| A. L. Mailman Family Foundation
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The A. L. Mailman Family Foundation is dedicated to supporting families and young children.
It provides grants to projects that strengthen the policies and practices that affect these
groups. The Foundation’s major areas of focus are early care and education, family support,
and moral education and social responsibility. Examples of recent grants include:
- $30,000 to the Princeton University Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
for the “Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study,” which assessed the impact of various
policies on the wellbeing of children born to low-income, single parents.
- $35,000 to the Family and Work Institute, part of which was used for the Fatherhood
Project to report “best practices” of early childhood programs for involving fathers in the
lives of their children.
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| The Achelis and Bodman Foundations
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The Achelis Foundation and The Bodman Foundation provide grants for a wide range of areas,
including arts, families, fatherhood, sciences, social services, and youth. They focus their
funding on projects that impact the New York City region. Though the foundations are separate
entities, a single application may be sent to the two. Examples of recent grants from the
foundations include:
- $20,000 from The Bodman Foundation to the Initiative for Children for a series of
forums and articles entitled “What Works for Children,” which addressed issues such as
education and adoption for disadvantaged children.
- $30,000 from The Bodman Foundation to Inwood House for its Young Fathers and Boys to
Men programs aimed at preventing teen pregnancy.
- $30,000 from The Bodman Foundation to the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center for
its fatherhood program.
- $50,000 from The Achelis Foundation to the Manhattan Institute for the book
“Gaining Ground?: Measuring the Impact of America’s Welfare Revolution” by June O’Neill.
- $100,000 in 1998 and $50,000 in 1999 from The Bodman Foundation to the Manhattan Institute
for the NEXT STEPS in Welfare Reform Initiative
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| The Nathan Cummings Foundation
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| The Foundation has five main areas of focus: Education, Health, Jewish Life, Environment,
and Interprogram, which support combinations of the four key areas. Grants for child support
research may be awarded for research that is combined with one of the major areas.
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| The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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| The four areas of concentration for the Foundation are arts, environment, medical research,
and child abuse prevention. The Foundation may support child support research in combination
with one of these areas.
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| Ford Foundation
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The Ford Foundation seeks to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty, promote
international cooperation, and advance human achievement. In attempting to promote these
ideals, the Ford Foundation offers grants to fund research that improves organizational
networks and builds knowledge in a variety of areas. This foundation has recently funded a
range of projects related to research on teen pregnancy and welfare, responsible fatherhood,
fair starts for children, and child poverty. Recent grants include:
- $546,000 to help strengthen the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization
- $94,000 to the University of Chicago to publish studies on the involvement of disadvantaged fathers
in the lives of their children.
- $36,000 to Johns Hopkins University to evaluate responsible fatherhood programs
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| Foundation for Child Development
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The Foundation for Child Development supports research, analysis, and other work that
focuses on the well-being of young children. Specifically, the Foundation focuses on children
in working families that have trouble meeting basic needs.
- $110,723 to Child Trends, Inc. for analysis of the demographic characteristics of
low-income working families using the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the
Current Population Survey.
- $448,784 to the Economic Opportunity Institute for research and policy analysis regarding
raising the living standards of low-income, working families.
- $172,500 to the Trustees of Princeton University to assess the status, needs, and
available resources of low-income, unmarried parents.
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| The W. T. Grant Foundation
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The W. T. Grant Foundation focuses on youth and seeks to help them achieve their full
potential. Their grants, primarily supporting research, fall under three program areas:
Youth Development, Systems Affecting Youth, and the Public’s View of Youth.
- A 5-year grant to Xinyin Chen, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, for examining reasons
for the decisions regarding marriage and children of low-income, never-married, inner-city
parents.
- $380,406 to Judy Garber, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, for a study assessing the “factors
associated with” health and well-being of never-married parents and their children, with an
emphasis on the impact of nonresident fathers.
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| The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
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The General Research Program of the Haynes Foundation provides grants for research on
social, economic, and political problems. They focus their funding on projects and policies
that impact the Los Angeles area. Examples of recent grants from the Foundation include:
- $50,000 to the RAND Drug Policy Research Center for a research project, “Anticipating
the Effects of California's Proposition 36 on Vulnerable Populations.”
