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<title>3M Community Giving </title>
<description>Areas of funding interest include K-12 Education, Higher Education, Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture, Environment, Volunteerism.</description>
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<title>Abbott Laboratories Fund </title>
<description>The Abbott Fund (The Fund) is an Illinois not-for-profit, philanthropic corporation established in 1951 by Abbott. Abbott provides the primary financial support of the Abbott Fund. Currently the Fund provides support through cash grants to recipients who operate in the areas of health and welfare, education, culture, art, civic and public policy.</description>
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<title>Abell-Hanger Foundation - Texas </title>
<description>The organization seeking a grant should be located in the State of Texas. National organizations with significant operations in or providing material benefits to the citizens of the State of Texas will be considered based on the degree of operations/benefits within the State of Texas. Areas of giving: Arts, Cultural, Humanities, Education, Health, Human Services, Public/Society Benefit, Religion.</description>
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<title>Adobe Systems, Inc.</title>
<description>Adobe supports schools and community-based organizations with programs that enable and inspire K-12 students to think creatively, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively, using digital technology and communication tools. Adobe also supports nonprofit organizations and programs located in Adobe communities that address community-specific needs, with an emphasis on the following criteria: Arts and cultural organizations with the mission or principal focus on the creation, promotion and exhibition of visual arts, multimedia or video; Providing services to reduce hunger and homelessness and provide affordable housing; Protecting the natural environment and improving public spaces for the enjoyment of the community, Improving access to electronic information for people with disabilities.</description>
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<title>Alaska Airlines Community Contributions</title>
<description>When considering grant requests Alaska Airlines favors organizations and efforts that are most likely to enhance a community's cultural and economic vitality and improve the quality of life for its citizens. General contribution categories are education, social/cultural, healthcare, arts/humanities, civic, the environment and community activities. We focus on communities served now or in the near future by Alaska Airlines and where a significant number of our employees live or work. Given limited resources, contributions are concentrated in areas with the greatest number of employees, in Alaska or Washington State for example.</description>
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<title>Allen Foundation for the Arts - Washington</title>
<description>The purpose of the Bellevue, Washington-based Allen Foundation for the Arts is to "promote a creative and flourishing arts community in the Pacific Northwest." The Foundation, which is especially interested in the performing and visual arts, also supports entities that sustain artists and art organizations.</description>
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<title>American Express</title>
<description>The American Express Philanthropic Program makes grants in three major program areas: Economic Independence, Cultural Heritage and Community Service. It includes the American Express Foundation and certain corporate gifts. Outside the United States, grants are made to organizations that are able to document not-for-profit status.</description>
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<title>AmerUs Group Charitable Foundation </title>
<description>We believe it's important to be part of the communities in which we live and work. AmerUs Group charitable foundation is committed to helping support community and cultural advancement in the areas of: United Way, Arts and Culture, Civic and Community, Education.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=569</link>
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<title>Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</title>
<description>The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=320</link>
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<title>Angelica Foundation</title>
<description>The Foundation makes program and initiative grants in the areas of the environment, social justice, and the arts, and supports groups that work in drug policy reform. Funding is restricted to nonprofit organizations in California, New Mexico, and Hawaii, as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Mexico and Central America.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=27</link>
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<title>Annenberg Foundation</title>
<description>The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance public well-being through improved communication. As a principal means of achieving this goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation focuses on four major program areas: education and youth, arts and culture, community and civic, and health.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1564</link>
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<title>Art Serve Michigan</title>
<description>Serves, supports, and advocates for an enriched cultural environment and promotes the arts as a valuable state and community resource.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=37</link>
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<title>Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation</title>
<description>The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is focused on enhancing education, preserving greenspace, sustaining the arts and sparking collaboration among its community partners. The Foundation geographic focus is on communities where members of the Blank family have deep roots: Atlanta; Maricopa County, Arizona; and Beaufort County, South Carolina. </description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=596</link>
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<title>Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo</title>
<description>Supports, promotes and funds the arts in Kalamazoo County. Our members include arts organizations, individual artists and arts lovers. We accomplish our mission through a variety of programs.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=32</link>
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<title>Ashland Inc.</title>
<description>Ashland has a proactive, outcome-driven giving strategy. With average annual contributions of about $3 million, we seek, select, support and/or partner with organizations whose goals reflect our commitment to enhancing the quality of life in our communities. Areas of funding interest include: Education, Matching Grants, Arts, Community and Civic Involvement, the Environment, United Way.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=574</link>
