Funding Alert: Computers & Technology
BEAUMONT FOUNDATION OF AMERICAThe Foundation’s primary focus is on the principle of digital inclusion, meaningful participation, and information literacy. Its mission is to provide access to information for everyone, everywhere, anytime.
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BEST BUY FOUNDATIONThe Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the retail Company. The Foundation provides underserved teens with access to technology to build 21st century skills and bridge the digital divide.
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BOOZ ALLEN FOUNDATIONEstablished in 2017, the Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Booz Allen Hamilton, the worldwide consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering and cyber firm. While the Foundation was established to focus on youth and education, veterans and military families, global health, and assistance in times of disaster, it currently focuses its grantmaking on programs and projects that leverage technology to improve and amplify social structures and build generational resilience.
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CATALOG CHOICEThe Company, a mail reduction service founded by the Overbrook Foundation, is launching a national contests designed to recognize and reward paperless fund-raising campaigns by nonprofits. The Paperless Choice Challenge will reward successful, creative, and replicable campaigns that use e-mail, Web sites, video, social media, widgets, and mobile, anything that’s moving the organization away from traditional, paper-based direct mail fund-raising.
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CROWDSTRIKE FOUNDATIONThe Foundation funds research to explore new ways to detect, deter, and defeat dangerous nation-states, e-crime actors, and hackers and expand the knowledge base available to the cybersecurity community across the globe. The Foundation’s small grants program supports the cybersecurity community with funding for worthwhile open source projects.
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DIGITAL DEFENDERS The Organization's Incident Emergency Fund is a rapid response mechanism for human rights defenders, journalists, activists, women, LGBTQIA+ groups, and organizations facing digital threats and attacks. The Fund covers the replacement of hardware or software which has been taken, lost, or stolen; the purchase of more secure hard- and/or software and costs related to installation of the new system; technical or non-technical activities to respond to urgent issues such as internet blockages; measures to improve physical security related to information management and digital security; and measures to address the psychological and psychosocial impacts of digital threats and risks.
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EDS FOUNDATIONThe Foundation’s grantmaking is focused on programs that provide solutions for narrowing the “digital divide.” Of particular interest are programs that provide access to technology (only in combination with the following program elements); content; technical infrastructure; professional development; and evaluation. Technology projects should champion cultural and civic change and enrich the education of current and future generations while enhancing the communities that they serve.
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FAST FORWARDThe Organization seeks to unlock the power of the tech community to tackle social issues. From poverty to education access to improving health to environmental degradation, the Organization believes that technology can impact lives at a scale unmatched in human history.
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IEEE FOUNDATIONThe Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the technology innovation Organization. The Foundation has issued a Request for Proposal for projects that raise awareness and understanding of technology and its impact on society.
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J-LAB: THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE JOURNALISMThe Institute’s New Voices project funds participatory news ventures in defined communities. Grant projects must foster an open exchange of journalistically sound information, serve a defined community, and develop a publicly accessible, regularly updated Web site to showcase their efforts.
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LEMELSON FOUNDATIONThe Foundation’s Lemelson-MIT Technology Program created the InvenTeam Initiative to provide high school students in the United States with the opportunity to cultivate their creativity and experience opportunities for inventing. InvenTeam projects span many fields from assistive devices to environmental technologies and consumer goods.
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LEMELSON-MIT PROGRAMThe Program’s InvenTeam Initiative provides opportunities for high school students to cultivate their creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities and apply lessons from science, technology, engineering, and math subjects to invent technological solutions to real world problems. Teams of high school students, teachers and mentors will receive grants of up to $10,000 to invent a technological solution to a problem of their choice.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATIONThe Agency awards grants to increase the capacity of archivists and archival repositories in creating electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring historical value. The Agency targets its grantmaking toward projects at institutions that have already established archives and records management programs.
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NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS ALLIANCEThe Alliance supports technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial businesses. The Alliance awards Course and Program grants to strengthen existing curricular programs or to build new programs in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSIONThe Commission’s Detailed Processing Project seeks to promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to the understanding of our democracy, history, and culture. Project grants fund detailed processing and preservation of collections of national significance.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTUREThe Institute, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announces an RFP for its New Era Rural Technology competitive grants program.
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NATIONAL NETWORK OF LIBRARIES OF MEDICINEThe Network funds projects in areas important to its mission. As the nation’s premier repository of biomedical information, the Network has a vital interest in information management and in the enormous utility of computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.
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OCLC RESEARCHThe Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education is accepting applications from research projects that contribute to a better understanding of how the integration of new technologies affects the information environment and user behavior. The projects should create access and minimize barriers for people from a broad range of backgrounds who will add value to professional communities.
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OPEN TECHNOLOGY FUNDThe Fund’s Internet Freedom Fund supports projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users. At-risk users include journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and every-day people living within repressive environments who wish to speak freely online.
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RURAL TELEPHONE FINANCE COOPERATIVEThe Cooperative’s Technology Grants for Rural Schools program was created to help meet the growing need for innovative technology in the classroom. Funded by a donation from the Cooperative, the grants strive to help public schools in rural areas served by members of the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPATSCO).
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TECH AWARDSLaunched in 2000, the Awards program honors innovators from around the world who apply technology to humanity’s most pressing problems. Each year, candidates are nominated and then invited to submit applications.
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TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION The Museum’s annual Tech Awards honors innovators from around the world who are using technology to benefit humanity. Candidates are nominated and then invited to submit applications.
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THE INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CAREEstablished in 1980 by the late Dr. Cesar Caceres, the son of the former Ambassador of Honduras, the cardiologist worked for both the Public Health Service and George Washington University as Professor of Clinical Engineering.
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THE TECH AWARDSThe Awards, a signature program of The Tech Museum, honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to significantly improve human conditions in six awards categories: environment, education, young innovator, health, economic development, and sustainable energy. In addition to corresponding to one of the six categories, criteria include: evidence that a serious problem or challenge with broad significance is addressed by this use of technology; a noteworthy contribution that surpasses previous or current solutions; the potential for serving as an inspiration or model to others; and the application is in the field and has demonstrated a measurable benefit.
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THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATIONThe Museum’s mission is to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in science and technology experiences that educate, inform, provoke thought, and inspire action. The Museum’s annual Tech Awards are designed to inspire global engagement in applying technology to humanity’s most pressing problems.
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UNITED ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONThe Foundation is the successor organization to the United Engineering Society founded in 1904 by Andrew Carnegie. Today, the Foundation works to advance the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity.
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VODAFONE AMERICAS FOUNDATIONThe Foundation is part of the Company’s global network of 23 foundations. It’s affiliated with Vodafone, the world’s leading mobile telecommunications company that operates in 26 countries over five continents.
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