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Funding Alert: Public Policy

ADOLPH COORS FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports organizations that promote the western values of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and integrity. While most of the grants go to support nonprofits in the state of Colorado that advance entrepreneurship, help youth to prosper, encourage economic opportunities for adults, and address issues in the rural part of the state, the Foundation also considers funding requests from out-of-state organizations. [More...]

ALEX C. WALKER FOUNDATION

The Foundation applies free-market solutions to economic, environmental, and global problems of the 21st century. The Foundation addresses issues related to the causes of market imbalances, the exploration of market-based solutions, the protection of the free enterprise system, and the dissemination of such information. [More...]

CARTHAGE FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports programs that address public questions about national and international issues in the areas of public policy, research, government, and international affairs. There are no application deadlines. [More...]

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

The Council's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship seeks to promote the quality of responsible and discerning journalism exemplified by the work of the Fellowship's namesake. [More...]

DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

The Alliance’s Rapid Response/Special Opportunities grants support projects that respond or take advantage of strategic public education and campaigns to block drug war initiatives or advance drug policy reform. These grants do not support the production of videos, films, writing and publication of books, or capital expenditures. [More...]

DRUG POLICY ANALYSIS

The goal of the Alliance’s Advocacy Grants Program is to promote policy change and advance drug policy reform at the local, state, and national levels. The Alliance accomplishes this goal by strategically funding smaller, geographically limited or single-issue organizations and projects. [More...]

FARM AID

The mission of the Organization is to keep family farmers throughout the United States on their land. Farm Aid supports organizations that work to maintain a family farm system of agriculture and that promote solutions to challenges facing rural communities. [More...]

HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION

The Foundation, named for the late Senator from Washington State seeks to empower visionary leaders to advance the public good, inspire action, and promote a civil, sustainable, and just society. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on the following areas: leadership, particularly through investing in values-based leadership in public and civic life; climate change, with a focus on programs and projects that seek to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius; and human rights and international affairs with a special emphasis on Russia and China. [More...]

JOHN W. GARDNER LEADERSHIP AWARD

Established in 1985, the Award honors outstanding Americans who exemplify the leadership and ideals of John W. Gardner, American statesman and founding chair of the Independent Sector. [More...]

JOHN WILLIAM POPE FOUNDATION

Founded by the owner of Variety Wholesalers Inc., a supplier to discount variety stores, the Foundation's approach to grantmaking is about investing in people: enriching lives while strengthening the foundations of a free and prosperous society. The Foundation makes grants to improve the well-being of North Carolinians by advancing the idea of limited government, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and strong communities. [More...]

MANHATTAN INSTITUTE

The Institute is a free-market think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility. The Foundation’s Civil Society Awards were created to reinvigorate public understanding of America’s historically vibrant civil society and honor nonprofit leaders who take it upon themselves to address or prevent social challenges and work toward a common purpose in their communities. [More...]

MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT

The Project’s grant program is designed to support efforts that foster measurable changes in U.S. public policy leading to marijuana’s being regulated similarly to alcohol and to the drug being available for medical use. [More...]

NEW WORLD FUND

The Foundation supports grassroots organizations that foster citizen engagement and local empowerment in the areas of public education, equal rights and opportunities, public health, community initiatives, and the avoidance of war. Funding is dispersed through three programs: The Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities, The Global Environmental Health and Justice Fund, and The New Majority Fund. [More...]

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS

The Foundations’ work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. The Foundations’ National Security and Human Rights Campaign provides grants to U.S.-based nonprofits working to promote progressive national security policies that respect human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. [More...]

OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE

The Institute’s global drug policy program aims to broaden, diversify, and consolidate the network of organizations actively challenging the current state of international drug policy. Stemming from the notion that the “war on drugs” is actually a “war on drug users,” the Program advocates a more balanced approach in international drug policy with a greater focus on human rights. [More...]

PHILIP M. MCKENNA FOUNDATION

The Foundation is guided by the philosophical orientation and public life of its founder and works primarily in the fields of public policy and education. The Foundation’s purpose is to support the advancement of a free, prosperous, and well-ordered society based upon American civic principles, private enterprise, and the cultural heritage of Western civilization. [More...]

PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. It looks for carefully defined points where its funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of people. [More...]

RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s mission is to improve the social and living conditions in the United States. It does so by strengthening the methods, data, knowledge, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. [More...]

SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues. It does support conservative causes and puts no restrictions on geography. [More...]

SEARLE FREEDOM TRUST

The Trust aims to support work that will lead to a more just, free, and prosperous society. The Trust seeks to develop solutions to the country’s most important and challenging domestic policy issues. [More...]

SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Domestic Public Policy program supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. The Foundation’s major grantmaking goal is to support projects that help stimulate and inform important public policy debates. [More...]

STATE STRATEGIES FUND

The Fund’s objective is the support of the long-term progressive power at the state level. It seeks to broaden citizen engagement in the democratic process and create public policies that reduce inequities, balance an uninhibited pursuit of individual interest with the common interest, and protect and support the public sector. [More...]

SYDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation honors journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public policy for the common good. The Foundation’s Hillman Prizes honor journalists who exemplify resourcefulness and courage in reporting, skilled storytelling, social impact, and relevance to the ideals of Sidney Hillman, the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and an architect of the New Deal. [More...]

THE CARTHAGE FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on programs that address public policy questions concerned with national and international issues. Proposals for event sponsorships, endowments, capital campaigns, renovations, or government agencies are usually declined. [More...]

THE FOUNDATION FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The Foundation was created in 1989 by leaders from the small telecommunications industry who wanted to address the education and development needs of rural areas. The Foundation’s mission is to promote activities that improve rural educational, social, and economic conditions in the U.S. [More...]

THE JM FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s primary grantmaking interests include support for education and research that fosters market-based policy solutions. Developing state and national organizations that promote free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and private initiative is also a priority as well as identifying and educating young leaders. [More...]

THE LYNDE AND HARRY BRADLEY FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s grantmaking is targeted toward projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people, and among peoples of other nations as well. The free society so central to the convictions and success of the Bradley brothers rests upon and is intended to nurture a solid foundation of competent, self-governing citizens, who are understood to be fully capable of and personally responsible for making the major political, economic, and moral decisions that shape their own lives, and the lives of their children. [More...]

THE MARCUS FOUNDATION

The Foundation funds and partners with organizations that are making a difference in the delivery of community food resources or that are expanding the understanding and implementation of sustainability. The Foundation understands community food resources to encompass a web of issues related to hunger, including poverty, community development, and economic policy. [More...]

THE SEARLE FREEDOM TRUST

The Trust, formed from the financial holdings of the former pharmaceutical Company, focuses its grantmaking on programs and projects that foster research and education on public policy issues that affect individual freedom and economic liberty. Through its grantmaking, the Foundation seeks to develop solutions to the country’s most important and challenging domestic policy issues. [More...]

TIDES FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, a Tides Foundation donor collaborative that supports strategic collaborations of local, regional, or national nonprofits, seeks proposals for its State Strategies programs. The Fund works to abolish the death penalty at the state and/or federal levels. [More...]

WALLACE GLOBAL FUND

The Fund, created by former Secretary of Agriculture and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vice president, Henry A. Wallace, seeks to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, fight injustice, and protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. [More...]