References Funding Sources National Corporations, Foundations, and Nonprofits
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National Corporations, Foundations, and Nonprofits National corporations, foundations, and nonprofits are another potential funding source. If you are looking at national foundation money, you first need to research what they are currently funding. Since foundations may change their priorities from year-to-year, it is important to request their annual report or find the information on their Web site.
Ford Foundation (http://www.fordfound.org/) supports activities that are within its current interests and are likely to have wide effect. The Asset Building and Community Development program helps strengthen and increase the effectiveness of people and organizations working to find solutions to problems of poverty and injustice. This program is divided into the Economic Development unit and the Community & Resources Development unit. The Economic Development unit seeks to make economic improvements in the lives of the disadvantaged. This unit coordinates efforts in two fields, one of which is Workforce Development. In Workforce Development, the Ford Foundation supports organizations that help improve the ways low-income people develop marketable job skills and acquire and retain reliable employment that provides livable wages. The Community and Resource Development unit coordinates work in three fields, one of which is in Environment and Development. The purpose of the Environment and Development field is to help people and groups acquire, protect, and improve land, water, forests, wildlife, and other natural assets in ways that help reduce poverty and injustice.
JFYNetWorks, selected by the Ford Foundation for national replication, has received funding from the Foundation. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Its founder W.K. Kellogg, the cereal industry pioneer, established the Foundation in 1930. Since its beginning the Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems. One of the Foundation’s current U.S. programming goals is to "forge partnerships between education institutions and communities to promote learning, academic performance, and workforce preparation among vulnerable young people." Requests must match their current programming interests and guidelines. |