Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation
Emphasis: Pre-Collegiate Education, Community Economic Development, Environmental Issues,
Minority Issues, Women's Issues, Miscellaneous.
Kelly
& Cal Ripken Jr. Foundation
As a small, family-managed organization, the Foundation, though supporting a variety of
nonprofit community organizations, is currently focusing its support on adult and family
literacy through the Baltimore Reads Ripken Learning Center and youth recreation programs
in the greater Baltimore area.
Rite Aide
Community Involvement
Our community outreach includes such activities as corporate memberships in various
neighborhood improvement organizations. We also strive to include locally-based, and
minority-and women-owned businesses in such activities as the distribution of products,
maintenance and repair of store facilities, bank deposits, and vendor services. We also
have a program for targeted corporate contributions and limited assistance to local
not-for-profit entities.
The RKG Foundation
Supports medical and educational research with no geographic limitations.
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
"Working across the country and around the world to carry forward Robert Kennedy's
mission."
Rochester
Community Foundation - Michigan
The Foundation welcomes grant requests, especially those that support innovative projects,
charitable organizations, art, culture, and youth activities.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities is focused on carrying on McDonald's founder Ray Kroc's
legacy of giving something back to the community, as are individual owner/operators
devoted to Helping Out those in need. It is here that you can learn about the unique
Scholarships, community Programs, and McDonald's Education initiatives.
Rockefeller
Brothers Fund
The Fund's major objective is to improve the well-being of all people through support of
efforts in the United States and abroad that contribute ideas, develop leaders, and
encourage institutions in the transition to global interdependence. Its grantmaking aims
to counter world trends of resource depletion, arms build-ups, protectionism, and
isolation which now threaten to move human kind everywhere further away from cooperation,
equitable trade and economic development, arms restraint, and conservation.
Rockefeller
Family Fund
Emphasis: Citizen education and participation, economic justice for women, environment,
institutional responsiveness, self-sufficiency.
Rockwell
International
Being a responsible corporate citizen at Rockwell means caring about the world our
people live in and being an engaged participant in our neighborhoods. We strive to improve
our communities and workplaces through our commitment to diversity, education,
philanthropic support and the environment.
ROHM & HAAS
Rohm and Haas Company supports organizations which are within the following categories:
Health and Human Services Education, Civic and Community Improvement, Culture and Arts.
Most of our investments are focused around Education and Health and Human Services.
Although a significant level of our funds is provided for operating support, we prefer to
support discrete programs and projects.
Romic Environmental Technologies Corporation
Romic's corporate giving program is designed to support effective local programs that
enable the local community to develop its own long-term solutions for meeting residents'
needs. It is an investment in the community's most important resources -- its people and
its environment. Programs must serve primarily East Palo Alto residents.
Rosenberg Foundation
Rosenberg Foundation makes grants to private, nonprofit organizations and public agencies
to carry out projects that will benefit California. The Foundation is committed to the
well-being of children and their families in California, particularly those children who
are minority, low-income or immigrant.
Rose Hill
Foundation
Supports qualified, tax-exempt, charitable organizations for the benefit
of the people of Southern California, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel
Valley.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
The Rotary 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.
Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust - New
Zealand
manages and enhances the assets held in trust and distributes income for the long term
benefit of the Rotorua District community.
Joseph
Rowntree Charitable Trust - UK, Ireland, South Africa
Subject areas: poverty and economic justice, handling conflict and promoting peaceful
alternatives, democratic process, racial justice, corporate responsibility, Quaker and
other religious concerns.
Royal Bank Financial Group Community
Investment - Canada
Grants are intended to: Assist educational, health, cultural, charitable and other
international, national and local community organizations whose work enhances quality of
life. Support endeavors that benefit the community, and thus the bank's customers,
employees and shareholders, by improving the quality of community services. Encourage and
support the community-minded efforts and involvement of the bank's employees. Provide
useful and visible expressions of the bank's social responsibility, and thus enhance its
public reputation.