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<title>Association of Performing Arts Presenters</title>
<description>The Association of Performing Arts Presenters' Ensemble Theatre Travel Subsidy Program provides grants to theater directors, producers, presenters, managers, artists, and agents to see work by ensemble theater companies who have initiated a dialogue with them about a long-term partnership. In addition, artistic, production, education, publicity, or marketing staff at ensemble theater companies are eligible for funds to visit a potential host theater or arts presenter in order to effectively prepare for an engagement at least six to twelve months in advance.</description>
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<title>AT and T Foundation</title>
<description>The AT and T Foundation makes grants to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and in the case of international grants, to organizations that meet the criteria for nonprofit tax-exemption (under Section 501(c)(3)) and the laws of the country of incorporation. Areas of funding interest: K-12 and higher education - Accredited public and private elementary and secondary schools, accredited public and private two- and four-year institutions of higher education, and educational nonprofit organizations are eligible for consideration; comprehensive civic and community service programs that fall within our specific areas of focus. The Foundation believes that artistic creativity is a complex and important form of communication, and that thriving cultural institutions are a key to community well-being. To that end, the Arts and Culture Program supports innovative artistic projects by nationally and internationally recognized arts and cultural institutions.</description>
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<title>Bayer Foundation</title>
<description>The Foundation is committed to improving the communities in which our employees live and work by giving primary consideration to organizations that serve these geographic areas. Funding interests include Civic and Social Service Programs, Science Education and Workforce Development, The Arts, Art Education and Culture.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=48</link>
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<title>Bernard and Audre Ropoport Foundation</title>
<description>The primary focus of the Foundation is on programs that benefit children and youth in Waco and McLennan County, Texas. Proposals that fall outside the areas below are considered as long as they offer imaginative, and when possible, long-range solutions to the problems of the most needy members of society, and ideally, solutions that can be replicated in other communities. The Foundation prefers to concentrate on five primary areas: Education, Arts and Culture, Healthcare, Community Bulding and Social Services, Democracy and Civic Participation.</description>
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<title>Blues Music Foundation</title>
<description>The Blues Music Foundation is currently accepting applications so that it can present monies to organizations in the blues world in order that they might further the celebration and preservation of the blues, promote blues education, assist individuals and/or organizations with special needs, and/or underwrite other worthy blues causes.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1427</link>
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<title>Boston Center for the Arts</title>
<description>The BCA supports the creation and presentation of work by artists and seeks to connect artists to a large and diverse audience. The BCA's programs include exhibitions, performances, concerts, poetry readings and special outreach. The BCA also offers subsidized work space in the form of studios, rehearsal space and three small theaters to artists and arts groups.</description>
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<title>Bronx Council on the Arts</title>
<description>Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is celebrating over 40 years as a private, non-profit membership organization that is the official cultural agency of Bronx County. Recognized nationally as a leading arts service organization in providing cultural services and arts programs, BCA serves a multicultural constituency in excess of 1.2 million residents.</description>
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<title>CA IT Management</title>
<description>For more than three decades, CA has supported communities where its employees live and work. Serving a global company with offices in more than 43 countries, CA Corporate Community Affairs department supports communities through employee giving programs, CA Together Community grants, CA Together IT Program offerings and corporate contributions.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=6476</link>
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<title>Clorox Company Foundation</title>
<description>The mission of The Clorox Company Foundation is to improve the quality of life in communities where Clorox employees live and work. Community involvement is an integral part of our business and is carried out through a program of grant-making, volunteerism and leadership in community service. The Foundation concentrates on two focus areas: education/youth development and culture/civic programs. The Foundation may shift funding priorities from year to year.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1545</link>
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<title>ConAgra Foods Foundation</title>
<description>At the ConAgra Foods Foundation, our mission is clear. We are committed to applying our resources to improving quality of life where ConAgra Foods employees live and work. We focus on the following areas: hunger, nutrition and food safety; civic and community betterment; health and human services; the arts and culture.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=128</link>
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<title>Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities</title>
<description>Our programs are designed to develop an aesthetic that is informed by science, history and philosophy and that takes into consideration both the intellectual and intuitive responses to art.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=138</link>
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<title>DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund</title>
<description>DaimlerChrysler Corporation, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler AG, established the Chrysler Fund in 1953 as a non-profit entity with the sole purpose of enriching the physical, educational and cultural needs of our communities. The DCC Fund focuses its efforts on programs that support the four pillars of Good Neighbor, Good Citizen: Future Workforce, Community Vitality, Public Policy and Marketplace Issues, Involved Employees.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1149</link>
