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Adobe's Community Relations Program
Adobe invites proposals for programs & services which: develop self-reliance, character or self-esteem, and eliminate dependency; strengthen or support the family and individuals; address prevention as well as treatment; eliminate duplication of services and encourage collaboration; are model projects which have a strong possibility for replication, or have demonstrated success elsewhere; test highly promising new ideas for greater program or ost effectiveness; offer the promise of demonstrating new and effective ways to intervene with community challenges.

The Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
The priority research interests of the Foundation fall within its overall objective: the prevention of alcohol misuse and alcoholism.

The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research
Purpose: Promote innovative medical research in a variety of fields, including biochemistry, biomedical engineering, virology, immunology, cell and molecular biology, pharmacology and genetics. Special area of interest: Projects that develop new insights into the prevention or successful treatment of cancer

The Paul G. Allen Forest Protection Foundation
Purpose: Preserve ancient forest and other special forest lands for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

American Express Financial Advisors
All our grants were made under the general themes of education and employment, community service and cultural heritage.

Armstrong McDonald Foundation
Areas of Interest: Children (youth), culture, disabled (blind, deaf), education, elderly, health (hospital, medical care, safety), religious (churches)

Amy Foundation
Area of Interest: Religious Publications

Arastar Foundation
The Foundation has been incorporated and is currently seeking 501 (c) (3) tax exemption to facilitate donations to worldwide causes. The purpose of the foundation, according to our Articles of Incorporation is, "to eliminate prejudice and discrimination, to promote environmental conservation and to assist the poor, the distressed and the underprivileged, as specified in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code."

The Annenberg Foundation
The current grantmaking focus of this private foundation is on pre-collegiate education, and specifically on public school restructuring and reform, grades K through 12. These areas are of particular interest: Public Education, K-12, Early Childhood Education in relation to public education at the primary level, Child Development and Youth Services

Arca Foundation
The Arca Foundation's grantmaking tries to inform and empower citizens on a select group of public policy issues, both domestic and foreign. We support tax-exempt organizations who demonstrate an ability to analyze and expose the inequities of present-day policy, propose creative alternatives, and mobilize grassroots support for changing the status quo. We recognize that these talents are not always concentrated in any one organization. Therefore, we cluster our grantmaking around a specific set of issues, and support a diverse set of organizations working towards common goals.

Archstone Foundation
A grantmaking organization promoting the health and well-being of aging seniors and supporting choices throughout the aging process.

Charles Babbage Foundation
The Fund finds homes for donated PCs and software, new and used. Who we assist: Individuals and groups including: schools, paraplegic associations, correctional facilities, and other nonprofit institutions.

The Helen Bader Foundation, Inc.
The Milwaukee-based Helen Bader Foundation, Inc. supports innovative programs that are making an impact on the lives of people throughout Wisconsin, the United States and Israel. The Foundation currently concentrates grantmaking in four program areas: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, Children and Youth in Israel, Economic Development, Education

Ben & Jerry's Foundation
The Ben & Jerry's Foundation offers competitive grants to not-for profit organizations throughout the United States which facilitate progressive social change, by addressing the underlying conditions of societal or environmental problems

The Benton Foundation
Areas of Interest: Strategic communications to strengthen the communications capacities of nonprofits, Children's programs that use the children's arena as a laboratory to demonstrate media techniques and explore communications opportunities, Communications policy to involve nonprofits in shaping the future communications systems

Best Practices in Education, Inc.
Grants of up to $2,500 to help US K-12 teachers bring to light outstanding foreign learning practices.

The Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation, Inc.
The Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to consider grant proposals from the following Institutional/Program Activity Areas: Animal Related, Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Community Improvement, Conservation/Environment, Crime, Disasters/Safety, Diseases/Medical Disciplines - Multipurpose: Diseases/Medical Disciplines - Research, Education, Employment, Food and Agriculture, Health - General & Rehabilitative, Housing, Human Services, Mental Health, Crisis Intervention, Philanthropy/Voluntarism, Public Affairs and Society Benefit, Recreation, Religion, Science, Social Sciences, Youth Development

The William Bingham Foundation
The Foundation continues to contribute to a wide variety of organizations in the areas of the arts, education, and health and human services in these communities and nationwide. Grants are not made to individuals or to organizations located outside the United States.