The Rural Community Foundation
The Rural Community Foundation is a nonprofit, publicly supported, 501 (c)(3)
organization, which awards grants for social, educational, or other charitable purposes in
a twelve county region in northern Missouri and southern Iowa.
Sabera
Foundation
Spanish foundation providing housing, health care, education, and music
lessons for homeless girls in Calcutta.
Sabre
Foundation
Specializes in providing college and professional-level educational materials to
institutions and individuals in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet
Union.
The Sachs Foundation
The organization is committed to awarding scholarships to African-American graduating high
school seniors who have lived in Colorado for at least five years.
Sacramento
AIDS Foundation
The Sacramento AIDS Foundation has a two-fold Mission: To stop the spread of HIV infection
through education, and to provide care and support for people living with HIV disease and
AIDS.
Sanlam - Community Involvement
- South Africa
Areas of funding interest: Education and training, Safety and crime
prevention, Entrepreneurship and skills development, Health and welfare,
Nature and environmental conservation, Art and Culture, Sport and
sports development.
Salomon Family Foundation
The New York-based Salomon Family Foundation supports the treatment of child abuse, with
special emphasis on sexual abuse and programs that provide the intensive and extensive
treatment needed.
Sam's
Club Foundation
Select the program of interest to your organization. Programs: Children, Education,
Environment, Communities. If you are unable to connect, select the "About
Us" section and you will find a link to the foundation.
Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation - New York
The Foundation supports performing arts
programs and organizations or projects working to improve the delivery of high quality
healthcare throughout the metropolitan area. The healthcare program is focused on
supporting elderly and chronically ill patients and making sure they receive the treatment
to which they are entitled. Grants are made to support "demonstrations, evaluations,
and other types of studies that directly impact the users of healthcare." The
performing arts program supports the highest level companies and presenters, along with
arts education programs in the public schools and support for those pursuing careers in
the arts.
San Diego Gas & Electric
- Community Center - Now Sempra Energy
SDG&E and its employees are dedicated to working with the community -- in business,
non-profit organizations, schools and the media -- to promote health, education and
safety, and to enhance the quality of life in the communities where we do business
The San Marcos River Foundation
The San Marcos River Foundation (SMRF) is a nonprofit corporation created and maintained
by a small group of San Marcos citizens with a mission to preserve and protect the flow,
natural beauty and purity of the San Marcos River. This site discusses their goals, their
successes and the important issues surrounding the preservation of the San Marcos River.
Samsung Social Activities
Areas of Interest: Social Welfare, education, Volunteers, Arts and Culture, Environment,
Companion Animals.
Sara Lee Corporation -
Corporate Citizenship
Our policy is to give nonprofit organizations at least 2% of our U.S. pretax income
annually through cash and product donations, amounting to almost $200 million
corporate-wide over the past 10 years. In response to our growing business, we formed the
Sara Lee Foundation in 1981 to oversee our philanthropic activities. In fiscal 1996, our
corporate-wide donations reached nearly $23 million, of which $6.7 million represented
Sara Lee Foundation spending.
SAS Institute
- North Carolina
Corporate Philanthropy program provides donations to a wide range of non-profit
organizations focused on enriching our communities through the promotion of education,
medical research, the arts, community services, and environmental conservation.
SBC
Foundation
The Foundation serves communities under familiar brand names including Southwestern Bell,
Ameritech, Pacific Bell, Nevada Bell and SNET Foundations and addresses local needs in the
areas of education, community economic development, health and human services and arts and
cultural outreach.
The Sarah Scaife Foundation
The Sarah Scaife Foundation's grant program is primarily directed toward public policy
programs that address major domestic and international issues. There are no geographical
restrictions. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals for any purpose or to
nationally-organized fundraising groups.
Schering-Plough Corporation - Corporate
Contributions
Areas of Interest: Communities, Health care, educational and arts groups, Philanthropic
organizations
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
The Arthur B. Schultz Foundation seeks to empower individuals worldwide through
educational opportunity, responsible economic development, and environmental conservation.
