grant and grant writing resources .
More and more helpful information for grantseekers is appearing on the Web, and the UNO College of Arts & Sciences has decided to provide links to some useful sites as assistance or support for the search for external funding. This trial webpage offers, first, a link to UNO's Sponsored Programs and Research web page, where a grantseeker can find necessary IRB forms, contract information, tax information, etc. Second, this trial page offers several links to instructions on how to write a successful proposal. Then, under "Funding Agencies," it provides links to lists of funding agencies, often lists prepared by major universities. The third category, "Nonprofits," is a bit of a catch-all category that probably could be divided between "Funding Agencies" and "Foundations." The last group, "Foundations," lists links to foundations that offer grants, some for arts and humanities, others for education, and still more for various other purposes, such as diversity. The list of foundations has been divided into "Nebraska Foundations" and "National or International Foundations." The foundations listed constitute only a tiny portion of the many on the Web, but over time this webpage may grow.
These listings contain considerable redundancy, but initially that seems preferable to a paucity of information. We wish to refine these offerings over time, however, and would appreciate help in doing so. Send any helpful comments or criticisms or additions to Judy Boss or to Joan Bell, who will gratefully receive them.
Three foundations generous to UNO and the University of Nebraska system are the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Foundation, the Lied Foundation Trust, and the Peter Kiewit Foundation. They work closely with the Nebraska Foundation, and individuals seeking potential funding from any of these three foundations should first contact the Nebraska Foundation.
GRANT WRITING
CGAWEB: Office of Contract and Grant Administration, University of California - San Diego
This site provides instructions for writing NIH and NSF grants primarily.
CPB Grant Proposal Writing Tips
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting offers a step by step guide to preparing a grant proposal from defining the project to follow-up.
Dr. Alice Christie's Grant Opportunities Page
This site at the University of Arizona offers several links to grantwriting tutorials and instructions, including several sample grants.
The Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has links to sites for federal forms and applications such as NSF and grants.gov
This Libraryspot.com feature links to several resources for seeking grants and for writing proposals for funding
The Tucson-Pima Public Library Grants and Nonprofit Information Center "describes the elements of a grant proposal and lists resources to help with writing a proposal."
Grant Writing Hints [OCLC Digital and Preservation Outreach Services - Grants]
The OCLC Digital and Preservation Outreach Service provides tips on grant writing, a list of funding sources, and other relevant information not confined to library conservation or preservation.
This about.com page aims primarily at secondary-level teachers in explaining the necessity for defining a project and providing tips on writing a proposal.
This site speaks especially to highschool teachers, but it contains some useful, basic links.
Michigan State University Library
"This web site is intended as a starting point for those who are interested in learning more about foundations, fundraising, proposal writing, etc. from an academic (college or university) point of view." The site also provides a useful list of books, etc., on the subject.
This commercial site offers a few free links to useful sites, descriptions of databases Sponsored Programs should have, etc.
This commercial consulting site offers sound tips on proposal writing steps and a few useful links to lists of funding sources.
J.C. Downing Foundation Resources - General Guidance
This site provides clear guidance to the various steps of formulating a project, writing a proposal, and communicating with the funding agency, and it also provides links to useful foundation websites.
The Foundation Center Learning Lab
The Foundation Center provides a "Proposal Writing Short Course," not only in English, but also in Spanish, French, and Russian. The Foundation Center also provides an enormous amount of current information about various foundations and what they fund.
This site is directed primarily at highschool teachers, but it contains useful information on writing any proposal and some links to lists of funding resources as well.
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs offers "grant writing tips" and links to funding agencies as well as to national organizations for research program administrators.
Non-profit guides are free web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups. These include links to proposal writing guides, applications, sample proposals, and budget pages.
AT&T Education Knowledge Network
AT&T offers links to locating grants and application forms and writing proposals.