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
The Foundation provides funding for projects, operating, advocacy and research in the following priority areas: Arts and Culture, Athletics and Outdoor Activities, Environment, Fostering, Understanding, Helping Adolescents Learn, Young Women and Girls, Special consideration is given, but not limited to, organizations that: reach underserved youth, are located in Atlanta, Georgia, improve the quality of public education

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Its emphasis is on the career development of outstanding scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that are underfunded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers.

The Bradley Foundation
The Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people, and among peoples of other nations, as well.

The Brother's Brother Foundation
Our mission is to distribute donated medical, educational and agricultural resources throughout the world without regard to race, creed or politics.

Captain Planet Foundation
The Foundation promotes environmental activities for young people.

The CarEth Foundation
Areas of Interest: Strengthening civil society in the United States, Strengthening a worldview of peace and justice through international institutions

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Areas of Interest: Education and Healthy Development of Children and Youth, Preventing Deadly Conflict, Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries, Special Projects. The foundation does not review requests from individual schools or school districts. It is not accepting further proposals for research on improving race and ethnic relations.

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Through its grantmaking, the Foundation assists nonprofit organizations and public agencies committed to advancing practices and policies that better the lives of children and families. Current Interests: The Program for Children, The Program for New York Neighborhoods, The Program for Student Achievement, The Program for Tropical Disease Research and a Venture Fund.

Clorox Company Foundation
The Clorox Company Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in communities where Clorox employees live and work. The Foundation makes grants, mobilizes employee volunteers and works with community leaders and other funders.

Coleman Foundation
This one time award of up to $25,000 to be granted to any university, college or community college establishing an entrepreneurship program, course or community outreach program focusing on self-employment and/or business ownership.

The Commonwealth Fund
Areas of Interest: Improving Health Care Services, Bettering the Health of Minority Americans, Advancing the Well-Being of Elderly People, Developing the Capacities of Children and Young People

Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
Offers awards to artists and writers.

The Charles A. Dana Foundation
The Foundation's grant programs are in carefully focused areas of health and education. In health, the Foundation makes its major grants for collaborative research on diseases and disorders of the brain. The Foundation's current commitment is to the spread of well-tested innovations that have the potential to strengthen education in American public schools, especially for students in the early years of education.

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Areas of Interest: Private Higher Education, secondary education, religion (graduate Theological Education), Health Care (caring attitudes), Public Television.

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation promotes the advancement and perpetuation of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity by encouraging excellence in scholarship and in the performing arts, and by supporting research libraries and other institutions that preserve the resources which transmit this cultural heritage. The principal mission of the Performing Arts Program is to support organizations of quality in the fields of dance, music, and theater that perform in New York City.

The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.
The Main Focus of the Trustees' interest is on three wide ranging program areas: U.S.-Canadian Relations, Education, and Human Capital Development. At the same time, the Foundation carries on a continuous self eval- uation, which may lead to changes in program emphasis.

Do Right Foundation
Areas of Interest: Pilot Programs to Reduce violent crime, Fight joblessness, Increase productivity of our legal system, Encourage transition from welfare to work, Develop ever-improving generations of children, Improve integrity and efficiencies of government. "We do not have any geographic limitations for our grants. We do not have any deadlines"

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Inc - October 1 Deadline
The Newspaper Fund welcomes unsolicited proposals for grants as long as they directly relate to the foundation's mission of encouraging students to pursue careers in journalism.

The J.C. Downing Foundation
There on no restrictions based on geography. The Foundation supports local, national, and international programs. Applications from the Southern California area may be given preferential consideration, but applications from other geographical areas will not be excluded. Areas of Support : Scientific Research and Technology, Environmental Research and Economics, Sports and Athletics, Fine Arts and Literacy, Wildlife Research and Preservation, Child Development and Family Relations, Academic Research and Education

Fannie Mae Foundation
Supports national and local nonprofit organizations working to provide decent and affordable housing, and otherwise improve the quality of life, in communities throughout the United States.