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<title>Dana Foundation</title>
<description>The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. It was founded in 1950.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1489</link>
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<title>Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation</title>
<description>The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation administers the philanthropic activities of Deutsche Bank within the United States, Latin America and Canada. Together, the Bank's Community Development Group and Foundation carry out the firm's corporate citizenship commitments through a program of loans, investments and grants. Based in New York City, where the majority of grants are awarded, the Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that concentrate on community development, education, and the arts.</description>
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<title>Dominion Foundation</title>
<description>Dominion charitable contributions are primarily awarded to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations in the following categories: Environment, Education, Culture and the Arts, Civic and Community Development Health and Human Services. Because the Dominion Foundation supports a wide range of charitable programs, most grants are in the $1,000 to $15,000 range. Higher amounts may be awarded when a program is an exceptional fit with corporate business- or giving priorities, or when there is significant employee involvement in the effort.</description>
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<title>DuPont Contributions Program</title>
<description>Each year, DuPont contributes to numerous efforts that meet the needs of various groups and global communities where the company operates. Areas of support include: Educational programs; Culture and the arts; Environmental initiatives; Human and health service organizations; Civic and community activities.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=150</link>
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<title>Eastman Kodak Company</title>
<description>Eastman Kodak's primary focus is at our site communities, but also includes national and international support. Focus is on the following general areas: Community Revitalization, Environment, and Arts and Culture; Education; Health and Human Services.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=192</link>
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<title>Eli Lilly Foundation</title>
<description>The Eli Lilly Foundation has established the following areas of funding interest: aligned health care and human services, public policy research, academic relations, civic and community development, diversity, culture, education and youth development, and discretionary/unclassified.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=160</link>
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<title>Fleishhacker Foundation</title>
<description>The Foundation has two grantmaking programs: Arts and Culture and Precollegiate (K-12) Education</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1492</link>
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<title>Ford Foundation</title>
<description>Grants and PRIs are given in the Foundation fields of interest through a program division encompassing three broad areas: Asset Building and Community Development; Education, Media, Arts, and Culture; and Peace and Social Justice.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=285</link>
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<title>Ford Fund</title>
<description>Ford Fund makes contributions to qualified U.S. not-for-profit organizations that enhance and improve opportunities for those who live in communities where Ford operates. Areas of funding interest include: Higher education; Health and social programs; Arts and humanities; K-12 education; Environmental research and programs.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=164</link>
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<title>Francis L. Abreu Foundation - Georgia</title>
<description>The Francis L. Abreu Charitable Trust funds organizations in the Atlanta area only. The Foundation's areas of interest include arts and cultural programs; secondary education; higher education; health associations; human services; children and youth services. Types of support include capital campaigns; program development; seed money; and matching funds. The Foundation does not approve requests for operating or grants to individuals.</description>
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<title>Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation</title>
<description>The Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to consider grant proposals from the following Institutional/Program Activity Areas: Animal Related, Arts, Culture, and Humanities, Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy, Education, Employment/Jobs, Environmental Quality, Protection and Beautification, Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Health - General and Rehabilitative Services, Health - Multipurpose Associations/Services Associated with Specific Diseases/Disorders/Medical Disciplines, Housing/Shelter, Human Services, Medical Research, Mental Health, Crisis Intervention, Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations Public Protection: Crime and Delinquency Prevention, Legal Administration, Legal Services, Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness and Relief, Public/Society Benefit, Recreation, Leisure, Sports, Athletics, Religion, Science and Technology, Research Institutes/Services, Social Science Research Institutes/Services, Youth Development.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=269</link>
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<title>Gannett Foundation</title>
<description>The Gannett Foundation mission: to invest in the future of the communities in which Gannett does business, and in the future of our industry. We value projects that take a creative approach to fundamental issues such as education and neighborhood improvement, economic development, youth development, community problem-solving, assistance to disadvantaged people, environmental conservation and cultural enrichment.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1336</link>
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<title>George Gund Foundation</title>
<description>The George Gund Foundation's guidelines reflect our long-standing interests in the arts, economic development and community revitalization, education, environment and human services.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=298</link>
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<title>Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation</title>
<description>The mission of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is to support and encourage those educational, cultural, social and environmental values that contribute to making our society more humane and our world more livable.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=146</link>
