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  • Arizona Community Foundation

    The
    Arizona Community Foundation is a partnership of donors, nonprofit organizations and the community working together to support solutions to community needs.
     
  • Arizona Department of Education Fund Alerts

    It is intended to provide information about state and federal education grants and funds that are administered either by the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), or by other entities. Fund Alert information provides an overview description of each fund accompanied by a contact person(s) who can provide further information about that Fund Alert.
     
  • Arizona Department of Health Services Procurement Office Request for Grant Application
     
  • Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation  

    All Arizona-based 501(c)3 organizations are welcome to apply. Priority will be given to organizations that fall under the Diamondbacks Foundation's focus areas: health care for the indigent, homelessness, low/moderate income housing and youth education.
     
  • Arizona Foundation for Women

    The mission of the Arizona Foundation for Women (AFW) is to fund programs that fulfill the unmet needs of Arizona's women and children, with a focus on the prevention and intervention of domestic violence and child abuse.
     
  • Arizona Giving and Volunteering Study 

    The charitable behavior of citizens is a vital measure of the health of Arizona's nonprofit sector. Arizona Giving and Volunteering Study with ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership & Management examines the giving and volunteering behavior of Arizonans, as well as corresponding attitudes and motivations. The findings were obtained from interviews with a random sample of 1,004 citizens across the state.
     
  • Arizona Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families Request for Grant Applications
     
  • Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF)  

    AGF is a regional association that provides educational resources, research and networking opportunities for grantmakers in Arizona. Member organizations make financial grants to non-profit organizations throughout the state and represent the interests of private foundations, trusts, endowed community foundations, corporations, government agencies and individuals with organized charitable gift programs.
     
  • Arizona Public Services (APS) Foundation, Inc. 

    APS, the largest electric utility in Arizona, supports nonprofit organizations with a 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt status through cash and/or in kind services in five strategic areas: health and human services, community development, education, arts and culture, and environment.
     
  • Arizona Women's Partnership  

    The The Arizona Women's Partnership is a local all-volunteer nonprofit which awards mini-grants to grassroots nonprofits that assist underserved women and children at risk.
     
  • BHHS Legacy Foundation 

    BHHS Legacy Foundation is an Arizona Nonprofit dedicated to improving community health and access to health care for Arizona children, families and seniors.
     
  • Cardinals Charities 

    Founded in 1990, Cardinals Charities supports programs designed to improve the quality of life and enhance opportunities for children, women, and minorities in the state of Arizona.
     
  • Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 

    The mission of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona is to work with charitably minded individuals and organizations to strengthen southern Arizona communities, now and for generations to come. As a public charity, they accomplish their mission by: building permanent charitable funds; connecting donors to organizations and programs they care about; making effective grants; and providing leadership on community issues.
     
  • Coyotes Charities 

    Coyotes Charities seeks to enhance the quality of life throughout Arizona communities by supporting youth and adult education programs, prevention and wellness programs and the cultural arts.
     
  • Daron and Ron Barness Family Foundation 

    Its mission is to promote and increase philanthropy through meaningful partnerships and collaborations with other donors, volunteers and nonprofit organizations in Arizona and around the world.
     
  • The Del E. Webb Foundation 

    The Foundation makes grants only to organizations operating educational, medical services and medical research facilities in the States of Arizona, Nevada and California.
     
  • Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation
     
  • Flinn Foundation  

    The Flinn Foundation is a privately endowed grantmaking organization to improve the quality of life in Arizona. The Foundation, based in Phoenix, awards grants to nonprofit organizations in Arizona, primarily to improve the competitiveness of the state's biomedical research enterprise.
     
  • Just Grants Arizona 

    One-stop source for news, tools, and resources for and about Arizona's grants community
     
  • The Lodestar Foundation 

    The Lodestar Foundation is a non-profit philanthropic organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. The mission of the Lodestar Foundation is to expand the growth and impact of philanthropy through the pursuit of two strategies: (1) to encourage and support broad-based leveraged efforts to promote philanthropy, public service and volunteerism; and (2) to encourage and support long-term collaborations and other long-term cooperative activities among nonprofits working in the same area in order to increase efficiency and eliminate duplication of efforts. It is among the very few foundations that focus on process rather than on specific fields of interest.
     