The Grants Information Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"The Grants Information Collection is one of a network of approximately 200 collections established by the Foundation Center, an independent national service organization in New York, to provide an authoritative source of information on foundation and corporate giving for nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit organizations looking for grants will usually want to begin at our site, Resources for Nonprofit Organizations. Individuals looking for funding opportunities are usually best served by starting with our Funding Sources for Individuals category."
University of Minnesota General College grants office.
The resources here include both grant searching and grant writing aids.
UNC Writing Center Handout: Grant Proposals
"This handout will help you write and revise grant proposals for research funding in all academic disciplines (hard sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts). It's targeted primarily to graduate students and faculty although it will be helpful to undergraduate students who are seeking funding for research (e.g. for their senior thesis)."
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FUNDING AGENCIES
The Foundation Center provides free, searchable databases of foundation information, proposal writing help, and as much information about grantseeking as possible.
Florida Atlantic University, Division of Research & Graduate Studies
Florida Atlantic University, Division of Research & Graduate Studies Sponsored Research provides links to funding agencies, federal and state foundations, and corporate and association funding agencies.
RESOURCES IN ART HISTORY FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
"This continuously updated online newsletter lists grants, fellowships, internships and study abroad opportunities for graduate students in art history and closely related areas such as humanities and visual art studies. It also carries listings of art history conferences and publication opportunities of particular interest to graduate students. Some listings are also open to undergraduates or to postdocs.
This site provides links to funding agencies and other sources of grant information, including federal and state agencies.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The Office of Research Development & Administration provides links to "a selection of foundations, professional organizations, and research institutes that fund grants and fellowships for which SIUC faculty or students are eligible. Links may go to an organization's home page or directly to the organization's grant information page. The listing is grouped roughly by disciplinary areas."
Funding Agencies Based in the United States of America
This lengthy list originates in Belgium and consists only of unannotated links to agencies based in the USA.
The Office of Information and Communications Grantsource Library provides links to funding opportunities and agencies for graduate students and faculty members, as well as proposal writing tips.
The website lists alphabetically funding agencies by name and URL.
This is an annotated alphabetical list of foundations.
"Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies."
UNMC Guide for a Successful Visit to a Funding Agency
"The importance of visiting funding agencies and learning about their priorities cannot be overstated, but a visit will only be successful if you have done the necessary groundwork before you visit and if you follow up on what you have learned after the visit."
Office of Contracts and Grants - University of Colorado
This office provides URLs for federal, non-federal, and state funding agencies as well as links to other sources of such information.
Southern Illinois University - Office of Research and Projects
"This page allows you to access the Web sites of most federal agencies, as well as other sites, which are involved in grantmaking. Through these links, you will be able to learn about current RFPs, previously awarded grants, federal databases, and other information of value in the process of seeking grants. Other links available through this option include two which provide grant information from the growing number of foundations now offering Internet access to their funding programs . . . ."
"WWW Info on EUropean, European, Austrian, British, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and USAmerican agencies and programs relevant for language technology."
US NSF - Specialized Information for the Research and Education Community
The National Science Foundation site offers full information on its science and education programs.
University of Washington Tacoma Research and Scholarship Support
This site lists major federal agencies and major scholarly societies.
This newsletter indicates funding agencies and funds awarded for technology grants.
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NONPROFITS
FirstGov for Businesses and Nonprofits
This site links to all federal government agencies that offer funding, grants, scholarships, and fellowships.
Michigan State University Grants and Related Resources
"This web site is intended as a starting point for those who are interested in learning more about foundations, fundraising, proposal writing, philanthropy and philanthropists, corporate philanthropy, international philanthropy, government funding, nonprofit organizations, nonprofit organization administration, planned giving, prospect research, and voluntarism, but only want to look at resources available on the web."
Grants for Nonprofits: Minorities
"A compilation of web pages and books of potential interest to nonprofit organizations seeking funding opportunities related to minorities."