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<title>Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation</title>
<description>Areas of funding interest include the Humanities, Performing Arts, Research Library Program, Venetian Research Program and discretionary grants.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=280</link>
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<title>Gould Family Foundation</title>
<description>The mission of the Gould Family Foundation is to support innovative programs that promote experiential learning and the arts. The foundation prefers programs in their formative stages that can show self-sustaining ability, and are primarily based in California.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=296</link>
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<title>Grants For The Arts - San Francisco</title>
<description>Grants are awarded in three categories: Performing, Visual, Media and Literary Arts; Annual Celebrations/Parades; and Tourist-Support Services.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=295</link>
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<title>HRK Foundation</title>
<description>Historically, the Foundation's geographic service area has included the Twin Cities Metro Area, the St. Croix Valley, and Ashland and Bayfield counties in Wisconsin. In evaluating new requests, the Board's primary focus is St. Paul. Areas of funding interest include the Arts, Health, Community Building and Education.</description>
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<title>Individual Artist Fellowship and Distinguished Artist Award</title>
<description>The Rasmuson Foundation has three award programs for individual artists. Funding is available for emerging, mid-career and mature artists working in a variety of mediums, from choreography to performance art to folk and traditional arts.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=2965</link>
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<title>J.P. Morgan and Co. Inc.</title>
<description>In 2006, JPMorgan Chase will give more than $100 million through grants and sponsorships to thousands of not-for-profit organizations around the world. The firm also supports the individual interests of its global employee population through the Matching Gift program and offers opportunities to give back to the communities we serve through a range of volunteerism activities initiated by colleagues supporting our local, regional or national markets across the world. Areas of funding interest: Community asset development, Youth education, Community life - enrich communities with sponsorships and events focused on arts and culture.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=188</link>
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<title>Jerome Foundation</title>
<description>The Jerome Foundation supports programs in dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, performance art, the visual arts, multidisciplinary work and arts criticism. It provides financial assistance to nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations that support emerging creative artists who are residents of Minnesota and New York City. Choreographers, film/video and other media artists, composers, literary artists, performance artists, playwrights, multidisciplinary artists, visual artists and arts critics receive assistance through Foundation funded programs.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=310</link>
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<title>John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation</title>
<description>Grantmaking Priorities: General Program - Special initiatives as well as funding for documentary film and public radio, arts and culture in Chicago. Global Security and Sustainability, Human and Community Development, MacArthur Fellows Program.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=314</link>
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<title>John Deere Foundation</title>
<description>We provide donations and grants to nonprofit organizations, support a variety of local programs, and encourage our employees to volunteer their time and considerable talents to programs of their choice. Additionally, our focus on world hunger is helping people to build new lives for themselves and their families.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=143</link>
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<title>John S. and James L. Knight Foundation</title>
<description>Knight Foundation concentrates its local funding on the 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers had newspaper interests, until their deaths. The Knight Foundation's Six Funding Priorities include Education, Well-being of children and families, Housing and community development, Economic development, Civic engagement/positive human relations, Vitality of cultural life.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1091</link>
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<title>Johnson and Johnson</title>
<description>Through our contributions efforts, we are actively involved in supporting ongoing health care, educational and cultural programs. We are committed to a healthy environment through a reduction in our facility environmental impacts and our participation in conservation projects. Johnson and Johnson has established high standards for the health and safety of our workers and has worked with others in our community to share our knowledge in this area. Enhancing health care for people suffering from HIV/AIDS is a priority for Johnson and Johnson; it is inherent in our responsibility to the global community as expressed in Our Credo.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=886</link>
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<title>Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation</title>
<description>Family founded through economic freedom, the Norris Foundation supports programs that advance better health and intellectual enlightenment through education, cultivation of the arts, individual responsibility, freedom and dignity.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=337</link>
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<title>Lannan Foundation</title>
<description>Lannan supports individuals, organizations, and public events addressing one or more of these genres: Art, Cultural Freedom, Indigenous Communities, and Literary.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1133</link>
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<title>Lucille Lortel Foundation</title>
<description>The Foundation offers unrestricted general operating support to small and midsize not-for-profit theatre companies, in grants that range from $2,500 to $25,000.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1134</link>
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<title>MetLife Foundation</title>
