Funding Opportunities

New RFPs support tourism and organization growth

Written by Alex Dunn

Hi, I’m Alex Dunn, the Millionaire Grant Lady. I have 15 years of grant writing experience and over $103 million in awards under my belt. I offer advice, tips, tricks and opportunities to the DFW501c.news audience each week.

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Funding for Travel and Tourism

  • Funder: Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center
  • Award range: up to $200,000
  • Closing date: June 9, 2025
  • Expected number of awards: 5
  • Cost sharing required? No
  • Eligibility: Nonprofits, tribal organizations, Native Hawaiian Organizations

Summary: Funding from this grant is to establish a more inclusive national travel and tourism strategy that delivers significant benefits for Native Hawaiian organizations (NHO) as distinctly defined in the NATIVE Act, including job creation, elevated living standards, and expanded economic opportunities. For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.

Funding for Organization Growth

  • Funder: Small Business Administration
  • Award range: up to $1.2M
  • Closing date: April 28, 2025
  • Expected number of awards: 3
  • Cost sharing required? No
  • Eligibility: Small businesses, nonprofits, for profit organizations, and institutions of higher education

Summary: Grants will provide funding for innovative hands-on in-person virtual or combination as appropriate manufacturing training and technical assistance to eligible small manufacturing business concerns.

For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.

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About the author

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the Millionaire Grant Lady and a social worker. Alex is passionate about behavioral health, education, family and social services and helping organizations to help others. With 15 years of experience in grants and $103 million in grant funding, Alex wants your organization to be able to use grants to meet your mission.

She is the creator of the Area of Focus™ and Core Cultivation™ strategies and the Attractiveness Quotient™ survey for nonprofits. Alex has used these strategies to multiply grant funding for organizations, with a total of $103 million in grant funding to date.

Alex is the author of numerous reports, including “Three Ways Mental Health Organizations Can Increase Their Grant Funding” and “Three Mistakes Well Meaning Organizations Make in Grant Funding”. She is a long-time board member and current president of the Grant Professionals Association North Texas chapter.