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GRANT RESOURCE CENTER

Private Foundations, Non-Profits

& Universities

Whenever possible, the links provided will to take you directly to that agency’s grant pages.  If you find that a link is outdated, please notify tsamhammer@njslom.com so that that information can be replaced or updated as needed.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1772 Foundation: The preservation and restoration of historical entities.
Alliance for Children & Families                      
American Humane; The Meacham Foundation Memorial Grant: Assistance to animal shelters/agencies for expansion projects or improvements.                 
American Legacy Foundation: Committed to identifying new and better tobacco control programs.                                                                                                        
American Library Association: Listing of grants and fellowships relevant to libraries.

American Red Cross

Annie E. Casey Foundation: Children and families.
Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund                                                                            
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
Best Buy: Electronic recycling grants.                                                                                         NEW
Bikes Belong Coalition                                                                            

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grants awarded for global health, education and global libraries.

Blue Moon Fund: Promotes the development of holistic approaches to improving quality of life in harmony with the natural world; their three major initiatives include: Rethinking consumption & energy, balancing human & natural ecosystems and reenergizing urban communities.

Build - The Funder’s Advisory Council: Consortium of national and local foundations that have substantial grantmaking programs in early childhood care and education.                                                                                                       NEW

Braitmayer Foundation: Interested in K-12 education.
Brookdale Foundation: Interested in furthering the fields of gerontology and geriatrics.
Captain Planet: Hands-on environmental projects for children.  
Center for Health and Health Care in Schools: Lisiting of grants relevant to health and education/schools.     
Corporation for Supportive Housing: Financing supportive housing guide.
The Dana Foundation: Principal interests are in brain science, immunology and arts education.
Emergency Nurses Association: Provides funding for research advancing the specialized practice of emergency nursing.
Fannie E. Rippel Foundation: This foundation takes a particular interest in the needs of women, cancer and heart disease research and hospital provisions.
F.B. Heron Foundation: Grants to/investments in organizations that promote wealth creation strategies for low-income families in urban and rural communities in the U.S.  Startegies include advancing home ownership, supporting enterprise development, reducing barriers to allow workforce participation by providing child care, increasing access to capital and employing comprehensive community development approaches.
Firefighters Charitable Foundation: Provides funding for equipment, maintenance, repairs, education, community outreach and aid to fire victims.
F.M. Kirby Foundation
Fund for Wild Nature: Interesting in funding action for wildlife, rivers, wilderness and the places that support the interdependent life that sustains our planet.

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation: Foundation focuses on education and on the lives of children and the culture of schools, particularly public schools in New Jersey.
Grafitti Hurts: Interested in helping communities start or add-on to a local graffiti prevention program, including one-time projects that have the potential to help reduce graffiti vandalism in the community.
Graham Foundation: Interested in fostering the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society.

HIV Prevention Community Planning Support and Development Initiative: Funding database.

Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey: Lisitng of funding oppurtunities.
Hyde and Watson Foundation:Supports capital projects, such as hard-costs related to the purchase or relocation of facilities and/or building improvements, the purchase of capital equipment, limited medical research and other one-time capital needs. Broad fields include: education, social services, arts, health, religion and humanities.  The current geographic areas of grant support are primarily the five boroughs of New York City, and Essex, Morris and Union Counties in New Jersey.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation: Offers innovative grant programs for organizations serving high-achieving students with financial need.
Lance Armstrong Foundation - Livestrong: Interesting in serving the needs of people living with cancer.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): Neighborhood revitalization.

Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation: "Check 'Em Out" program; helps non-profit sports organizations in New Jersey pay for state and federal fingerprint checks on their coaches and managers.

Milagro Foundation: Awards grants to those helping children and the prevention of diseases, those promoting literacy and arts education.                                           
Ms. Foundation for Women: Grants awarded for economic security, health and safety and girls, young women and leadership.
National Association of Counties: Lisiting of federal, foundation and private funding to address county needs.
National Association of State Foresters: State and Private Forestry Programs.
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation: Provides funding to projects that sustain, restore and enhance the Nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats.
National Forest Foundation
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Generally, provides financial assistance to restore historic buildings and homes.
Needmor Fund: Creating social change.                                       
New Jersey Council for Humanities: Public humanities projects.
New Jersey Tree Foundation
New York - New Jersey Estuary Program: Interested in the development and implementation of plans to protect, conserve and restore the estuary.
Open Meadows Foundation: Grants for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls.
Orthotic & Prosthetic Assitance Fund, Inc.: Enhancing the quality of life for individuals with disabilities.                                                                                                                       
Pathways Within, Inc.: Bi-annual book grant.
Pay It Forward Foundation: Mini-Grants funding one-time only youth projects that benefit schools, neighborhoods, or their community.
Public Safety Foundation of America: Supports organizations that support public safety communications functions and issues.
Robert Wood Johnson: Supports projects that support their mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans.       
Ronald McDonald House: Interested in the needs of children.                      

Rutgers - Eagleton Institute of Politics: Eagleton's State House Express, a program for middle and high schools to visit the State House.

Saucony: Run for Good: Encourages active and healthy lifestyles in children.

Save America's Treasures

Smarter Kids Foundation: Acquiring technology and programs for education.
Stevens Institute of Technology - New Jersey Space Grant Consortium: Broad objective of advancing aerospace education, research and development in New Jersey.
The American Music Center                        
The Center for Non-Profits: Listing of grant oppurtunities available for non-profits.
The Blakemore Foundation: Encourages the study and understanding of Asian languages and Asian fine arts.
The Dunn Foundation: Minimizing billboards and signage that lead to unattractive landscapes.                                                                    
The Fund for New Jersey: This foundation provides for education, advocacy, public policy analysis and community problem solving.
The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey: Interested in the healthcare and wellness of vulnerable members of the greater Newark New Jersey area, as well as bringing healthcare to vulnerable Jewish residents in the MetroWest community of New Jersey.
The NEA Foundation: Improving Public Education
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Schumann Foundation for New Jersey: This foundation is interested in education, with anemphasis on schools located in urban areas.
The Spencer Foundation: Provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation: Breast cancer research and community outreach programs.
The Twenty-First Century Foundation: National and local programs that support black America.                                   
Tony Hawk Foundation: Promotes high-quality, public skateparks in low-income areas throughout the United States.
U.S. Potato Board: School wellness grants.                                                                                                       NEW
Victoria Foundation: Committed to strengthening community within Newark and protecting the environment throughout the State of New Jersey.
Wild Ones: Seeds for education.  
Women's Sports Foundation: Grants to health and fitness organizations.    
Youth Service Amercia: Dedicated to supporting and motivating youth, teachers, service-learning coordinators and youth-serving organizations in planning and implementing projects for Global Youth Service Day and on-going service throughout the year.
 

 

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