Funders
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build a better future for disadvantaged children in the United States. The primary mission of the foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and communities fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs. The Casey Foundation provided funds to support research and the writing of a review essay "Poverty in the Rural U.S.: Implications for Children, Families and Communities" by Dr. Bonnie T. Dill and Dr. Ruth Zambrana's Project "Promising Practices in Family Support for Latino Families with Very Young Children."
The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. It supports activities by those living and working closest to where problems are located, promotes collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors, and assures participation by men and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society.
In 1998, the Ford Foundation provided funding for the Collaborative Transformation Project, a part of which supported building the Consortium for Race, Gender, and Ethnicity infrastructure. Currently, the Ford Foundation supports Educating for the Future, a collaborative research project. The foundation is also supporting a follow up to Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill's " Female Headed Households in the Rural Mid-South" study, conducted from 1989-1993 with Drs. Dill, Timberlake, and Williams. For more information, please visit our pages devoted to this collaborative research project.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation NJ is the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It became a national institute in 1972 with receipt of a bequest from the industrialist whose name it bears, and has since made more than $2 billion in grants. The Foundation concentrates its grant-making in three goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at a reasonable cost; to improve the way services are organized and provided to people with chronic health conditions; and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance use—tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. Funded projects include "Latino Child Health - A Research Synthesis for Promoting Relevant Child Health Policy."
