 |
|
|
The Kroger Company Foundation awards grants up to $50,000 to support education, grassroots organizations and hunger relief. Applicants must be 501(c)3 organizations.
Information:Kroger Company Foundation
The International Paper Company Foundation awards grants to nonprofits to support education (career development for minorities, environmental education, literacy), community development (for communities where the company operates), employee involvement (to support nonprofits where IP employees volunteer).
Information: International Paper Company Foundation
The program provides grants of up to $2,300 each to ensure that teachers pursuing National Board certification can afford the Board's assessment fee.
Information: National Board Scholarship Program, National Board for Professional and Teaching Standards and UPS Foundation
Organizations such as sporting clubs, civic associations, conservation groups and state agencies can apply for one-year grants that directly improve fishing habitats, populations or water quality. The average grant amount is $7,500.
Information: FishAmerica Foundation
Cigna Foundation awards grants to nonprofits that focus on community and civic affairs, culture and the arts, education, and health and human services. Priority is given to projects that focus on women's health and domestic violence.
Information: Cigna Foundation
Grants of up to $20,000 to support projects designed to conserve, protect, restore sites of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural significance, and to promote public awareness of and participation in those conservation activities. Priority will be given to projects that are linked to tourism, endorsed by local tourism offices and have the potential for duplication in other communities.
Information: Travelers Conservation Foundation
The foundation supports civic affairs, culture, education, health association, social services, youth. Grants range from $5,000-$50,000 and are open to nonprofits. Contact William A. Lane, Jr., DDF, 1533 Sunset Drive, Suite 150, Coral Gables, FL 33143-5700; 305.668.4192.
The program provides matching funds of up to $50,000 for the construction or refurbishment of running tracks. Community-based, youth-oriented 501(c)3 or 509(a) organizations can apply.
Information: Bowerman Track Renovation Program sponsored by Nike
Organizations receive Cisco networking solutions software and a free one-year technical support contract with SmartNet. The program is open to nonprofits.
Information: Cisco and TechSoup
Sponsored by Southern Poverty Law Center and Study Circles Resource Center
Awards grants of up to $250 to support youth-directed projects that focus on identifying, crossing, and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Applications should demonstrate youth leadership, collaborative community efforts, and the potential for sustainable work.
Information: Mix It Up Grants Program
To help make it safer to have fun outdoors during the warmer months, the American Academy of Dermatology is offering shade structure grants for schools, park districts, religious institutions, or other nonprofit organizations in need of shade for outdoor locations.
The academy has partnered with Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Companies to significantly increase the number of shade structure grants that will be awarded. Twenty grants will be available to install structures in locations across the United States through the current application process.
Shade structures can be installed in any outdoor location where children and adults gather and are exposed to the harmful rays of the sun, including playgrounds, pools, bleachers, and eating or recreation areas.
In order to be considered, organizations must submit an app- lication that demonstrates a commitment to sun safety and is accompanied by a letter of support from an academy member.
Information: American Academy of Dermatology's Shade Structure Grants
The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to fund and support hands-on environmental projects for children and youth. The foundation's objective is to encourage innovative programs that empower children and youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. Through environmental education, the foundation believes that children can achieve a better understanding and appreciation of the world in which they live.
The foundation offers small grants of $500 or less, as well as a limited number of grant awards ranging from $500 to $2,500 each.
Applicants must be at least 18 years old to submit a proposal.
Deadlines for submitting grant applications are June 30, September 30, December 31, and March 31. Grant proposals are reviewed over a period of three months from the date of the submission deadline.
Information: Captain Planet Foundation
To beconsidered for a Bright Ideas grant, proposed projects must:
Information: Bright Ideas Education Grant Program
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. The Foundation places a high value on sustaining and improving institutions that make positive contributions to society.
Information: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Working with a network of over 200 partner companies and organizations, the NCNN sponsors more than 24 programs that reach thousands of North Carolina families. The very young, the very old, and everyone in between benefit from a wide array of services that reach every county, plus the Cherokee Reservation.
Information: North Carolina Nutrition Network
Smart Start is a public-private initiative that provides early education funding to all of the state's 100 counties. Smart Start funds are administered at the local level through local nonprofit organizations called Local Partnerships. The North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC) is the statewide nonprofit organization that provides oversight and technical assistance for local partnerships. Services at the local level range depending on local needs. Funding for Smart Start is currently $192 million in state funds. Smart Start has raised more than $200 million in donations since it began.
