Foundations

Annie E. Casey Foundation
Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses its education investments in two primary areas both aimed at addressing this inequity: creating more small high schools and reducing financial barriers to higher education. The foundation is helping large, troubled high schools transform themselves into smaller, more personalized learning environments, while at the same time funding the replication of successful small school models. And to increase the number of talented low-income students who attend and graduate from college, the foundation funds scholarship programs that are helping thousands of students attend college each year.

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Building on its history and past programs in the field, Carnegie Corporation will dedicate a major part of its grant funds over the next few years to education reform, specifically urban high school redesign, with an emphasis on adolescent literacy and the preparation of teachers who are on the front lines of that reform.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation affirms its founder's vision that each of us "is in a partnership with the rest of the human race" - that each individual's quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally. We pursue this vision through creative grant making, thoughtful communication and other activities that enhance community in its many forms. The same vision of shared learning shapes our internal culture as we strive to maintain an ethic of caring, integrity and service. The Foundation seeks to strengthen, in people and their organizations, what Mr. Mott called "the capacity for accomplishment."

Childhelp USA
Childhelp USA® exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. We do so by focusing our efforts in the areas of treatment, prevention, and research. Childhelp USA believes that every child has a unique contribution to make to the world. We believe unconditional love is the foundation upon which all healing begins. These children, who have seen the worst that life has to offer, deserve the best that we can provide while they are in the care of Childhelp USA.

Commonwealth Fund
The Fund supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund supports efforts that help people live healthy and productive lives and assists specific groups with serious and neglected problems. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured.

Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
The Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan solicits, receives and manages charitable contributions from individuals, families, corporations, other foundations and nonprofit organizations. These financial resources are used to make grants, which benefit the quality of life in our region. In addition to providing support for nonprofit organizations, the Community Foundation sponsors special projects, convenes groups of people to explore specific issues and works with other organizations to anticipate challenges and identify new solutions to community problems. The Community Foundation serves the seven counties that comprise southeast Michigan: Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe and Saint Clair.

Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
CHEF is dedicated to bridging the gap between research, health education practitioners, and the public through our innovative and practical health education curricula, community programs, and conferences. Their efforts are focused in three areas: Early Childhood, School-Aged Youth, and Healthy Aging.

Council of Michigan Foundations
The Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) is a membership association of more than 400 grant makers working together to increase, enhance and improve philanthropy in Michigan. CMF has been helping foundations and corporations since 1973 through networking, education, resources, and advocacy.

David & Lucile Packard Foundation
The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following program areas: Conservation and Science; Population; and Children, Families, and Communities. The Foundation provides national and international grants, and also has a special focus on the Northern California Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Child Abuse Prevention Program supports national programs and initiatives that focus on families with children ages 0 to 6, who are most vulnerable to the damaging impacts of abuse and neglect. The program's primary goal is to improve parent-child interactions and provide resources to parents in need of assistance before abuse begins. To achieve this goal, the foundation directs the majority of its support to early intervention efforts on a national scale that seek to integrate child abuse prevention services into existing systems that serve large numbers of young children and their families. To a lesser extent, the foundation also supports national applied research and primary prevention efforts.

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is seeking to improve conditions and opportunities for people who live in poor and disadvantaged communities, by assisting non-profit organizations and public agencies committed to advancing practices and policies that better the lives of children and families.

Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation focuses on community development, including housing, employment, child care and community safety, as well as a number of public policy issues.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Education grants focus on the goal of helping all youth develop to their full potential. The foundation supports programs that promote children's development from birth to young adulthood. They provide funding and technical assistance to build quality programs and services in the areas of family support, early childhood care and education, urban K-12 education and out-of-school activities. Their grants are designed to promote school readiness and advance educational achievement to help children mature into contributing citizens.

Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide.Their goals are to strengthen democratic values; reduce poverty and injustice; promote international cooperation; and advance human achievement. Grants support vibrant social movements, institutions and partnerships that analyze contemporary social and economic needs and devise responses to them.

Foundation for Child Development
The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated, and productive members of their communities. The Foundation seeks to understand children, particularly the disadvantaged, and to promote their well-being.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. Their work is focused in three main areas: Health Policy, Media and Public Education, and Health and Development in South Africa.

Kresge Foundation
The Kresge Foundation, an independent, private foundation, was created in 1924 by Sebastian S. Kresge "to promote the well-being of mankind." Through their grantmaking programs, they seek to strengthen the capacity of charitable organizations to provide effective programs of quality. Their geographic scope is national and, on occasion, international. The Foundation's grants support a range of organizations reflecting almost the entire breadth of the nonprofit sector.

McGregor Fund
The McGregor Fund is a private foundation organized "to relieve the misfortunes and promote the well-being of mankind." Grants to relieve misfortune and promote well-being are made in the following program areas: human services, education, health care, arts and culture, and public benefit. The area of principal interest to the McGregors was metropolitan Detroit, and the tri-county area remains the primary focus of the Fund.

Prudential Foundation
The Prudential Foundation provides support to innovative direct-service programs that address the needs of our communities in three areas: Ready to Learn, Ready to Work, Ready to Live.

Public Welfare Foundation
The Public Welfare Foundation is a non-governmental grant-making organization dedicated to supporting organizations that provide services to disadvantaged populations and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic human needs. Grants have been awarded in the areas of criminal justice, disadvantaged elderly and youth, environment, population, health, community and economic development, human rights and technology assistance.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Their grants are prioritized into four goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to quality health care at reasonable cost, to improve the quality of care and support for people with chronic health conditions, to promote healthy communities and lifestyles, and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse — tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. The foundation supports training, education, research (excluding biomedical research), and projects that demonstrate the effective delivery of health care services.

Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.

Skillman Foundation
The Skillman Foundation's primary goals are to improve children's homes, schools, and neighborhoods so that they are good places for children. Their geographic area is metropolitan Detroit, defined as Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties in southeastern Michigan, with a concentration in the city of Detroit.

United Way of America
The mission of United Way is to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities. They invest in and activate the resources to make the greatest possible impact in communities across America.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.