  • March of Dimes Arizona State Chapter
     
  • Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust 

    Its mission is to help people in need, especially women, children and families; to protect animals and nature; and to enrich community life in the metropolitan areas of Indianapolis and Phoenix.
     
  • The Northern Arizona University's Office of Grant and Contract Services 

    Its focus is to develop, produce, and enhance high quality distance learning projects.
     
  • A Profile of Charitable Foundations in Arizona   

    This report, conducted by ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership & Management is the 2005 update profiling charitable foundations in Arizona. Foundations in Arizona have shown steady growth over the years. This report details the number and location of Arizona's private and public foundations and provides financial and descriptive information. It is sponsored by the Arizona Grantmakers Forum and the Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management.
     
  • Social Venture Partners Arizona (SVPAZ) 

    SVPAZ gathers together successful professionals to leverage time, expertise and resources to make a strategic investment in the local community. Building a dynamic connection between entrepreneurial energy and grassroots innovation, SVP Arizona links professionals with nonprofit organizations to make a hands-on difference.
     
  • SRP Corporation Contribution Program  

    Its mission is to impact the company's reputation in the community positively and consistently and to help make it a better place to live and do business for the customers and employees.  It focus its corporate contributions on consistent and meaningful involvement in community issues and programs in the areas of education, arts/culture, health/health services, civic leadership and environmental quality.
     
  • St. Luke's Health Initiatives 

    Its purposes are 1) to provide funding to support strength-based community development and capacity building, and demonstrate its power to improve practice and outcomes in community health; and 2) to provide support for system change to improve health service delivery and health outcomes.
     
  • The Sundt Foundation 

    It is to fund activities and programs undertaken by other non-profit organizations that improve the quality of life in the communities where the company has an established office. The requested gift must address one of the following two areas: Children's Issues and Community Improvement.
     
  • Thunderbirds Charities

    The Charities aim to assist children and families, help people in need and improve the quality of life in the communities.
     
  • Tucson Electric Power Corporate Giving
     
  • United Way of Northern Arizona
     
  • Valley of the Sun United Way  

    Valley of the Sun United Way (VSUW) is a local nonprofit organization in Maricopa County, Arizona that brings its community together and focuses resources on the most critical human care needs. By partnering with businesses, individuals, government and other nonprofits VSUW is able to monitor the needs of its community and respond quickly as issues or opportunities arise. As a convener, collaborator, funder and leader in addressing health and human service issues, VSUW fulfills a unique role in making its community a better place.
     
  • Theresa's Fund  

    The purpose of the Theresa's Fund is combating child abuse and domestic violence in all forms within the State of Arizona.  That, as its articles of formation prescribe, is its only focus and the sole cause to which grants are awarded.  The charity is funded through McMurry profits as well as 100% participation from the company's staff, which gives voluntarily. Every five years the staff at McMurry selects charities in which to grant a $750,000 matching gift.
     
  • US Airways Community Foundation

    The Foundation supports multi-year capital and building campaigns (bricks and mortar building projects only) for 501 (C) (3) nonprofit organizations operating in the US Airways hub markets of Charlotte, Phoenix and Philadelphia.
     
  • The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust  

    Its mission is to seek to enhance and strengthen the quality of life for the people in Maricopa County, Arizona
  • Wells Fargo Arizona Grant Guidelines

    Its first priority is to support programs and organizations whose chief purpose is to benefit low and moderate-income individuals and families and those that keep the communities strong, diverse and vibrant.  The giving areas are: community development, education, and human services.
     
  • Women Foundation of Southern Arizona 

    The Foundation's mission is to foster equity and opportunity for women and girls.

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  • Aetna Foundation

    The Aetna Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna Inc. Founded in 1972, the Foundation helps build healthy communities by promoting volunteerism, forming partnerships and funding initiatives that improve the quality of life where our employees and customers live and work.
     
