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American Association of University Women:
One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for
graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports
aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in
local communities, women at critical stages of their careers,
and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
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American Council
of Learned Societies: ACLS offers fellowships and grants in
over one dozen programs, for research in the humanities and
humanistic social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral
levels.
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American Educational Research Association /IES:
The American Educational Research
Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving
the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related
to education and evaluation and, by promoting the dissemination
and practical application of research results.
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American
Psychological Foundation: The American Psychological
Foundation (APF) is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization that
advances the science and practice of psychology as a means of
understanding behavior and promoting health, education, and
human welfare.
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Annenberg
Foundation: Established in 1989 by Walter H. Annenberg, the
Annenberg Foundation provides funding and support to nonprofit
organizations in the United States and globally through its
headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania and offices in Los Angeles,
California. Its major program areas are education and youth
development; arts, culture and humanities; civic, community and
the environment; and health and human services.
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Association of
American Geographers: The AAG conducts educational and
research projects that advance geographic understanding,
geographic literacy, and geographic learning.
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AT&T Foundation:
Founded in 1984, the legacy AT&T Foundation
was the principal vehicle of philanthropy
for legacy AT&T. The legacy AT&T Foundation
invested globally in projects that were at
the intersection of community needs and
AT&T's business interests, just as the new
AT&T Foundation still does today. Emphasis
continues to be placed on programs that
serve the needs of people in communities
where AT&T has a significant business
presence, initiatives that use technology in
innovative ways, programs that encourage and
support diversity and inclusion, and
projects in which AT&T employees are
actively involved as contributors or
volunteers.
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Beckman (Arnold and
Mabel) Foundation: The Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation makes grants to program-related, non-profit
research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the
life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster
the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will
open up new avenues of research in science.
The Foundation does not consider
proposals that fall outside of these programs.
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Blakemore
Foundation: The
Blakemore Foundation was established in 1990 by Thomas and
Frances Blakemore to encourage the advanced study of Asian
languages and to improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in
the United States.
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Claiborne (Liz)
and Art Ortenberg Foundation:
The Liz Claiborne and Art
Ortenberg Foundation is a private body devoted to the
conservation of nature and the amelioration of human distress.
The Foundation seeks to redress the breakdown in the processes
linking nature and humanity. It concerns itself particularly
with matters of species extinction, habitat destruction and
fragmentation, resource depletion and resource waste. It favors
solutions that directly benefit local communities and serve as
exemplars for saving species and wildlands. It recognizes the
imperative to reconcile nature preservation with human needs and
aspirations. The Foundation devotes a substantial
portion of its funding to developing countries. It therefore
recognizes the destructive connection between poverty,
over-population, high infant mortality, cultural traditions that
dehumanize women, inequitable land distribution and the
subsequent degradation of the land and the systems the land
supports. The Foundation is also actively involved in
conservation in the United States, particularly Montana and
those Western states historically dependent upon extractive
industries and agriculture. It encourages local initiatives
addressing the problems of diminishing natural resources,
technological change and job loss. It emphasizes conservation
through cooperation, persuasion and the development of
sustainable economic alternatives to resource depletion.
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Delmas (Gladys Krieble) Foundation:
The Foundation intends to further the
humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which
address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis:
a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the
past; the formation of human beings according to cultural,
moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the
ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and
realized.
Programs in the
following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature;
languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics;
comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the
arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the
content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation
welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic
disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities
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Gerber Foundation:
The Gerber Foundation provides funding for
national programs which have a significant impact on issues
facing infants and young children, prebirth to age 3.
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Golden Foundation;
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation:
The mission of the Sam and
Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc. is to be a meaningful
resource for the professional visual artist. The Golden
Foundation for the Arts was originally conceived as a way to
thank the community of artists for their support, encouragement
and friendship. For the Golden family and friends, it is also a
means of celebrating the legacy of Sam and Adele.
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Grant (William T)
Foundation: Since
its inception in 1936, the William T. Grant Foundation has had a
remarkable constancy of purpose: to further the understanding of
human behavior through research. The Foundation’s mission
focuses on improving the lives of youth ages 8 to 25 in the
United States. We invest primarily in high quality empirical
studies. Our Current Research Interests are understanding and
improving social settings such as families, schools, peer
groups, and organizations, and how these social settings affect
youth. Our Interests also focus on the use and influence of
scientific evidence in policy and practice. To a more
limited extent, the Foundation supports capacity-building,
communication, and youth service activities. We fund
capacity-building activities, usually commissioned by us, to
build the infrastructure for research on our Current Research
Interests and our Action Topic of improving the quality of
after-school programs. Most of our communications funding also
is aligned around our Action Topic. We fund a limited number of
communications activities meant to leverage all of our grant
making by enhancing the Foundation’s image and visibility. Our
Youth Service Improvement Grants program supports activities
conducted by non-profit community-based organizations in the New
York metropolitan area to improve the quality of services for
young people ages 8 to 25.
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Guggenheim Memorial Foundation;
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: The John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced
professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
Fellowships are not available for students. The Foundation only
supports individuals. It does not make grants to institutions or
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Howard Foundation; The George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation:
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation was
established in 1952 by Nicea Howard in memory of her
grandparents. Although Miss Howard had a special interest in the
Arts, her stated purpose was to aid the personal development of
promising individuals at the crucial middle stages of their
careers.
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Jonathan Larson
Performing Arts Foundation:
The Jonathan Larson
Performing Arts Foundation was created to provide encouragement
and financial assistance to composers, lyricists and bookwriters
as well as nonprofit producing companies. Our current priority
is on individual creative artists working in musical theatre.
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Puffin
Foundation, Ltd.:
The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open
the doors of artistic expression who are often
excluded from mainstream opportunities due to
their race, gender, or social philosophy.
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Spencer Foundation: The
Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality
investigation of education through its research programs and to
strengthening and renewing the educational research community
through its fellowship and training programs and related
activities.
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Starbucks
Foundation: The mission: to create hope, discovery
and opportunity in communities where Starbucks partners
(employees) live and work. Since then the Starbucks Foundation
has maintained a focus on improving young peoples’ lives by
supporting literacy programs for children and families. To date,
the Foundation has provided over $12 million to more than 700
youth focused organizations in the United States and Canada.
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Weil
Foundation; The Kurt Weil Foundation:
The Kurt Weill Foundation for
Music, Inc., is a not-for-profit, private foundation chartered
to preserve and perpetuate the legacies of composer Kurt Weill
(1900-1950) and actress-singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981).
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Wenner-Gren Foundation:
The Wenner-Gren Foundation has two major goals – to support
significant and innovative anthropological research into
humanity's biological and cultural origins, development and
variation and to foster the creation of an international
community of research scholars in anthropology.
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Whitehall Foundation:
The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and
grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences.
It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of
basic biological research that are not heavily supported by
Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions.
In order to respond to the changing environment, the Whitehall
Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial
support by the various fields of biological research
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