DOCUMENT RESUME ED 444 783 RC 022 568 AUTHOR Jenkins, Stacey; Chavers, Dean, Ed. TITLE The National Indian Grant Directory, 2000. INSTITUTION Native American Scholarship Fund, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 559p. AVAILABLE FROM Native American Scholarship Fund, 8200 Mountain Road NE, Suite 203, Albuquerque, NM 87110; Tel: 505-262-2351. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom (055)-- Reference Materials Directories /Catalogs (132) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC23 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Alaska Natives; *American Indian Education; American Indians; Corporate Support; *Corporations; Educational Finance; Elementary Secondary Education; Federal Aid; *Federal Programs; *Grants; *Grantsmanship; Higher Education; Human Services; *Philanthropic Foundations; Private Financial. Support; Religious Organizations; Scholarships; Tribes IDENTIFIERS Native Americans ABSTRACT This directory provides information on foundations, corporations, religious organizations, and federal agencies that award grants to Native American tribes, schools, colleges, community services, and nonprofit organizations. Chapter 1 describes how to find funding sources, develop and write a proposal, apply for a grant, and follow through. Chapters 2-4 describe the grant-making activities of over 270 foundations, over 140 corporations, and 34 religious sources. Entries include contact information; availability of application form, proposal guidelines, and annual report; due dates and normal response time; number and amount of grants made annually; general policy on grants; purposes of grants; areas of interest; restrictions on grants; how to apply; officers and directors or trustees; and examples of Native American grants. Chapter 5 provides similar information on federal programs that make grants to Native Americans. Programs are listed by federal government agency. (Contains a subject index.) (SV) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ( U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ...s\ , Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUC TIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS his document has been reproduced as MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to be,ctn improve reproduction quality. Chavers Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." National 7trAdia??vra, VirczeitQrg Stacey Jenkins, Author Dean Chavers, Ph.D., Editor 'BEST COPYAVAILABLE The National Indian Grant Directory 2000 Stacey Jenkins, Author and Dean Chavers, Ph. 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All rights reserved Native American Scholarship Fund 8200 Mountain Road NE Suite 203 Albuquerque, NM 87110 Phone (505) 262-2351; Fax: (505) 262-0534 [email protected] 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ii NOTES AND REMINDERS CHAPTER ONE WHAT TO ASK FOR ON INITIAL CONTACT HOW TO SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE THE SEARCH AND THE FOLLOW-THROUGH 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FUNDING SOURCES CHARACTERISTICS OF PROPOSAL READERS 6 PROPOSAL OUTLINE 7 SCHEDULE FOR PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT 11 THE25RULES OF WRITING 14 GRANTSMANSHIP 16 THE MAGIC TRIANGLE 18 THE CHECKLIST FOR NEED STATEMENTS 23 TIPS ON ACTIVITIES STATEMENTS. 23 THE NEEDS MATRIX 21 ELEMENTS OF JOB DESCRIPTIONS .26 LIST OF APPENDICES 26 35KEY IDEAS IN PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING 26 (SAMPLE COVER PAGE) s CHAPTER TWQ 32 FOUNDATIONS INDEX 33 CHAPTER THREE 319 CORPORATIONS INDEX 320 CHAPTER FOUR 457 RELIGIOUS SOURCES INDEX 458 CHAPTER FIVE 490 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INDEX 491 The National Indian Grant Directory ii PREFACE This Grants Directory is an update of a book published in1983and updated in1985.The first two editions were called "The Funding Guide for Native Americans" andwere published under my imprimatur, DCA Publishers. Both had information onsome 180giving organizations. This volume reflects some dramatic and positive changes for the better for Indiannonprofits, schools, colleges, and tribes. The number of organizations whichare giving to Native Americans has increased from180 to over500.The total giving to Indian organizations per year has increased from$2million in 1978 to over $10 million, or 500%, according to a report by Native Americans in Philanthropy publishedin1991.The total has increased even more since, perhaps to$15 to $20million. Only six foundation and corporations identified Native Americans in their policystatement in 1983. In 1999,fully87foundations and40corporations targetNative Americans. Two other things have changed since1985.The Indian population has increased from1.4million to2.2 million.Foundation and corporate