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation was established in 1987 to support
programs that enhance Jewish life in the United States, Israel, and the former Soviet
Union. The foundation also funds Oklahoma based, non-sectarian charitable groups that
focus on education, children and community service.
Schwab Family Foundation
- California
In 1998, the Foundation redirected its energy and formed a specific grant program called
Children, Youth and Family (CYF) Program following the mission that "every person has
the potential to be productive and, within their individual capability, to contribute
positively to their own well-being, to their family's well-being and the well-being of
their community."
ScotiaBank Serve Canada
Program
Serve Canada is an innovative and unique nine month program which brings together young
people from diverse racial, academic, cultural and economic backgrounds to work in small
Teams and perform meaningful community service.
The Scottish Higher Education
Funding Council (SHEFC)
Grants for teachers and researchers.
SeaFirst Bank - Northwest -
Now part of Bank of America
Through the BankAmerica Foundation, Seafirst makes cash contributions and grants to five
target areas: education, community development, culture and the arts, human services, and
the environment. Seafirst's primary focus - kids and their education.
SEARCH
Foundation - Scholarships - Australia
Projects will be eligible which are judged to make a contribution to the education,
information or organisation of the labour movement or other progressive causes in
Australia.
Second Byte Foundation
Provides equal access to technology for underprivileged children by placing computers in
their homes.
Self Family Foundation
- South Carolina
The Self Family Foundation, since its inception, has disbursed $30,348,307 to 425
different organizations and institutions, 98% of which were located in South Carolina.
Grants paid to charitable organizations within Greenwood County total $20,945,830.
Sharp Electronics
In the spirit of building closer ties with the communities in which we work and live,
Sharp and its employees play an active role in all types of local efforts. In New Jersey
you can contact: Human Resources Dept., Sharp Electronics Corp., Sharp Plaza,
Mahwah, NJ 07430. Sharp has offices around the world, for a list of locations
press this link. We will
continue to research their site for a common address for their international philanthropy
page.
Shell Oil Company
Foundation
Last year, over $23 million was allocated across the country to selected qualified
organizations that provide road-based support in areas such as equal opportunity, health
and human services, civic involvement, the arts, and education.
Foundation for Seacoast Health
The Foundation for Seacoast Health, created in 1984 and funded in 1985, has become the
largest private charitable foundation in New Hampshire. Its mission is to support and
promote health care in any one or more of the cities and towns in the New Hampshire/Maine
Seacoast area (Portsmouth, Rye, New Castle, Greenland, Newington, and North Hampton, NH;
and Kittery, Eliot, and York, ME).
Sears-Roebuck
Throughout its history Sears has had a long-standing
commitment to corporate responsibility, including providing contributions to nonprofit
organizations.
The Selena Foundation
Her family has established the "Selena Foundation" for the purpose of raising
money for scholarships, founding a Tejano museum and honoring the music that Selena loved
so much. It is with the effort to educate, promote and raise money for this foundation
that so many have worked so hard to put together a very special internet site in Selena's
memory.
Sherwood Anderson Foundation
- Writers
The foundation has been giving grants and scholarships to developing writers since 1988.
Deadline for grant applications is April 1 of each year.
SEVA
Foundation
In the U.S., we support Native Americans to tackle the epidemic of diabetes in their
communities. We also offer retreats to social justice activists, giving them an
opportunity to reflect on their work and renew their commitment to serve.
Share
Our Strength
Share Our Strength supports comprehensive and effective efforts to address immediate and
root causes of hunger and poverty.
Shaws
Supermarkets
Shaw's Supermarket's commitment is to assist and support organizations which are best able
to contribute to the quality of life in the communities in which we live and serve.
Harry Singer Foundation
The Harry Singer Foundation is a non-profit 501(c) 3 private operating foundation whose
purpose is to promote responsibility and involve people more fully in public policy. It
was founded in 1987. It conducts active programs, and because of its operating status,
cannot make grants.