<description>MetLife Foundation was established in 1976 by MetLife for the purpose of supporting educational, health and civic and cultural organizations. Our goals are to strengthen communities, promote good health and improve education.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=204</link>
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<title>Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation</title>
<description>Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's dedication to supporting artists and their work is manifested primarily in its grants programs. The Foundation makes grants available to collaborating performing arts presenters to fund touring engagements through the ArtsConnect program. Grants for community artist-in-residence projects are made through the Foundation's Artists and Communities program. Geographic focus areas: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and West Virginia.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1132</link>
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<title>Mississippi Arts Commission</title>
<description>The Commission offers a wide range of grant opportunities and services through its program areas: Arts-Based Community Development, Arts Industry, Arts in Education, Whole Schools Initiative, Mississippi Heritage, Building Fund for the Arts, Individual Artists.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=323</link>
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<title>Music Performance Trust Funds</title>
<description>Today, while the Fund supports all types of music, a priority is music that enhances education and affords public school students an opportunity to enjoy live music and interact with professional musicians.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=330</link>
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<title>Nash Foundation - Minnesota</title>
<description>TThe Nash Foundation considers requests only from 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organizations. Our grant making is generally limited to organizations in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. We also make a limited number of grants in communities that are of historic interest to The Foundation (but do not accept unsolicited proposals from these areas). We're interested in the arts, the environment, and human services, with a focus on children, youth, and economically disadvantaged families.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=85</link>
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<title>National Film Preservation Foundation</title>
<description>The National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) is the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage. We support activities nationwide that preserve American films and improve film access for study, education, and exhibition.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1426</link>
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<title>National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts</title>
<description>Identifies emerging artists and assists them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development, and to raise the appreciation for, and support of, the arts in American Society.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=206</link>
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<title>National Music Foundation</title>
<description>The National Music Foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and celebrate American music through educational programs.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=332</link>
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<title>Northwest Energy</title>
<description>While we seek to support a wide range of community activities, grants will generally be made to those non-profit groups that have the greatest opportunity for positively affecting the communities we serve and are focused in one of the following categories: Education, Health and Human Services, Civic and Community, Culture and the Arts, Resource Conservation (habitat preservation, fish and wildlife preservation). Areas of geographical focus: Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=325</link>
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<title>Princess Grace Foundation</title>
<description>Princess Grace Foundation-USA is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, publicly-supported corporation dedicated to identifying and assisting young artists in the fields of dance, theater and film in the United States.</description>
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<title>Rex Foundation - California</title>
<description>The Rex Foundation enabled the Grateful Dead to go beyond responding to multiple requests for contributions, and proactively provide extensive community support to creative endeavors in the arts, sciences, and education.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=344</link>
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<title>Robert Sterling Clark Foundation</title>
<description>The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation was incorporated in 1952, and since then has provided financial assistance to a wide variety of charitable organizations. Over the years, our program guidelines have evolved and changed. At present, we are concentrating our resources in the following three fields: Protecting Reproductive Rights and Health, Strengthening Cultural Institutions, Improving the Performance of Public Institutions.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=367</link>
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<title>Roxbury Highland Charitable Foundation - Boston</title>
<description>The mission of the Roxbury Highland Charitable Foundation is to strengthen the communities of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury by broadening and enriching the cultural and educational opportunities and expanding the health services available to the residents.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=352</link>
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<title>San Francisco Arts Commission</title>
<description>The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts in San Francisco. We believe that a creative cultural environment is essential to the City well-being. Our programs integrate the arts into all aspects of City life.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=6817</link>
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<title>SRP - Arizona</title>
<description>SRP will focus its corporate contributions on consistent and meaningful involvement in community issues and programs in the areas of: Education, Arts and culture, Health and human services, Civic leadership, Environmental quality.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=229</link>
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<title>Sullivan Foundation</title>
<description>The goal of the Foundation is to to identify talented young singers and help them develop professional careers through a unique program providing continuing financial support over a period of five years.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1425</link>
