posted by admin on Feb 1

Bank of America

Category: Corporate Foundation Economic Empowerment, Community Development, Education, Health and Human Services, Arts and Culture.
Potential Funder Bank of America
Deadline The majority of our local grant making programs have no deadline; applications are reviewed throughout the year at regularly scheduled local market leadership meetings. Decisions regarding requests are ongoing and with recommendations made by a regional contributions team.
Website website here
Ineligible To apply must have Non-profit Tax ID Number
Eligibility Nonprofits (501c3) are eligible to apply
Criteria Community Development, Education, Health and Human Services, and Arts and Culture. Local Grants for Community Development, National Programs, Community Anchor Institutions and Neighborhood Initiative Projects in 45 listed cities and Associate Committment where employee match of $25.00 to $10.000.00 is made by Bank of America proceeds must be made to a non-profit
Past Award Recipients Complete listing of Recipients. Examples of different categories include: Local Grants have funded affordable housing organizations, arts councils, children’s advocacy groups, local hospice organizations, senior citizen centers, small business incubators, United Way of America, urban ministries and YMCAs. Past National funded partners include United Way of America, Habitat for Humanity International, Special Olympics, American Red Cross, The National Urban League, The National Council of LaRaza, NeighborWorks America. Funded Anchor Institutions examples include - Apollo Theater, New York, New York, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Cook Children’s Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of California, Merced, White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Grant Award Range Depends on the category for application - $250.00 to 1 million

posted by admin on Feb 1

Belk Foundation

Category: Corporate Foundation Economic Empowerment
Potential Funder Belk Foundation
Deadline submit letter of inquiry to foundation director
Website website here
Ineligible individuals, public, government or quasi-governmental programs, international programs/and or organizations
Eligibility Nonprofits (501c3) are eligible limited to 16 states where Belk is located see:
Criteria Education, religion, culture, society and medicine
Past Award Recipients Awarded 59% of funds to educational programs, 19% to social programs, 12% to cultural, 6% to medical and 4% to religion

posted by admin on Feb 1

Wells Fargo Foundation

Category: Corporate Foundation Economic Empowerment
Potential Funder Wells Fargo Foundation
Deadline Contact person for proposal - proposals accepted throughout the year
Website website here
Ineligible Individuals, purchase of advertising, start-up funding for new organizations, political campaigns, lobbying, endowment campaigns, video or film production, promotional items, labor activities, vehicle, travel, for-profit entities, and small start-up business
Eligibility Nonprofits (501c3) and education foundations are eligible to apply check above website for areas foundation serves
Criteria Community Reinvestment, Education and Community development, Education/Financial Literacy, Human Services programs
Past Award Recipients Examples of past recipients are broken down by states - examples include Habitat for Humanity, Neighbohood Housing Services of Austin and several schools.
Grant Award Range varies by state

posted by admin on Feb 1

American Express

Category: Corporate Foundation Economic Empowerment, Cultural Heritage and Community Service
Potential Funder American Express
Deadline Must submit a Letter of Inquiry – letters accepted anytime
Website website here
Ineligible Goodwill advertising, souvenir journals or dinner programs. Travel for individuals or groups. Sectarian activities of religious organizations. Political causes, candidates, organizations or campaigns. Books, magazines or articles in professional journals. Endowments or capital campaigns. Traveling exhibitions (we will only consider each venue on its own).
Eligibility Nonprofits (501c3) and 509(a)(1),(2) or (3) codes are eligible to apply
Criteria Cultural Heritage, Leadership and Community Service (Community service grants must be recommended by American Express employees
Past Award Recipients For a complete listing of 2007 awarded grantees (be prepared to wait a little while to download). Examples of funded activities; Cultural Heritage - Miami Performing Arts Center; Latin Rhythms:Femina and Rock en N - Community Service: America's Second Harvest The Nations Food Bank Network and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Arizona; Economic Independence: Cheshire Home, Inc. Job Skill Training
Grant Award Range $15,000.00- $30,000.00

posted by admin on Feb 1

CitiGroup Foundation

Category: Financial Literacy
Potential Funder Citigroup Foundation
Deadline: Proposals may be submitted at any time during a calendar year - the earlier, the better
Website: website here
Ineligible Partners: Individuals, Political causes, campaigns, or candidates, fraternal organizations or Advertising, special events, dinners, telethons, benefits, or fundraising activities
Eligible Partners: Non-profits and education foundations with demonstrated successes in the focused areas.
Focus areas: Financial Education, Education, Building Communities and Entrepreneurs
Past Award Recipients: Proposals must submitted identifying one of the three focus areas. The foundation awards both international and domestic programs. The 2006 domestic programs by focus area received the following amounts; financial literacy programs - $25,920,650, Education programs received $26,600,975 and building communities and entrepreneurs received $40,849,405 in 2006.
Grant Award Range: 25,000.00 - $400,000,00

posted by admin on Jan 30

Allstate Foundation

Category: Corporate Foundation Economic Empowerment
Potential Funder Allstate Foundation
Deadline No Deadline - on line eligibility application
Website website here
Eligibility Nonprofits (501c3) are eligible to apply
Criteria Programs supported by the National Foundation address: Safe and Vital Communities, Economic Empowerment, Tolerance, Inclusion and Diversity
Past Award Recipients Example of funded project: Innercity Development Corporation of Dallas. Awarded funds to help their Youth Entrepreneurship Program. Students were offered training through classroom and on-site instruction designed to help them develop core skills and learn the basics of how to start and operate a small busines by using the laundromat that is owned by ICDC. The Foundation does make funds available to local communities thru their “Agency In The Hands Of The Community Program". Local agencies make awards in increments of $500.00.
Grant Award Range $10,000.00 - $24.999.00

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