Federated Department Stores Foundation
Through the Federated Foundation, the company attempts to make a meaningful difference by helping organizations in cities around the country address such daunting problems and needs as: Breast cancer and domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, Education, Families, Cities: from soaring ballets, symphonies and operas to the beauty of museums and nature conservatories, the spirit of art shows and theater, the tranquillity of parks and libraries - and the worst of what we have become: crime, drugs, violence, homelessness, racial conflict, unemployment, ghettos, poverty and despair

FMC Foundation
Priority is given to organizations and institutions that promote the values of the free enterprise system in terms of philosophy, operations, or methods - including programs which promote self-help and encourage economic self-reliance. Contributions provide assistance to charitable and educational organizations that strive to improve communities in which FMC employees live and work, and improve the environment in which FMC does business.

The Ford Foundation
Areas of Interest: Asset Building and Community Development: Human Development and Reproductive Health, Economic Development, Community and Resource Development, Education, Media, Arts, and Culture: Education, Knowledge, and Religion Media, Arts, and Culture; Peace and Social Justice: Human Rights and International Cooperation, Governance and Civil Society

The Foundation for Microbiology
Its funds are used for the support of lectureships, prizes, or courses related to the field of Microbiology, as well as for unusual publications or other activities in this field poorly supported by the usual Government agencies. Any of these activities, to qualify for support, must be expected to address a national or an international audience.

The Gap Community Relations
Cash grants, merchandise, and gift certificates distributed by Gap Community Relations focus on program areas that are of particular concern to our employees. In the past, we’ve made major contributions in the areas of health and human services, education, arts and culture, and the environment.

Gates Library Foundation
The Gates Library Foundation is dedicated to partnering with public libraries to bring access to computers, the Internet, and digital information for patrons in low-income communities in the United States and Canada.

GE Fund
The GE Fund is a catalyst, supporting programs that provide for the education and well-being of men, women, and children around the world.

General Motors Foundation/Philanthropy
Focus areas: education, health and human services, arts and culture, civic and community, public policy, environmental and energy, and other categories. Provides information on The GM Cancer Foundation

J. Paul Getty Trust
The Grant Program funds a diverse range of projects that promote research in the history of art and related fields, advancement of the understanding of art, and conservation of cultural heritage. It supports projects that set high standards and make significant contributions to their fields. Grants may fund conceptual projects that take intellectual risks, or they may support more basic resources and activities.

Princess Grace Foundation
The Foundation's program is dedicated to identifying and assisting young talent in theater, dance and film through grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships.

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Research
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students. The Foundation only supports individuals. It does not make grants to institutions or organizations. The Foundation selects its Fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean

The George Gund Foundation
Areas of Interest: Education, economic development and community revitalization, human services, arts, environment and civic affairs

The Gunk Foundation
At the present, the Foundation is concentrating on supporting two types of projects--public arts projects (funded through The Gunk Foundation) and scholarly/artistic publications (through Critical Press, the publishing arm of the Foundation.)

Dan Jansen Foundation
Keeping the Olympic spirit alive. Mission is to solicit financial support and distribute funds to charites, with an emphasis on the fight against leukemia, and to support youth sports and educational programs.

The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc.
The Foundation focuses its grantmaking activities in the areas of aging and health and healthcare cost and quality, and generally makes grants by invitation.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, performing arts, population, environment, conflict resolution, family and community development, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Although the Hewlett Foundation is a national foundation, with no geographic limit stipulated in its charter, a proportion of disbursable fund has been earmarked for projects in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hitachi Foundations
Has supported a wide range of educational and social programs tailored to meet the needs of individual communities in the United States.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in three goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost; to improve the way services are organized and provided to people with chronic health conditions; and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse--tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

Johnson and Johnson: Social Responsibility
Areas of Interest: Health and human services, education, the environment, and arts and culture

W. Alton Jones Foundation
The goals of the foundation are to build a sustainable world by developing new ways for humanity to interact responsibly with the planet's ecological systems, and build a secure world by eliminating the possibility of nuclear war and by providing alternative methods of resolving conflicts and promoting security.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Research
The Foundation's work is focused on four main areas: health policy, reproductive health, HIV policy, and health and development in South Africa. The Foundation also maintains a special interest in health policy and innovation in its home state of California.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Kauffman Foundation's work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Leadership.