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<title>Target Community Giving</title>
<description>Target offers store-based grants that support projects promoting early childhood education, the arts and family violence prevention.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=234</link>
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<title>Texas Instruments</title>
<description>Texas Instruments highest giving priority is Education, focused on improving the quality of life in our community by providing knowledge, skills and programs that increase the percentage of high school graduates who are math and science capable. Support is also designated for programs that enrich our community in the following areas: Arts and Culture, Civic and Business.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=237</link>
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<title>Textron</title>
<description>Textron offers grants to nonprofit organizations focused on areas of education, workforce development, youth enrichment, health and human services, community revitalization, arts and culture and more.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=778</link>
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<title>The 500, Inc. - Dallas, Texas</title>
<description>Since its founding, The 500, Inc. mission has grown to support Dallas visual, theatrical and musical Arts. The organization has donated over $12 million and countless volunteer hours to support our mission of a healthy Arts Community.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=245</link>
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<title>The American Berlin Opera Foundation, Inc.</title>
<description>The American Berlin Opera Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1986 to create scholarships sponsoring young American singers to study and perform in Berlin, and thereafter to pursue career opportunities in Europe.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=266</link>
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<title>The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation</title>
<description>The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards yearly grants to writers in three rotating disciplines: Theatre, Full-length Fiction, and Short Stories. All works submitted must present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and be based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art. Writing contests close on November 30th of each year. Grants are $1000 and are not limited to a single winner.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1135</link>
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<title>The Arts Council of Northwest Florida</title>
<description>Supports artists and arts organizations in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout Northwest Florida, including the development of cultural facilities and artists' spaces, information resources, technical assistance and training.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=33</link>
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<title>The Beim Foundation</title>
<description>Traditionally, the Foundation has supported organizations in four funding categories: Arts, Education, Environment and Human Services. The Beim Foundation's geographic priority is the State of Minnesota. In 2006, the Beim Foundation will grant up to 30% of its total giving in support of projects located in the city of Denver, CO; Cumberland county, Maine; Park and Gallatin counties, Montana; and Santa Fe county, New Mexico.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=49</link>
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<title>The Boeing Company</title>
<description>The Boeing Company is committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which it operates. Funding interests include education, health and human services, culture and the arts, and civic and environmental issues.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=111</link>
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<title>The Butler Family Foundation</title>
<description>The Butler Family Foundation is governed by the children and grandchildren of Pat and Aimee Butler. The legacy of the founders continues in the Foundation's priorities of supporting human services, including chemical dependency programs, and the arts. The environment has emerged as a new priority for the Foundation in the last decade. The Trustees of the Butler Family Foundation continue to honor Pat and Aimee's commitment to the betterment of the Twin Cities community by making grants to organizations serving St. Paul and Minneapolis their priority.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=56</link>
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<title>The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts</title>
<description>The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts, a non-profit organization to memorialize Donna Reed's accomplishments and perpetuate her deep commitment to youth, education, and the performing arts.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=277</link>
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<title>The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</title>
<description>The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, wildlife conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=637</link>
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<title>The Educational Foundation of America</title>
<description>The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) makes grants to qualifying non-profit organizations that have tax-exempt status and those that are not private foundations as defined in the Internal Revenue Code. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace and national security issues and human services.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1224</link>
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<title>The Entertainment Industry Foundation</title>
<description>The Entertainment Industry Foundation responds to some of the most critical needs facing our society. We help raise awareness and funds for important causes such as childhood hunger, cancer research, creative arts, education, cardiovascular research, and much more.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=535</link>
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<title>The Federated Department Stores Foundation</title>
<description>The Federated Department Stores Foundation focuses giving primarily in the areas of education, arts/culture, women's issues, HIV/AIDS, and programs to assist youth and minorities. Applicants seeking funding for programs or projects that directly benefit one or more of these areas of strategic focus should make that clear on their applications.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=723</link>
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<title>The Fieldstone Foundation</title>