The William E. Simon Foundation
- New Jersey
The main charitable purpose of the Foundation is to assist those in need by providing the
means through which they may help themselves; accordingly, the Foundation seeks to fund
programs that promote independence and personal responsibility among those in need. Its
funding areas include, but are not limited to, education, religion, youth welfare,
athletics, social welfare, and special awards, which recognizes outstanding achievement
and excellence in selected fields.
The Sinfonia Foundation
Advancing the cause of music in America...
The
Skillman Foundation
The Skillman Foundation is a resource for improving the lives of children in metropolitan
Detroit.
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation
Areas of funding interest include Education and Careers in
Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Selected National
Issues and Civic Program.
Small
World Foundation
Small World Foundation is a non-profit Organization founded in 1995 to provide free,
expert medical care, emphasizing Plastic Surgery, to those who have no access, nor
resources -throughout the U.S. and the world.
The SMARTer Kids Foundation
The SMARTer Kids Foundation provides grants to educators to equip classrooms with
interactive whiteboards called SMART Boards. SMART Boards help make computer-based
teaching and learning easier, more dynamic and more interactive.
Brian Smith Foundation for the Kids
- Canada
The Brian Smith Foundation helps disadvantaged kids and young adults develop to their full
potential through education, sports and recreation.
Sobrato Family Foundation -
California
The Foundation strategically focuses its giving on four specific program areas within
Santa Clara, San Mateo and southern Alameda counties, communities from which the family
business has benefited. The four program areas are: community building and economic
development, education, health and human services and youth development.
Social
Change Assistance Trust - Zaire, South Africa
Society of Actuaries Foundation
The mission of the Society of Actuaries Foundation is to contribute to the understanding
and resolution of present and future social and economic problems by: Investing in
innovative research, education and communications initiatives Using actuarial capabilities
Collaborating with universities, governments, industry, professions and others with
similar missions.
Sonoco Foundation.
The Foundation's grant program currently focuses on education, health and welfare, arts
and culture, and the environment.
Soros
Foundations Network
Select the program of interest to your organization.
South Carolina Developmental Disabilities Council
Provides leadership in advocating, funding, and implementing initiatives which recognize
the inherent dignity of each individual.
South Forty Corporation
South Forty has led the way in initiating prison programs designed to provide a better
future for offenders.
Southwestern Bell Company Foundation
Our continuing goal is to be a partnership builder, a catalyst for strategic change that
can improve the greatest number of lives. We take pride in the coalitions we've stimulated
around priority community needs at the local, regional and national level, especially when
those collaborations keep change moving forward after our financial support ends.
Southwire at Work In the Community
We're focusing most of our emphasis on two areas that have the greatest impact on the
world's future:-education and the environment.
The
Sowers Club of Nebraska Foundation
Since grant requests usually exceed funds available, the Disbursements Committee has
elected to sponsor those charitable activities in their opinion having the most beneficial
economic, social and cultural impact on the city of Lincoln and surrounding communities
Spencer
Foundation
Grants funds to support research which contributes to the understanding and improvement of
education. Grant programs include funding for faculty research and a variety of fellowship
programs.
The Spoehr-Clarke Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to make grants to grass-roots groups and individuals
working in the areas of wildlife and wilderness protection, the environment, and animal
welfare. The Foundation encourages groups or individuals who may not be funded by larger,
more traditional foundations to apply. Nonprofit institutions with specific needs or
programs may also qualify for grants. The grant-making is currently limited primarily to
Vermont, New Hampshire and Hawai'i.
Sprint Corporation and Foundation
The Sprint Foundation's charitable giving program emphasizes support of local and regional
organizations in those communities in which the corporation has a major presence.
Interests: education, arts and culture, community improvement, youth development.
The Starr Foundation
The Foundation makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and
healthcare, public policy, human needs and culture.
Starbright
Foundation
Chaired by Steven Spielberg and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf; creates and distributes
technology interventions for seriously ill children.
Starlight Children's Foundation
Charity that provides "wishes" to terminally ill children.
The State Farm
Companies Foundation
The Foundation's financial resources are primarily directed toward supporting higher
education through our scholarship programs and grants to colleges and universities.