giving have increased dramatically (see Chart 1), froma total of$8 to $26 billion. Unfortunately, giving to Indians has not risen nearlyas fast as 1 giving to others. Total giving to Indians is still far from parity. Foundation and corporate giving lastyear was $26 billion. The Indian population is2.2million people out of272million, or .081% The parity figure for giving to Indians is thus $210 million-much more than is actually being given. Indiansare clearly getting less than 10% of what they should be getting. That is not mainly the fault of the givers.It is mainly the fault of the Indian organizations. They (we) are not asking enough people often enough to fund Indiangrants. The Native American Scholarship Fund has done a great deal of workto develop this book. First of all, we solicited all31,000foundations and corporate foundations in the U.S. in 1990 and1991.This work alone opened dozens of doors which had always been closed before. We receive grantson a weekly basis from founda-tions and corporations which have previously never made even one grant toany Indian organization. To solicit the foundations and corporations, we built a complete data base of foundationsusing the National Data Book published by The Foundation Center. This data base isone of the most valuable of the many things the esteemed Center maintains. Second, we searched a wide variety of sources to compile the information in this book.The Foundations on CD-ROM from The Foundation Center, the Internet, numerous state foundation directories, the Grants Index from The Foundation Center, individual reports, ourown data base of active foundation, and several other sources were consulted. Also contributing to this work greatly has been thegroup Native Americans in Philanthropy. This tiny handful of Native American foundation executives and board members has literally openedhundreds of doors for Native American grant seekers. Their publications are trend-setting, timely, and valuable. A few words of advice.First, use the subject index in the back of this book to do quick searches for grants. It is almost certainly a waste of time to sit and read all the informationon the numerous sources listed. No one should do that. Second, DO NOT USE THIS BOOK AS THE ONLY SOURCE YOU CONSULT BEFORE WRITING A PROPOSAL. Use the Foundation Directory, the Grants Index, the several publicationson corpo-rate giving, and most important, the guidelines and polices of the specific foundation or corporation, to help fash-ionyour grant request. Many foundations are on the Internet now, and many have their own web sites,so collect-ing information about them is easier than ever. The National Indian Grant Directory iii Third, read the first chapter before you start doing work on private sector grants. There are many ways to do things wrong, to take the wrong approach. Some of them can do you permanent harm, such as closing the doors of a particular source to you forever. DO YOUR HOMEWORK CAREFULLY AND WELL. Finally, a word about authorship.I wrote this Preface and the first chapter on Preparation and Writing. Stacey Jenkins compiled the information and wrote the other four chapters. So the major credit for authorship goes to Ms. Jenkins. We wish her and her husband Dr. Devin Jenkins and their son David the best as they move from Albuquerque to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. Dean Chavers, Ph. D Albuquerque, New Mexico December 2, 1999 P.S. Please send updates, changes, and corrections to us any time. We will make these changes for future editions. The National Indian Grant Directory iv HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE research them all. We tried not to list any grant over five years old, because foundations change emphasis. This manual should be used in the search The listing does not include all grants listedas process for grant funds. It should be used primarily "minor-ity." If it did, the list would be much longer. for spe-cial projects which require outside funds. Only the grants listed to Native groups are included It should not be used by an organization in here. the hope that the basic operating funds for the organ- ization can be obtained through grant funds. This CHARACTERISTICS ex-pectation is a difficult one to bring about; there is OF FOUNDATIONS relativelylittle money in the private sector for general support for nonprofit organizations. "Nonprofit" here means an organization Competition is intense for private sector which is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the funds. It is reported that foundations receive 20 Internal Revenue Service Code. Contributions to applications for every one which receives funds. such an organization by individuals, foundations, and (Many of the ones they receive, however, are not well done.) corporations