CORPORATIONS/FOUNDATIONS

CONTENTS:

• Grant Station
• Katrina Legal Aid
• Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
• Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
• National Endowment for the Humanities Emergency Grants
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• Disaster Relief Fund Scholarships

GRANT STATION

Grant Station is a Web-based provider of grant information, most of it by paid subscription, but they do offer some free services you'll find useful -- new funders, grantmaker and government updates, resources, "success" profiles and more.

The links below lead to information especially for victims of the hurricanes, but I'd encourage everyone else to take a look at the primary mission of each of these organizations to see if there is something for you, too.

http://www.grantstation.com/

To its great credit, Grant Station is maintaining a Katrina Clearinghouse of links to foundations, corporations and groups providing help for the hurricane victims. Help is available, too, for the cities and organizations across the country who welcomed the displaced into their communities. Assistance is available for:

1. Legal aid
2. Organizations helping the disabled
3. Relief and rebuilding efforts
4. Schools, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions
5. The arts, artists, music programs
6. The health and safety of women/ breast cancer needs
7. Animal rescue . . . and many other needs

http://www.grantstation.com/katrina/funding_updates.html

A few of the 'Katrina' sites featured by Grant Station include:

KATRINA LEGAL AID

Here are resources for those affected by the hurricanes -- for legal aid and defender programs and for private attorney volunteers. For people who need help, there are state-by- state links to find legal aid or pro bono lawyers. In addition, information can be found on housing, insurance, health, financial aid and more.

http://www.katrinalegalaid.org/

BUSH-CLINTON KATRINA FUND

The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund welcomes proposals from community organizations and state and local governments supporting initiatives that fill in the gaps and unmet needs of families and communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. Use the simple application form on the Web site.

http://bushclintonkatrinafund.org/

MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation is dedicated to restoring music programs and replacing instruments in schools affected by Hurricane Katrina, as well as in the surrounding states that absorbed the displaced students.

http://www.mhopus.org/

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES EMERGENCY GRANTS

At least $1 million is available for emergency grants to libraries, museums, colleges and other cultural and historical institutions in the Gulf Coast areas affected by the hurricanes.

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hurricanekatrina.html

ROSIE'S FOR ALL KIDS FOUNDATION

The Foundation's 'Project Katrina' funding will be targeted primarily (but not exclusively) to organizations in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, metropolitan area providing child day care, after-school and/or elementary charter school programs and services to children and families who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Rosie O'Donnell established the foundation in 1997 to provide financial support to nonprofit programs serving economically disadvantaged and at- risk children and their families.

http://www.forallkids.org/html/guidelines.cfm

SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION

A program has been developed to help nonprofit institutions address the most pressing needs of displaced individuals and affected communities. There are two types of relief grants available -- rebuilding grants and patient services grants.

http://www.komen.org/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll? IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=katrina

DISASTER RELIEF FUND SCHOLARSHIPS

The Disaster Relief Fund, supported by contributions from USA Funds and The Sallie Mae Fund, provides grants to selected post-secondary institutions in order to provide assistance to help students whose pursuit of educational goals was adversely affected by the hurricanes. Assistance to individual students is limited to $750 each. The application deadline is January 2, 2006.

http://www.disasterrelief.scholarshipamerica.org/

Beverly Goodwin

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