The W. M. Keck Foundation - Research
The Foundation's grantmaking is focused primarily on the areas of medical research, science, and engineering. The Foundation also maintains a program for liberal arts colleges and a Southern California Grant Program that provides support in the areas of civic and community services, health care and hospitals, precollegiate education, and the arts.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Areas of Interest: Health, Philanthropy and Volunteerism, Food Systems and Rural Development, Youth and Education/Higher Education. Cross-Cutting Themes: Leadership, Information Systems/Technology, Capitalizing on Diversity, Social and Economic Community Development Special Opportunities: Devolution Greater Battle Creek Programs (a regional interest)

The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation
The mission of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation is to provide leadership in the field of mental retardation and service to persons with mental retardation, both those born and unborn, and their families.

Kiwanis International Foundation
Deadline for receipt of grant requests for the fiscal year (October 1st through September 30th) is July 15th of the previous fiscal year. Service projects which relate to the ideals and objectives of Kiwanis International or Kiwanis-sponsored affiliates will be accorded top priority by the Kiwanis International Foundation Board of Trustees.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Provides financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability.

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
Since its formation, the mission of the Foundation has been to further a balance between technological advancement and environmental preservation.

The Edward Lowe Foundation
The foundation mission is to champion the entrepreneurial spirit

The Lumpkin Foundation - Special consideration: East Central Illinois
We are dedicated to supporting education, preserving and protecting the environment, and fostering opportunities for leadership, with special consideration to our heritage in East Central Illinois.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Most of the Foundation's grantmaking is carried out through two programs. The Program on Human and Community Development supports work in community development, the arts, economic opportunity, youth development, education, mental health, research and other areas. The Program on Global Security and Sustainability focuses upon issues of peace, population, and the environment. The MacArthur Fellows Program and a number of special initiatives, funded through the General Program, continues.

The McKnight Foundation
Areas of Interest: Human Services, communities, housing, public affairs, arts, environment, international, memory; eating disorders; and plant biology research.

A. L. Mailman Family Foundation
Funding Area: children and families, with a special emphasis on early childhood

Mallinckrodt
Works in partnership with the communities in which they have facilities - supports activities that focus primarily on health care initiatives, unique educational programs and environmental projects.

Marion Foundation
The Marion Foundation strives to improve communications and relationships among youth and parents by implementing innovative programs that address the social, emotional and educational issues of our ever changing society.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Foundation currently makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs.

MetLife Foundation
The primary objective of the Foundation is to assist tax-exempt organizations through a program of financial support, particularly in the communities in which MetLife has a major presence. Areas of interest include: Health, Education, Culture, Civic Affairs, Anti-Violence and Social Investment Programs.

Microsoft
Offers you a wealth of information on several philanthropic programs they have in place.

The Milbank Memorial Fund
The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed national foundation that supports nonpartisan analysis, study, and research on significant issues in health policy.

Milken Family Foundation
The purpose of the Milken Family Foundation is to discover and advance inventive and effective ways of helping people help themselves and those around them lead productive and satisfying lives.

Monsanto Company Corporate Giving Programs
The Fund's annual budget of approximately $11 million is distributed, in order of magnitude, for science education, the United Way, arts and culture and other charitable purposes.

JP Morgan
J.P. Morgan makes charitable contributions to a wide range of organizations in the arts, education, the environment, health and human services, and international and urban affairs.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Grantmaking is organized in four programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint, Poverty. In addition, maintain flexibility for new opportunities through an Exploratory and Special Projects program.

National Endowment for AIDS Research
NEAR, in partnership with the largest U.S. corporations, will use customized cause-related marketing programs to reach previously untapped funding sources -- mass consumer contributions. 100% of public donations will go directly towards medical research.

The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
Mission: to identify emerging artists and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional developments, and to raise appreciation for, and support of, the arts in American society.

The National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention
The National Collaborative was established as a public-private partnership in 1994 to address violence and its related problems in a coordinated way, and to nurture a national violence prevention movement through advocacy, public awareness, and a focus on prevention. If your organization serves youth and violence prevention this is an excellent resource for information and funding.

