Grants

PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, and Water.org announced an expansion of their partnership to scale WaterCredit, a market-driven model that will provide micro loans to families throughout India. This expansion will help enable approximately 800,000 people to access safe water by March 2016. The commitment is built upon a long-standing partnership between the PepsiCo Foundation and Water.org and is made possible by an $8 million grant — the largest contribution by the foundation in its 50-year history.

GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, announced the 10 winners of its GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards.

Grants were awarded to The Healing Place of Wake County, Helping Hand Clinic Inc., Housing for New Hope Inc., Legal Clinic for the Disabled, Inc., Moore Free Care Clinic, Inc., North Carolina Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc., Phoenixville Healthcare Access Foundation, Senior PharmAssist, Inc., Support Center for Child Advocates and Water Street Health Services.

Blue Shield of California said it is preparing to hand out $20 million in grants to hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare providers who are setting up new partnerships to deliver medical care more efficiently. The nonprofit insurer named 18 groups of providers across California who will receive grants of as much as $2 million by Dec. 1.

The list of recipients includes St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.

Lisa Halstead, board president of GreaterGood.org, announced that grants totaling more than $2.7 million have gone to 109 charities and nonprofits operating in the United States and around the world between January and September 2011.

Foundation Source, provider of outsourced support services for private foundations, announced the launch of GrantSafe™, a free online service that lets private foundations quickly and easily confirm the IRS status of any public charity before making a grant. GrantSafe’s new public availability furthers the company’s mission to encourage informed and responsible philanthropy among the nation’s private foundations.

As part of its “Celebration of Service” initiative to honor U.S. military veterans, The Home Depot Foundation announced $1 million in grants to human service charity Volunteers of America to address the critical need for housing and services for U.S. military veterans.

Grants announced include $750,000 for 11 Volunteers of America homeless veterans programs in 10 cities. These grants will be used to build or refurbish transitional housing for 242 veterans, and to provide eight single-family homes for lease or lease-purchase by veterans with families.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has received $1 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Leadership U[niversity], a grant program to support the development of theatre leaders at various points in their career. The overall intent of this program is to strengthen the field by developing the individuals who are the core and the future of theatre.

Dr. Bev Browning shares 10 steps to getting that grant your organization is going for.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter announced nearly $500 million in grants to community colleges around the country for targeted training and workforce development to help economically dislocated workers who are changing careers. The grants support partnerships between community colleges and employers to develop programs that provide pathways to good jobs, including building instructional programs that meet specific industry needs.

Twin Cities Rise is a nonprofit that trains unemployed and under-employed people for good jobs. Now this Minneapolis organization is receiving international attention and a $50,000 grant. The eBay Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers awarded the grant to Twin Cities Rise because of the way it funds its operations.