Grants
June 20, 2011
Morgan Stanley announced that the nonprofits Women’s Initiative for Self Employment, Feeding America and Episcopal Social Services received cash grants to implement pro bono strategic advice provided by Morgan Stanley professionals at the Third Annual Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge.
This year, the Strategy Challenge paired teams of outstanding Morgan Stanley professionals with 15 nonprofit organizations across the country for eight weeks to provide pro bono strategic advice on issues related to business model optimization, geographic and program expansion, and new ventures.
June 17, 2011
Learn how River City Food Bank transformed into a stronger, self-sustaining organization with a capacity-building grant from Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento.
June 13, 2011
Verizon has extended the deadline by a week for New Jersey nonprofit organizations to submit proposals for grants ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 from the Verizon Foundation to support literacy programs across underserved communities in the Garden State. The new deadline is June 17.
The foundation will award grants to agencies that develop programs that are focused on building reading skills for children, teens and adults and incorporate technology through computer and Web-based literacy programs for minority and disabled residents in low-income communities across the state.
June 13, 2011
The Syracuse-based Gifford Foundation has announced capacity-building grants totaling more than $900,000 to six area community development and human service organizations that are part of the Advancing and Developing the Assets and Value of Nonprofits in Syracuse (ADVANS) initiative.
Launched in 2007, the initiative engages organizations in an intensive one- to three-year assessment and business planning process. Organizations that participate in the business planning component of the program will receive an additional $100,000 to implement their plans, along with three years of consulting support valued at $55,000.
June 13, 2011
Certain ideas make so much sense that one wonders why no one thought of them sooner. Case in point: Global leaders struggled for decades to think of a way to improve education. Ten years ago, Fred Mednick, Ph.D., started his nonprofit aimed at supporting those who can best provide that education.
June 8, 2011
An innovative capcity-building grant from Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento helps small nonprofits learn to become self-sustaining organizations built for the long haul.
June 3, 2011
The federal government is trying to make it easier to apply for one of its grants for innovative ideas to improve education. But with budget cuts there’s a lot less money to give away this year. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education gave out $650 million to 49 school districts, charter organization, colleges, universities and other nonprofit organizations with entrepreneurial ideas for improving the nation’s schools. The U.S. Department of Education is announcing Friday that this year there’s $150 million available for the second round of Investments in Innovation, or i3 grants.
June 2, 2011
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, and Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, announced a $50-million challenge spurring existing and new donors at every level to give, or increase giving, to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The Challenge is now in effect and will match all new or increased gifts to The Michael J. Fox Foundation on a one-to-one basis through year-end 2012.
June 2, 2011
JPMorgan Chase announced the names of the small and local charities that will receive grants totaling more than $5 million through its Community Giving Program.
Facebook users selected New York City-based IELADEINU — a Chabad of Argentina Relief Appeal program that works to protect the rights of children and teenagers who have been maltreated, abused, and abandoned — to receive the $500,000 top prize. Four runners-up will receive grants ranging from $200,000 to $400,000. They include the Petfinder.com Foundation, Sonia and Max Silverstein Hebrew Academy, Youth Education in the Arts and the Wildlife Center of Virginia.
June 2, 2011
Mark and Terri Little presented the Schenectady Free Health Clinic with a $50,000 donation that will be used to purchase generic drugs for its patients. They used their own foundation to match a $25,000 grant for charity that Mark Little, the head of GE Global Research, received from General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt in January.
Grants like this one are critical to maintain the clinic's operation in the community. The clinic now operates primarily from private donations and grants, ever since losing the bulk of its state funding about four years ago.
