Trusts, foundations and funds
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Africa Comic Relief Grant
Comic Relief is committed to long-term development in Africa and provides grants for charitable projects. Grants are made for UK-registered charities (including charities registered in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) who work with African organisations and whose main aim is development.
Institute of Fundraising
The Institute of Fundraising is the professional membership body for UK fundraising. Its mission is to support fundraisers, through leadership, representation, standards-setting and education, and it champions and promotes fundraising as a career choice.
Baring Foundation - International Grants Programme
The Baring Foundation was set up in 1969 to give money to charities and voluntary organisations pursuing charitable purposes. Specific grants programmes are concerned with strengthening the voluntary sector, international development and the arts. Applications for grants will comprise a completed...
EMpower
EMpower is a non-profit organisation (NGO) that ties the resources of Wall Street's Emerging Markets professionals with community based social sector initiatives in developing countries. EMpower supports local organizations in EM countries that provide at-risk youth with the tools and resources...
H.S. Chau Foundation
The H.S. Chau Foundation seeks to enhance access to education. The Foundation launched Project Tomorrow, an integrated system supporting the multi-faceted elements of a good education: from primary schools to universities, from teachers to students, from cultural learning to technical training,...
European Social Fund in England
The European Social Fund (ESF) was set up to improve employment opportunities in the European Union and so help raise standards of living. It aims to help people fulfill their potential by giving them better skills and better job prospects. In England its priorities are: to extend employment...
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. The RBF's grantmaking is organized around three themes: Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development.
Abbott Fund
Abbott Fund invests in creative ideas that promote science, expand access to health care, and strengthen communities worldwide. The Fund's major areas of program funding include global AIDS care, access to healh care, science and medical innovation, and community vitality.
India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF)
The India Development and Relief Fund (IRDF)is an Indo-American charity run by volunteers. The Fund works with NGOs in India on projects to support the needy without regard to caste, religion, race or creed. Projects focus on development (including education and childcare), relief and...
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) works with partners all over the world to end poverty and injustice. Working alongside local partners, CAFOD participates in programmes focusing on sustainable development, and rebuilding and safeguarding communities in emergencies and disaster...
Wingate Foundation
Wingate Foundation, a privately funded foundation, provides grants to organisations in various fields. Its objectives are to support the arts and education projects, and to establish and endow scholarships, fellowships, professional chairs, prizes and awards. Wingate Scholarships are awarded to...
Elton John Aids Foundation
The Elton John Aids Foundation is a global NGO that supports innovative HIV/AIDS prevention projects and direct care and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS in 55 countries worldwide. The Foundation does not fund educational projects, drug treatment, research or do retrospective...
Muslim Hands
Muslim Hands is committed to delivering relief from poverty, sickness and providing education. This charity operates in over forty countries worldwide to distribute funds to help those in need. These funds support education, health, care for the aged, agriculture, war and natural disaster victims...
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation provides grants to support programmes in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population. In addition, the Foundation has programmess that make grants to advance the field of philanthropy, and to support disadvantaged communities in...
Canadian Directory to Foundations & Corporations
The Canadian Directory to Foundations & Corporations is a bilingual database with detailed, searchable information on thousands of Canadian funders.
Formula for Corporate Funding
A Grants and Foundations Review article from the Charity Channel on how to find funding from corporate partners for events or special projects.
Christian Aid - United Kingdom
Set up in 1945, Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland that works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion and nationality. It supports local partner organisations in providing famine and disaster relief, and refugee services. Christian Aid funds projects in...
Resource Alliance
Resource Alliance is an international network with programs to enhance the fundraising and resource-mobilisation capacity of the voluntary sector as well as non-governmental and community-based organisations. The unique competency of the Resource Alliance is the ability to provide global...
Asia Foundation
The Asia Foundation is a private, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working to advance the mutual interests of the United States and the Asia Pacific region. The Foundation is committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, and open Asia-Pacific region. It offers grants for projects...
Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility
Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility, established by the Social Venture Network, are defined in terms of nine interrelated topics. There are three general topics: ethics, accountability, and governance; and, six topics related to each stakeholder group: investors, employees, business...