Funding Sources for
Tangible Love Ministries
Links to funding sources are arranged by category. Links that
appear in red indicate funders that only accept
proposals from specific geographic locations.
(Return to Funding Sources for Tangible Love Ministries introduction.)
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Homeless, Housing, Temporary Shelter
http://www.hhs.ogv/grantsnet/FundOther.htm
The Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) provides the GrantsNet site as an access
portal to current funding opportunities within HHS agencies. Links include the
Food and Drug Administration, Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Center for Disease Control, and the Office of Public Health. Look under ACF
Programs especially.
http://www.saraleefoundation.org/funding/focus.cfm
The Sara
Lee Foundation focuses its giving on organizations dealing with women, hunger,
homelessness and affordable housing, and job training primarily in the Chicago
area.
http://target.com/common/page.jhtml?content=target_cg_local_giving
Target Stores support family violence prevention including funding for
parenting education, crisis nurseries, family counseling, after-school
programs, support groups, and abuse shelters. Family violence prevention
benefits the entire community by building strong families, creating healthy
environments for kids, and helping parents and kids make good choices.
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Human Rights
http://www.allstate.com/Community/PageRender.asp?Page=foundation.html Allstate Foundation
partners with organizations committed to fighting racial injustice,
promoting civil and human rights.
http://www.fordfound.org/about/mission.cfm
The Ford Foundation
is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Specific goals for
more than half a century are to: * Strengthen democratic values, * Reduce
poverty and injustice, * Promote international cooperation and * Advance human
achievement.
Three broad programs areas are: Asset Building and Community Development -
economic, community sustainability and equitability, environmental, and
reproductive health issues; Peace and Social Justice - human rights,
governance and civil society; Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom - education,
sexuality, religion, media, arts, and culture. Program officers in the United
States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia explore
opportunities to pursue the Foundation's goals, formulate strategies and
recommend proposals for funding.
http://www.levistrauss.com/Citizenship/LeviStraussFoundation.aspx
The Levi
Strauss Foundation and the company seek to reflect the voices of the communities where Levi Strauss
and Co.
has a business presence and make a difference by having the courage to address
tough social issues. The first key priorities is a belief in empowerment--the right of women and youth to identify their needs and to participate in
solving problems that affect them including economic and educational
opportunities. The second is a resolve to address social biases and their
impact on youth and women whether due to racism, xenophobia, sexism,
homophobia, or HIV/AIDS including preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
http://www.publicwelfare.org/
The Public Welfare
Foundation is a non-governmental grant-making organization dedicated to
supporting organizations that provide services to disadvantaged populations
and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic
human needs. Grants have been awarded in the areas of criminal justice,
disadvantaged elderly and youth, environment, population, health, community
and economic development, human rights and technology assistance.
http://www.wheatridge.org/site/c.khLSKZPDLoF/b.2144589/k.9ED5/APPLY_FOR_A_GRANT.HTM
Wheat Ridge
Ministries (originally called the Wheat Ridge Foundation) is an independent
Lutheran charitable organization that provides support for helping
congregations and agencies work together to build healthy communities that
promote peace, respect and harmony among people. Working with a Lutheran
congregation or agency is a necessary bonus.
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Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities
http://www.omhrc.gov/
The Office of
Minority Health (OMH) advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
on public health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African
Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos. The mission of OMH is to improve the health
of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health
policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health. Funding
sources are identified at:
http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlID=1
http://www.peacedevelopmentfund.org/who/-whowe.htm
The Peace
Development Fund makes grants to organizations and projects working to achieve
peaceful, just and interdependent relationships among people and nations. They
believe the change in values needed to establish a more just and peaceful
world will come about only if it is strongly rooted in local communities.
Projects that emphasize transnational organizing among workers in Canada,
Mexico, and the United States, and efforts from indigenous communities in Canada,
Mexico, and the U.S. that are working to address local, regional, national, or
international challenges are priorities in three key program areas: *BASE:
Building Action for Sustainable Environments, *Criminal Justice,* and Cross
Border: A project designed to foster alliances and build capacity among groups
working for justice and social change along the U.S./Mexico border, as well as
in other parts of Mexico.
http://www.7genfund.org/we_help.html#grant-funding Seventh Generation
Fund for Indian Development is a non-profit Indigenous peoples
organization that works directly with grassroots Native American communities
and traditional Indigenous societies throughout the Americas. SGF supports
Native peoples community organizing, economic renewal, cultural
revitalization, environmental justice, and sustainable community issues such
as youth leadership development, traditional governance, economic empowerment,
community-based education, intergenerational learning, and related strategies
for sustainable development.
