Allstate Foundation [01649]
Synopsis: Support is provided to nonprofit organizations which seek to improve the quality of life in communities across the country.
Objectives: The sponsor supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas. Proposals must address needs within one of the three focus areas to be considered for funding: safe and vital communities; tolerance, inclusion and diversity; and economic empowerment.
Safe and Vital Communities: Program should address: catastrophe response; youth anti-violence; neighborhood revitalization; and teen safe driving.
Economic Empowerment: Programs should address: financial and economic literacy; insurance education; and empowerment for victims of domestic violence.
Tolerance, Inclusion and Diversity: Programs should address: teaching tolerance to youth; ending hate crimes; and alleviating discrimination.

Noyes (Jessie Smith) Foundation, Inc. [01786]
Synopsis: The sponsor promotes a sustainable and just social and natural system by supporting grassroots organizations and movements committed to this goal. The sponsor prefers to make general support grants and does not limit the number of renewal grants.
Objectives: Areas of interest include:
Protect the Health and Environment of Communities Threatened by Toxics: supporting organizations, primarily at the state and regional levels, that: bring together activists to work on toxics exposure and contamination; and promote initiatives and public policies that reduce the use of toxins and hold corporations accountable for their impact on the environment.
Advance Environmental Justice: Supporting organizations, led by people most heavily affected, that: work to counter environmental degradation in low-income communities and communities of color.
Promote a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: Supporting rural and urban organizations that: work with farmers and consumers on issues involving sustainable agriculture and community food security; advocate for governmental policies and funding allocations that advance sustainable agriculture and community food security; and counter the actions of public and private sector institutions and corporations that further the concentration of food production and the industrialization of agriculture.
Ensure Quality Reporductive Health Care as a Human Right: Supporting organizations that: broaden the base and agenda of the reproductive rights movement through the involvement of new constituencies, primarily at the state level and in communities of color; and advocate for legal and policy initiatives to safeguard reproductive freedom.
Foster an Environmentally Sustainable New York City: Supporting community-based organizations that: organize to protect the city's environment and the health of its residents; develop effective coalitions and networks; and promote public policies and improved responsiveness by public agencies to environmental concerns.