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Funding Opportunities (AHRQ)  

    Funding Opportunities describe the research agenda of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) and the financial assistance mechanisms used for research projects. The focus is primarily on opportunities for investigator-initiated research grants, but brief information also is included on contracts.
     
  • American Academy of Pediatrics Community Pediatrics Grants Database

    The database is searchable by seven major categories: target population, health topic, state/territory, project activity, AAP program, AAP district, and project year.
     
  • American Association of Grant Professionals (AAGP)  

    AAGP, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) membership association, builds and supports an international community of grant professionals committed to serving the greater public good by practicing the highest ethical and professional standards.
     
  • American Cancer Society Funding Opportunities  

    The American Cancer Society is the largest non-government funder of cancer research in the United States. The Society's research program focuses on beginning investigators, a program of targeted research, and an enhanced commitment to psychosocial and behavioral, health services, health policy, epidemiological, clinical and cancer control research. In response to identified needs in clinical oncology, the Society also sponsors grants in support of training for health professionals seeking to develop their clinical expertise and/or their ability to conduct independent research.
     
  • American Legacy Foundation  

    The American Legacy Foundation is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.
     
  • American Psychiatric Foundation Grants

    Its support allows organizations across the country to make a difference through unique educational, informational and outreach initiatives that promote the early recognition and treatment of mental illness and encourage leadership in the field of psychiatry.
     
  • The Annie E. Casey Foundation 

    The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. The foundation addresses this mission through both programmatic grantmaking and direct services to families.
     
  • Avon Foundation 

    The Avon Foundation's mission is to improve the lives of women and their families. It is a 501(c)(3) public charity that brings its mission to life through two key areas of focus: breast cancer and domestic violence.
     
  • Cardinal Health Foundation

    To invest in programs and organizations that improve healthcare quality and build healthy communities.
     
  • Case Foundation

    Its mission is to achieve sustainable solutions to complex social problems by investing in collaboration, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
     
  • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)  

    The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. After you find the program you want, contact the office that administers the program and find out how to apply.
  • Charles Lafitte Foundation

    The Foundation is committed to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children's advocacy, medical research and the arts.
     
  • Chatlos Foundation, Inc.

    The Foundation's areas of interest are: Bible Colleges/Seminaries, Religious Causes, Medical Concerns, Liberal Arts Colleges and Social Concerns.
     
  • Cigna Foundation

    The Targeted Grants focus on five core concern areas: (1) the health of women, children and families, (2) obesity awareness and prevention, (3) patient/doctor communications and health literacy, (4) elimination of gender and ethnic disparities in health care, and (5) the connection between a healthy mind and a healthy body.
     
  • Commerce Business Daily (CBD)  

    The Commerce Business Daily (CBD), currently the FedBizOpps (FBO), is for federal procurement bidding opportunities, contracts awarded, special notices and surplus government sales.
     
  • CommonWealth Fund  

    The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy.
     
  • Council on Foundations  - Community Foundation Locator

    Community foundation names and contact information, searchable by name, region, state, or ZIP code.
     
  • CSL Behring Foundation

    The CSL Behring Foundation for Research and Advancement of Patient Health is the only non-profit foundation dedicated exclusively to charitable, scientific, and educational endeavors that benefit the bleeding disorders community. Guided by an independent Advisory Council, the CSL Behring Foundation provides support to the healthcare professionals and community advocates who work tirelessly every day to advance the standard of care for people with bleeding disorders.
     
  • The Dana Foundation Grant Programs  

    The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. It was founded in 1950.
     
  • Dorothea Ross Haus Foundation

    The foundation has a special interest in helping the physically handicapped child, the critically ill child, the war wounded child, the disfigured child, the mentally retarded child, the orphaned child, the child made vulnerable as a result of natural disaster, the physically abused child, the emotionally disturbed child, the learning disabled child, and the poor-disadvantaged child.
     
