Grants for Family Literacy Programs

Web Sites with Comprehensive Grant Information

The Foundation Center

http://fdncenter.org/

A gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web. Click on “Finding Funders” to locate information about funding organizations, including those listed below. Provides address, telephone, contact name, fax, e-mail, web address (if available), assets, amount of grants funded. The Foundation Center also publishes The Foundation Directory annually and The National Directory of Corporate Giving biennially (1-800-424-9836).

The Internet Prospector

www.internet-prospector.org/

Links to web sites of corporations and foundations that offer grants.

SchoolGrants!

www.schoolgrants.org/

One-stop sites for K-12 grant opportunities.

National Funding Organizations

Barbara Bush Foundation Grants

www.barbarabushfoundation.com/

The goal of the program is to develop and expand family literacy efforts nationwide and to support the development of literacy programs that build families of readers.

David and Lucille Packard Foundation

www.packard.org/

Provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following program areas: Conservation; Population; Science; Children, Families, and Communities; Arts; and Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy. The Foundation has a “center for the future of children” with a priority on reading programs.

Dollar General

www.dollargeneral.com/DG_Community_Initiatives/dg_community_grants.htm

Provides financial support to organizations and initiatives that support literacy and literacy-related causes for individuals of all ages. Dollar General's Community Grants Program accepts applications on a quarterly basis from non-profit organizations operating in and providing services within their 27-state market area, including grants for family literacy initiatives, youth reading initiatives, GED preparation, adult basic education programs, English as a second language instruction, and intergenerational literacy initiatives.

First Book
www.firstbook.org

First Book is a national nonprofit organization with a mission of giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacy programs to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. The Department of Education is a government partner.

First Books for Kids
www.booksforkidsfoundation.org

The Books for Kids Foundation promotes literacy among all children with special emphasis on disadvantaged children and youth. Books for Kids donates books, creates libraries, participates in reading initiatives within community-based organizations, service agencies, schools and under-served institutions.

In addition to assisting recognized learning programs, such as Head Start, the Books for Kids Foundation seeks to create opportunities for children and parents in under-served or over-looked locations.

George I. Alden Trust

Supports education-related groups, such as literacy and youth organizations. 370 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608; (508) 798-8621; fax (508) 791-1201

National Book Scholarship Fund (an Outreach Program of Laubauch Literacy)

www.nbsf.org/Application.html

Provides local literacy programs throughout the United States with New Readers Press books and other educational materials essential to begin a new literacy outreach program or to significantly expand an existing effort. Priority will be given to family literacy programs. English-as-a-Second Language projects followed by adult basic educational programs are also considered for support.

The NBSF materials are supplied by New Readers Press, the U.S. Publishing Division of Laubach Literacy. New Readers Press produces more than 500 titles designed to meet the unique learning needs of adult literacy students, tutors, teachers, and trainers. Please link to www.newreaderspress.com to review the educational materials that can be requested through the National Book Scholarship Fund.

RGK Foundation

www.rgkfoundation.org/grants.php

Supports a broad range of human services, youth development, community improvement, and cultural arts programs. Human service programs of particular interest to the Foundation include early childhood development, parenting education, and domestic violence and child abuse prevention.

Reading is Fundamental (RIF)

www.rif.org

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, RIF is the nation's largest children's and family literacy organization. They provide organizations with federal money for books. RIF develops and delivers children's and family literacy programs that help prepare young children for reading and motivate school-age children to read regularly. RIF serves children and families in every state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories in programs that operate in schools, libraries, community centers, child-care centers, Head Start and Even Start centers, hospitals, migrant worker camps, homeless shelters, and detention centers.

Starbucks Foundation

www.starbucks.com/aboutus/foundation.asp

The Starbucks Foundation supports community organizations across North America dedicated to youth and literacy. They are currently revising their focus areas and guidelines. New grant applications will be reviewed after the new guidelines are published in January of 2003.

