Office of Grants and Contract Management, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
Public Health Service
Bethesda, MD 20892
P/D: Project Grants and SBIR Grants to fund biomedical research in non-mammalian models. Eligible to hospitals, educational institutions, and other organizations. SBIR grants are awarded to small domestic businesses with fewer than 500 employees.
Contact: Grants Management Officer
Kimberly-Clark Foundation
P.O. Box 619100
Dallas, TX 75161 (214)830-1200
P/D: Funding for community development, conservation, museums, the arts, youth, drug abuse, higher education, primarily where the corporation has operations.
Contact: Colleen B. Manno, VP
Phelps Dodge Foundation- NP
2600 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602)234-8100
P/D: Building and equipment grants for the following fields of interest. Welfare, cultural organizations, performing arts, youth organizations, health organizations social welfare, community development, YMCA.
Contact: R. C.I Swan, Pres.
Women=s Business Ownership Assistance
Small Business Administration
Office of Women=s Business Ownrshp
409 3rd Street, SW
Washington, DC 10416
(202) 205-6673
P/D: This office makes a small number of grant to nonprofit organizations to run women's business centers.
Their website home page at www. sba. gov/womeninbusiness and the Online Women's Business Center website is at www.onlinewbc.gov . Their
programs and services, including loan guaranty programs and more. are administered through the SBA district offices across the country. There is at least one in your state; you can call the SBA Answer Desk at 1-800-U ASK SBA.
Charles Stewart Mott Foun.
Office of Proposal Entry
1200 Mott Foundation Building
Flint, MI 48502-1851 (313)238-5651
P/D: Program-related investments, support for community improvement and education, environmental management, vocational education, family services, early childhood education and minorities.
Contact: Judy Samelson, VP. Comm.
Bureau of Minority Business Development
Dept. of Development, P.O. Box 7970
Madison, WI 53707 (608)267-9550
P/D: Grants for woman owned and minority owned businesses, plus special information sources to assist in all aspects of business management.
Procurement Assistance to Small Businesses
Associate Administrator Procurement Assistance
Small Business Administration
409 3rd Street, SW
Washington, DC 20416
(202)205-6460
P/G: Assistance to small businesses to help them obtain contracts and subcontracts for federal government supplies and services and to help obtain property sold by the federal government. Eligible to existing and potential small businesses, i.e. those that are independently owned and operated but are not dominant in their fields.
Local Contact: Field Office of Small Business Admin.
Management and Technical Assistance for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Businesses
Associate Administrator
Minority Small Business & Capital Ownership Development
Small Business Administration
409 3rd Street, SW #
Washington, DC 20416 (202)205-6423
P/D: Project grants to give technical and management assistance to individuals, public and private organizations to help them succeed with existing or potential businesses that are socially or economically disadvantaged and are located in areas of high unemployment.
Ramuson Foundation (PR)
c/o National Bank of Alaska
P.O. Box 10060
Anchorage, AK 99510
(907) 265-2908
P/D: For Alaska nonprofit organizations. Building and equipment grants. Performing arts; museums, community development; social welfare; youth organizations, elderly, disabled, recreation. Contact: Diane Kaplan
Business Services
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, General Services Administration
Washington, DC 20405
(202) 501-1021
P/D: Provides small and disadvantaged business firms with advice and counseling on taking advantage of government contracting opportunities. Procurement and surplus sales contracts are available as are concession and construction contracts. National contacts: Dir.
Local Contact: Business Serv. Ctr. General Services Administration
Deposit Guaranty Foun. (PR)
One Deposit Guaranty Plaza
P.O. Box 730
Jackson, MS 39105
P/D: Program-related investments and other types of support for education, community fund, social services, youth and the arts.
Contact: William M. Jones Sen. VP
Deposit Guaranty Nat=l Bank
Engineering Grants
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230 (703)306-1302
P/D: Grants for research in engineering and technology, including funds for laboratory improvement and for research opportunities for women, minorities and disabled scientists and engineers. Contact: Paul Herer, Senior Advt., Direct. For Engineering
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science
Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230 (703)306-1900
P/D: Grants funding to support research to improve the fundamental understanding of computer and information processing, to improve the training and education of scientists, engineers, and other personnel in the field, to provide access to advanced computer networking capabilities. Available to small businesses as well as academic institutions and government agencies.
Commercial Drivers Ed.
Division of National Programs
Office of the Assistance Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20202-7242
(202) 205-5864
P/D: Project grants to establish and operate adult education programs to improve literacy skills of commercial drivers. Contact: Paul Geib
Cooper Foundation (PR)
304 Cooper Plaza
211 North 12th Street
Lincoln, NE 68508 (402)476-7571
P/D: Seed money, general purposes, and matching funds for the arts, social services for humanities. Contact: Art Thompson, President
The Lupin Foundation (PR)
3715 Prytania Street, Ste. 307
New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 897-6640
P/D: Support for education, the arts, civic affairs, community development. Grants for equipment research, scholarship funds, special projects, matching funds, continuing support, general purposes, program- related investments, renovation projects and seed money. Contact: Loni Wesolowski
Coordinator
UNUM Charitable Foundation
2211 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04122 (207)770-4378
P/D: Support for AIDS, the aged, handicapped, family services, community development, the arts, and education. Grants for capital campaigns, employee matching gifts, matching funds, seed money, and special projects.
Contact: Janice Manning, Secretary
Economic Dev. Administration
304 N. 8, #441
Boise, ID 83702 (208)334-1521
P/D: Makes grants to communities for industrial site development. Communities then makes grants for individual businesses which are enable to obtain loans from conventional sources. One job must be created for every $10,000.
Federal Transit Capital Improvement Grants
Federal Transit Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20590
P/D: Project grants to help finance the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use in mass transportation service in urban areas, and to assist in coordinating such service with other forms or transportation in such areas.
Robert Z. Hawkins Foun.
One East Liberty St., Ste. 509
Reno, NV 89501 (702) 786-1105
P/D: Special project grants for youth, child welfare, higher education, community development, social services and Protestant giving.
Contact: William A. Lindsay
Capital Construction Fund
Associate Administrator For Maritime Aids, Maritime Admin.
U.S. Department of Transportation
Washington, DC 20590
(202) 366-0364
P/D: Grants in the form of tax benefits for replacement vessels, additional vessels, or reconstructed vessels, built sand documented under the laws of the United States for operation in the United States= foreign, Great Lakes, or non contiguous domestic trade. For U.S. citizens who own or lease one or more eligible vehicles and demonstrate financial capability to complete program. Contact:
Associate Administrator for Maritime Aids.
Ellis L. Phillips Foundation
29 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02116-2349
(617) 424-7607
P/D: Seed money, funding for emerging organizations developing new programs, grants for education on public issues, bio-diversity conservation, women=s issues, music, visual arts and historic preservation.
Contact. Janet Walsh, Exec. D
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