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MICHIGAN—Kresge Grants for Libraries & Information Services
979. Single Stop USA, New York, NY. $1,150,000, 2010. 2-year grant. To
launch new Single Stop Sites at Miami Dade College.
The Meijer Foundation
Limitations: Giving primarily in Grand Rapids, MI, some giving also in Greenville,
MI. No grants to individuals.
980. Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities, Grand Rapids, MI. $17,500,
2009. For general support.
981. Muskegon Community College, Muskegon, MI. $100,000, 2009. For
library.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Limitations: Giving nationally and to emerging countries in Central and Eastern
Europe, Russia, and South Africa. No support for religious organizations
for religious purposes. No grants to individuals, or for building or
endowment funds in general or for research, film or video projects,
books, scholarships, or fellowships.
982. Bank Information Center, Washington, DC. $25,000, 2010. 2-year grant.
For general support to enable Center to convene two workshops aimed
at strengthening policies at the World Bank and International Finance
Corporation related to energy and sustainability.
983. Bulgarian Charities Aid Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria. $75,000, 2010.
2-year grant. For general support of work to mobilize financial resources
and promote philanthropy in Bulgaria. Foundation will promote workplace
and payroll giving schemes, administer corporate giving programs and
train nongovernmental organizations on local resource mobilization and
financial management.
984. Bulgarian Donors Forum, Sofia, Bulgaria. $90,000, 2010. 3-year grant.
For general suppor toward consolidating and strengthening the
philanthropic community in Bulgaria.
985. Charities Aid Foundation-Southern Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
$70,000, 2010. 2-year grant. For general support.
986. Czech Donors Forum, Prague, Czech Republic. $150,000, 2010. 2-year
grant. For Central and Eastern European Network for Responsible Giving
(CEENERGI), initiative to increase level and effectiveness of corporate
giving in Central and Eastern Europe, including work to address critical
issues associated with corporate giving at the national and regional
levels, including current low levels of corporate contributions to the
nonprofit sector and a lack of collaboration between corporate donors
and the rest of the philanthropic community. In addition, the grantee will
explore ways of encouraging systematic and effective individual giving in
the region.
987. Czech Donors Forum, Prague, Czech Republic. $60,000, 2010. 2-year
grant. For general support for goal to promote philanthropy in the Czech
Republic and encourage donor agencies to work together toward using
available resources in the most effective way and to coordinate Central
and Eastern European Network for Responsible Giving (CEENERGI),
initiative to increase level and effectiveness of corporate giving in Central
and Eastern Europe.
988. Disability Network, Flint, MI. $20,000, 2010. To enable members of
Grantee’s staff and employment counselors to participate in interview
training to increase effectiveness and efficiency of network’s
employment services.
989. European Foundation Centre, Brussels, Belgium. $100,000, 2010. For
general support.
990. European Foundation Centre, Brussels, Belgium. $30,000, 2010. 2-year
grant. For work to improve effectiveness of grantmaking in Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and to encourage new donor
activity in the region which includes the following 20 countries Albania,
Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Serbia. Centre
will organize annual meeting of Grantmakers East Forum, for interested
grantmakers and donors working in this region. Centre will work with
Forum’s steering committee to further develop format of annual
meetings, secure outside speakers, arrange venue and other logistics
and disseminate meetings reports.
991. Flint Public Library, Flint, MI. $425,000, 2010. To enhance and expand
services to adults and children by replacing some technological systems
including automated catalog and check-out, telephone and voicemail and
pay-for-print and library card systems. In addition, library will create
children’s computer-assisted literacy station in each of four locations.
992. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $175,000, 2010. For efforts to provide
education funders with the most up-to-date and relevant information
about funding within federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA). Specifically, increase will allow the Center to: 1) manage project
administration and coordination; 2) perform maintenance, updates and
create new features for the Web portal; 3) collect, analyze and
summarize key research and recommendations around American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA); 4) host average of two webinars
or teleconferences per month through June 2010; 5) inform education
funders through ongoing delivery and expansion of weekly newsletter; 6)
hold national conference for key stakeholders and 7) develop and license
access to customized education edition of Philanthropy In/Sight.
993. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $150,000, 2010. To continue to
support efforts to provide education funders with the most up-to-date,
relevant, and in-depth information about education reform to help drive
strategy development. Specifically, the Center will: 1) reorganize the
content of the Web-based portal and add other relevant features to the
site; 2) launch Philanthropy In/Sight - Education Edition, a
custom-designed data visualization tool to help education grantmakers
assess areas where funding investments might have the greatest
impact; 3) issue research briefs, shifting the focus of the e-newsletter to
include more state information and update the research area of the
Web-based portal; 4) support the Moving Forward conference by providing
statistical information on education-related funding; and 5) hold a
monthly series of teleconferences and webinars during the coming year
that will focus on issues of most concern to education grantmakers
working on long-term reform efforts.
994. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $120,000, 2010. 2-year grant. For
general support.
995. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $75,000, 2010. For Diversity in
Philanthropy Research Metrics project. Work will build upon extensive
base of research conducted over the last grant period to continue
developing a national system of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating
data on diversity in philanthropy. The institutionalization of such a system
will ensure that foundations are able to collect and have access to high
quality data on diversity in the years ahead.
996. Foundation Center, New York, NY. $50,000, 2010. For operating support
for GrantsFire, system which captures and publishes grant information
using Web 2.0 tools and technology, including machine-readable hGrants
format.
997. GuideStar USA, Williamsburg, VA. $190,000, 2010. 2-year grant. For
general support.
998. GuideStar USA, Williamsburg, VA. $30,000, 2010. 2-year grant. Toward
general support of strategic planning process to meet the increasing
demand for high-quality and actionable data on nonprofits.
999. Hungarian Donors Forum, Budapest, Hungary. $85,000, 2010. 3-year
grant. For general support.
1000. International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Washington, DC. $100,000,
2010. 2-year grant. Toward project, Building an Enabling Legal
Environment for Ukraine’s Nonprofit Sector which works for development
of legal and regulatory environment for Ukraine’s nonprofit sector. Grant
will enable Center to provide technical assistance in drafting and
implementation of legislation affecting nongovernmental organizations
and development of philanthropy. Grantee will undertake educational
initiatives for lawyers, government officials, parliamentarians and
nongovernmental organization leaders on legislation and legal issues
affecting the nonprofit sector. Project builds on Grantee’s previous
efforts, which have resulted in improved opportunity for civic
organizations to compete for government-procured goods and services,
reduced costs of registering legal entities and coherent government
policy for civil society development in Ukraine.
1001. IssueLab, Chicago, IL. $50,000, 2010. For general support.
1002. National Center for Family Philanthropy, Washington, DC. $200,000,
2010. 2-year grant. For general support.
1003. Nonprofit Information Networking Association, Nonprofit Quarterly,
Boston, MA. $100,000, 2010. 2-year grant. For general support for work
to enhance sustainability by implementing new business model,
optimizing use of technology and expanding collaborative journalism
opportunities.
1004. Polish Donors Forum, Warsaw, Poland. $90,000, 2010. 3-year grant.
For general support.
1005. Sluzhenye Association, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. $125,000, 2010.
2-year grant. For conference as part of work to introduce new methods
of activating communities, increasing local resource mobilization, and
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