Columbia University Medical Center: Finding Funding
Columbia University Medical Center offers these instructions for its research faculty.
GuideStar is a commercial organization that provides powerful searches of a huge database of nonprofits, foundations, and other funding agencies at a price.
"This resource serves as a web-based directory of grant-making organizations for Iowans," including a list of national foundations that have funded Iowa projects.
Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
"The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, a program of the Aspen Institute, seeks to improve understanding of nonprofit activities and inform related practice and policy. To this end, the Fund periodically disseminates requests-for-proposals (RFPs) that announce the availability of funding to support research projects on critical nonprofit issues.
In all of its RFPs, the Fund encourages applications from researchers currently engaged in the study of the nonprofit sector, and also from scholars grounded in academic disciplines (e.g., economics, political science, sociology, law, public policy, history, management, etc.,) who are new to nonprofit research."
Idealist.org maintains a searchable database of nonprofit organizations by state or country.
This is a commercial site, but it does offer links to a list of grant providers for writers.
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FOUNDATIONS
NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONS
ConAgra Foods, Inc. ConAgra Foods Foundation
"Areas of Emphasis
Our mission is to improve the quality of life in communities where ConAgra Foods employees work and live. We focus our resources in these areas: Arts and Culture; Civic and Community Betterment; Education; Health and Human Services; Hunger, Nutrition and Food Safety."
The Cooper Foundation's funding objective is "To support innovative ideas which promise substantial impact and encourage others to make similar or larger grants. We seek ideas which provide leadership in the field, and which contribute in a major way to the applicant's mission and service to its constituents. Our highest priorities are Education, including projects recognizing global inter-relationships; Human Services; the Arts; the Humanities and the Environment. A low priority is assigned to capital campaigns.
Most grants are made to organizations located in and impacting residents of Lancaster County. Requests from greater Nebraska must have regional or statewide impact and strong local support in addition to meeting the criteria mentioned elsewhere in these guidelines."
"EducationQuest awards grants to Nebraska nonprofit organizations whose programs enhance college access."
"The Hooker Programs currently include three award funds.
"The Wayne F. Placek Award is intended to encourage scientific research to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality and to alleviate the stress that gay men and lesbians experience in this and future civilizations. Awards are for a maximum of $50,000. Usually, two awards are made annually.
"The Wayne F. Placek Small Grant Award is intended to encourage small-scale scientific research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues. Awards are for a maximum of $5,000, and it is anticipated that several awards will be made every year.
"The Roy Scrivner Small Grant Award is intended to encourage research on lesbian and gay family psychology and lesbian and gay family therapy. Awards will be made for a maximum of $4,000 (for post-doctoral applicants) or $1,000 (for pre-doctoral applicants)."
First Data Western Union Foundation
"The First Data Western Union Foundation giving philosophy focuses on health care, education and basic human services where poverty, language barriers and cultural differences present challenges to individual opportunity."
The Kim Foundation sponsors groups sheltering or aiding those with behavioral health problems.
"The Kimmel Foundation supports proposals that contribute to an organization's mission and service and offer leadership particularly in the areas of Education, Arts, Agriculture, Humanities and Human Services."
"Basic Support Grants (BSG). Provides annual operating support to eligible community, volunteer, and discipline based arts organizations. An organization (local arts agency, art museum, orchestra or other music group, dance or theater company, film or literary society, arts center, etc.) which dedicates 51 percent or more of its budget to producing or sponsoring arts events or to providing arts services is eligible. This category offers grants to support four major areas: major arts organizations, discipline-based organizations, community arts councils, and grants to sustain small arts organizations. . . .
"Multicultural Assistance Program. Grants to culturally specific arts organizations, arts programs of community organizations of color, or incorporated culturally specific performing groups. . . .
"Project Grants: Arts Education. Supports projects, which integrate the arts into the basic curriculum of a school district, or emphasizes collaborations and/or community arts education. . . .