Kellogg (W. K.) Foundation [01832]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support for projects guided by its mission: to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations. Grants are giving in four areas: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Grants are made in three geographic regions: United States; Southern Africa; and Latin American and the Caribbean. Funding varies from proposal to proposal.
Objectives: Current US programming goals are described as follows: Health: This program focuses explicitly on improving individual and community health, and improving access to and the quality of health care. The goal over the next five years is to promote health among vulnerable individuals and communities through programming that: empowers individuals, mobilizes communities; engages institutions; improves health care quality and access; and informs public and marketplace policy. Grantmaking takes into account the social and economic determinants of health within a person’s community; the quality of health institutions within that community; and the policies that determine how health services are organized, provided, and financed. Grantmaking also targets communities, health care systems, and public health as centers of change.
Food Systems and Rural Development: The food systems grantmaking focuses on catalyzing efforts that lead to a safe, wholesome food supply for this and future generations while ensuring that food production and food-related business systems are economically viable, environmentally sensitive, sustainable long-term, and socially responsible. The rural development work supports comprehensive, collaborative, and integrative efforts of people, organizations, and institutions that, together, create social and economic opportunities that lead to healthy rural communities and improvement in the lives of rural residents.
Youth and Education: Programs address the preschool through college continuum - ages zero to twenty-four. The overall goal is to support healthy infant, child, and youth development by mobilizing, strengthening, and aligning systems that affect children's learning. The strategies are to: mobilize youth, families, and communities to inform policies that affect learning and achievement for vulnerable children and youth; and forge partnerships between education institutions and communities to promote learning, academic performance, and workforce preparation among vulnerable young people.
Philanthropy and Volunteerism: Current programming is designed to increase the ranks of new givers and to nurture emerging forms of philanthropy. Through programming activities, the sponsor seeks to unleash resources by supporting the emergence of new leaders and donors, creating and sharing knowledge, and building tools that advance the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector. Key target populations include youth, women, and communities of color.
Greater Battle Creek: The sponsor maintains strong ties to Battle Creek, Michigan, which was W.K. Kellogg's hometown. This is achieved by partnering with the community to help people reach their full educational and economic potential. The ultimate goal is to create a more just, healthy, and sustainable community. Grantmaking is focused largely on: creating brighter futures through improved education for youth; and increasing self-sufficiency by promoting economic growth for families and neighborhoods.
Learning Opportunities: To increase the effectiveness of the Kellogg Foundation’s work, it seeks to learn from the knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned by all of its projects as they apply to Leadership, Information and Communication Technology, Capitalizing on Diversity, and Social and Economic Community Development. All prospective grantees are encouraged to consider these elements when designing a proposal to fit the programming interests previously described.
Southern Africa program goals are as follows: Strengthening Leadership Capacity: This strategy serves as the primary integrator of all three strategies for work in the region. Current programming seeks to build the capacity of leaders at the local, provincial, national, regional, and global levels. It also is concerned with increasing community voices in the policy development process to strengthen young leaders for the 21st century.
Strengthen the Capacity of Communities: This programming strategy targets district-level sites to increase cooperation among local government, business, community-based organizations, education institutions and agencies, and to enhance participation of rural youth in social and economic development.
Organizational and Institutional Development and Transformation: Attention is focused on improving the southern African social infrastructure through institutions of higher education, organizations that create employment and productivity, and information systems that support social development.
Latin America and the Caribbean goals are as follows: Regional Development: Attention is given to supporting groups of projects that demonstrate ways to break the local cycle of poverty in selected micro-regions. Strategies to promote the development, participation, and leadership of local youth are central to this effort. Priority geographic areas targeted by this work include southern Mexico and Central America (including parts of the Caribbean), northeast Brazil, and the Andean zones of Bolivia, Peru, and southern Ecuador.Application of Knowledge and Best Practices (Programmatic Approaches): The sponsor supports projects in Latin America and the Caribbean that offer innovative approaches in leadership development, citizenship and social responsibility, institution building and strategic alliances, and the access to information technology. The aim of this approach is to build the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to put regional development projects into action.

Mellon (Andrew W.) Foundation [01863]
Synopsis: The sponsor currently funds grants on a selective basis to eligible institutions for projects in higher education, scholarly communications, research in information technology, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment.
Objectives: Support is currently provided in the following areas:
Higher Education: including research universities and humanistic scholarship, liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges and universities; Appalachian colleges; and a special international emphasis on South Africa.
Scholarly Communications: focuses broadly on all stages in the life cycle of scholarly resources. The program complements fellowships and other kinds of support for research and teaching at research universities, liberal arts colleges, independent research centers, libraries, and museums by promoting the cost-effective creation, dissemination, accessibility, and preservation of high-quality scholarly resources in humanistic studies broadly defined. Grantmaking occurs principally in five main categories: new methods of creating scholarly resources, innovations in scholarly publication, cataloging and other forms of access, preservation, and research and evaluation.
Research in Information Technology: the sponsor supports the application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes. The Foundation is interested in promoting the study of uses of digital technologies that can be applied to research and online and distance learning and teaching. The Foundation also supports investigations of new technical approaches to the archiving of textual and multimedia materials that require improved search and storage techniques and improvements in user-interfaces.
Museums and Art Conservation: this program is designed to help institutions build and sustain their capacity to undertake serious scholarship on their permanent collections; to preserve these collections; and to share the results of their work in appropriate ways with scholarly and other audiences. The art conservation program concentrates largely on advanced training for future generations of conservators, but it also undergirds fundamental work in developing fields such as conservation science – an area of increasing importance to conservation as a whole. Both programs, therefore, are engaged in supporting basic research intended to enable curators, conservators, and other professionals to devote intensive study to the objects in their care, and to make their knowledge and professional expertise available to others in new as well as in more traditional ways.
Performing Arts: (by invitation only) provides multi-year grants on an invitation-only basis to leading orchestras, theater companies, opera companies, modern dance companies, and dance-specific presenters based in the United States. Although the Foundation does not confine its support to large organizations with national visibility, it does seek to support institutions that contribute to the preservation and development of their art form, provide creative leadership in solving problems or addressing issues unique to the field, and which present the highest level of institutional performance. Grants are awarded on the basis of artistic merit and leadership in the field, and concentrate on achieving long-term results. In conjunction with regular program grants, the Foundation also makes a limited number of grants to research and service organizations that are doing work closely related to program goals.
Conservation and the Environment: within the broad field of ecosystems research and training, the sponsor generally limits grants to botany and terrestrial ecosystems because of their key importance to overall ecosystems and because other funding sources paid the least attention to them. Junior Faculty Research grants are awarded to new faculty as they begin their first tenure-track positions. The C&E portion of the AWMF South Africa program is centered on creating research bridges between the US universities and South African Universities, the South African National Parks System and the South African National Biodiversity Institution.

