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Annie
E. Casey
Robert
Wood Johnson
Ford
Foundation
The
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. Jim Casey, one of the founders
of United Parcel Service, and his siblings, who named the
foundation in honor of their mother, established it in 1948.
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."
For further
information on the foundation, please go to www.aecf.org.
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, 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."
For further
information on the foundation, please go to www.rwjf.org
Ford
Foundation
For almost
half a century the purpose of the Ford
Foundation has been to provide resources for innovative
people and institutions worldwide. Founded in 1936, the Foundation
operated as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan
until 1950, when it expanded to become a national and international
foundation. Since inception it has been an independent, nonprofit,
nongovernmental organization.
The Ford
Foundation 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.