- $162,761 to Economic Roundtable for a year-long project, “Institutions of Governance and the
Life Course of Working Welfare Parents.”
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| Heinz Endowments
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The Children, Families, and Youth area of Heinz Endowments has three major components:
Children as Learners, Adolescents as Citizens, and Parents as Teachers. The goal of the
Parents as Teachers section is to support parents in acting responsibly in their role of
raising children, with the ultimate goal of improving the well-being of the child. Recent
examples of grants include:
- $350,000 from the Howard Heinz Endowment to Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children for
advocacy and policy work related to welfare reform, child care, and family support.
- $300,000 from the Howard Heinz Endowment to the Urban League of Pittsburgh for the
establishment of a family support center in an existing center in a Pittsburgh neighborhood.
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| The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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One of the Foundation’s program areas, Family and Community Development, contains five
categories for grant making. The Responsible Fatherhood and Male Involvement category focuses
on engaging fathers in parenting and support of their children. Recent grants include:
- $65,000 to the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center for the Bay Area Male Involvement
Network
- $180,000 over 2 years to the Jewish Family and Children’s Services for the Fathers’
Support project.
- $350,000 over 2 years to the University of Pennsylvania’s National Center on Fathers and
Families for the second phase of the Fathering Integrated Data System project.
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| The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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The Foundation covers many interest areas, including family support, early childhood,
and education. Recent examples of grants include:
- $550,402 over three years to the Minute Circle Friendly House for youth development and
childcare programming.
- $375,000 over three years to the National Conference for Community and Justice to assist with
evaluation programs on the issues of race, class, and diversity.
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| The W. K. Kellogg Foundation
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The W. K. Kellogg Foundation is dedicated to building the capacity in people to overcome the
struggles they face. Recent examples of grants include:
- $199,582 to Resonance Listening and Growth for Women, Inc. for a project focused on
diminishing intergenerational incarceration in families by addressing issues that affect
youth, including poor parenting.
- $2,000,000 to the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation in their effort to
increase the ability of low-income, noncustodial parents to support their children
emotionally and financially. The tools used by MDRC include education, dispute resolution
services, training, and employment.
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| MacArthur Foundations
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The MacArthur Foundation offers grants to institutions and organizations seeking to
foster progress in the human condition. The MacArthur Foundation works to achieve its
mission by funding research, policy development, and education and training. Recent examples
of grants include:
- $36,000 to the University of Columbia’s Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental
Health in support of the Child Mental Health Foundations and Agencies Network
- $450,000 to Child Trends in support of research on children and their role within families.
- $425,000 to Columbia University to conduct research on how the relationships between unmarried parents
affect their children and how social policies affect those relationships.
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| The McCarthy Family Foundation
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The McCarthy Family Foundation offers grants to organizations located in Los Angeles and
San Diego counties in California. The foundation seeks to fund projects in areas related to
Child Abuse, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Environmental Protection, Secondary Science Education, and
Homelessness. Recent examples of grants include:
- $10,000 to fund the Family Support Services program overseen by the Westside Children’s
Center in Culver City, CA.
- $10,000 to support the Fathers in Recovery program administered by the Friends of Vista Hill
in San Diego, CA.
- $25,000 to the Northridge Hospital Foundation to support the Children’s Assault Treatment
program.
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| The McKnight Foundation
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The Children, Families, and Communities component of the McKnight Foundation is
dedicated to improving the lives of children and families. One goal of the component is to
support families in their role of nurturing and caring for their children. The Foundation
focuses primarily on programs/organizations in the state of Minnesota. Recent grants in this
area include:
- $175,000 to Resource for the Young Dads program, which focuses on employment and parenting
skills.
- $80,000 to Children’s Safety Center Network for their work in supervising visitation
and providing safe exchanges for children.
- $175,000 to Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota for a shelter serving teenage parents
and their children.
- $1,000,000 to the State of Minnesota to support its Teacher Education and Training Help
(TEACH) program for the training and retention of child care workers.
