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.
- The Ford Foundation
- making grants and loans to improve lives, build knowledge, and strengthen organizations and networks.
- Gardening for Greenbacks
- Up to $3,000 in Neighborhood Retail Assistance Program funds to urban market gardners and farmers in Cleveland.
- Google Grants
- in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations.
- 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
- The 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.
- United Way
- addrersses health and human service needs through convening partnerships, funding programs and generating resources.
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
- Seven 11 Community Outreach
- supports programs in communities where its stores operate, with particular focus on education for workforce development, language education, programs for at-risk or disadvantaged youth, multicultural understanding, crime prevention, and hunger relief.
- 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.
- 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
- WECO
- a provider of financial services and programs to low and moderate-income individuals and families and the companies, organizations, and institutions in which they are involved.
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
- USDA Rural Development
- Rural Community Empowerment Program
- USA.gov for nonprofits
- Grants, loans and other assistance
Foreclosure Resources
Sustainability Resources
