Grants

While individual giving should form the backbone of every nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, grants from foundations and corporations play an important role in many organizations’ fundraising plans. In the past, we’ve talked about the grant-writing process, as well as different places to find grants for your organization. We went into even more detail in our two-part…

At a time when small grassroots, advocacy and watchdog nonprofits are desperately fighting to maintain their precarious budgets, two recent million-dollar grants to two established, well-financed organizations seem inappropriate and a waste of philanthropic resources. It is hard to tell why the Ford, Hewlett, Packard, Kresge and Robert Wood Johnson foundations and the Rockefeller Brothers…

A nonprofit located near Ferguson, Mo., was awarded $1.6 million by the Department of Justice to promote child safety issues, but then neglected a multitude of federal grant laws and regulations. The nonprofit ignored federal stipulations intended to ensure that tax dollars are spent efficiently and ethically, including cost analyses, competitive bids for goods and…

The V Foundation for Cancer Research, Cary, N.C., a leading cancer research funding organization, recently announced it has awarded more than $20 million in cancer research grants this year. The announcement marks the most The V Foundation grants awarded and largest financial contribution to the fight against cancer in a fiscal year to date...

Phil Buchanan and Kathleen Enright both lead organizations with similar goals—to help foundations improve their grant making so they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now…

The National Science Foundation awarded a $440,885 grant to researchers at MIT to develop social robots specifically to be reading companions for children. The investigation is led by Cynthia Breazeal, who's been in headlines during the past few years with her consumer personal robot named Jibo. The study, which began last month, is "developing and…

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” thought it was the cable company calling to beg him to reconsider his recent service cancellation. Nicole Eisenman, the artist, was in the meat section of a Fire Island grocery store, buying bacon. Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the best-selling nonfiction book “Between the…

Google wants Bay Area residents to pick the groups with the best ideas for transforming local lives. Google.org, the search giant’s philanthropic arm, is seeking public input on its Google Impact Challenge grants to “change-makers and forward-thinkers who challenge the status quo ... with big ideas for an even better Bay Area,” as it says…

It’s widely accepted in the world of fundraising that summer can be slow. Funders tune out, travel, spend time with family. In general, giving slows to a crawl. If private foundations can utilize these six easy-to-implement strategies during the remaining weeks of summer, funders will be more likely to maximize the social return on their giving, which is good news for all nonprofits and the causes they champion...

Funding from foundations in support of global human rights initiatives totaled $1.8 billion in 2012, a report from Foundation Center and the International Human Rights Funders Group finds. The 2015 edition of Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking found that 774 foundations based in 45 countries made nearly 19,000 grants to almost 11,000…