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A. L. Mailman Family Foundation
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Early
Childhood Education Policy, Training and Service Delivery
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Achelis
& Bodman Foundations
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Funds NYC Based projects in six program areas:
Arts and Culture, Education, Employment, Health, Public Policy, and
Youth.
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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Technology
and Education, Science Education
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American Educational Research
Association (AERA)
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Funds
projects that enhance the capability of the research community to use
large-scale data sets to conduct studies that are relevant to education
policy and practice, and strengthen communications between the
educational research community and government agencies.
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American Psychological Foundation
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Funds projects that advance psychology as a science and a profession and
as a means of understanding behavior and promoting health and human
welfare.
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American Sociological Association
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The
ASA Research Program on the Profession and the Discipline is responsible
for developing and disseminating knowledge on sociology both as a
discipline and a profession.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation makes grants in higher education, museums and art
conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and
public affairs.
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Annenberg Foundation
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The
Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its
grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture,
civic and community, and health.
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Annie E. Casey Foundation
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Funds
initiatives that have significant potential to demonstrate innovative
policy, service delivery, and community supports for children and
families.
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Beaumont Foundation of
America
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The
Beaumont Foundation of America grants state-of-the-art, wireless laptop
computers and technology equipment to schools and community groups
serving low-income populations and individuals.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
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Provides
unrestricted funding of cancer, nutrition, neuroscience, cardiovascular,
infectious diseases and metabolic diseases research. In each scientific
field, the program annually presents at least one five-year, $500,000
unrestricted research grant and a distinguished achievement award of
$50,000 to an individual researcher.
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Broad Foundation
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Funds
projects concerning the quality of elementary and secondary public
education in America,
particularly within large urban school districts
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Carnegie
Corporation of New York is a
general-purpose, grantmaking foundation established in 1911 by Andrew
Carnegie "for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and
understanding among the people of the United States.
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Caroline & Sigmund Schott
Foundation
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Mission:
To develop and strengthen the movement for equity in education and
childcare. Goal: To develop and strengthen a broad-based and
representative movement to achieve fully resourced preK-12 public
education in Massachusetts and New York.
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Charles H. Revson Foundation
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Foundation focuses its funding on four program
areas:
Urban Affairs , Education , Biomedical Research Policy , Jewish
Philanthropy and Education
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Charles Stuart-Mott Foundation
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Has
four major program areas: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and
Pathways Out of Poverty
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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
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Based
in New York City,
where the majority of grants are awarded, the Foundation supports
nonprofit organizations that concentrate on community development,
education, and the arts.
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DeWitt Wallace-Reader's
Digest Fund
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The
mission is to foster fundamental improvements in the quality of
educational and career development opportunities for all school-age
youths and to increase access to these improved services for young people
in low-income communities. Areas of interest include improving services
to children and youths in elementary and secondary schools, in
community-based organizations, and through school-community
collaboration.
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Ewing Marion Kaufmann
Foundation
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Kauffman Foundation makes grants and supports
initiatives in entrepreneurship and education
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Ford Foundation
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Grants
and PRIs are given in the Foundation's fields of interest through a
program division encompassing three broad areas: Asset Building
and Community Development; Education, Media, Arts, and Culture; and Peace
and Social Justice.
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Gates Foundation
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The
Gates Foundation awards the majority of its grants to U.S. 501 (c) (3)
organizations and other tax exempt organizations identified by foundation
staff according to the objectives of our four program areas: Global
Health, Education, Global Libraries, and Pacific
Northwest.
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Goldman Sachs Foundation
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Current
priorities are to enhance academic performance and prospects for life
achievement of students at the secondary school level, to develop the
abilities of promising high potential youth worldwide, and to support
high quality education for young people in business and entrepreneurship.
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Grammy Foundation
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The
Foundation accomplishes this mission through programs and activities
designed to engage the music industry and cultural community as well as
the general public. The GRAMMY Foundation works in partnership year-round
with The Recording Academy and its regional offices to bring national
attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and
arts education, and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural legacy.
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Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
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Funds
the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased
understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion
and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in
science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
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International Foundation
for Music Research
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Sounds
of Learning: The Impact of Music Education critically examines the roles
of music education in the lives of school age children.
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Lumina Foundation for
Education
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Lumina
Foundation supports the following types of endeavors, working diligently
to ensure that all funded projects promote access, attainment and adult
learning:
• Research to expand knowledge and improve practices that affect
students' access and success in postsecondary education.
• Innovative programs, guided by research, that present practical
approaches to access and attainment among underserved students and adult
learners.
• Activities that enhance the impact of Lumina Foundation-funded research
and programs, such as leadership development, communication, evaluation
and public policy analysis.
