The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese private foundation whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education, and science. It reported an endowment of over $3.5 billion in 2012. The Foundation states that while most of our support is proactive, funding is available to … [Read more...] about Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Realdania
Realdania is a philantropic association supporting projects in the built environment within three focus areas: Cities, buildings and built heritage. Their mission is to improve quality of life for the common good through the built environment. The Foundation strives to create value through … [Read more...] about Realdania
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garfield Weston Foundation was established in 1958 by Willard Garfield Weston, a Canadian businessman who moved to the UK with his family in 1932. Annual donations to the Foundation have grown from £1m a year to nearly £30m a year over the past 25 years. The Foundation is reported to have an … [Read more...] about Garfield Weston Foundation
Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Robert Bosch Stiftung is reported to be the largest German Foundation, managing the philanthropic bequest of company founder Robert Bosch for more than 40 years. The Foundation is divided into four areas to support and operate its aid program. In order to pursue the Foundation's objectives, it … [Read more...] about Robert Bosch Stiftung
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. It has an endowment of around £14.5 billion. Now in its 77th year, the aim of the Trust is to "achieve extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds", … [Read more...] about Wellcome Trust
Top Ten Wealthiest European Foundations
Are you and your NGO aiming to raise funds from European Foundations? Understand everything you need to know about how to access the billions of dollars of grants released by Foundations in Europe every year with our online training webinar. Learn more and register today by clicking here. Following … [Read more...] about Top Ten Wealthiest European Foundations
Where can NGOs get Donations of Books, Computers and Vehicles
NGOs give high priority to financial assistance for which they need to conceptualize projects, write proposals, contact donors and follow-up for assured funding. While working on these time-consuming processes, NGOs fail to realize the importance of non-financial resources which are more easily … [Read more...] about Where can NGOs get Donations of Books, Computers and Vehicles
NGOs can receive donations of books from World Land Trust
The World Land Trust’s (WLT) ‘Books for Conservation’ Programme seeks to provide important reference material to NGOs in places where it is difficult to obtain it. From its wide stock of used and slightly damaged books related to natural history and the environment, it offers material to needy NGOs … [Read more...] about NGOs can receive donations of books from World Land Trust
The Elsevier Foundation’s Book Donation Programs
The Elsevier Foundation not only provides book donation programs, but it also has a special grant system where it requests for proposals and selects organizatons to provide them with the 'Innovative Libraries Grants' in Developing Countries. Its book donation programs are implemented in partnership … [Read more...] about The Elsevier Foundation’s Book Donation Programs
The Asia Foundation: Improving Lives, Expanding Opportunities
FundsforNGOs.org introduces the latest in its “Get to know a Funder” series with a guide to one of the biggest Foundation’s in Asia, The Asia Foundation. The Asia Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization professing a commitment to the "development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, … [Read more...] about The Asia Foundation: Improving Lives, Expanding Opportunities