St Croix Valley Community
Foundation - WI
The mission of the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation is to advance the quality of life
in the St. Croix Valley of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The
Steppingstone Foundation
The Steppingstone Foundation is dedicated to developing and running programs for
schoolchildren which provide a clear link between education and opportunity.
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Areas of Interest: Arts & Culture, Government Accountability, Family Planning.
Robins Foundation
The purpose of the Robins Foundation is to provide support by way of donations of funds or
other
property for cultural, charitable, scientific, environmental and educational purposes or
for religious
purposes if they are otherwise compatible with the objectives of the Foundation. It
considers proposals only from organizations that are exempt from taxation pursuant to §
501 (c)(3) of the United States lnternal Revenue Code. Grantmaking is normally limited to
the Central Virginia area, but the Foundation may consider proposals from other areas of
the Commonwealth.
Stern Family Fund
The Stern Family Fund is a private foundation that supports policy oriented government and
corporate accountability projects. In an era of renewed concentration of political and
economic power, the Fund is committed to aiding citizens striving to guarantee the
responsiveness of public and private institutions that wield substantial power over their
lives.
St. Luke's Charitable Health Trust
The Trust is interested in community health from a broad perspective, with a particular
emphasis on: Prevention and education programs addressing the health needs of
children, youth and young families.
Stolichnaya(R) Vodka
In an attempt not only to help raise public consciousness, but to help raise funds,
Stolichnaya(R) Vodka has been donating advertising dollars and space to deserving
charities for several months. Health and community.
Levi Strauss
Foundation - Global Giving
Areas of funding interest include AIDS Prevention and Care, Economic Empowerment, Social
Justice, Youth Empowerment.
The Sudbury Foundation
Today, the Foundation operates two, distinct philanthropic programs: the Atkinson
Scholarship Program, which recognizes and assists local, college-bound students; and the
Charitable Grants Program, which supports not-for-profit organizations whose work benefits
the community of Sudbury, either directly or indirectly. Targeted for special support are
New England-based environmental organizations.
The Summerlee Foundation
- Texas
The Summerlee Foundation located in Houston,supports animal protection and preserve the
history of Texas.
The Summit Fund of Washington
In late 1997, responding to two urgent problems that are essential to the health, vitality
and sustainability of our community, we adopted a more focused approach to our
grantmaking. Funding is now directed toward:
• Restoring and Protecting the Anacostia River and
• Preventing Teen Pregnancy in the District of Columbia.
Sunbeam
Philanthropy
The Company does give consideration to requests from organizations in the following areas:
Family Services, Community & civic/ art & culture, General health,
Environment & conservation.
Surdna Foundation
Grantmaking Program Areas: Environment, Community Revitalization, Effective Citizenry
Sunshine
Foundation
A Mennonite-affiliated, non-profit agency providing residential and support services to
individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Sunshine
Foundation of Canada
makes dreams come true for children aged 3 to
19 who are challenged by severe physical disabilities or life-threatening
illnesses.
The Swalm Foundation
The Swalm Foundation awards grants to Texas nonprofits that focus on human services and
health programs, including alcoholism and other drug abuse. The independent foundation
awards more than $4 million in grants each year. The 100 grants awarded average $44,000.
Nonprofits that serve small town or rural areas with limited resources are eligible to
apply for grants. Funding can be used for building renovations, emergency funds,
endowments, general operating support, matching challenge support, and scholarship funds.
The deadline for applications is 90 days prior to board meetings for the current quarter.
The board meets in January, March, June and September.
Ralph and Eileen Swett Foundation
The Foundation has a particular interest in funding medical or drug research designed to
alleviate the suffering of those with rheumatoid arthritis. It also expects to make grants
to fund programs which help the homeless, the orphaned, the poor, etc.
Syncrude Canada,
Ltd.
Syncrude's Community Investment Program supports organizations and groups
that require assistance with projects enhancing the quality of life within
the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and the city of Edmonton.
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