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McArthur Foundation
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Four
programs: Program on Global Security and Sustantiability, Program on
Human and Community Development, General Program, McCarthy Fellows
Program.
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Merrill Lynch & Co., Foundation
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The
education of underserved children and youth in the areas of financial
literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership development, career planning and
business awareness is Merrill Lynch's principal philanthropic focus.
Merrill Lynch gives priority to specific innovative, sustainable programs
and projects, rather than general operating support that serve the unmet
educational needs and interests of an ethnically diverse population who
have limited access to financial resources.
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National Fragile X Foundation
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To
foster research on fragile X syndrome, The following forms of
investigation are potentially appropriate for funding: educational or
therapy interventions, medical or molecular interventions, studies of
family support and counseling and diagnostic and reproductive studies.
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Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation
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The Education Support Program (ESP) is
currently accepting proposals for RE:FINE, a new initiative established
to support special projects that further open society goals in education
in identified priority areas. It provides strategic grants for networking
opportunities to promote open society goals in education. The fund may
also provide assistance to safeguard gains made in education by the Open
Society Education Network in contexts where these are placed at risk.
RE:FINE supports special projects to further open society goals in fours
priority areas: accountability, equity, anticorruption, and the
improvement of learning outcomes that support open society values.
RE:FINE provides strategic grants for networking projects in education in
South Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe,
Russia, the Caucasus,
Central Asia, and Mongolia.
The fund also supports projects in countries where OSI is developing new
partnerships.
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Packard Foundation
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The
Foundation focuses in three key program areas: Conservation and Science
Program ,Population Program ,Children, Families, and Communities Program.
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PEW Charitable Trusts
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Our
work in the policy arena falls into three major categories--education,
the environment and health and human services--with selected investments
in other areas of significant and timely opportunity.
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Robert Bowne Foundation
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The
Robert Bowne Foundation provides grants related to youth literacy for
direct service programs, technical assistance to out-of school programs,
evaluation, advocacy, and research.
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Robert Wood Foundation
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The
Foundation focuses the majority of its grantmaking in four Portfolios.
For a project to be eligible for support, it must successfully address
the objectives of one of the following four Portfolios. Targeted:
Addressing specific improvements in targeted health and health care
challenges over a defined time period. Human Capital:Attracting,
developing and retaining high-quality leadership and workforce to improve
health and health care. Vulnerable Populations: Promoting community-based
projects that improve health and health care outcomes for society's most
vulnerable people. Pioneer: Promoting fundamental breakthroughs in health
and health care through innovative projects.
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Robin Hood Foundation
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Robin
Hood makes grants to organizations exclusively in the five boroughs of New York City whose
work falls within the following four issue areas: Early Childhood &
Youth, Education, Jobs and Economic Security, and Survival.
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Rockefeller Foundation
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There
are two kinds of Areas of Work, which constitute the heart of our
operations: Thematic Areas of Work--Food Security, Health Equity,
Creativity & Culture, and Working Communities; and Shared Areas of
Work--Global Inclusion and our regional work in Southeast Asia, North
America, and Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Russell Sage Foundation
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The Foundation's awards are restricted to
support for basic social science research within our announced programs.
Our web site, biennial reports, and other publications provide
descriptions of each of these programs and examples of the research we
have supported in the past
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Spencer Foundation
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The Major Grants program will accept
applications that fit within one or more of four areas of inquiry: The
Relation between Education and SocialOpportunity ; Organizational
Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions;
Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; and, Purposes and Values
of Education. In addition to proposals in these defined areas, the
foundation will continue to provide an opportunity to submit
field-initiated proposals outside these areas.
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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The
Foundation will consider requests that fall within our established or
developing programming areas:Health
Food Systems and Rural Development
Youth And Education
Philanthropy and Volunteerism
Greater Battle Creek
Cross-Programming Work: Devolution
Southern Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
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Wachovia Foundation
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To be
considered for grant funding, organizations must align with one or more
of the Foundation's focus areas: Education, Community Development,
Health/Human Services, and Arts/Culture.
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Wallace Foundation
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We
have three objectives:Strengthen education leadership to improve student
achievement
Improve after-school learning opportunities; Expand participation in arts
and culture. The Wallace Foundation is a national foundation that
supports programs in the United
States.
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William T. Grant Foundation
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Its
mission is to further the understanding of human behavior through
research. Today, that mission centers around supporting research to
improve the lives of young people. The Foundation pursues this goal
primarily by investing in high quality research on how contexts such as
families and programs affect youth, how these contexts can be improved,
and how scientific evidence affects influential adults.
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