Interested in seeking foundation support for your project? Below are some Foundations to consider. Remember, just like Federal Agencies, foundations have specific areas of interest. Read each website to see if your project is a fit. If you’re not sure, contact your OSP Grants Specialist and we can help investigate using tax returns for the foundation. As always, you can search for more options using SPIN.
Once you have found a funder, visit our “Applying to a Foundation” page for your next steps – before you submit a proposal!
Local Foundations
Sometimes local foundation are the most challenging, but if you are a good fit and can make a personal connection with a board or staff member through the process, then they can be an invaluable source of programmatic and financial support.
Remember, before you make contact with a foundation, visit our “Applying to a Foundation” page and contact your OSP Grants Specialist.
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
– offers various grant programs as well as support for other initiatives that meet their strategic goals
– areas of interest: education, art, housing, economic development, women’s initiatives
– areas of interest: Action Greensboro, aviation, Center City Park, early childhood development, Greensboro Downtown Greenway, Public Art, Education, Ready for School, Ready for Life. Visit their website [link to http://www.cemala.org/initiatives/index.php] for details.
– area of interest: projects, and initiatives whose missions directly protect, improve, and enrich the lives LGBTQ communities in Guilford County and the surrounding counties (Alamance, Rockingham, Davidson and Randolph)
Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation
– areas of interest: education, cultural arts, human relations, health, human resource, community development, historic preservation
Marion Stedman Covington Foundation
– areas of interest: historic preservation. Cultural and educational requests are considered if related to historic preservation.
Action Greensboro, Spark Grant
– area of interest: new projects in downtown Greensboro
– areas of interest: access to health care, adolescent pregnancy prevention, HIV, substance abuse and mental health
High Point Community Foundation
– areas of interest: enhance the quality of life and education for students in High Point, education of young people
***Contact your OSP Specialist before making contact. Foundation already has a relationship with UNCG. Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications ***
– areas of interest education innovation, family empowerment, homelessness solutions, economic development, learning enrichment
***Contact your OSP Specialist before making contact. Foundation already has a relationship with UNCG.***
– areas of interest: community involvement, environmental activities, educational development, helping the disadvantaged, and promoting racial and religious tolerance
***Contact your OSP Specialist before making contact. Foundation already has a relationship with UNCG.***
– areas of interest: arts, human services, youth Education, economic and workforce development
United Way of Greater Greensboro
***Contact your OSP Specialist before making contact. Foundation already has a relationship with UNCG.***
– works with community partners to achieve goals
– areas of interest: basic needs, income and financial stability, education, health
Other NC Foundations
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
– grants and event sponsorships
– areas of focus, grants: Critical needs, such as hunger relief and services for the homeless, youth employment, Preparing individuals for meaningful employment, Wrap Around Services, Expanding Access to Housing Opportunities, Building Vibrant Communities
– areas of focus, event sponsorships: visual arts, performing arts, athletics
– areas of interest: agriculture, job creation and retention, and workforce preparedness in North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities
– areas of interest: biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers, K-12 student science, scientific interface, pathogenesis of infectious disease, postdoctoral enrichment, preterm birth, regulatory science, laboratory based science, awards for teachers
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
***Contact your OSP Specialist before making contact. Foundation already has a relationship with UNCG.***
– areas of interest: improving low-income North Carolinians’ quality of life and quality of health
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
– works with community partners to achieve goals
– areas of interest: access to health care, access to healthy local foods and places to be active
Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
– areas of interest: community economic development, strengthening democracy, environment, public education, social justice and equity
Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation
– areas of interest: community improvement projects, public Education, priority is given to K-12 public schools
– focuses its contribution resources in communities where significant numbers of Reynolds American Inc. and R.J. Reynolds employees live and work
– areas of interest: birth -12 public education, local community campaigns, employee-directed giving
North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
– areas of interest: sciences, health and education
– areas of interest: K-3 achievement, teaching & leadership
– areas of focus: Forsyth County-based gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy, education, and social service organizations and programs; Forsyth County-based HIV/AIDS organizations and programs providing direct client services, education, prevention, public policy, and technical assistance; Similar programs in nearby NC counties
Interested in more? To find additional foundations by topic area or national level organizations that fund projects in NC, use SPIN.