"Project Grants: Collaboration. Supports collaborative arts projects sponsored by arts or non-arts organizations. . . .
"Project Grants: Multicultural Awareness. Grants to organizations for projects that include works by people of color in existing or new arts programming. . . .
"Artists in Schools/Communities Residency Sponsor Grants (AiS/C). Supports fees for artists' residencies in school or community settings. . . .
"Nebraska Touring Program/Exhibits Nebraska Sponsor Grants (NTP/EN). Grants to sponsors of performances or exhibits selected from the NAC artists directory. . . .
"Special Opportunity Support Grants (SOS). Grants to organizations for emergency or contingency funds, high-risk ventures, professional development, pilot projects and collaborative new work/projects. . . ."
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation
"Grant funding is focused on these priorities:
- Home visitation programs for new parents
- Early childhood initiatives
- Substance abuse prevention in adolescents through youth development activities
- Child abuse prevention"
"The Nebraska Community Foundation, headquartered in Lincoln, is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing financial management, strategic development and education/training services to communities, organizations and donors throughout Nebraska since 1993. The Foundation provides affiliated fund status (allowing communities or organizations to achieve nonprofit charitable status without forming their own nonprofit corporation) and strategic development assistance in nearly 150 communities throughout Nebraska"
Nebraska Department of Economic Development - Business Toolkit
This site has a variety of links to lists of foundations and funding agencies, federal and state.
The Nebraska Environmental Trust
"The Nebraska Environmental Trust provides the seed money needed to preserve critical habitat areas, protect water supplies and establish recycling programs in Nebraska through a unique combination of lottery proceeds and private donations."
"Any non-profit group is eligible to apply for a grant from the NHC. The council encourages cooperative projects that help ensure broad community interest. Applications must demonstrate that the humanities are central to the project. All projects must include humanities resource people. Usually, the humanist is a college or university professor in a humanities discipline. When non-academic humanists are chosen for projects, the applicants must provide sufficient background information to show that they will capably represent the humanities.
"Although projects are usually aimed at the adult public, any age group may be served. Projects need a creative publicity plan to encourage public participation. All projects must also include a means of evaluation by audience participants or an outside reviewer. At least half of the total project costs must be provided by the applicant in local cost-share, either cash or in-kind."
Nebraska Information Technology Commission
This site provides links to funding agencies offering support to technology in education.
"The Nebraska Medical Foundation awards community grants where physician involvement can make a difference in improving the health of the Nebraska communities."
"The Foundation's three primary discretionary granting programs are: Fund for Omaha, Neighborhood Grants, and Youth in Philanthropy. Each program has a different process and timetable, though all limit their grants to organizations, not individuals, serving Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie counties."
Seva Native American Program Community Grants
"Seva's Native American Funding Programs support local grassroots partnerships with Native American Peoples who have devised their own solutions to spiritual and cultural renewal, health and wellness, environmental restoration, sustainable agriculture and community economic development, education and treaty rights protection."
techLEARNING.com Technology & Learning
This site offers links to books and websites offering information about or access to funding agencies for technology in higher education.
"The Union Pacific Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Union Pacific Corporation and Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific believes that the quality of life in the communities in which its employees live and work is an integral part of its own success.
"To better support this mission, the Foundation administers two programs:
Principals' Partnership
Union Pacific Foundation's signature giving program seeks to strengthen education's future by strengthening education's leaders.
Community-Based Grant Program
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations located in Union Pacific communities may apply through a formal online application process."
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NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
"Agape supports grassroots, nonviolent, social change through its grant and loan programs. Qualifying organizations are eligible to apply for the following support:
- Board of Trustees Grants
- Fiscal Sponsorship Program
- Alice Hamburg Emergency Fund
- Loans from the David R. Stern Memorial Loan Fund"
The Foundation is "Dedicated to helping professional and student photographers produce photographs that promote world peace and cultural understanding." It offers grants and prizes to both professionals and students.