<description>The Fieldstone Foundation was created by the Fieldstone Group of Companies (Fieldstone) in 1983 to provide grants, leadership development and service to nonprofit organizations working to support individuals in the communities where the companies within Fieldstone do business: Orange, Riverside, North Los Angeles and San Diego Counties in Southern California, Salt Lake City in Utah, and San Antonio in Texas. The Foundation allocates its resources in four general areas: Humanitarian, Community and Education, Cultural Arts, and Christian Ministries.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=283</link>
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<title>The Heinz Endowments - Pennsylvania</title>
<description>The Heinz Endowments comprise two private foundations, the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. Our shared mission is to help southwestern Pennsylvania thrive as a whole community, economically, ecologically, educationally, and culturally, while advancing the state of knowledge and practice in the fields in which we work.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=178</link>
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<title>The Houston Endowment - Houston</title>
<description>Houston Endowments supports nonprofit organizations and educational institutions that improve life for the people of the grater Houston area. The Foundation funds programs in the arts, community enhancement, education, health, human services, the environment and neighborhood development.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=303</link>
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<title>The Humana Foundation</title>
<description>The Humana Foundation identifies, funds, and nurtures projects and organizations in three fields: domestic and international health, education, and civic and cultural development in communities where the company has a meaningful presence.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1146</link>
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<title>The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation</title>
<description>The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation was established in 1978 to promote and encourage the recognition and appreciation of excellence in the arts; to enhance cultural life internationally through the support of art exhibitions, scholarship, and the endowment of galleries at major museums; and to support biomedical research.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1136</link>
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<title>The Lindbergh Foundation</title>
<description>Grants are made in numerous areas of special interest to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, including aviation/aerospace, agriculture, arts and humanities, biomedical research and adaptive technology, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health and population sciences, intercultural communication, oceanography, waste disposal management, water resource management, and wildlife preservation.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=621</link>
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<title>The Mardag Foundation - Minnesota</title>
<description>The Mardag Foundation makes grants to nonprofit organizations that improve the quality of life in Minnesota for children, seniors and other at-risk populations and for programs in education and arts.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=78</link>
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<title>The McKnight Foundation - Greater Minnesota</title>
<description>We support efforts to strengthen communities, families, and individuals, particularly those in need. We contribute to the arts, encourage preservation of our natural environment, and promote research in selected fields. We continually explore innovative ideas to advance our goals in partnership with those we serve.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=81</link>
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<title>The Milagro Foundation</title>
<description>The Milagro Foundation, founded by Carlos and Deborah Santana, provides financial assistance for children all over the world in the areas of health, education and the arts. The Santanas believe that life is a miracle (milagro) and that children everywhere deserve the opportunity to lead safe, healthy and educationally creative lives.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=503</link>
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<title>The Pew Charitable Trusts</title>
<description>The Pew Charitable Trusts serves the public interest by providing information, advancing policy solutions and supporting civic life. Areas of funding interest: Informing the Public - The Trusts informs the public on key issues and trends, as a highly credible source of independent, non-partisan research and polling information; Advancing Policy Solutions - The Trusts advances policy solutions on important issues facing the American people; - Supporting Civic Life - The Trusts supports the arts, heritage, health and well-being of our diverse citizenry and civic life, with particular emphasis on Philadelphia.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=670</link>
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<title>The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc.</title>
<description>The Pollock-Krasner Foundations mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The Foundation dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and financial need, whether professional, personal or both.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=342</link>
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<title>The Prudential Foundation</title>
<description>The Prudential Foundation provides support to innovative direct-service programs that address the needs of our communities in three areas: Ready to Learn, Ready to Work, Ready to Live. In order to make a significant impact with finite resources, our funding is allocated according to specific Foundation Policies and Application Guidelines. Areas of funding interest include Access to Quality Education, Access to Economic Opportunities, Access to Services and Arts.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=211</link>
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<title>The Sara Lee Foundation</title>
<description>To ensure the most effective use of its grant funds, the Sara Lee Foundation operates within guidelines that direct its support to nonprofit organizations working in three areas: hunger, job training, and arts and culture (read more about the individual focus areas by following the links). To do this, we have organized our direct grants into two categories: Community Initiatives and Cultural. Nonprofit organizations that are located outside the Chicago metropolitan area and in communities where Sara Lee has a facility, should submit grant requests to the local Sara Lee facility.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=772</link>
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<title>The SBC Foundation</title>
