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Foundations and Corporate Grant Programs
These foundations and corporate grant programs provide grants in areas that may be of interest to many NIDRR grantees and have Internet sites. Every effort will be made to ensure that the links are active. If you know of another foundation or corporate grant program that has a rehabilitation or disability focus AND an Internet site, please contact NCDDR.
The Arc of the United States
The Arc's Research Grants Program in Mental Retardation supports research
leading toward prevention, amelioration or cure of mental retardation. The
Arc has identified several areas of special interest for 1998: enhancing
opportunities for people with mental retardation to live, learn, work and
play in their communities, with a particular interest in assistive technology
and cognitive access; and prevention of mental retardation with a particular
interest in FAS prevention.
http://www.thearc.org
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.
http://www.att.com/foundation/
Benton Foundation
This site describes the foundation's Communications Policy Project that
supports public interest values and noncommercial services for the National
Information Infrastructure through research, policy analysis, print, video,
and online publishing, and outreach to nonprofits and other foundations.
http://www.benton.org/
Bill
and 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. We award most grants through four primary program areas: Global Health, Education,
Global Libraries, and Pacific Northwest. We 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.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ForGrantSeekers
Carnegie Corporation of New York
This site describes the current program areas: Early Childhood, Young Adolescents,
Science Education, Education Reform, Preventing Mass Intergroup Violence,
Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Cooperative Security and Nonproliferation,
Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries, and Special Projects.
Additional information about each area is provided along with specific grant
application materials.
http://www.carnegie.org/
The Commonwealth Fund
This fund focuses on promoting independent research in four areas: improving
health care services, bettering the health of minority Americans, advancing
the well-being of elderly people, and developing the capacities of children
and young people.
http://www.cmwf.org/
The
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Grants made by the foundation under new guidelines in the education area
include projects that: (1) promote joint ventures among previous Dana innovators,
and (2) support moving a single innovator's work into new areas, and then
mounting a sophisticated effort to disseminate the new developments. The
foundation also funds awards for collaborative research on diseases and
disorders of the brain. This site contains information about new awards
made by the foundation and the procedures for application.
http://www.dana.org/
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse
established in 1956. The mission is to foster public understanding of the
foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating
information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
http://fdncenter.org/
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
The foundation's purpose is "to extend the healthful productive years
of life through research on mechanisms of biological aging." The site
is a point-of-access for scientists whose primary interest is in the biology
of aging, or other organizations involved in aging research.
http://www.glennfoundation.org/
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international grant making organization
which focuses on female human rights. The Fund is committed to giving flexible,
timely support to women's groups working on emerging, controversial, or
difficult issues.
http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw/
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
This foundation supports a broad mental health program to benefit the people
of Texas. The current priorities are: children and their families, youth
at risk, and minority mental health.
http://hogg.utexas.edu/
IBM
This site describes IBM's new focus issues for its philanthropic activities.
These include: K-12 Education (Re-Inventing Education), Workforce Development
(Adult Education and Job Training), and Environment. IBM also conducts an
IBM International Foundation.
http://www.ibm.com/IBM/IBMGives/index.html
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
This foundation supports projects that: improve student assessments and professional
development of educators, develop critical and creative thinking skills, promote
diversity in the media, research mental health and human development, cooperation-building
training and research, among others. The site provides more information about all
of these and additional programs such as the fellowship and the World Environment
and Resources Program.
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
This foundation is the United States' largest private philanthropy devoted
to health care. The web site provides additional information on details
of the current program.
http://www.rwjf.org/
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The foundation work is focused in four main areas: health policy, reproductive
health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. Grant application
material and new grants made by the foundation are available through the
site.
http://www.kff.org/
Ewing Marion Kaufman
Foundation
The foundation mission is to research and identify the unfulfilled needs
of society, and to develop, implement, and/or fund breakthrough solutions
that have a lasting impact. Current work is focused in two areas: youth
development and entrepreneurial leadership.
http://www.emkf.org/
Entrepreneurial Edge/The Edward Lowe Foundation
"Entrepreneurial Edge, a service of the Edward Lowe Foundation, provides
information you can use to grow and improve your business. It offers entrepreneurs
a full-text searchable library of over 3,000 articles and book chapters,
reviews with links to other content-rich resources, practical "how-to"
training modules, and peer-to-peer interaction."
http://edwardlowe.org/
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
The foundation's mission is to assist young people with disabilities to
lead fuller and more productive lives. Within that mission, the foundation
provides grants for projects of national scope and impact, and matching
grants for projects initiated by MEA companies in their local communities.
Priority is given to organizations and projects that promote the independence,
productivity, and community inclusion of youth with disabilities.
http://www.meaf.org/
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The foundation has interests in a variety of areas including: science, children,
population, conservation, arts and film preservation, education, community
(including employment and job training), management assistance, and other
special areas. More information on these areas and application procedures
are available through the site.
http://www.packard.org/
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.
http://www.rbf.org/
The
Rotary Foundation
The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts
of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through
international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs.
Through its Educational Programs, the Foundation provides funding for some
1,200 students to study abroad each year. Grants are also awarded to university
teachers to teach in developing countries and for exchanges of business
and professional people. http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/TheRotaryFoundation/Pages/ridefault.aspx
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. http://www.pewtrusts.org/grants/index.cfm
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The main interests and programs of this foundation are concentrated primarily
in four areas: science and technology; standards of living, competitiveness,
and economics; education and careers in science and technology; and selected
national issues. The site provides additional information about each of
the priority areas.
http://www.sloan.org/
The Whitaker Foundation
The Whitaker Foundation is a private, nonprofit that primarily supports
research and training in biomedical engineering. This foundation has committed
to an accelerated program of grant-making that will deplete its endowment
by 2006.
http://www.whitaker.org/
