Grants
Solicitation Title: Grants
Event Type: Rolling Deadline
Funding Amount: The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has approved grants ranging from $500 to several million dollars. As a guideline, the foundation generally will not fund more than 25 percent of a project’s budget or more than 10 percent of an organization’s total annual operating expenses.
Sponsor Deadline: Friday, February 1, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://www.msdf.org/apply/
Overview
<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium">Michael & Susan Dell Foundation seek to fund projects that directly serve or impact children living in urban poverty, particularly in the areas of education, family economic stability (including microfinance) and childhood health.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span><span>Foundation priorities: The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation only accepts unsolicited proposals for specific areas within the education, family economic stability and childhood health sectors in select countries where we work, namely the United States, India and South Africa.</span></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>Urban Education: We're committed to helping underserved students improve academic performance and increasing access to quality education</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>College Success: One of our founders' original goals for the foundation was to ensure that disadvantaged students have the same opportunity to get to and graduate from college or university</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span>F</span><span>amily Economic Stability: Financial stability can help families break the cycle of poverty and ensure better health and education for their children (India & South Africa only)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium">Health & Wellness: Our goal is to improve the health and wellness of all children by increasing access to healthy opportunities while building demand for healthy options</span></li> </ul>
Other Information:<p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span>Generally, the foundation does not provide grants to support:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>Individuals</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>Medical research projects</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>Event fundraisers or sponsorships</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span></span><span>Lobbying of any kind</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium">Endowments</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><span>The RODA-posted deadline is arbitrary. </span><span>Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis.</span></span></p>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 496