Public Welfare Foundation - Annual Grants

WHAT: The Public Welfare Foundation (PWF) supports organizations that address human needs in disadvantaged communities, with emphasis on service, advocacy, and empowerment. The Foundation provides both general support and project-specific grants. Funding priorities are: 1) Community Development; 2) Health - including Mental Health Advocacy and Services, Health Advocacy, Access and Reform; and 3) Youth - including Employment, Training and Alternative Education, Early Intervention, Youth Leadership Development, and Violence Prevention.

WHO: Organizations that promote the welfare or well-being of communities and the public in general.

AMOUNT: The average grant is approximately $45,000, with most grants ranging between $25,000 and $50,000.

DEADLINE: Rolling

For more information please visit:
http://www.publicwelfare.org/first_time/first_time.asp

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

Seeking new community-based approaches to health and health care problems that intersect with social factors.

Amount:  Grant awards are up to $300,000 for a period of three years.

Deadline:  Open

For more information and application guidelines, please visit:  http://www.rwjf.org.applications

Janus Foundation -- At-Risk Youth and Community Service Grants

The Janus Foundation is a charitable program that aims to support communities where their shareholders and employees live and work. The Foundation provides grants in the following categories: 1) At-risk Youth through Education and 2) Community Service and Volunteerism.

Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations in the U.S.

Deadline: Rolling

For complete program information and application guidelines, please visit http://ww4.janus.com/downloads/janushome/pdf/GrantApplication.pdf

State Farm Companies Foundation

www.statefarm.com/foundati/citizenship.htm 

One hundred $1,000 grants are available from Youth Service America (http://www.ysa.org/ ) for teachers, youth, and school-based service-learning coordinators to implement service-learning projects for National Youth Service Day, April 21-23, 2006 (http://www.ysa.org/nysd/).

State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants enable youth and educators to bring the positive benefits of service-learning to more young people across America. Service-learning is a teaching method that combines meaningful service with curriculum or program-based learning.  Schools and organizations use service-learning as a tool to help youth build stronger academic skills, foster civic responsibility, and develop leadership skills. Applicants must be a certified teacher or professor who currently teaches in a public, private, faith-based, charter, or higher education institution within the fifty states or the District of Columbia; or be a school-based service-learning coordinator whose primary role is to coordinate service-learning projects in a school or university; or be a youth between the ages of five and twenty-five.

Applicants must be U.S. residents.

Visit the YSA Web site for grant guidelines, application, and an FAQ.

http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/

The Milagro Foundation 

Supports underrepresented and underprivileged children and youth in the areas of the arts, education, and health. The Milagro Foundation seeks grant applications from community-based, grass-roots organizations that work with children and youth, especially those at risk due to such factors as poor health, illiteracy, or insufficient educational and cultural opportunities.

Grant awards range from $2,500 to $5,000. Grants are reviewed on an on-going basis and decisions are made in February.

Deadline: Rolling

For more information and application guidelines, please visit http://www.milagrofoundation.org/apply.asp

Starbucks Foundation Offers Funding for Youth Literacy Programs

Through its Giving Voice program, the Starbucks Foundation, a philanthropic vehicle of the Starbucks Coffee Company, will fund programs for youth, ages 6-18, that integrate literacy with personal and civic action in the communities where they live.

The foundation supports registered, nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in the United States, as well as Registered Charities in Canada, that deliver services to youth and address at least one of the program's action areas.

Grants range from $5,000 to $20,000.

Visit the Starbucks Foundation Web site for program information, application procedures, and eligibility.

THE COCA-COLA FOUNDATION

The mission of The Coca-Cola Foundation is to improve the quality of life in the community and enhance individual opportunity through education. 

Address: The Coca-Cola Foundation
Post Office Box 1734
Atlanta, Georgia 30301
Phone: 404-676-2568
FAX: 404-676-8804
http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/foundation.html

Fund For Teachers -- Grant Program

The Fund For Teachers grants are awarded to full-time teachers who work with K-12 students and are based solely on merit and available funding.

Grants up to $5,000 will be awarded to individuals, and up to $7,500 will be awarded to teams. Teachers may work as individuals or as a team. The following states are eligible for grants: AK, AZ, CA, CO, DC, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MN, MO, MT, NE, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.

Deadline: Rolling

For complete program information and application guidelines, please visit:

http://www.fundforteachers.org/apply.html

W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Youth and Education Program Grants

Who:  Non-profit organizations with 501 (c) 3 status.

Amount:  Varies

Deadline:  Rolling

Visit:  http://www.wkkf.org/grants

Kaiser Permanent Cares for Communities Program

What:  programs for vulnerable populations, evidence-based medicine, education to advance medical knowledge and public policy

Who:  Non-profit organizations with 501(c) 3 status in the Greater Cleveland/Akron area.

Amount:  $5000 - $100,000.

Deadline:  Rolling

Visit:  http://members.kaiserpemanente.org