Viburnum Family Literacy Projects

www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/viburnum.html

The Viburnum Family Literacy Project promotes the planning, training, and promotion of family literacy projects among rural libraries and their community partners. Funded by the Viburnum Foundation with $3,000 grants to small public libraries in rural communities, the project is administered by the Center for the Book, which also organizes and conducts two regional training workshops each year for new library grantees.

Funding Organizations in

Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas

SOURCE: Grants for Elementary and Secondary Education.

Published by The Foundation Center, 2001-2002.

ISBN 0-87954-979-3.

Includes grants in the U.S. and abroad to private and public schools and school systems, and to agencies, associations, and other educational institutions.

Arkansas

Arkansas Community Foundation, Inc. (AR only)

www.arcf.org

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (AR only)

www.wrockefellerfoundation.org

Walmart Foundation (Primarily in areas of operation, including AR)

www.walmartfoundation.org

Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Trust

P.O. Box 5000, Springdale, AR 72765 (501) 756-7031

Walton Family Foundation, Inc. (Primarily AR)

www.wffhome.com

Louisiana

Baton Rouge Area Foundation (Baton Rouge area)

www.braf.org

Ella West Freeman Foundation (Primarily in New Orleans)

P. O. Box 51299, New Orleans, LA 70151-1299 (594) 895-1984

The RosaMary Foundation (Primarily in New Orleans)

P. O. Box 51299, New Orleans, LA 70151-1299 (504) 895-1988

New Mexico

Lannan Foundation

www.lannan.org

J. F. Maddox Foundation (Primarily southeast NM and western TX)

P.O. Box 2588, Hobbs, NM 88241-2588 (505) 393-6338

McCune Charitable Foundation

www.nmmccune.org

State Grants-in-Aid to Public Libraries Cooperative/Outreach Grants www.stlib.state.nm.us/libraryservices/develop/annualreport.html

Oklahoma

H. A. and Mary K. Chapman Charitable Trust (Primarily for Tulsa, OK)

6100 S. Yale, Tulsa, OK 74136 Telephone: (918) 496-7882

Texas

Abell-Hanger Foundation (TX only)

www.abell-hanger.org

Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation (TX only)

1221 McKinney, Ste. 4525, Houston, TX 77010-2011 (713) 951-0019

Albert and Bessie Mae Kronkosky Charitable Foundation ( Bandera, Bexar, Comal, and Kendall Counties, TX)

www.kronkosky.org

Amarillo Area Foundation, Inc. (26 northernmost counties of the TX Panhandle)

http://aaf-hf.org

M.D. Anderson Foundation (Limited to TX, primarily Houston area)

P.O. Box 2558, Houston, TX 77252-8037 Telephone: (713) 216-4513

The Brown Foundation (Primarily Texas, with emphasis on Houston)

www.brownfoundation.org

The CH Foundation (Primarily Lubbock and surrounding counties)

P.O. Box 16458, Lubbock, TX 79490 (806) 792-0448

Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc. (Primarily for Dallas area)

www.cftexas.org

Dora Roberts Foundation (TX with emphasis on Big Spring)

P.O. Box 2050, Fort Worth, TX 76113 (817) 884-4442

Houston Endowment, Inc. (Primarily Houston)

www.houstonendowment.org

The Meadows Foundation, Inc. (TX only)

www.mfi.org

Sid W. Richardson Foundation

www.sidrichardson.org

Texas Instruments Foundation (Limited to plant site cities in TX: Attleboro, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Hunt Valley, Lubbock, Sherman, and Versailles.

www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/citizen/foundation/index.shtml

Tocker Foundation Grants (TX only)

http://tocker.org

Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Cooperation and Special Projects Grants (TX only)

www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/funding/lsta/

William Stamps Farish Fund (Primarily Houston)

10000 Memorial Dr., Ste. 920, Houston, TX 77024

Prepared by Christine E. McNew

Texas State Library and Archives Commission, October, 2002.