Information: Local Partnership for Children
Programs address prenatal care, reduction of sexually transmitted infections, improved women's health services, professional education/training. Grants range from less than $500 up to $10,000. Deadline in October.
To develop knowledge and make improvements in the health and healthcare of minorities, and to eliminate differences in six areas by 2010. The areas of proposed improvement are infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes millitus, HIV, and immunizations for children and adults.
Grants are solely for social science research on the intersections of race and poverty designed to support a planned concrete advocacy agenda (of any type: community organizing, legislation, public education, litigation, etc.). The research focus is on education for poor and minority students and grassroots efforts at school reform.
Information: The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
The focus of the Urban and Rural Community Economic Development program is to create projects that provide employment and business ownership opportunities for low-income people through business, physical, or commercial development. Generally the projects should improve the quality of the economic and social environment of TANF recipients, low-income residents including displaced workers, at-risk teenagers, custodial and non-custodial parents (particularly those of children receiving TANF assistance), individuals residing in public housing, individuals who are homeless, and individuals with developmental disabilities.
Information: Urban and Rural Community Economic Development (CED)
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 by breakfast cereal pioneer W.K. Kellogg. During his lifetime, he donated $66 million in Kellogg Company stock and other investments "to help people help themselves.
Information: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The purpose is to promote sustainable economic development in rural communities with exceptional needs. This is accomplished by making grants to pay costs of providing economic planning for rural communities, technical assistance for rural businesses, or training for rural entrepreneurs or economic development officials.
Information: Rural Business Opportunity Grants
Kraft’s corporate contributions program has grown from a small donation to a local school in Chicago to millions of dollars in annual food and financial support provided to hundreds of charitable organizations around the world.
Information: Kraft General Foods Corporate Contributions Program
The Ford Foundation was chartered on January 15 th, 1936 by Edsel Ford and two Ford Motor Company executives “to receive and administer funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare.” During its early years, the foundation operated in Michigan under the leadership of Ford family members and their associates.
Today the foundation remains a national and international foundation with headquarters in New York City and offices in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Russia. The foundation's trustees, drawn from the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, bring experience in business, government and the civic sector. Grants and program-related investments support activities in the United States and approximately 50 other countries. To this day, the program areas of the foundation advance the goals outlined in the Gaither Committee report.
Information: The Ford Foundation
The purpose of the Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for Junior Scholars is to promote research on retirement issues including: (1) Social Security and retirement; (2) macroeconomic analyses of Social Security; (3) wealth and retirement income; (4) program interactions; (5) international research; and (6) demographic research. Junior scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines, including actuarial science, demography, economics, finance, gerontology, political science, public administration, public policy, sociology, social work, and statistics and senior scholars working in a new area are encouraged to submit a proposal.
Information: Steven H. Sandell Grant Program
The Coming Home Program creates models of assisted living that serve low-income seniors. It focuses on smaller communities where there are fewer options for frail seniors, particularly those with modest incomes. In order for the Program to be successful, it must reach Medicaid-eligible seniors, for they are the most "at risk" for premature institutionalization. States have some discretion in determining the financial criteria for Medicaid eligibility.
Information: "Coming Home" Program for Seniors
Information: Even Start Project Grants
The Cemala Foundation is a private family foundation established in 1986 by Martha A. and Ceasar Cone, II, to continue the family tradition of commitment to enhancing the quality of life of the community through grants to qualified charitable organizations.
The Foundation's geographic funding focus is on projects that directly benefit the Guilford County, North Carolina community and, to a much lesser extent, those projects that benefit the entire state of North Carolina as a whole.
Information: The Cemala Foundation
The foundation accepts grant applications throughout the year for programs and projects in its areas of interest. These include health-preventing drug and alcohol abuse and AIDS, providing primary and secondary school children with comprehensive health education, and delivering health care services; education- supporting professional development of teachers, adult basic education, and literacy; civic affairs-strengthening the community through programs targeted for disadvantaged groups and youth; and culture-supporting the development of artists locally and nationally.
Information: Metropolitan Life Foundation Grants
Information: Glaxo Wellcome Foundation Grants
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (R.J. Reynolds) is proud of the fact that it has been a responsible corporate citizen of North Carolina for more than 125 years. In a tradition established by the company's founder, Richard Joshua Reynolds, R.J. Reynolds remains committed to using its resources to enhance the quality of life in the communities where employees live and work.
