2026 AARP Community Challenge

Since its inception in 2017, the AARP Community Challenge has awarded 2,100 grants totaling $24.3 million to projects that benefit residents — especially those age 50 and older — and accelerate community change.

CUNY Graduate Center Pre-dessertation Fellowships & Grants for Students

The Graduate Center offers many fellowships and other awards that have deadlines in January and February. Learn more below and contact the Early Research Initiative for more details. Please also refer to the Fellowship Opportunities page for a comprehensive and up-to-date listing. 

Job Op – Development Manager (Apex for Youth)

The Development Manager will focus on engaging and growing Apex’s annual and pipeline level donors, including both individual contributors and corporate partners. This role will be responsible for 20–40 qualification, cultivation, or solicitation meetings per month and 50–100 annual asks, including event sponsorship solicitations.

Job Op – Deputy Director of Development (Apex for Youth)

The Deputy Director of Development plays a key leadership role in driving Apex for Youth’s fundraising strategy and execution. This position oversees corporate and foundation relations, leads the cultivation and solicitation of individual major donors (donating $25,000–$249,000 annually), and manages a team of fundraising professionals.

2026-27 Franklin Furnace for Performance Art FUND

Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.