Grants
May 8, 2012
The New York Life Foundation today announced a $1 million grant over three years to The Moyer Foundation, whose mission is to empower children in distress by providing education and support – helping them to live healthy and inspired lives. The funding, the largest single grant in The Moyer Foundation’s 12-year history, will allow the organization to meet a number of program goals, including expanding services to reach thousands of grieving children at free camps across the United States and Canada.
March 15, 2012
The James Irvine Foundation has approved 10 grants totaling more than $4 million in support of the foundation's mission of expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society. (For a list of approved grants, click here.)
March 14, 2012
The General Motors Foundation is granting $2.5 million to the Focus: HOPE Fund for its education initiatives, specifically a program to help students earn engineering degrees through partnership with select universities. The foundation’s support of the fund totals more than $3.8 million.
The Foundation’s contribution to the Focus: HOPE Fund, a community campaign that was launched in 2005 to raise $100 million for the agency, will go to the Center for Advanced Technologies.
March 12, 2012
USA Funds, a nonprofit organization that helps American families benefit from postsecondary education, announces the award of more than $1.2 million in grants for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2011. USA Funds awarded 25 grants to organizations in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Between April 1 and June 15, USA Funds will accept additional grant requests that meet its guidelines. For details, visit www.usafunds.org/community/Pages/Grants.aspx.
March 6, 2012
The Greater New Orleans Foundation announced the final round of grants from its $5 million Coastal Communities Fund. The nine recipients, receiving a combined total of $2.2 million, are Bayou Grace Communities Service, Children’s Bureau of New Orleans, Partnership for Youth Development, Houma Regional Arts Council, Youth Empowerment Project, Mercy Family Center, Grow Dat, South Central Industrial Association and Latino Farmers’ Cooperative of Louisiana.
March 6, 2012
During the America East Conference Basketball Championship, Newman’s Own Foundation unveiled the top grant recipients of its third-annual Campus Community Service Challenge. Engineers Without Borders, in partnership with University at Maine, received the top grant of $25,000. Earth Day Southern Tier working with Binghamton University’s SUNY VINES (Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments) received $15,000. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region, who partnered with University of Albany’s Reclassifying All Children Equally (R.A.C.E.), and Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, who partnered with University of Vermont’s Adaptive Sports, each will receive a $10,000 grant.
February 29, 2012
The Farm Journal Foundation in Cedar Falls, Iowa, has announced a $1 million grant to Heifer International to identify communities in the United States and developing nations that would significantly benefit from the gift of livestock and training in animal husbandry and basic smallholder farming practices.
To date, the grant is the largest single commitment made through the Farmers Feeding the World initiative.
February 23, 2012
Driven by its commitment to “invest in the people with the values, ability and passion to change the world,” the Mandel Foundation has awarded a $5 million grant to the West Palm Beach Library Foundation (WPBLF).
With this significant and notable gift, the West Palm Beach Library will be renamed as the “Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach.” In addition, representatives of the Mandel Foundation will serve on several committees of the WPBLF.
February 7, 2012
The Seattle-based Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling $6.6 million to fifty-eight nonprofits serving the Pacific Northwest region.
Grants were awarded in the areas of arts and culture, asset building and emergency relief, education and youth engagement, and science and international efforts. Within those areas, the foundation awarded nearly $1 million to groups with innovative projects designed to address serious challenges in Native American communities.
February 3, 2012
The General Motors Foundation has donated $100,000 to the Foundation for the National Archives in support of the National Archives Experience's upcoming exhibition exploring the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin.
