resources

Non-Profit

Chronicle of Philanthropy
Online journal with features, job listings, and grant announcements. Some parts of the website are "members-only" and others are free to the general public.
http://www.philanthropy.com/

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
This is the home page for public broadcasting, with events, calendar, grant deadlines and guidelines, and a CPB directory.
http://www.cpb.org/

Foundation Center
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse of information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. Their site has a database of grants, information on their publications (they produce over 60 annually) and Foundation Center Libraries located around the country.
http://www.fdncenter.org/

Grantmakers In the Arts
A nonprofit membership organization comprised of private foundations, family foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations that make arts grants. GIA aims to strengthen the field of private sector arts grantmaking by improving communication, information exchange, and peer learning within the field as a whole and increase the presence of arts philanthropy within the broader foundation and policy making communities, thereby promoting more meaningful support of arts and culture; and support individual arts grantmakers in increasing their effectiveness and their capacity to meet their objectives.
http://giarts.org/

Hewlett Packard
The HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative is designed to support the innovative use of mobile technology in K-16 education, and to help identify K-12 public schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities that HP might support with future grants.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html

New York Foundation of the Arts Source
NYFA’s mission starts with individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts. This site offers access to the most comprehensive list of resources for artists in the nation, opening doors to the widest range of financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information.
http://www.nyfa.org/

Progressive Technology Project Grant
The Progressive Technology Project (PTP) is a new collaboration that seeks to raise the scope and scale of technology resources available to grassroots organizing groups working for environmental, economic, and social justice. PTP provides technical assistance and makes grants to develop the capacity of grassroots organizing groups to use information technology to strengthen their social change efforts.
http://www.progressivetech.org/

Roy W. Dean Film and Video Grant
Our goal is to make films that might otherwise never be made. From the Heart Productions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding films that are “unique and make a contribution to society�?. Started in 1992 by Carole Dean.
http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/

Taproot Foundation
Unlike traditional foundations that make cash grants, the Taproot Foundation makes grants of high-quality professional services, called Service Grants. Our Service Grants are designed to build your fundraising, marketing, information technology or talent management (HR) capacity.
http://www.taprootfoundation.org/

The California Wellness Foundation
The Foundation’s Responsive Grantmaking Program prioritizes eight issues for funding: * diversity in the health professions; * environmental health; * healthy aging; * mental health; * teenage pregnancy prevention; * violence prevention; * women’s health; and * work and health.
http://www.tcwf.org/

The Ford Foundation
A fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic and social systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment on which life depends. We believe that the best way to meet this challenge is to encourage initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located; to promote collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors; and to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society. In our experience, such activities help build common understanding, enhance excellence, enable people to improve their lives and reinforce their commitment to society.
http://www.fordfound.org/

The Grantsmanship Center
They offer numerous seminars, publications, and consultations on the issues of grantsmanship and fund raising for non-profits. Their website has complete listings of valuable funding resource directories, grantwriting consultation publications, fund raising training seminars, and information on their magazine, which contains articles on innovative non-profit development plans. The site is updated daily with funding tips and grant announcements.
http://www.tgci.com/

The Internet Nonprofit Center
A list of online fundraising resources. The money-making ventures vary from portals that hook donors up with donees, to for-profit ventures which pay you to send traffic to their site.
http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/FAQ/Nonprofit/Home/default

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
One of the nation's ten largest foundations, MacArthur today has assets of $4 billion and makes grants totaling more than $170 million annually. The Foundation makes grants through their General Program for special initiatives and to support projects that promote excellence and diversity in the media.
http://www.macfdn.org/

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges gives support to information projects that aim to limit human-created climate changes. Any project whose objective is to influence public opinion and change attitudes to these problems is eligible for support. We want to support innovative, experimental, untested measures. The Minor Foundation will give priority to the media and tools that have the greatest impact at any time.
http://www.minor-foundation.no/

The National Cristina Foundation
National Cristina Foundation (NCF) provides computer technology and solutions to give people with disabilities, students at risk and economically disadvantaged persons the opportunity, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives. Every day, across America and around the world, National Cristina Foundation is working to ensure that used computer technology resources that no longer meet an enterprise's or an individual's needs are given a second productive life as a tool for developing human potential.
http://www.cristina.org/

The National Endowment for the Arts
Guide to the NEA which includes an up to date staff directory, a listing of publications, a monthly on-line journal and contact information for state arts agencies.
http://arts.endow.gov/

The National Endowment for the Humanities
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html

The Paul Robeson Media Fund
Named to honor singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, the Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by local, state, national or international organizations and individual media producers. The Fund solicits projects of all genres that address critical social and political issues, combine intellectual clarity with creative use of the medium and demonstrate understanding of how the production will be used for progressive social justice organizing. The maximum grant award is $20,000; most grants range between $5,000 and $15,000. The Fund has one grant cycle a year.
http://www.fex.org/content/index.php?pid=29

The Playboy Foundation
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is committed to protecting and enhancing the American principles of personal freedom and social justice. We honor that commitment through the Playboy Foundation, our corporate giving program. Through the company's annual contributions to the Foundation, we have provided not-for-profit organizations with nearly $20 million in grants and millions more in services in-kind, including fundraising, design and printing, and public service advertising in Playboy magazine.
http://www.playboyenterprises.com/home/content.cfm?content=t_template&packet=0007B308-45F5-1C7D-9B578304E50A011A&artTypeID=0007B451-BB99-1C76-8FEA8304E50A010D

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
http://www.rwjf.org/

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation is interested in programs and projects offering potential for significant impact. The primary focus is on the San Francisco Bay Area (counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo) and Hawaii.
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/gerbode/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Is a clearinghouse of information for community-building efforts.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/nnw/nnwindex.cfm