<description>The SBC Foundation supports organizations and programs that enrich and strengthen diverse communities across the United States, with emphasis on education, community development, health and human services, and arts and culture. Please be advised that SBC merged with AT and T and there is a new foundation.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=568</link>
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<title>The Shell Oil Company Foundation</title>
<description>The Shell Oil Company Foundation focus areas broadly include education, culture and the arts, civic and community, health and welfare, diversity and inclusiveness, and sustainable development interests.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=222</link>
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<title>The Sprint Foundation</title>
<description>The Foundation's charitable giving program emphasizes the support of local and regional organizations in those communities in which the corporation has a major presence. Currently, those areas include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City (metro area), Orlando, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.; however, these areas are subject to change. Support of national organizations with a broad sphere of interests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The Foundation's geographic focus is primarily domestic. Areas of funding interest include: Education, Arts, Culture and Humanities, Youth Development.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=226</link>
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<title>The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation - Pennsylvania</title>
<description>The Foundation funds nonprofit organizations with a current 501(c)(3) status from the US Internal Revenue Service, arts and cultural activities, only activities that take place in the City of Philadelphia.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=45</link>
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<title>The Tesoro Foundation</title>
<description>The Tesoro Foundation (Tesoro means "Treasure" in Spanish) is committed to protecting and making available to the community the artistic treasures of our American past. All Tesoro events are inspired by Colorado rich history and shared experiences with Southwest, Spanish, Mexican, Native American, African American and Early European cultures. From art and cuisine to historical re-enactments and music, the Tesoro Foundation mission is to create community based events and educational outreach programs designed to enrich and celebrate our cultural heritage.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=682</link>
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<title>The Wachovia Foundation</title>
<description>The Wachovia Foundation is a private foundation that is funded annually by Wachovia Corporation. We provide grants to eligible 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations in two primary and two secondary focus areas. Primary Focus Areas: Education, Community Development. Secondary Focus Areas: Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture. Geographical areas: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1069</link>
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<title>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</title>
<description>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. The Foundation places a high value on sustaining and improving institutions that make positive contributions to society. Areas of funding interest include Education, the Environment, Global Development, Performing Arts, Population, Health.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=182</link>
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<title>The Windmore Foundation for the Arts, Inc. - Virginia</title>
<description>Windmore is a non-profit organization based in Culpeper and was created to promote the arts in the Piedmont Area. Since its inception, Windmore has been a patron of theatre, art education, dance, literature, music, and visual arts.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=369</link>
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<title>Tiffany Foundation</title>
<description>Since its inception in 1837, Tiffany and Co. has been guided by the belief that a successful company has a responsibility to the greater community. Through The Tiffany and Co. Foundation, the company broadens the scope of its corporate giving efforts with grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to the education and preservation of the arts and environmental conservation.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=240</link>
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<title>Time Warner</title>
<description>As a corporate citizen, Time Warner strives to equip young people from all walks of life with the knowledge and skills to succeed in todays world. We direct our funding to organizations that nurture and energize creativity and diversity in the arts, and programs aimed at closing the college-opportunity gap.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=1018</link>
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<title>US Airways Corporate Giving</title>
<description>US Airways invests in community organizations and initiatives to enhance the quality of life in the airline 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 committment is reflected through annual financial and travel donations on behalf of US Airways' giving programs and foundations.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=5738</link>
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<title>Wallace Foundation</title>
<description>The Wallace Foundation seeks to support and share effective ideas and practices that will strengthen education leadership, arts participation and out-of-school learning.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=313</link>
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<title>Whirlpool Foundation</title>
<description>Quality family life, cultural diversity and lifelong learning are the focus areas for the Whirlpool Foundation's grantmaking. Using these social issues as a framework for our strategic and citizenship grants, Whirlpool Foundation proactively identifies outstanding nonprofit organizations that are addressing these social issues in innovative, collaborative, self-sustaining ways.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=792</link>
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<title>Wyoming Arts Council</title>
<description>Quality family life, cultural diversity and lifelong learning are the focus areas for the Whirlpool Foundation's grantmaking. Using these social issues as a framework for our strategic and citizenship grants, Whirlpool Foundation proactively identifies outstanding nonprofit organizations that are addressing these social issues in innovative, collaborative, self-sustaining ways.</description>
<link>http://www.fundsnetservices.com/goto.php?sblink_id=370</link>
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