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International Needs
http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/community/info_page/foundation.asp
Alcoa Foundation
is proactive in seeking and supporting organizations that provide expertise
and leadership in its four Areas of Excellence and link them to communities
where Alcoa has a presence. The Areas of Excellence provide thematic focus to
the global allocation of philanthropic resources. The majority of Alcoa grants
fit within the following areas: Conservation and Sustainability, Safe and
Healthy Children and Families, Global Education and Workplace Skills, Business
and Community Partnerships.
http://www.cargill.com/about/citizenship/giving.htm Cargill Foundation
provides direct grants to help socio-economically disadvantaged youth develop
leadership skills, increase access to and innovation in education, and
demonstrate responsible stewardship of natural resources. Corporate giving
occurs in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America.
http://www.charityvillage.com/ Charity Village encourages people to
support and serve the 175,000 registered Canadian charities and nonprofit
organizations and the millions of professionals, staffers, volunteers, and
donors who make this sector such an important part of the national fabric.
Enter the site and especially review the tabbed sections at the top marked
Nonprofit Neighborhood and Resources. This site provides a wealth of
information and sources on project development knowledge as well as funding.
http://www.crdf.org/
The U.S. Civilian
Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) is a nonprofit charitable
organization that promotes scientific and technical collaboration between the
United States and the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU).
http://www.eurasia.org/
The Eurasia Foundation is a
privately managed grantmaking organization dedicated to funding programs that
build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent
States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
http://www.fordfound.org/about/mission.cfm
The Ford Foundation
is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Specific goals for
more than half a century are to: * Strengthen democratic values, * Reduce
poverty and injustice, * Promote international cooperation and * Advance human
achievement.
Three broad programs areas are: Asset Building and Community Development -
economic, community sustainability and equitability, environmental, and
reproductive health issues; Peace and Social Justice - human rights,
governance and civil society; Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom - education,
sexuality, religion, media, arts, and culture. Program officers in the United
States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia explore
opportunities to pursue the Foundation's goals, formulate strategies and
recommend proposals for funding.
http://www.izumi.org
The
primary goal of the IZUMI FOUNDATION is to support efforts that will reduce
the burden of infectious diseases in developing and low-income countries. The
Foundation's geographic focus includes the following countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia,
Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
http://www.mott.org/about/programs.aspx
The Charles Mott
Foundation has four priority programs - Civil Society, Environment,
Flint Area, and Pathways Out of Poverty. The Pathways Out of Poverty
Mission: To identify, test and help sustain pathways out of poverty for
low-income people and communities. This includes improving school readiness
and performance, expanding economic opportunity, and strengthening and
sustaining low-income community organizational structure. In addition to the
four programs, there is an Exploratory and Special Projects (XSP) fund.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/privint.htm#cds Michigan State
University offers a tremendously extensive Web list of national and
international resources. This link is to the International/Foreign Grant
Makers and Related Philanthropic News site.
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_intl_affairs.jhtml
The Philanthropy News
Digest (PND) is a service of The Foundation Center and provides up-to-date
announcements on Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in the categories of: children
and youth, community, disabled, education, environment, health, human
services, international affairs, substance abuse, and women.
http://www.osiafrica.org/
OSISA is a non-profit foundation
established in 1997 by investor and philanthropist George Soros. OSISA
oversees US$5 million in grants annually in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi,
Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. OSISA is to be a leading
regional foundation dedicated to the creation of the ideal of an open society.
The programmes broadly focus on economic reform, education, human rights and
democracy building as well as media.
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Job Skills and Training
http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/community/info_page/foundation.asp Alcoa
Foundation
awards grants to nonprofit public charities in communities where Alcoa has
a presence. Local Alcoans work within their communities to evaluate
organizations and make recommendations for funding. Nonprofit organizations
that serve local communities should contact the nearest Alcoa facility by
writing a one-page letter describing their mission, nature of request,
connection to the Areas of Excellence, and contact information. If interested,
Alcoa will notify the requesting organization and invite them to submit more
information. The majority of grants fit within the following areas:
Conservation and Sustainability, Safe and Healthy Children and Families,
Global Education and Workplace Skills, Business and Community Partnerships.
http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides the
GrantsNet site as an access portal to current funding opportunities within
HHS agencies, grants policies and regulations, and additional grant
resources.
http://www.saraleefoundation.org/funding/focus.cfm
The Sara
Lee Foundation focuses its giving on organizations dealing with women, hunger,
homelessness and affordable housing, and job training primarily in the Chicago
area.
http://www.staplesfoundation.org/
Staples Foundation for Learning™ considers educational funding to be an investment in the future
of communities. Their goal is to help local groups, many of which include customers and associates, with programs and services that will positively
impact their community every day. The Mission and Giving Focus of Staples
Foundation for Learning, Inc. is to provide funding to programs that support
or provide job skills and/or education for all people, with a special emphasis
on disadvantaged youth.
http://foundation.verizon.com/index.shtml
Verizon Foundation
supports programs that create innovative community technology development,
help bridge the digital divide, foster basic and computer literacy, and create
a skilled workforce. Verizon has an extensive employee incentive program as
well.
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