Resources
For CDCs
Funding
Resources
- The Alliance for Justice
- matching grants of $10,000 for youth-designed and youth-led campaigns
to end gun violence.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Serving children and families. Building supportive communities. Reforming
public systems.
- Bikes Belong Coalition
- promotes bicycling and assists local organizations, agencies and communities
across the US in developing bicycle facilities projects that will be
funded by TEA-21, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
- The
Bolinger Foundation
- gives financial assistance for the education and support of children
who have lost a parent or guardian.
- Charles Stewart Mott
Foundation
- enhances the capacity of individuals, families or institutions at
the local level and beyond. toward systemic change.
- Cleveland
Colectivo
- A giving circle providing grants up to $5,000.
- Cleveland
Foundation
- The foundation addresses the needs of Greater Cleveland through grantmaking,
and providing leadership on vital issues.
- Community
Shares
- supports social justice organizations through workplace giving programs
and other philanthropic initiatives.
- Draper Richards
Foundation
- gives up to $100,000 annually for three years to social entrepreneurs
who possess solid ideas for starting new nonprofit organizations in
the United States.
- The F.B. Heron Foundation
- supports organizations with a track record of building wealth within
low-income communities. It supports strategies that increase access
to capital, support enterprise development, advance home ownership,
provide quality child care, or employ comprehensive community development
approaches.
- Gardening
for Greenbacks
- Up to $3,000 in Neighborhood Retail Assistance Program funds to urban
market gardners and farmers in Cleveland.
- Grantee Exchange
Fund
- small grants to encourage social change organizations to seek technical
assistance from one another and to build regional and national networks.
- Graham
Foundation
- offers grants to support activities focused on architecture and the
build environment, and that lead to public dissemination of ideas.
- GTECH's After School
Advantage Program
- provides up to $15,000 in hardware, software, and volunteer hours
to establish computer labs for nonprofit community organizations servicing
inner-city youth.
- Gund Foundation
- a private, nonprofit institution with the sole purpose of contributing
to human well-being and the progress of society.
- The
Home Depot Foundation
- makes grants to organizations that create and rehabilitate affordable
housing. Grants range between $5,000 and $25,000.
- IBM Corporate
Citizenship
- funds initiatives to address specific societal issues, such as the
environment, community economic development, education, health, literacy,
language and culture.
- The Jessie Smith Noyes
Foundation
- supports initiatives connecting the environment to ommunity economic
development and using an inclusive, democratic decision-making process.
- The Kresge Foundation
- provides grants to support planning costs associated with designing
environmentally sustainable buildings. The foundation also provides
workshops and educational materials for nonprofits as part of its Green
Building Initiative.
- Local
Answers
- funding local, small-scale, time-limited projects that help communities
build skills and capacity to identify opportunities and take action.
- Lowe's
Charitable and Educational Foundation
- provide contributions of supplies and materials for specific community
projects.
- The Lynde and
Harry Bradley Foundation
- supports projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier,
and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people, and
among peoples of other nations, as well.
- MacArthur Foundation
- supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building
a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
- Met Life Foundation
- grants to support educational, health and civic and cultural organizations.
- Neighborhood
Connections
- Community grants up to $5,000.
- The Norman Foundation
- supports efforts that strengthen the ability of communities to determine
their own economic, environmental and social well-being and that help
people control the forces that affect their lives.
- Ohio Arts Council
- a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to
strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.
- The
Sparkplug Foundation
- provides funding for start-up projects and innovations in three areas:
music; education; and grassroots organizing. In each area the foundation
is interested in making one-time grants for activities that create sustainable
organizing and communities.
- St.
Luke's Foundation
- provides leadership and support for the improvement and transformation
of the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities
of Greater Cleveland.
- The Tony
Hawk Foundation
- funds the construction of skate-parks.
- United Black Fund
- financially assists many non-profit organizations in the Greater Cleveland
area and ensures non-profit charitable organizations serving the poor,
Black and other minorities receive an equitable share of the charitable
dollars. United Black Funds awards up to $10,000.
- The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
- The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the
health and health care of all Americans.
- Verizon Foundation
- funds education, literacy, safety and health.
- The Waitt
Family Foundation
- gives grants that support community-wide efforts to build capacity
and strength in low-income communities, with particular focus on children
and families, youth programs featuring music and the arts, youth violence
prevention, and community-based education and after-school activities.
- The
Wells Fargo Housing Foundation
- $5,000 to $25,000 grants for low-income homeownership initiatives.
- WHO Foundation
- supports projects and programs addressing health, education and social
service needs
- The Xerox Foundation
- supports programs in education, employability, and cultural affairs,
and organizations that contribute to the debate on major national public
policy issues.
Policy
Resources
Neighborhood
and Development Resources
Fundraising
Research
Financing
- Growth
Capital
- provides financing assistance to area businesses to foster economic
growth and jobs creation in Northeast Ohio.
- Hebrew Free Loan Association
provides interest free loans for personal or business needs.
- National
Trust Small Deal Fund
- The Fund invests in very small historical tax credit projects generating
from $200,000 to $650,000 in tax credit equity.
- People's
Bancorp Foundation, Inc.
- a diversified financial products and services company
- The Ohio Community
Finance Fund
- New Market Loans
Capacity
Building
- Cleveland Social
Venture Partners
- A philanthropic venture fund that supports nonprofit organizations
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
- Charity
Advantage
- Technology Discounts
- Gifts in Kind
International
- Conduit for In-kind donations
- Tech Soup Donated and discounted
technology products for nonprofits and public libraries
-
State
Funding
- Housing
Trust Fund
- state funding source that provides affordable housing opportunities,
expands housing services, and improves housing conditions for low-income
Ohioans
Federal
Funding
- The
Administration for Children and Families
- Grants are to provide technical and financial assistance for economic
needs of low-income individuals and families by creating employment
and business development opportunities
- Community Development
Financial Institutions Fund
- mission is to expand the capacity of financial institutions to provide
credit, capital, and financial services to underserved populations and
communities in the United States.
- US
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Hud grant applications and resources
- Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance
- a database of all federal programs available to state and local governments
- USA.gov
for nonprofits
- Grants, loans and other assistance
Foreclosure
Resources
Sustainability
Resources