  • Federal Business Opportunity   

    FedBizOpps.gov is
    the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps (FBO) via the Internet. Through one portal - FBO - commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.
     
  • Federal Funding Database

    Searchable database of federal funding programs available to rural areas. Search by keyword or agency.
     
  • Federal Funds Express

    Links to a variety of sources for finding and managing grants. Includes information on federal and foundation funding, disaster assistance, and more.
     
  • Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change  

    In 2005, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched a new national program at the University of Chicago, Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, to award and manage research grants totaling $6 million to healthcare organizations implementing interventions aimed at reducing disparities.
     
  • The Foundation Center  

    The Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector.
     
  • GE Healthcare

    To focus primarily on education and youth, healthcare, and diversity and service programs.
     
  • The Gerber Foundation  

    Its mission is to enhance the quality of life of infants and young children in nutrition, care, and development.
     
  • Gill Foundation

    The Gill Foundation works to secure equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans and strives to involve more people in this effort.
     
  • Grants.gov

    Grants.gov is the source to FIND and APPLY for Federal government grants. There are over 1,000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant making agencies.  Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants.
     
  • The Grantsmanship Center  

    The Grantsmanship Centers was founded in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training to nonprofit and government agencies.
     
  • Grant Station

    GrantStation is an interactive website that allows grantseekers to identify potential funding sources for their programs or projects, and mentors them through the grantseeking process.
     
  • Hearst Foundation

    The Foundations endorse programs that work within the following fields: culture, social service, education and health.
     
  • The Highmark Foundation

    The Highmark Foundation is a charitable organization and private foundation funded solely by Highmark Inc. The Foundation's principal purpose is to support programs aimed at improving community health in Highmark's service area.
     
  • Indian Health Service Divisions of Grants Operations and Grants Policy  

    To solicit, award, and administer grants and cooperative agreements for all IHS grantee recipients.  Also to provide grantees with guidance, oversight, reviews, financial management, training, and technical assistance.
     
  • The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) 

    Founded Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist, Lance Armstrong, the LAF inspires and empowers people with cancer.
     
  • Library Grants
     
  • Mattel Children's Foundation

    The Mattel Children's Foundation focuses its strategic grantmaking on one major objective: Improving the lives of children in need.
     
  • McKesson Foundation

    Its mission is to enhance the health and quality of life in the communities where McKesson Corporation operates and its employees live.
     
  • Nancy R. Gelman Foundation: New Therapies to Cure Breast Cancer

    It is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving outcomes for patients with breast cancer.
     
  • Nathan Cummings Foundation

    The Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community.
     
  • National Institute for Literacy - Grants Search
     
  • National Science Foundation 

    The National Science Foundation promotes and advances scientific progress in the United States by competitively awarding grants and cooperative agreements for research and education in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
     
  • Open Meadows Foundation

    Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls.
     
  • Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - Grants and Funding

    Opportunities for fellowships, grants and other awards, including awards for members of the Partners project.
     
  • Pew Charitable Trusts 

    In addition to the work supported in six program areas of Culture, Education, Public Policy, Environment, Health and Human Services, and Religion, the Venture Fund supports independent projects that take an interdisciplinary approach to broad issues of significant interest or concern.
     
  • Pfizer Medical & Academic Partnerships (MAP) Grants

    Pfizer Medical & Academic Partnerships (MAP) grants is a reflection of Pfizer’s commitment to advancing research, innovation, and education in academic medicine, health literacy, health disparities, health policy, and public health.
     
  • Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research 

    The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees but not for the purchase of books or permanent equipment.
     
  • Public Welfare Foundation

    Established in 1947, the Foundation has long been committed to improving the lives of disadvantaged people by ensuring fundamental rights and opportunities. Current program areas include Community Development, Criminal Justice, Environment, Health, Human Rights, and Reproductive and Sexual Health.
     