Information: R.J. Reynolds Foundation
Information: The Butler Family Fund
Information: Grace and Franklin Bernsen Foundation Grants
The purpose of this program is to improve, nationwide, the performance of laboratories which provide blood lead determinations for childhood lead poisoning prevention programs, and on request provide technical assistance and consultation to health care programs and providers responsible for the treatment and management of children and adults with elevated blood lead levels. The applicant organization must demonstrate: 1) the capacity to prepare, distribute, and process proficiency testing samples for more than 400 participating laboratories; 2) the ability to remain current and knowledgeable in response to advances in blood lead collection and testing technology; and 3) competence in provision of consultation and technical assistance.
Information: DHHS Maternal and Child Health Projects Grants
Information: Do Right Foundation Grants
Information: Pioneer Hi-Bred Community Grants
Deadline: October
Overview: H.B. Fuller Company, through its contributions program, is committed to building strong communities that create economic and educational opportunities for children and their families. Recognizing that healthy families and nurturing communities are necessary in order to create a healthy environment for young people, priorities within each contributions category include: education; community development; health and human services; environment; and arts and humanities.
For more information contact: H.B. Fuller Company Foundation, P.O. Box 64683, 1200 Willow Lake Boulevard, St. Paul, MN, 55164- 0683; Phone: (651) 236-5217
Information: Abbott Laboratories Fund Grants
Information: Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
The philanthropy of The Belk Foundation is the public expression of gratitude and commitment shown by the Belk department store organization – and by the Belk family who created it – to the communities that have helped the company to grow and prosper since its establishment in 1888.
The Belk Foundation makes grants to a wide variety of community-based nonprofit organizations and institutions whose missions and actions support “the advancement of Christian causes and the upbuilding of mankind,” as set forth in the will of William Henry Belk, founder of the Belk department store organization.
Information: The Belk Foundation
Date(s) Application Is Due August
Contact: Vice President, Camp Younts Foundation, c/o SunTrust
Banks, (404) 230-5541
Sponsor: Camp Younts Foundation, PO Box 4655, MCH 221, Atlanta,
GA 30302
Information: Campbell Soup Foundation grants
Information: The Progress Energy Foundation
DuPont is committed to improving the quality of life and enhancing the vitality of the communities in which it operates throughout the world. Through financial contributions and the volunteer efforts of its employees, DuPont supports programs and organizations that address social progress, economic success and environmental excellence - all vital components of community sustainability.
Information: Dupont Corporate Contributions Program
The Wachovia Foundation is a private foundation that is funded annually by Wachovia Corporation. They provide grants to eligible 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations in two primary focus areas ( Education and Community Development) and two seconday focus areas ( Health and Human Services and Arts and Culture).
Their mission is to build strong and vibrant communities, improve the quality of life, and make a positive difference where we work and live.
Information: Wachovia Foundation
Date(s) Application Is Due: February, June, and October.
Contact: Vice President, (704) 376-9541, fax: (704) 376-1243
Sponsor: Foundation for the Carolinas, 1043 E. Morehead St, Ste
100, Charlotte, NC 28204
Information: Fund for Southern Communities Grants
Amount of Grant: Typically $5000-$10,000
Contact: Codirector, (212) 768-1430
Sponsor: Fund of the Four Directions, 8 W 40th St, Ste 1610, New
York, NY 10018
Information: Verizon Foundation Grants
Information: North Carolina Arts Council
Requirements: North Carolina nonprofits are eligible.
Amount of Grant: $35,000 average
Contact: (919) 828-1616
Sponsor: North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation, 1300 Saint
Mary's St., Ste 204, Raleigh, NC 27605
Information: Pew Charitable Trusts Grants
Information: Kate Reynolds Charitable Trust Grants
Information: Steelcase Foundation Grants
Winn-Dixie has been supporting the civic and charitable efforts of our associates and customers since the beginning in 1925. Being a good corporate citizen and a good neighbor in the communities in which we operate has been a part of Winn-Dixie's philosophy and commitment. Our focus is on Health, Youth, Education and the community.
Information: Winn Dixie Stores Foundation Grants
PREVIOUS PAGE
Information for this document was
provided by Cathy Graham, Area Specialized Agent, Resource
Development
Document created by Susan Johnson, Cumberland County Center on
11/19/99. Revised by Roberto Cruz, Scotland County Center on
2/116/06.
