Foundation Funding Opportunities
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Rotary Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor wishes to improve health, support education, and alleviate poverty. This program is intended for individuals who have chosen a career in international relations, peace, and conflict resolution and who already have no less than three years' experience in these areas.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - World Peace Fellowships or for more information about this foundation, please visit the main Website at Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Century Foundation
Synopsis - Support is provided for research on significant economic, social and political issues. Sponsored research projects usually are designed to produce analytic, book-length manuscripts containing public policy recommendations.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Guide to Submissions or for information on the foundation, please visit their Website at
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Grants Program
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. Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Not provided
Contact Information - Please contact Gail Ross [Grant Adminstrator] at 651.228.0935
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides charitable donations with priority given to schools and 501(c)(3) charities that help children, families and animals.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Furbulous Donations Program
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Hawai`i Community Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for film or video projects on environmental protection efforts. Usually, no more than $18,000 is available in grantmaking years.
Size of Grant - $18,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Environment -- Pikake Fund
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation
Synopsis - Research grants up to $15,000 are available to encourage academics
in all fields of scholarship to study topics of interest to the equipment leasing and finance industry. General topics of research interest are: funding; industry compensation models; strategic management/planning; Accounting/financial reporting; and finance; tax and legislative/regulatory; credit/collections; economics; portfolio management; contracts/documentation; technology benchmarking; strategic importance of captives; operations; and best practices.
Size of Grant - $15,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Grants for Research and Research Grants Policies
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Hewlett (William & Flora) Foundation
Synopsis - The Environment Program provides funding to respond to some of the
most significant environmental challenges of our time.
Size of Grant - Not Provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Hewlett Foundation Environment Grants Program
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - John Deere Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for projects in education, health and human services, community development and arts and culture.
Size of Grant - Not Provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Philanthropy Grants Programs
Deadline Date - Open
Grant Resource - Scripps Howard Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor makes grants in support of journalism education, First Amendment causes, mid-career development, research, readership development, consumer education on media issues, international free press, professional organizations, workforce development, quality journalism teaching, diversity, ethics, and other media-related programs.
Size of Grant - Not Provided
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Scripps Howard Foundation Guidelines
Deadline Date - July 9, 2010
Grant Resource - Spencer Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad.
Size of Grant - Varies
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Research Grants or for more information Spencer Foundation Opportunities
Deadline Date – August 1, 2010
Grant Resource – American Honda Foundation
Category – Youth Education
Description – The funding focus of the American Honda Foundation is youth education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy, including K-12, colleges and universities, community colleges and trade schools are eligible, as well as nonprofit organizations and other foundations. "Scientific education" encompasses physical and life sciences, mathematics and the environmental sciences.
Size of Grant - $60,000
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web - American Honda Foundation
Deadline Date - August 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Sage (Russell) Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor supports a small grants research program to support high quality research in behavioral economics and to encourage young investigators to enter this developing field.
Size of Grant - Grant awards may be a maximum of $5,000.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics
Deadline Date - August 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Open Meadows Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor funds projects that: are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect the diversity of the community served; promote building community power; promote racial, social, economic and environmental justice; and have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding.
Size of Grant - $2,000
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Susan F. Eastman Fund Grants
Deadline Date - August 31, 2010
Grant Resource - Amateur Chamber Music Players (ACMP) Foundation
Synopsis - Support is provided to workshops directed at fostering participation in chamber music by adult amateurs, especially those players with less advanced experience and skills.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - ACMP Grant Programs and ACMP Program Announcement
Deadline Date - September 7, 2010
Grant Resource - Compton Foundation, Inc.
Synopsis - the Compton Foundation seeks to foster human and ecological security by addressing contemporary threats to these inalienable rights. The sponsor supports responsible stewardship that respects the rights of future generations to a balanced and healthy ecology, both personal and global, allowing for the full richness of human experience. The Foundation envisions a world in which humans live in harmony with each other, and in sustainable balance with the earth. To realize this vision, the Compton Foundation focuses most of its grant making in the areas of Peace & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and Population & Reproductive Health, with a special emphasis on projects that explore the interconnections between these
categories.
Size of Grant - Not Provided
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Compton Foundation Grants Program
Deadline Date - September 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Yampa Valley Community Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for innovative projects and programs which demonstrate progress toward achieving healthy community goals in five focus areas: Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Health and Human Services, and Recreation. Applicant organizations must conduct activities in Routt and Moffat Counties that benefit Yampa Valley citizens.
Size of Grant - Not provided
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - GRANT MAKING GUIDELINES or Yampa Valley Grants Program
Deadline Date - October 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Spencer Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad.
Size of Grant - Varies
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Research Grants or for more information Spencer Foundation Opportunities
Deadline Date - October 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Hoglund Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for agencies and programs involved in education, health, and family support services that will bring about positive change in the cities of Dallas and Houston, Texas.
Size of Grant - Applications for specific programs or projects, capital projects or general operations are all considered.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Grants Program
Deadline Date - October 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
Synopsis - The sponsor will provide awards ranging from $30,000 to $75,000 annually for scholarly research in the life sciences. The sponsor emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest. Consideration is given, however, to applicants of all ages.
Size of Grant - $75,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Whitehall Foundation Grants and Application Procedure
Deadline Date – November 1, 2010
Grant Resource – American Honda Foundation
Category – Youth Education
Description – The funding focus of the American Honda Foundation is youth education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy, including K-12, colleges and universities, community colleges and trade schools are eligible, as well as nonprofit organizations and other foundations. "Scientific education" encompasses physical and life sciences, mathematics and the environmental sciences.
Size of Grant - $60,000
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web - American Honda Foundation
Deadline Date - December 1, 2010
Grant Resource - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Synopsis - Research grants and fellowships are awarded by the AFSP Board of Directors acting on the recommendations of the Chair of the Scientific Council.
Size of Grant - $50,000
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Distinguished Investigator Grants or for more information on grant guidelines, please visit Information for Grant Applicants
Deadline Date - December 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Wenner-Gren Foundation
Synopsis - Awards of up to $30,000 each are available to assist anthropological research projects undertaken jointly by two or more investigators from different countries.
Size of Grant - $30,000
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - International Collaborative Research Grants
Deadline Date - December 3, 2010
Grant Resource - Spencer Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor provides funding for research projects that study education in the United States and abroad.
Size of Grant - Varies
Cost Sharing or Matching - No
Web - Research Grants or for more information Spencer Foundation Opportunitie