• Small Grants available through New Belgium Brewery: Smart Growth and Climate and Water Conservation and Restoration small grants $500-$5,000 are still available this year.  http://www.newbelgium.com/Sustainability/Community/Grants
• Ohio Electric Cooperatives: There are opportunities to participate in a round up initiative for your organization. Please visit https://ohioec.org/oec/ohios-cooperatives/ to find out more. To get more information, click on your area, and find the “round up” section on their website. Each website it is in a different place
• State Farm: The State Farm Neighborhood Assist contest. You can bring $25,000 to your organization to address an unmet need. You can fill out an application at neighborhoodassist.com. You can submit your application after June 6^th.
• Opioid awareness grant: The AmerisourceBergen Foundation is calling for proposals to combat the Opioid crisis in Ohio. If you are interested in applying please contact Jason Phillips at 814@osu.edu and your development liaison ASAP. If you wish to submit a Letter of Intent, the rough draft will be due to Jason and your development liaison by July 13, 2018. Please see the link for more information: Opioid Awareness Grant

Environmental Education Teacher Professional Development Grants

Cedar Tree Foundation

Email Jason Phillips (phillips.814@osu.edu) and Jera Oliver (oliver.170@osu.edu) if you want to apply.

The Cedar Tree Foundation is a U.S.-focused family foundation created in the mid-1990s by the late pediatrician and entrepreneur Dr. David H. Smith. Smith believed in the power of individuals and organizations to make significant changes in the world, and Cedar Tree’s grantmaking continues to reflect that belief.

To advance its mission, the foundation is accepting applications for its Environmental Education Teacher Professional Development Program, which offers grants to organizations that provide summer professional development opportunities for current K-12 teachers in a public, private, or alternative school. Projects should allow teachers to have an engaging, hands-on EE experience with a cohort of other teachers; include networking and follow-up activities that support teachers in building their skills and bringing innovative and inspiring environmental stewardship education back to their classrooms in the fall; and provide compelling opportunities for school administrators that translate into impact in the classroom or school community will also be considered.

In 2017, grants will range between $20,000 and $100,000.

To be eligible, applicants must be a 501(c)(3) organization that provides professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers in public, private, or alternative schools.

Deadline: September 30, 2017

Jason’s Blog…Jason McNeal of Gonser Gerber…

via Case Consulting Services, Inc. “Tip o’ The Morning” Blog

If people talk about your organization as “being a community” (or words to that effect) and yet, you don’t consistently ask people to give of themselves and their resources, you are only talking about community, you don’t have community.

Many institutions behave toward their constituents as if they were customers, not community members.  Customers are people with whom you transact business.  Value and exchange are at the heart of the customer relationship.  Community members, on the other hand, are encouraged to give, share, and care for one another, even when the exchange is measurably unequal.  That’s what “being a community” means.

Our job as advancement professionals is to invite more people to become community members, helping each to re-discover the joy of giving, sharing, and caring.