Established following Hurricane Katrina as a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health is a collaborative, community-led grantmaking institution supporting local, state, and regional efforts that engage, empower, and benefit Gulf Coast communities, and that promote the sustainable and just recovery of neighborhoods, cities, and ecosystems throughout the Gulf Coast region. The fund

With funds raised from the Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure, Susan G. Komen for the Cure annually offers National Capital Area Community Grants to address breast cancer disparities among the medically underserved in Washington, D.C., and surrounding counties. Komen is working to reduce rates of late stage diagnosis and mortality with an emphasis on eliminating breast cancer disparities.

The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, has announced that it will award a total of $1.7 million in grants through its fifth annual Housing for Everyone grant competition to support affordable housing initiatives from Maine to Florida. The theme of this year’s competition is “Capital Improvements for Affordable Housing.” Preservation or improvement activities must make a qualitative

The San Francisco Film Society, with support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, is accepting Letters of Inquiry for the Fall 2010 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grant program supports independent film projects that use plot, character, theme, or setting to explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity, and other urgent social justice issues. The program supports films that will have

Nonprofit Finance Fund’s comprehensive package of free customized, rapid-response services are being offered to two nonprofit organizations in the Central Coast (Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties). These services will be fully funded by the Community Leadership Project.  The application deadline is July 30th. We think that you’ll find that the application is very straightforward.  We’d like to understand how NFF may assist your organization to build its financial capacity, and

The New York Women’s Foundation has announced that it is inviting applications to the second year of RISE-NYC! RISE-NYC! seeks to support programs in New York City that create immediate responses and/or systemic change enabling women and families to maintain and restore family stability and economic security during the economic downturn. Grants of up to $75,000 each will be given in

Established by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah Foundation is dedicated to refocusing the priorities of the Jewish community through innovative and creative funding for women and girls in the United States and Israel. The foundation’s mission is to improve the status, health, and well-being of women and girls; bring their contributions, issues, and needs from the margins to

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation, which was established to support research that furthers social change, including language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions, is accepting concept applications for its annual grant program. The foundation specifically supports research that focuses on social policy objectives, institutional and educational practices, legislative and regulatory changes, linguistic issues (e.g., literacy, language loss

ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company established byGlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, has announced the launch of Positive Action U.S. Southern Initiative, a collaborative, community-focused program designed to address gaps in services or programs that provide individuals living with HIV/AIDS with care and treatment adherence support. ViiV Healthcare is seeking Letters of Interest to support programs specifically focused on reducing disparities in

The James Irvine Foundation‘s Creative Connections Fund supports creativity and the expansion of diverse, relevant cultural offerings in local communities across California, primarily outside San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. The fund aims to support small and midsize arts organizations representing a diversity of projects and ideas. The fund will consider requests for projects that create new work or