Access Funds - Grants information for the British charitable and non-profit sector. Provides the latest funding information from Central Government, National Lottery, devolved governing bodies, EU and quangos.
Adrienne Shelly Foundation - Assists women with film school scholarships, production grants, finishing funds, and other resources.
Alexander von Humboldt - A non-profit foundation established by the Federal Republic of Germany for the promotion of international research cooperation. It enables highly qualified scholars not resident in Germany to spend extended periods of research in Germany and promotes the ensuing academic contacts.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Pprograms and interests in science and technology, standard of living and economic performance, education and careers in science and technology, and various national issues and civic programs.
Alicia Patterson Foundation Program - Established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly 23 years before her death in 1963. One-year and six month grants are awarded to working journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for The APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation.
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation - Promoting the social welfare of persons resident or located in the greater Saint Paul metropolitan area by relief to the poor, care of the sick and aged, caring and nurturing of children, aid to the disadvantaged.
Andy Roddick Foundation - Aims to provide children in need with quality education and other necessary resources. It accomplishes these goals by donating to charities that focus on aiding abused children, children with childhood diseases, and keeping children in school.
Andrew Lees Trust - Implements, and continues to develop, a number of social and environmental projects in Madagascar that aim to reduce poverty and improve natural resource management, food security, and health practices, especially HIV awareness, for rural communities in the south of the country.
Annie E. Casey Foundation - Working with neighborhoods and state and local governments, the Foundation provides significant grants and other forms of assistance to a limited number of sites in a long-term effort to strengthen the support services, social networks, physical infrastructure, employment, self-determination, and economic vitality of distressed communities.
Annenberg Foundation, The - Established in 1989 by Walter H. Annenberg. Provides funding and support to nonprofit organizations in the United States and globally through its headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania and offices in Los Angeles, California. Its major program areas are education and youth development; arts, culture and humanities; civic and community; health and human services; and animal services and the environment.
Baring Foundation - Purpose is to improve the quality of life of people suffering disadvantage and discrimination.
Barnes Foundation - Promotes the advancement of education and the appreciation of fine arts and horticulture through teaching, research, and other programs related to its Art Department and Arboretum, as well as through public access to the Gallery which houses its main collection of paintings, sculpture, and other works of art.
Beldon Fund - The Fund's mission is to make grants to nonprofit organizations to protect and sustain the environment.
Bertelsmann Stiftung - Seeks to to identify social problems and challenges at an early stage and develop solutions to address them.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Looks for strategic opportunities to extend the benefits of modern science and technology to people around the world, especially where poverty serves as an obstacle to participating in these benefits.
Boston Foundation, The - Gives priority to community-building strategies that help children and their families overcome poverty.
California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) - Committed to improving the way health care is delivered and financed in California and helping consumers make informed health care and coverage decisions. CHCF commissions research and analysis, publishes and disseminates information, convenes stakeholders, and funds development of programs and models aimed at improving the health care delivery and financing systems.
Catholic Charities USA - Works to support families, reduce poverty, and build communities.
Clinton Global Initiative - Bringing together a carefully selected group of the world's best minds and most distinguished problem solvers to focus on such issues as how to reduce poverty; use religion as a force for reconciliation and conflict resolution; implement new business strategies and technologies to combat climate change; and strengthen governance.
Commonwealth Fund - A New York City-based private foundation supporting independent research on health and social issues. Dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, low-income families, minorities, and the uninsured.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) - A non-partisan, non-profit, public policy, research and educational institute working to broaden the influence of African Americans in the political, legislative and public policy arenas. Its Leadership Institute for Public Service allows college students to learn how the U.S. Congress works. Its Congressional Fellows Program offers people who have completed graduate and professional degrees, the opportunity to gain valuable experience by working in the offices of members of Congress.
Council on Foundations - Membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations.
Craigs List Foundation -
Creates community in the nonprofit arena by 'helping people help', regardless of cause or sector. Supports nonprofits by providing free and low cost education opportunities to emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs.
Daniel Singer Foundation - Annually recognizes an original essay which helps further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.
Dekker Foundation - Provides grants to promote educational programs, raise awareness of social issues, and foster a larger sense of community among people of different backgrounds and beliefs.
Echoing Green - Provides first-stage funding and support to visionary leaders with bold ideas for social change. As an angel investor in the social sector, Echoing Green identifies, funds, and supports the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.
Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) - Created in 1942 by Hollywood heavyweights - Samuel Goldwyn with friends Humprhey Bogart, James Cagney, and the Warner brothers, the Entertainment Industry Foundation was established on the belief that the entertainment industry was in a unique position to help others. Supports charitable initiatives addressing critical issues facing our society.
Finnish Technology Award Foundation - Promotes scientific research that improves of the quality of life through technological innovation. The Foundation awards biannually the Millennium Technology Prize.