  • The Request for Proposals (RFP) Bulletin 

    The
    Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers, supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)  

    As
    the nation's largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care, RWJF supports training, education, research and projects that demonstrate effective ways to deliver health services, especially for the most vulnerable.
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund 

    The foundation currently focuses on projects that: foster environmental stewardship, promote the health and vitality of the nonprofit sector, strengthen the numbers and quality of teachers in public education, and others. The site provides additional information about funding opportunities and application procedures.
     
  • RGK Foundation

    The Foundation's programmatic areas of interest include Education, Community, and Health/Medicine.
     
  • Rural Assistance Center 

    A product of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Initiative, the Rural Assistance Center (RAC) was established in December 2002 as a rural health and human services "information portal." RAC helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents.
     
  • Rural Health Research Gateway Capital Funding

    Provides summaries of current and completed rural health research projects and related publications addressing the topic of capital funding, produced by the Office of Rural Health Policy's funded rural health research centers.
     
  • Substance Abuse Funding News 

    It provides public and private funding opportunities for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, as well as tobacco cessation programs.  It also provides updates on Congressional actions and grant announcements from a wide variety of federal agencies.
     
  • Susan G. Komen Foundation 

    The Foundation provides funding for basic, clinical and translational breast cancer research and for innovative projects in the areas of breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment.
     
  • Union Pacific Foundation

    Areas of interest: community & civic, fine arts and health & human services
     
  • US Airways Community Foundation 

    US Airways invests in community organizations and initiatives to enhance the quality of life in the airline’s hub markets and focus cities of Boston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC.  US Airways is committed to arts and culture, health and human services, and education and that commitment is reflected through annual financial and travel donations on behalf of US Airways' giving programs and foundations.
     
  • U.S. Department of Education Grant Information
  • WellPoint Foundation

    The Foundation contributes 77% of its funds to providing healthcare for underserved communities.
     
  • WHO (Women Helping Others) Foundation

    The WHO Foundation (Women Helping Others) nationally supports grass-roots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and children.
     
  • William Randolph Hearst Foundations

    The Foundations are committed to supporting programs that seek to improve and assure access to quality health care for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas.
     
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

    The Foundation's mission is to help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations.  It ranks among the world's largest private foundations.

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  • The AT&T Foundation 

    The
    AT&T Foundation currently concentrates on four program areas: Education, Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture, and Extending Our Reach (focused on non-United States communities). The site also provides information about application procedures and policies.
     
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

    This
    foundation awards the majority of its grants to U.S. 501 (c) (3) organizations and other tax-exempt organizations identified by foundation staff. They award most grants through four primary program areas: Global Health, Education, Global Libraries, and Pacific Northwest. They favor preventative approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic, private sector, and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to projects that leverage additional support and serve as catalysts for long-term, systemic change. They do not award grants to individuals, or to projects that serve an exclusively religious purpose.
     
  • Boeing

    Boeing's U.S. contributions program welcomes applications in five U.S. Focus Areas: education; health and human services; arts and culture; civic; and the environment. (Non-U.S. organizations have specifics on the non-U.S. application process.) Boeing also considers requests for in-kind donations and services.
     
  • Ford Foundation 

    It is active in national and international health.
     
  • Foster's Community Grants 

    Foster's Community Grants support high quality, lasting community outcomes in Australia and North America. The Grants program is designed to support larger scale projects, and complement the extensive range of grassroots community activities Foster's sponsors.
     
  • The Global Fund 

    It was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  These diseases kill over 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing.
  • Levi Strauss Foundation

    The Foundation seeks to reflect the voices of the communities where LS&CO. has a business presence and make a difference by addressing tough social issues and empowering people to solve their own problems and those of their communities.  Three priorities are: Building Assets, Preventing the Spread of HIV/AIDS and Workers' Rights.
     
  • MacArthur Foundation  

    It is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition, nationally and internationally.
  • Phelps Dodge Foundation 

    Grants are made under five focus areas that reflect its values and funding priorities: Education, Community Safety, Environment, Arts/Culture/Diversity, and Community/Civic Development.
     
  • The Starr Foundation

    The Foundation makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and healthcare, human needs, public policy, culture and the environment.
     

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