This page features
links to assist communities, providers, health educators and professionals in
obtaining funding sources locally, nationally and internationally.
Arizona National
International
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thunderbirds Charities
The Charities aim to assist children and families, help people in
need and improve the quality of life in the communities.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Mattel Children's Foundation
The Mattel Children's Foundation focuses its strategic grantmaking
on one major objective: Improving the lives of children in need.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Union Pacific
Foundation
Areas of interest: community & civic, fine arts and health & human
services
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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.
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U.S. Department of Education Grant Information
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ford Foundation
It is active in national and international health.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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