State & Local

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   Arizona Money Funds Programs to Fight Childhood Obesity: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona awards grants of $5,000 to five Arizona fifth-grade teachers for each of their schools to help reduce childhood obesity rates. Plans for funds include new pedometers, school education programs, field tri...
posted 5/17/13 06:06 AM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   Arkansas Walmart Foundation Gave More Than $1B in 2012: Walmart and the Walmart Foundation distributed more than $1 billion in cash and in-kind contributions during 2012 -- the first time a U.S. retailer has ever made such a large one-year donation. The $1.08 billion awarded by the retailer i...
posted 5/2/13 08:31 AM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   Arizona Community Foundation Awards nearly $10M: The Arizona Community Foundation makes more than $9.9 million in discretionary and donor-advised grants and scholarship awards during the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, which ended March 31. The foundation distributed $3.4 million to schools...
posted 4/24/13 07:07 AM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News
   Arkansas Walmart, Suppliers Launch New Anti-Hunger Effort: Walmart and 10 major food suppliers launch a new round of the Fighting Hunger Together initiative. Walmart joins forces with Campbell's Soup, ConAgra Foods, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, General Mill...
posted 4/15/13 06:26 AM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   California Foundation Awards $5M to Learning Accelerator: The San Francisco-based Jaquelin Hume Foundation makes a $5 million award to The Learning Accelerator (TLA), a Bay Area nonprofit which wants to transform K-12 education by accelerating blended learning. With the grant, TLA will work to ...
posted 3/25/13 12:02 PM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News
   The Walmart Foundation makes grants totaling $6.7 million to five nonprofits working to help children and families improve their eating habits.
posted 3/12/13 12:43 PM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   California Youth-serving Groups Receive Awards: The Fresno Regional Foundation announces $206,000 in grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 to youth-serving organizations in the Northern California area. The foundation says $105,000 will be earmarked for the communities of Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi...
posted 2/25/13 07:09 AM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News From Around the Nation
   The Walton Family Foundation made grants worth more than $432 million last year, primarily in support of education reform and quality-of-life initiatives in Arkansas and Mississippi.
posted 2/14/13 4:58 PM  read complete story

Important Funding News from Around the Nation
   Alaska Foundation Aligns with Four New Partners: Anchorage-based Alaska Community Foundation partners with four new affiliate community foundations: the Kodiak Community Foundation, the Ketchikan Community Foundation, the Greater Sitka Legacy Fund, and the Golden Heart Community Foundation (Fair...
posted 1/31/13 4:51 PM  read complete story

State and Local Funding News Roundup
   Illinois Group Names Top 12 Neighborhoods for Arts, Creative Work: ArtPlace, a Chicago-based collaboration of national and regional foundations, names its top 12 communities are using the arts to revitalize neighborhoods. They are: Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Milwaukee, New York City (Brookly...
posted 1/16/13 4:39 PM  read complete story