Norman Foundation
Makes grants to organizations in the areas of civil rights and individual liberties, economic justice, and environmental justice.

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Focus: Strengthening of development capacities in the poorest countries and regions of the South. Supporting self-help efforts of the most deprived people in developing countries. Developing and implementing innovative strategies for improving the effectiveness of programs and projects. Research and teaching in development policy issues.

JC Penney Corporate Contributions Program
JCPenney makes contributions to organizations that fall within the following categories: health and welfare, education, civic betterment, and arts and culture. In the improvement of precollege education, our focus is in the areas of K - 12 reform and restructuring and dropout prevention.

Pew Charitable Trusts
The Trusts make grants to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. While primarily a national philanthropy, maintains a strong commitment to the Philadelphia region where the Trusts are based, and a portion of the grantmaking budget is dedicated to serving the needs of the local community.

Piper Jaffray Companies Foundation
Most funds are provided to nonprofit organizations that work to improve the lives of children and families or add to the artistic and cultural life of a community. The firm's giving represents a sharing of resources with communities from which profits are derived. Thus, nearly all Foundation grants are made to organizations located where the firm has offices. < Read the Guidelines and percentages very carefully>

Playboy Foundation
Areas of Interest: Sexual and reproductive health issues, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, First Amendment Rights, Media Grants

Procter & Gamble
Areas of Interest: Education, Health and Social Service Organizations, Civic Organizations and Projects, Cultural Organizations and Projects, Environmental Organizations and Projects

Fannie E. Rippel Foundation
Areas of Interest: Equipment and programmatic needs of both major teaching medical centers and local rural hospitals, particularly where opportunities exist for leveraging the expertise or capabilities of such medical centers, e.g., within a rural health care network. Although the Foundation's charter imposes no geographical limitations upon grant selection, the Trustees have given emphasis to institutions located in New Jersey as well as to those located in the greater New York metropolitan area, the general Northeast and the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Fund makes grants in five areas. The first, "One World", is made up of two components, Sustainable Resource Use and World Security, and the major portion of grant funds are applied to this area. Projects are located, for the most part, in East Asia, East Central Europe, or the United States. The other four areas are Nonprofit Sector, Education, New York City, and Special Concerns (South Africa).

The Rockefeller Foundation
The Foundation's work is divided among the following program areas: the arts and humanities, equal opportunity and school reform, agricultural sciences, health sciences, population sciences, global environment, and African initiatives including female education.

Scaife Foundations
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.

Searle Scholars Program - Research
The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in chemistry and the biomedical sciences.

Sega Foundation
Organizations supported by Sega are delivering effective educational technologies; better prepared teachers; engaging real-world curricula; access to health care; and services for those affected by HIV/AIDS to our children on a daily basis. We expect to announce next year's guidelines by late April 1998, and anticipate the deadline for proposals will be 9/30/98. Efforts made within the San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Alameda Counties, are of primary interest and will be considered before others.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The main interests and programs of the Foundation are concentrated primarily in five areas: Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Selected National Issues, Civic Projects

Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc.
The Sun Microsystems Foundation funds grants made through the following Worldwide Corporate Affairs programs: Community Development Grants Program, Open Gateways Program, Employee Matching Gifts Programs, Community Partnership Program

The Toyota USA Foundation
The Toyota USA Foundation is committed to improving the quality of K-12 education by supporting innovative programs. With a primary interest in math and science, the Foundation also supports innovation in arts and culture, and civic and community affairs.

The Turner Foundation
Areas of Interest: Environment, Energy, Population

The Virtual Foundation
Supports environmental and health initiatives from around the world

Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
Proposals are accepted by invitation only. Private grantmaking foundation making grants to enhance the cultural life of communities through arts and culture, adult literacy and urban parks programs.

Westinghouse Foundation
While we invite you to peruse the 1996 Westinghouse Foundation Annual Report, we must advise you that, due to the challenges that lay ahead in 1998 and beyond, the Foundation will not be accepting requests for funding until further notice.

The Whitaker Foundation - Research
The Whitaker Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation that primarily supports research and education in biomedical engineering