Related Organizations: Foundations
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Common Good Ventures
Common Good Ventures is a philanthropic organization that partners with nonprofit groups to improve their performance. They utilize capital investments and long-lasting business-consulting partnerships to assist nonprofit groups in delivering more social good for every philanthropic dollar invested.
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Community Foundation Silicon Valley is working to improve this community by connecting those who care with those making a difference by providing grants for various local needs. The Community Foundation also brings people together and creates partnerships to address community problems. Nonprofits may receive grants from CFSV’s competitive grant programs, as well as from funds advised by donors and from our supporting foundations.
Draper Richards Foundation
Draper Richards funds early stage social entrepreneurs building sustainable and scalable models for social change.
ePhilanthropyFoundation.org
ePhilanthropyFoundation.org is an organization devoted to fostering secure, private, and ethical online philanthropy. The ePhilanthropyFoundation will serve multiple constituencies, most importantly, nonprofit organizations and the general public.
Neighborhood Funders Group
The Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) is a membership association of grantmaking institutions. NFG provides information, learning opportunities, and other professional development activities to their national membership, and encourages the support of policies and practices that advance economic and social justice.
NESsT
NESsT (Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team) is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization committed to strengthening the financial sustainability of civil society organizations (CSOs) working for social change and development, with offices in Hungary and Chile.
Pacific Foundation Services
PFS provides professional management to family foundations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1987, PFS enables donors and board members to experience the pleasure of giving and the deep satisfaction of becoming more fully involved in their communities through philanthropy. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the nonprofit sector and the foundation world, PFS helps major donors enhance the depth, scope, and impact of their philanthropy. PFS currently serves nine family foundations of various sizes, including the grant program of The Roberts Foundation.
Robin Hood Foundation
Since 1988, Robin Hood has targeted poverty in New York City. By applying sound investment principles to philanthropy, they’ve helped the best programs save lives and change fates.
Social Venture Partners
Using the Venture Capital model, Social Venture Partners seeks to pool its financial resources and professional expertise to invest in long-term solutions to the social challenges facing our community. SVP partners are committed to giving time, money and expertise through partnerships with the community.
The Clarence Foundation
The mission of the Clarence Foundation is to seek out and fund innovative grassroots organizations that have been successful in the relief of poverty worldwide. They invest in groups of social entrepreneurs, so they may build upon their past success and reach more people in need.
The Council on Foundations
A very valuable site as a general resource on foundations and philanthropy.
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
For the past 30 years, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has been committed to improving the lives of people from low-income communities. The Foundation pursues its mission by helping a select group of high-performing nonprofit organizations increase their capacity to serve more young people from low-income backgrounds (ages 9 to 24) with quality programs during out-of-school time.
The Entrepreneurs’ Foundation
Founded in 1998, the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation (EF) is a nonprofit organization created to strengthen the Silicon Valley/Bay Area’s community infrastructure by establishing community reinvestment as an integral part of the entrepreneurial culture. EF intends to translate the extraordinary successes of the technology industry into a platform for long-term community investment and prosperity.
The Foundation Center
The Foundation Center provides information for those looking for foundation grants and other support.
The Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is an operating and grantmaking foundation that works toward the vision of self-sufficient people in healthy communities. Its mission is to research and identify unfulfilled needs of society and to develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough solutions that have a lasting impact and offer people a choice and hope for the future. The Kauffman Foundation’s work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Leadership.
The Kellogg Foundation
The Kellog Foundation has continuously focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems.
The Ontario Trillium Foundation
The Trillium Foundation at the following page has an excellent executive summary from a major report they did on commercial ventures being undertaken by nonprofits in Canada.
The Surdna Foundation
Surdna’s grantmaking activities are concentrated in four programmatic areas: environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry and a small program in the arts that is by invitation only.
Three Guineas Fund
Three Guineas Fund promotes social justice by creating economic opportunity for women and girls. The Fund's strategies, criteria, and philanthropic program are designed to achieve social justice gains that enable women and girls to earn an independent living, participate fully in the economy, and give back to their communities.
Venture Philanthropy Funds
Venture Philanthropy Partners is an entrepreneurial venture of the Morino Institute establishing a new philanthropic fund to improve services to youth living in low-income areas. The Morino Institute is in partnership with Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. in the research and development of this initiative and will be working with The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region to launch this initiative.
webMethods Foundation
The webMethods Foundation is a venture philanthropy organization founded to provide financial investments, management assistance and volunteer support to nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad that are dedicated to helping under privileged people and communities achieve their potential.