"The policies and priorities of the Allen Foundation:
- To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
- To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
- To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
- To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.
- In limited situations to make grants to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems."
"The Allstate Foundation supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas. Proposals must address needs within one of the three focus areas to be considered for funding:
- Safe and vital communities
- Tolerance, inclusion and diversity
- Economic empowerment"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation
"The purpose of the AAPG Foundation's Grants-in-Aid program is to foster research in the geosciences. Grants are made to provide financial assistance to graduate students (currently enrolled in Masters or Ph.D. programs) whose thesis research has application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-mineral resources, and/or to related environmental geology issues.
Grants are based on merit, and in part, on the financial needs of the applicant. Although the focus of the program is the support of qualified candidates for Masters or equivalent degrees, qualified doctoral candidates are also encouraged to apply.
Factors weighed in selecting successful applicants include: the qualifications of an applicant as indicated by past performance; originality and imagination of the proposed project; support of the department in which the work is being done; and perceived significance of the project to petroleum, energy minerals and related environmental geology.
Grants range from $500 to $2,000 and are to be applied to expenses directly related to the student's thesis work, such as field work, laboratory analyses, etc. Funds are NOT to be used for capital equipment, conferences, salaries, tuition, room and board during the school year."
American Association of University Women: Fellowships and Grants
"One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented."
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
"The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine advances the humane care and responsible use of laboratory animals through certification of veterinary specialists, professional development, education and research."
American Council of Learned Societies
"The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its Constitution, is 'the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.'"
"The American Express Philanthropic Program makes grants in three major program areas: Economic Independence, Cultural Heritage and Community Service."
American Historical Association
The Association awards numerous prizes for historical writing and grants for historical research in different periods; in addition, the Association awards grants for members only.
"Through a program of responsible investment (of contributions funds) in organizations meeting the needs of the American society in the areas of youth and scientific education, the American Honda Foundation strives to assist in deriving long term benefits for the communities in which it operated and the society as a whole."
American Museum of Natural History Grants and Fellowships
"The American Museum of Natural History offers competitive grants and fellowships in areas broadly related to its scientific and educational objectives. These areas include the fields of vertebrate zoology, invertebrate zoology, paleozoology, anthropology, astrophysics and earth and planetary sciences. This site describes the programs that provide the support, and gives instructions to individuals who wish to apply.
"Four major programs are involved: Grants, Research Fellowships, Graduate Student Fellowships (including International Graduate Student Fellowships), and Research Experiences for Undergraduates."
American Psychiatric Foundation
"The foundation is making up to $750,000 in grant funds available over the course of three years (2005-2007) to fund public education, information and outreach initiatives that promote the early recognition and treatment of mental illness. Grants from the foundation can support a wide variety of public education activities in this arena."
American Psychological Association Foundation
"The Foundation awards grants to fund its initiative on violence prevention and intervention and research in many areas of significant psychological inquiry." It administers several grant, fellowship, and scholarship funds."
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
The 2006 granting period is closed.
"The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance public well-being through improved communication. As a principal means of achieving this goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.
The Annenberg Foundation focuses on four major program areas: education and youth, arts and culture, community and civic, and health."
"AT&T Foundation funds are targeted toward specific projects that fit within our program guidelines as outlined below. Our funds are typically distributed through invitational programs or through projects that we proactively develop with nonprofit organizations. Unsolicited applications are reviewed, but rarely supported. If your organization chooses to submit an unsolicited proposal, please follow the instructions outlined in our Grant Application Procedures."
Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation
"At the current time the Foundation will only fund projects that have broad implications for the learning and use of spoken language in children with developmental language disorders. No funding is available for particular programs unless they involve a project with such broad implications."
Beaumont Foundation of America
"The Beaumont Foundation of America grants state-of-the-art, wireless laptop computers and technology equipment to schools and community groups serving low-income populations and individuals."