NSF - Small Grants for Exploratory Research [02221]
Synopsis: Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the sponsor may be submitted to individual programs. The maximum award will not normally exceed $200,000.
Objectives: Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the sponsor may be submitted to individual programs. Such research is characterized as: preliminary work on untested and novel ideas; ventures into emerging and potentially transformative research ideas; application of new expertise or new approaches to "established" research topics; having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural disasters and similar unanticipated events; or efforts of similar character likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances.

Price (Louis and Harold) Foundation [02472]
Synopsis: The sponsor supports grants in the areas of education, health, and human social services. Grants are generally made to tax-exempt organizations in New York, California, and Colorado.
Objectives: Funding has traditionally been for innovative and creative programs primarily in the areas of education, health, and human social services. Of particular interest is the area of entrepreneurial studies conducted at institutes of higher education, which is funded through the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.

RGK Foundation [02523]
Snyopsis: The sponsor supports innovative projects, without geographical limitations, in the areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health.
Objectives: The sponsor awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health.|
EDUCATION: The sponsor's primary interests include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), integrating technology into curriculum, teacher development, literacy, and higher education. The Foundation is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.
COMMUNITY: The sponsor supports a broad range of human services, community improvement, abuse prevention, and youth development programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the sponsor include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The sponsor supports a variety of Community Improvement programs including those that enhance non-profit management and promote philanthropy and voluntarism. Youth development programs supported by the sponsor typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life. The sponsor is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.
MEDICINE/HEALTH: The sponsor's current interests in the area of Medicine/Health include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and sponsor-initiated programs focusing on ALS.

Verizon Foundation [02850]
Synopsis: Organizations seeking grants must actively support programs that address the Sponsor's focus areas of education, literacy, domestic violence prevention or technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility.
Objectives: The sponsor has identified the following priorities:
Literacy: supports literacy and technology programs that help families meet the challenges of learning in the 21st Century.
Domestic Violence: supports programs to raise awareness, educate people about the causes and effects of domestic violence and help our communities address and prevent domestic violence.
Technology for healthcare and healthcare accessibility: emphasizes innovating technologies to improve efficiencies and delivery of healthcare services, and improving access to information and services through technologies that address the needs of persons with disabilities.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. - Democratic Practice Program [03587]
Synopsis: The Fund's Democratic Practice program will focus on four goals, two of which will be pursued largely in the United States, and two of which will focus primarily on transnational institutions. A prospective grantee in the United States must be either a tax-exempt organization or an organization seeking support for a project that would qualify as educational or charitable. A prospective foreign grantee must satisfy an RBF determination that it would qualify, if incorporated in the United States, as a tax-exempt organization or that a project for which support is sought would qualify in the United States as educational or charitable.
Objectives: Areas of interest are:
ENCOURAGING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: in the United States, the Fund seeks to empower individuals and encourage nonprofit and other civil society organizations, including philanthropy, to advance constructive social change through participation in democratic decision making and social movements.
FOSTERING EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE: to foster effective governance—the use of governing authority to promote the will of the governed in a fair, accountable, responsive, and efficient manner—the sponsor works to strengthen the practices and institutions of democratic governance, including a free, principled, and vigorous press, through the following strategies.
INCREASING ACCESS TO, AND PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: globally, the Fund aims to expand participation and effective representation in the political and policymaking processes of transnational institutions.
ENSURING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: globally, the RBF seeks to increase transparency and accountability in transnational decision-making processes of global governance that affects the quality of people's lives and the integrity of the natural environment.