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| The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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The Children, Families, and Communities program area of the Packard Foundation
provides grants to non-profit organizations that support vulnerable children, their
families, and their communities. Economic security is one of the focuses of this program
area, and the Foundation encourages research on policies that affect disadvantaged children.
Examples of grants in this area include:
- $350,000 to the National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices for the
Welfare Reform in the New Millennium: State Program Innovations, Policy Issues, and
Reauthorization Project
- $25,000 to Neighborhood Funders Group for the conference The New Economy:
A Rising Tide for All?
- $50,000 to the State of California Health and Human Services Department for the
development of child well-being
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| Public Welfare Foundation
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The Public Welfare Foundation serves the disadvantaged population in our country,
striving to meet their basic human needs. Their funding areas cover a broad range and
include areas such as disadvantaged youth, welfare, and health. Examples of recent grants
include:
- $105,000 to the Association for Children for the Enforcement of Support for an information
dissemination campaign to assist single-parent families to become self-sufficient.
- $60,000 to Resource for its “Young Dads Program” for non-custodial fathers to increase their
earnings and involvement in the lives of their children.
- $20,000 to the Nevada Empowered Women’s Project that advocates on behalf of and educates
economically disadvantaged women on topics such as welfare, housing, and child support.
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| The Rosenberg Foundation
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The Rosenberg Foundation funds non-profit organizations and public agencies in
California. The foundation focuses its efforts on helping improve the standard of living
for low income, minority, and immigrant children in California. This foundation accepts
grants in three priority areas: Changing Population of California, Family Poverty, and Child
Support Reform. Recent examples of grants in the area of Child Support Reform include:
- $90,000 to the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. to conduct a comparative study between
California and twelve other states. The goal of the study was to uncover the most effective
child support organizational structures, level of intervention by the courts, and methods of
financing.
- $25,000 to the National Center for Youth Law to provide funding for a policy analysis
project in California. The goal of the analysis was to strengthen California’s child support
system by finding effective ways to provide information to child-care providers and advocates.
- $100,000 to the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington D.C. to provide
support for a program to help increase the economic well-being of children through reforming
the child support system both in California and across the nation.
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| The Smith Richardson Foundation
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The Smith Richardson Foundation provides funding to scholars and analysts who are
searching for ways to improve America’s social and economic landscape by confronting new
and challenging public policy issues. The foundation’s Domestic Public Policy Program helps
aid children, youths, and families. Recent examples of grants include:
- $49,787 to Julia Littell of Bryn Mawr College to conduct research and construct a series
of papers on the child welfare system.
- $441,000 to the Children’s Hospital Association in order to perform research on the effects
of home visiting on parents and children.
- $132,000 to the Consultation Network to research methods for improving child well-being and reducing
family conflict when two parents are going through a divorce.
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| The Stuart Foundation
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The Stuart Foundation seeks to help children in the states of California and
Washington develop into responsible citizens. The primary methods that the foundation
uses to achieve its overarching objectives include increasing the quality of education in
public schools and improve public programs in the areas of child welfare and community support.
Recent examples of grants include:
- $150,000 to the Public Council of Los Angeles, CA to provide assistance to several
child welfare programs.
- $261,680 to the University of Washington School of Social Work to assess the outcomes
of adopted or reunified children served through the Lutheran Services Program.
- $100,000 to the Fred Finch Youth Center to provide services to emotionally disturbed children that
will allow them to move from residential care back to care with their respective families.
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| The Tides Foundation
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| The Foundation is dedicated to change that promotes a healthy society. Issue areas
cover everything from women’s issues to the environment, and their list includes an area for
economic and racial justice. They focus their funding on non-profit organizations with
budgets less than $2 million. Some of their issue areas are Women’s Empowerment and
Reproductive Health and Youth Programs.
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Federal Funding Sources
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| National Science Foundation
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- Social,Behavioral, and Economic Sciences:
The page for this program area of NSF provides links to current funding opportunities pertaining to this subject.One child
support related funding example, NSF awarded $11,928 for dissertation research for “Low-Income African
American Men:Networks and Child Support.”
- The main NSF funding page
provides a search for current funding opportunities.
- NSF Grant Proposal Guide (pdf)
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