"Issues that the Foundation has focused on include: improving teaching quality, impacting state and national education policy, strengthening educational leadership, and integrating technology effectively."
"Our goal is to help artists create interactive art in their own communities, year-round. We offer grants, help connect artists with other kinds of resources, offer support in finding sites for public display, educate the general public about the value and spirit of interactive art, and help artists document and publicize their work."
"The Blakemore Foundation was established in 1990 by Thomas and Frances Blakemore to encourage the advanced study of Asian languages and to improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States."
"At present, the Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people and among peoples of other nations, as well."
Carnegie Corporation of New York
"The central ideas that inform the Corporation's grantmaking in education also arise from a concern with strengthening formal schooling while at the same time supporting innovative educational strategies and reforms that address the needs of individual students at all levels. Our concerns include the need to build a deep capacity in the citizens of the United States for literacy and for analytic and interpretive skills; recognition of the essential importance of the quality of teaching to the production of effective learning; and acknowledgment of the idea that all students are well served by a commitment to rigor and high standards."
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
"Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area [Michigan] and Pathways Out of Poverty. Each of our four programs has funding priorities that are detailed on this site."
"CHF and the Beckman Center support independent research aimed at preserving and publishing the history of the chemical and molecular sciences and industries so that diverse audiences may grasp the importance of this history in the creation of the modern world and in their daily lives." CHF offers fellowships and travel grants.
"The Foundation provides grants for financial education programs which lead to the development of assets that can help increase family stability, encourage better consumer habits and eventually increase an individual's stake in his/her community. The Foundation also supports organizations that deliver economic and financial education to young people to help them learn how to create wealth in their community and make informed financial choices."
Coca-Cola Foundation Guidelines
The Foundation "offers support to public and private colleges and universities, elementary and secondary schools, teacher-training programs, educational programs for minority students, and global educational programs."
Common Counsel Foundation Programs
Common Counsel Foundation Programs include three funds for social justice and grassroots participation. First is the ABELARD FOUNDATION WEST, "a family foundation committed to supporting social change organizations which: reflect, through membership or grassroots participation, the communities in which they are based; expand community control over economic, social and environmental decisions affecting the community's well-being; and build a strong informed voice on public policy issues." Second is the ACORN FOUNDATION which "supports projects dedicated to building a sustainable future for the planet and to restoring a healthy global environment. The Acorn Foundation is particularly interested in small and innovative community-based projects which:
Preserve and restore habitats supporting biological diversity and wildlife;
Advocate for environmental justice, particularly in low-income and indigenous communities; and
Prevent or remedy toxic pollution."
Third, the GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE FUND, which "provides discretionary small grants (averaging from $300-$800) to build bridges between grassroots organizations throughout the United States."
Cranbrook Grants for Individual Artists
This site lists links to various funding agencies offering grants to individual artists and photographers.
The Foundation offers grants in the areas of education, human services, and cultural programs.
Dr. Alice Christie's Grant Opportunities Page
This site provides a list of links to foundations offering grants.
"In general, our contributions are channeled into three areas of special importance:
The first area is a commitment to journalism standards and press freedom. Since 1882, the Dow Jones name has been synonymous with accuracy, integrity and trust. We demand the highest journalism standards at our own publications and services, and we are vigorous advocates of free-press principles.
The second area is a commitment to education - the foundation of all that we do and all that we champion.
The third area is a commitment to the communities in which we live and work around the world, through the support of civic and cultural institutions.
"ENLACE is a multiyear initiative to strengthen the educational pipeline and increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college. ENLACE aims to serve as a catalyst to strengthen partnerships and create coalitions among Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) (colleges and universities with 25 percent or more Hispanic enrollment), K-12 school districts, communities, businesses, families and other funders who are working to increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college."
Environmental Research and Education Foundation
"The Foundation awards several grants each year for research or education in topics pertaining with any aspect of solid waste management.
Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation
"The ELA Foundation funds programs in the areas of education, advocacy, and the arts within nonprofit organizations, which are led by or support adults with disabilities."
"Created in 1984, the goal of the Film Arts Foundation Grants Program is to encourage new and diverse works by film and video artists who have little likelihood of being supported through traditional funding sources. These awards are targeted for film and videomakers in categories that are among the most difficult areas in which to raise money for media projects."
First Data Western Union Foundation - Grants
"The First Data Western Union Foundation giving philosophy focuses on health care, education and basic human services where poverty, language barriers and cultural differences present challenges to individual opportunity."
"The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to:
- Strengthen democratic values,
- Reduce poverty and injustice,
- Promote international cooperation and
- Advance human achievement"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"The foundation's giving reflects its commitment to bring innovations in health and learning to the global community."
"Gill Foundation invests in programs that effectively support its mission: To secure equal opportunity for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression."
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
"Graham Foundation Grants are offered to individuals and institutions in support of activities that focus on architecture and the built environment and that lead to the public dissemination of ideas through publication, exhibition, or educational programming."
"Research Projects
The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the research and/or broad reaching implementations of original scientific research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition, such as the links between music study and early childhood development, the effects of music therapy, and the medical and occupational well being of music professionals.
Archiving and Preservation Projects
The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas."
"The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. It pursues this goal by investing in research and in activities designed to improve the quality of research and the use of empirical evidence." Differing programs focus on research, program evaluation, policy analysis, and communications/dissemination.
Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation
"GAERF is a major source of financial support for education and research projects designed to promote careers in graphic communications."
"The specific efforts of the Foundation include support for:
Undergraduate scholarships at specific colleges and universities for qualified students studying government, political science, public administration, law, history, journalism or education;
Graduate scholarships at specific institutions for qualified students preparing for careers in law, journalism and public administration;
Programs and activities that provide personal involvement in the political process and functions of government, such as mock trials, mock political conventions, mock legislative sessions, and governmental internships, as well as conferences and seminars on relevant public policy issues;
Lecture series, seminars, academic contests and other educational programs for young people, educators, professionals and other societal leaders on the relevant principles of American Democratic Self-Government; and
Other programs and activities that, in the opinion of the Trustees, meet the obligations of the Foundation's Statement of Purpose."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
"The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In addition, the Foundation has programs that make grants to advance the field of philanthropy, and to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"The Foundation makes targeted grants for work in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research. Preference will be given to projects that deal the contemporary issues in the social sciences and issues of policy relevance, and to scholars in the initial stages of research. Awards are not allocated so as to ensure a representative base of disciplines, but are approved solely on merit."
"To make the most effective use of IBM resources and expertise, IBM has selected priority issues and key initiatives for investment. Our main focus is Education. We also provide smaller grants in the areas of Adult Education and Workforce Development, Arts and Culture and Communities in Need. In addition, we provide opportunities for IBM employees to support their communities and the issues they care about through Employee Giving.
"Jerome Foundation grants are made primarily to nonprofit arts organizations. While the Foundation is willing to consider support for organizations of all sizes, it ordinarily supports small and mid-sized entities. The Foundation is willing to consider requests from new organizations."
"The Kauffman Foundation makes grants and supports initiatives in entrepreneurship and education at points where we can step into an issue and affect the lives of a great many people in a significant way for the long term.
"Grants go to a grantee or partner organization to fund a particular project or program related to our focus areas. While an individual grant may focus on a narrow piece of our work, initiatives are larger enterprises that support a broader idea or a wider field of interest. As a result, a single grant or a group of several grants may go to support a single major initiative.
"The Foundation's grant making framework includes idea grants to get innovation moving, seed grants to pilot and test good ideas, and scale grants to refine and bring good programs up to scale. We make sustaining grants to programs only as needed and we watch for programs that can be spun out on their own."