Foundation Center - Collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants.
Foundation for Women's Center - Supports programs that increase public awareness of gynecologic cancer prevention, early diagnosis and proper treatment or conduct research and training related to gynecologic cancers.
Funding Exchange - A network of community based foundations throughout the U.S. with a national office in New York City. Committed to change, not charity.
granthelp - Provides grant writers with tips, techniques, and books related to grant writing.
Grantsmanship Center, The (TGCI) - A leader in grant information and grantsmanship training, TGCI conducts over 200 workshops annually in grantsmanship, proposal writing and fundraising.
Heinrich Böll Foundation - The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the Hackesche Höfe in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. The Foundation's primary objective is to support political education within Germany and abroad, thus promoting democratic involvement, socio-political activism, and cross-cultural understanding. The Foundation also provides support for art and culture, science and research, and developmental co-operation.
Herb Block Foundation - Committed to defending the basic freedoms guaranteed all Americans, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice and improving the conditions of the poor and underprivileged through the creation or support of charitable and educational programs with the same goals. The Foundation is also committed to providing educational opportunity to deserving students through post-secondary education scholarships and to promoting editorial cartooning through continued research.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI): Grants and Fellowships - A nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. The Institute is one of the world's largest philanthropies, with laboratories across the United States and grants programs throughout the world.
Impact Fund - Provides funds for impact litigation in the areas of civil rights, environmental justice, and poverty law. Offers innovative technical support, training, and expertise on issues that arise in large scale impact litigation. Serves as lead counsel, co-counsel and amicus counsel in select class action and impact litigation.
International Endowment for Democracy (IED) - A new foundation of progressive American scholars, lawyers and activists (see Who We Are) dedicated to promoting real democracy in the country that needs it most, the U.S.A.
Iowa Grants Guide - A web-based directory of grant-making organizations for Iowans.
Islamic Research Foundation International (IRFI) - Seeking to revive the Islamic Renaissance through intellectual advancement of the Muslim Ummah by awarding research grants, scholarships and establishing centers of higher learning, which integrate Islamic and modern education.
J.M. Kaplan Fund - The Fund was established with proceeds from the sale of the Welch Grape Juice Company - wholly owned by Kaplan - to the National Grape Co-operative Association in Westfield, New York. The Fund won recognition for major commitments to the New School (where Kaplan served as board chairman for twenty years), Carnegie Hall (which he helped save), and the movement for union democracy. The Fund is also known for small grants given quickly for emergencies or as seed money to attract other funding. Three-fifths of grants are made in program areas of environemnt, historic preservation, and human migrations. Two-fifths of grants support a wide range of activity including: art, architecture, publishing, and design; conservation of land and buildings; policy analysis and discussion of civic issues; human rights and social justice.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) - The JRCT makes grants to individuals and to projects seeking the creation of a peaceful world, political equality and social justice. Chiefly support work undertaken in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. JRCT Trustees are Quakers, and decision-making and practice are based on Quaker values.
Jerusalem Fund - Since 1977, The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development has supported the social, economic and cultural steadfastness of the Palestinian people as they struggle for freedom and self-determination. It has worked with grassroots groups in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in Israel, and in Lebanon, channeling humanitarian aid to initiatives that assist the young, the old, the disadvantaged, and the disinherited.
Kaiser Family Foundation - Independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation.
Knight Foundation - Sseek opportunities that can transform both communities and journalism, and help them reach their highest potential.
La Caixa Foundation - La Caixa, formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (Spanish: Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona), is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million customers.
The bank controls the largest charitable foundation in Spain, and one of the largest in the world. It makes major investments in care of the aged and infants, curing Alzheimer's, technologically advanced classrooms, old-age centers, and the like.
Through its Social Programme, La Caixa funds social, environmental and scientific, cultural and research programmes.
MacArthur Foundation - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition primarily through its support for public interest media.
McKnight Foundation - A responsive grantmaker that supports grassroots action, and a strategic grantmaker that encourages system and policy reform.
Nathan Cummings Foundation - Rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. Seeks to build a socially and economically just society that values and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities.
National Cristina Foundation (NCF) - Working to ensure that used computer technology that no longer meets an enterprise's needs are given a second productive life.
New America Foundation - Relying on a venture capital approach, the Foundation invests in outstanding individuals and policy ideas that transcend the conventional political spectrum. Through its Fellowships and Policy Programs, New America sponsors research, writing, conferences, and events on important issues of our time.
New York Council for the Humanities - Council-funded programs take many forms: lectures, symposia, reading and discussions programs, museum exhibits, film screenings and discussions, radio productions, on-line exhibitions, walking tours, and more.
Nippon Foundation, The (Japan) - The activities of The Nippon Foundation are divided into three basic areas: 1) Overseas Cooperative Assistance; 2) Maritime Development; 30 Domestic Social Welfare and Volunteer Support.