Bradley (Lynde and Harry) Foundation [04177]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support 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. Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations. Funding varies from project to project.
Objectives: The sponsor's current areas of interest are:
Improving Education: The sponsor continues its historic commitment to helping ensure widest possible universe of educational options for all parents in Milwaukee and around the country. This commitment includes supporting school choice and charter schools; efforts to improve curricula, standards and accountability; and gifted education.
Promoting Economic Growth and Prosperity: The sponsor also seeks to secure a growing and prosperous economy, and thus better prospects for a good life for all, by funding organizations that research and educate the public and policymakers about the conditions necessary for such growth and prosperity. This research and education can be on and about taxes and spending, regulation and entitlements.
Revitalizing Civil Society: As well, the sponsor funds groups furthering the interests of or directly assist community-based, voluntary, often grassroots and faith-based groups that people -- exercising a vigorous, active citizenship -- create and which preserve their deeply held values and solve their once seemingly intractable problems. This funding is mostly local, but it is national and international, too.
Strengthening Private Initiative: In addition, the sponsor helps those working to strengthen private initiative in America in other contexts -- specifically including employee rights, legal reform and public-interest law, equal opportunity and individual liberty, and philanthropy.
Defending and Advancing Freedom: The sponsor also defends and advances the promise and practice of freedom in the U.S. and around the world, by backing those scholars, commentators, and others who are urging and justifying an aggressive stance against enemies attacking that freedom and thus our national interests in foreign-policy and national-security debates.
Intellectual Infrastructure: The sponsor remains faithful to its historic role in creating and fortifying the intellectual infrastructure of ideas, institutions and individuals.

Merck (John) Fund [63792]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides concentrates its activities in five areas: developmental disabilities, environment, reproductive health, human rights, and job opportunities. Grants are normally made for one year.
Objectives: The sponsor provides support in the following areas:
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: concentrated on those children who are born mentally disabled and emotionally disturbed.
ENVIRONMENT: addresses a range of issues with critical implications for natural resources and human health. Through grants in the areas of energy production and consumption, The Fund encourages policy changes that simultaneously target the problems of climate change and ongoing toxic contamination of the air, soil and water. The Fund also supports emerging efforts to boost public awareness of persistent bioaccumulative toxins, reduce public exposure to these chemicals and, ultimately, curtail their use. It promotes study and responsible regulation of genetically modified foods, and has provided enduring support for efforts to preserve and nurture the productive farmland of Vermont.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: seeks to expand access to reproductive health care and prevent unintended pregnancies, recognizing that unbridled population growth jeopardizes the well-being not only of the world's inhabitants, but also its natural resources. The Fund believes that quality reproductive-health services should be available to all women, regardless of income. Grants are limited to projects that contribute, directly or indirectly, to long-term reductions in population growth and the protection of reproductive rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS: concentrates its International Human Rights Program on the defense and promotion of human rights in Latin America. Approximately 70 percent of the program's budget goes to human rights organizations based in six countries in the region: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. The remaining 30 percent of program resources supports activities of key US human rights organizations. The Fund also makes selective emergency grants to ensure the safety of threatened foreign activists working with U.S.-based human rights organizations.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES: program assists innovative efforts to expand employment and career-development opportunities so economically disadvantaged adults and youth can earn a living wage. Grants support workforce development initiatives; entrepreneurial projects that benefit low-income women and rural communities; and general strategies aimed at alleviating rural poverty. The program focuses on organizations in the northeastern United States, from New York to Maine.

Educational Foundation of America [00324]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides grants to support nonprofit tax-exempt organizations which are not private foundations. Areas of interest include: the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace & national security issues and human services.
Objectives: Areas of interest include: the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace & national security issues and human services.

