Project Innovation

Promoting meaningful connections between students and their peers with disabilities is one of the missions set forth by The Nora Project, a past recipient of NBC’s Project Innovation grant. As the Project Innovation application process opens for 2021, NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports on how The Nora Project used the grant money.

Please note: Applications for Project Innovation 2021 have now closed. Winners will be announced in Spring 2021. Learn more about Project Innovation below. Is your non-profit working to create positive change in your local community? Presented by the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation in partnership with NBC and Telemundo stations in 11 markets, ...

2021 Eligibility Requirements Organization must be a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Fiscally sponsored organizations are eligible. If you have any questions about applying through a fiscal sponsor, please submit a question by clicking the “Contact Us” button on the application portal. The 501(c)(3) non-profit organization must have a...

Eligibility Q. My organization has yet to file a 990, are we eligible? A 990 form is required to apply for a Project Innovation grant. Q. My organization’s revenue fell short of $100,000, is there any way we can still apply? The organization must have had an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 (defined by the organization’s most recent&#8...

NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago and the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation on Wednesday announced a total of $225,000 in Project Innovations grants will be presented to five organizations that are using innovation to tackle everyday problems and urgent COVID-19 needs in the community. The non-profit organizations selected as Project Innovation 2020 grant rec...

NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago and the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation will present their Project Innovation grant challenge in Chicago for the third consecutive year when grant applications open on Jan. 10, 2020. Applications can be previewed online at nbcuprojectinnovation.com. Local non-profit organizations that are helping to move communities forward...

On Thursday, NBC 5 awarded five local non-profits a total of $225,000 as winners of our annual Project Innovation grant challenge. 

The winners of the 2018 “Project Innovation” grant challenge are presented with checks totaling $225,000 on the NBC 5 News at 11 a.m.

Five Chicago-area non-profit organizations will receive a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the first annual Project Innovation grant challenge, NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced.