FOUNDATION/GRANTS

CONTENTS:
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Russell Sage Foundation
The Liberace Foundation for the Performing Arts

CHARLES A. DANA FOUNDATION

The Charles A. Dana Foundation has giving on the brain. The foundation focuses its giving in three areas:

Health grants, which support brain research focused on preventing, diagnosing or treating human neurological diseases and disorders;

Education grants, which support dissemination of leading edge innovations for educating and nurturing children from pre-kindergarten through high school; and

Brain-body interaction grants, which fund two projects focusing on brain-body research, particularly as it relates to how the brain alters or is altered by cancer, heart disease or stroke.

Charles A. Dana, a New York State legislator, industrialist and philanthropist, founded what is today the Dana Corporation. He was president of the Dana Foundation from 1950 to 1966 and actively shaped its programs and principles until his death in 1975.

For more information, including grant deadlines and limitations, visit the foundation Web site at

http://www.dana.org/grants

RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION

This foundation describes itself as "the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences." Located in New York City, the foundation is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions and an active member of the nation's social science community.

The foundation awards currently average about $100,000, with a range running roughly from $20,000 to $300,000. It favors supporting analyzing data and writing up results more frequently than data acquisition.

For more information, see the foundation Web site at

http://www.russellsage.org

THE LIBERACE FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Liberace himself founded The Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts in 1976. It funds the Liberace Scholarship which provides grants to accredited institutions and/or organizations that offer training in the performing and creative arts. It also funds the Liberace Community Arts Fund, which provides grants to accredited institutions that offer non-degree training in the performing and creative arts. These grants are to be used exclusively for scholarship assistance to talented and deserving students. According to the Web site, Liberace considered the foundation his greatest achievement. For guidelines and more information see the Web site at

http://www.liberace.org/foundation.html

Maryrose Larkin