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Mission/Giving Statement:  M·A·C Aids Fund United States Community Grants Program addresses the connection between poverty and HIV/AIDS by supporting U.S. based nonprofit organizations that provide nutrition and housing services to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Food & Nutrition; Housing

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Funds are only available for HIV/AIDS organizations. List of funding restrictions available online.

Application Instructions: Complete the online questionnaire to determine if your organization is eligible to apply for a grant. Upon completion of the questionnaire, eligible organizations will be prompted to complete an online application.
 

Mission/Giving Statement: The Foundation is devoted to serving Indian nations and Indian people in the recovery and control of their rightful homelands. 

Grantmaking Program Areas: Cultural Awareness; Economic Opportunity; Education; Legal Reform

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Cultural Awareness: Use Indian land to help Indian people discover and maintain their culture.

Economic Opportunity: Increase economic assets of Indian landowners by gaining control of Indian lands and by creating financial models that convert land into leverage for Indian landowners.

Education: Educate every Indian landowner about Indian land management, ownership and transference issues so that knowledge becomes power when decisions about land assets are made.

Legal Reform: Reform the legal mechanisms related to recapturing physical, cultural, and economic assets for Indian people and strengthening sovereignty of Indian land.

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: See website for list of funding restrictions.

Application Instructions: See the specific RFP for information on how to apply.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Verizon Foundation is in the business of improving lives in literacy, knowledge and a readiness for the 21st Century.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Literacy; Domestic Violence Prevention; Healthcare & Accessibility; Internet Safety

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: List of restrictions available online.

Application Instructions: The Foundation only accepts electronic proposals through its Apply Online process. 

Mission/Giving Statement: YSA supports and motivates youth, educators, and service-learning coordinators by distributing more than $1 million dollars in mirco grants each year to help support youth-led service and service-learning initiatives. 

Grantmaking Program Areas: STEMester of Service; Get Ur Good On Grants; State Farm Good Neighbor Service Learning Grants; UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

STEMester of Service: Funded by Learn and Serve America, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, this program incorporates YSA's semester-long service-learning framework to engage middle school educators and students in addressing critical environmental and disaster preparedness needs and connecting them to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curricula.

Get Ur Good On Grants: Miley Cyrus is partnering with YSA to create this social network that brings together youth to support each other in their mission to do "good" in their communities.

State Farm Good Neighbor Service Learning Grants: State Farm is proud to team up with YSA to offer grants of up to $1,000 for youth-led service-learning initiatives. Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, and effective teaching and learning strategy that promotes student learning, academic achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities.

UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants: The UnitedHealth HEROES program is a service-learning, health literacy initiative that awards grants to help youth, ages 5-25, create and implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity. 

Application Instructions: Grant applications and instructions available online. Grants are organized into two cycles each year, roughly corresponding to the academic calendar.

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Mission/Giving Statement: JFNM partners with Jewish organizations to meet the needs of Jews in New Mexico, Israel and worldwide through leadership, philanthropy, education and social action.

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: JFNM provides funds to meet the urgent, ongoing needs of the global Jewish people, encourages and supports Jewish education and Jewish community, and strengthens the relationship between New Mexico and Israel. 

Mission/Giving Statement: The StEPP Foundation is dedicated to helping organizations realize their vision of a clean and safe environment by nationally matching projects with funders.

The Foundation provides project oversight to enhance the success of projects increasing the number of energy efficiency, clean energy and pollution prevention projects implemented at the local, state and national levels for the benefit of the public. 

Application Instructions: Fill out the StEPP Project Submittal Form, even if there are no open RFPs listed or those listed do not fit your project idea or location. The Foundation funds many more projects outside of the RFP process, then within it.  The StEPP Project Pipeline is used as a tool to best match projects with funding sources.

The Foundation conducts a project selection process several times during the year, in search of projects to best match the requirements of funding sources. In most cases the initial search is done from projects already entered in the StEPP Project Pipeline which meet one or more of the Foundation's core principles. 

Mission/Giving Statement: The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education & Youth; Governance & Accountability; Health; Justice; Media & Arts; Rights & Equality

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Education & Youth: The Foundations early childhood programs advance a holistic approach to teaching, while their advocacy and debate initiatives strive to ensure that young people of different backgrounds have equal access to education and individual expression.

Governance & Accountability: The Foundations work with governments and businesses to advance transparency, rule of law, and good governance around the world.

Health: The Foundations work to establish health policies and practices that are based on evidence and promote social inclusion, human rights, and justice.

Justice: The Foundations work to further justice throughout the world by supporting international tribunals, advocating on behalf of stateless people, and helping to institute national legal reforms that ensure freedom of information, promote sentencing alternatives, and protect the rights of criminal defendants.

Media & Arts: The Foundations support public access to knowledge, inclusion of minority voices in media, and the artistic expression of pressing social issues.

Rights & Equality: The Foundations work to advance human rights and equality around the world in law, governance, and society, through programs that emphasize the rights of minorities and raise public awareness of issues such as gender violence and the treatment of people with disabilities.

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Eligibility requirements and restrictions vary by program area.

Application Instructions: LOI instructions vary by program area.

Mission/Giving Statement: Third Wave Foundation is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy, it supports groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Reproductive Health & Justice

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Foundation funds projects which benefit, target, are devised by, and led by young women, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth activists, between the ages of 15 and 30. It especially looks for programs or organizations that focus on the needs of low-income communities, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and people of color. The Foundation does not fund national organizations, intermediaries or subsidiaries. Additional restrictions listed online.

Application Instructions: Email LOIs to program[at]thirdwavefoundation[dot]org.

Mission/Giving Statement: Tides Foundation partners with donors to increase and organize resources for positive social change. It facilitates effective grantmaking programs, creates opportunities for learning, and builds community among donors and grantees.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Civic Participation; Economic Justice; Education; Environment; Health Services & Health Reform; HIV/AIDS Treatment & Prevention; Human Rights; International Development; LGBT Issues; Peace & Conflict Resolution; Progressive Arts & Media; Reproductive Justice & Health; Women's Empowerment

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: See individual RFP for eligibility and restrictions. 

Application Instructions: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited LOIs or proposals.  It only accepts LOIs for open RFPs. Each open RFP will list application instructions.