Noaber Foundation - Donations and investments in technology, healthcare, education, and cultural projects.
Nobel Foundation - A private institution established in 1900 based on the will of Alfred Nobel. The Foundation manages the assets made available through the will for the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace. It represents the Nobel institutions externally and administers informational activities and arrangements surrounding the presentation of the Nobel Prize. The Foundation also administers Nobel symposia in the different prize areas.
NUTUREart - A source of support and opportunity for talented visual artists who currently lack the resources to realize their potential and become full-time, self-supporting professionals.
Oak Foundation - An international philanthropy funding projects in conservation, human rights, abuse, housing, learning disabilities, and other social justice issues.
Open Society Institute (OSI) - A private operating and grantmaking foundation based in New York City that serves as the hub of the Soros foundations network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations in more than 50 countries. OSI and the network implement a range of initiatives that aim to promote open societies by shaping government policy and supporting education, media, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
Open Society Institute-Budapest - A private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, culture, education, media, public administration, public health, and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal and economic reform.
Orfalea Family Foundation - Supports high quality, preventative and experiential community programs which directly impact children, youth and underprivileged families of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Park Foundation - Supports scholarships in higher education, quality media that heightens public awareness of critical issues, and protection of the environment.
Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media - Supports media activism and grassroots organizing by local, state, national and international organizations as well as individual media producers. Primarily supports pre-production and distribution costs of social issue films and videos, as well as all stages of radio programs.
Pew Charitable Trusts, The - The Pew Trusts are among the nation's largest private philanthropies, with assets of $4.7 billion and annual grant commitments of about $190 million.
Philanthropy News Digest (PND) - PND, a weekly news service of the Foundation Center, is a compendium of philanthropy-related articles and features culled from print and electronic media outlets nationwide.
Ploughshares Fund -
Supports and partners with organizations working to promote the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Health care philanthropy. Supports training, education, research (excluding biomedical research), and projects that demonstrate the effective delivery of health care services.
Rockefeller Family Fund - Best known for its creative and leveraged grantmaking, its role as a catalyst in the nonprofit as well as the funding communities, and its record of public policy innovation. At present, the Family Fund has five program areas: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, Environment, Institutional Responsiveness, and Self-Sufficiency. Within these program areas, RFF supports advocacy programs of national significance that are likely to yield tangible public policy results. The RFF currently distributes about $2.5 million annually in grants.
Rockefeller Foundation - Grantmaking is organized around four thematic lines of work: Creativity and Culture, Food Security, Health Equity and Working Communities. In addition, the Foundation supports various regional and special programs, among them the Africa Regional Program, Southeast Asia Regional Program, Communication for Social Change, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Philanthropy. It also offers a unique place for study and creative endeavor through its Bellagio Study and Conference Center in northern Italy.
Schubert Foundation - Dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on theatre and a secondary focus on dance.
Soros Foundations Network - The Soros foundations network includes Soros foundations that operate in individual countries or regions; the Open Society Institute (OSI) and its offices; OSI initiatives supporting the work of the Soros foundations; and U.S. Programs, which are initiatives that operate in the United States only. Soros foundations and initiatives operate in more than 50 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The goal of the Soros foundations network throughout the world is to transform closed societies into open ones and to protect and expand the values of existing open societies.
Sunlight Foundation - A non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike.
Tides - Several organizations linked by a commitment to social change, innovation, and responsible stewardship of resources. The organizations collaborate as partners - sharing ideas, technical systems, and an office complex.
Town Creek Foundation - Four grantmaking programs - an environment program, a promoting peace program, a news and commentary program, and a Talbot County program.
UnLtd - Supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better.
Wellcome Trust, The - An independent research-funding charity that aims to improve human and animal health. To this end, it supports 'blue skies' research and applied clinical research. It also encourages the exploitation of research findings for medical benefit.
Wilburforce Foundation - Dedicated to protecting nature's richness and diversity through funding programs that help preserve our remaining wild places.
William J. Clinton Foundation - Focusing on: global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing world, childhood obesity and economic opportunity in the United States, and economic development in Africa and Latin America.
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William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice - The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee Bill Kunstler's legacy, and helps to coordinate and implement projects and inititiatives in the interest of racial justice.
Women's Heart Foundation (WHF) - Non-governmental organization that implements demonstration projects for heart disease prevention. WHF is an international coalition of nurse executives, civic leaders, community health directors, member hospitals, partners, providers and corporate sponsors responding to the health crisis of women's heart disease.
Wounded Marines Careers Foundation - A first-of-its-kind career training and job placement program for our nation's wounded Marines and Navy Corpsmen. The initial mission of the Foundation is to provide wounded Marines new and marketable professional skills for careers in media following their rehabilitation.
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