John Deere Fd [61758]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support for projects in education, health and human services, community development and arts and culture.
Objectives: The sponsor's funding areas include education, arts and culture, health and human services, and community development. Projects supported are generally in communities where the sponsor has a presence (Syracuse, NY).

Xerox Fd [01019]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides support to a variety of social, civic and cultural organizations providing broad-based programs and services in cities where Xerox employees work and live. Funding varies from proposal to proposal.
Objectives: The sponsor supports a variety of social, civic and cultural organizations that provide broad-based programs and services in cities where its employees work and live. The sponsor is also committed to a program of grants to colleges and universities to prepare qualified men and women for careers in business, science, government and education; to further advance knowledge in science and technology; and to enhance learning opportunities for minorities and the disadvantaged. The sponsor also invests contribution dollars in a number of organizations that contribute to the debate on major national public policy issues, including education, employability and cultural affairs. Other areas of particular focus include programs responsive to the national concern for quality and increased productivity, the application of information technology and general education.

Luce (Henry) Fd, Inc. [01079]
Synopsis: Support is provided to organizations in the areas of Asia; Theology; American Art; Higher Education; Religion and Public Affairs, and Public Policy. Eligible applicants are both U.S. and foreign organizations operating in the fields of sponsor interest.
Objectives: The sponsor awards grants and responsive grants in the following areas:
ASIA: The sponsor's Asia Program pursues two interrelated goals. One is fostering cultural and intellectual exchange between the countries of the Asia-Pacific and the United States. The second is creating scholarly and public resources for improved understanding of Asia in the United States. Asia Project Grants respond to critical needs of the Asian studies field, limited to Northeast and Southeast Asia.
HIGHER EDUCATION: The sponsor supports special scholarly or educational initiatives that fall outside the guidelines for the foundation's other programs. Some grants address issues of shared concern for American higher education; others are for programs that are compelling for intellectual or institutional reasons.
AMERICAN ART: The program focuses on the American fine and decorative arts and is committed to scholarship and the overall enhancement of the field. The program is national in scope, and provides support for all periods and genres of American art history. American art includes art related to the American experience in the United States; specifically, scholarly study of American painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photography, and architecture. The program is limited to the visual arts, and does not include grants for film or broadcast media.
THEOLOGY: The program encourages the development of leadership for religious communities through theological education, and fosters scholarship that links the academy to churches and the wider public. In addition to major research programs, the program provides funding for seminary education, religion and the arts, ecumenical and inter-religious programs, and leadership.
RELIGION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS: This initiative seeks to deepen American understanding of religion as a critical but often neglected factor in international policy issues.
PUBLIC POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: The sponsor supports research, training, and policy recommendations dealing with significant issues at the national and international levels. Public Policy grants provide funding to study critical issues and recommend solutions to problems that confront our nation and our world. The Environmental Initiative has two purposes. The first is to enhance the quality of academic training on the environment at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities. The intent of these grants is to improve the quality of training and research in environmental studies, environmental science, and natural resource management. The second purpose is to work with environmental organizations on "real world" issues. Here, the sponsor endeavors to identify projects that will break new ground and hold promise for solving specific problems.

Davis (Edwin W & Catherine M) Fd [00472]
Synopsis: The sponsor provides funds for projects that lead to the amelioration of social problems, and to increasing the opportunities available to disadvantaged persons, particularly in the fields of education, social welfare, mental health, the arts, and environmental problems.
Objectives: The sponsor provides funds for projects which lead to the amelioration of social problems and increase the opportunities available to disadvantaged people. Primary interests include the fields of education, social welfare, mental health, the arts, and the environment.

APICS Educational and Research Fd, Inc. [00420]
Synopsis: Grants are provided to develop educational material and programs, define and expand the sponsor's body of knowledge, or create a pool of resources (materials, programs, and content experts) for the sponsor's members.
Objectives: Grants may support innovative ideas or enhance existing products and services such as: research monographs, case studies, and training materials; major programs and workshops; educational games and software; and journal articles and conference proceedings, as by-products of the primary end product (i.e., they should not be considered as primary grant products).
The sponsor's vision is to increase manufacturing and service industry competitiveness and global prosperity.