W.M. Keck Foundation Grant Programs
"Overview: The W.M. Keck Foundation was founded with the goal of generating far-reaching benefits for humanity. Our grantmaking is focused on five broad areas:
- Science and Engineering Research
- Medical Research
- Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- Liberal Arts
- Southern California Program
To make our grant determinations, we rely upon a wide range of input, including the opinions of our professional staff, site visits (where appropriate), and a constant flow of current scientific, medical and other information, including presentations by experts in leading scientific, medical and health and human service fields."
The Foundation's programs include Health, Food Systems and Rural Development, Youth and Education, and Philanthropy and Volunteerism.
The Foundation operates various programs to do with research, symposia, and performances related to work of Kurt Weill or Lotte Lenya.
The Lannan Foundation awards "grants to numerous nonprofit organizations in the program areas of literary and visual arts, indigenous community projects, and cultural freedom, as well as through our awards and fellowships programs."
Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
"Each year, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation provides grants of up to $10,580 (a symbolic amount representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis") to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs' vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment."
"The education of underserved children and youth in the areas of financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership development, career planning and business awareness is Merrill Lynch's principal philanthropic focus.
"The Foundation funds creative and unique programs from grass roots organizations that work with underrepresented and underprivileged children take precedence - our grants focus on art, education and health."
"The Foundation's core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs."
"The Foundation continues to make substantial, long-term investments in the current grantees within our Adult Literacy, Out-of-School Matters!, Minority High Achievement and College Prep initiatives. We believe that these long-term investments represent the most effective strategy for high-impact grant making."
"The Pollock-Krasner Foundation`s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation`s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time."
"Each year the Jeannette Rankin Foundation awards grants to low-income women who have a vision of how their education will benefit themselves, their families, and their communities. The JRF grants are for $2000 and are awarded each fall. The grants are typically distributed through the financial aid office, but are not restricted to tuition expenses. JRF award money can be used for books, supplies, transportation, childcare, or other expenses that will help the recipient achieve her educational goals. Selection is competitive, which means that meeting the eligibility requirements does not guarantee the receipt of a grant.
"The Templeton Foundation is opening up new domains of research, debate and discovery in which an open empirical mind is deeply engaged with a metaphysically open mind. Our goal is to help scholars, religious leaders and journalists add a dimension of richness to our understanding of reality. The Foundation supports a broad range of projects exploring the creative interface between science and religion.
"You may find sources of funding in more than one of these categories:
Arts & Humanities
Colonies for Artists & Other Scholars
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law
Business
Education
International
Multidisciplinary
Sciences"
"The foundation uses its resources in the United States and abroad to develop partnerships in technology and connect them with organizations serving the needs of diverse communities, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence, and the economically and socially disadvantaged."
"While we support many organizations and national causes, it has always been our goal to look for ways we can help improve the local communities where our Company associates and customers live." This includes participation in education, literacy, community development, and other programs.
"The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated, is a private operating foundation that supports basic research in all branches of anthropology. Created and endowed in 1941 as The Viking Fund, Inc. by Axel Wenner-Gren, the foundation's mission is to advance significant and innovative research about humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation, and to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology."
Whitehall Foundation Grant Programs
"Research Grants are available to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Applications will be judged on the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the proposal as well as on the competence of the applicant. Research grants of up to three years will be provided. A renewal grant with a maximum of two years is possible, but it will be awarded on a competitive basis. Research grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose. Research grants normally range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year.
"The Grants-in-Aid program is designed for researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists. All applications will be judged on the scientific merit and innovative aspects of the proposal, as well as on past performance and evidence of the applicant's continued productivity. Grants-in-Aid are awarded for a one-year period and do not exceed $30,000."
"The Foundation offers financial assistance to fully committed, self-publishing comic book creators and qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations. The geographical consideration for comic book artists is the United States and Canada. Charitable and nonprofit organizations must be located in Western Massachusetts."
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