New Grant Programs

Grant maker: Rockefeller Foundation (New York)

Program: Initiative on Climate Change Resilience

Purpose: To develop local efforts to manage and plan for extreme weather caused by climate change and provide services for needy people

Amount available: $70-million over five years

Web site: http://www.rockfound.org/initiatives/climate/climate_change.shtml

Grant makers: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), Opportunity Finance Network (Philadelphia), and Wachovia Foundation (Charlotte, N.C.)

Program: Wachovia Next Awards for Opportunity Finance

Purpose: To support community-development financial institutions that invest in or make grants to charities and businesses that serve low-income people throughout the United States

Amount available: $42-million over five years

Web site: http://www.nextawards.org

Grant maker: Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (Hinsdale)

Purpose: For efforts to help children in Illinois receive oral-health care

Amount available: At least $20-million over five years

Web site: http://www.ilchf.org

Grant maker: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.)

Program: Consumer Voices for Coverage

Purpose: To strengthen advocacy organizations that seek to expand access to health-care coverage for more Americans and to build a national network of health-care advocates

Amount available: $12-million over three years

Web site: http://www.voicesforcoverage.org

Grant maker: Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac Foundation (McLean, Va.)

Purpose: To help rehabilitate and rebuild housing and provide services for low- and moderate-income families in New Orleans who were harmed by Hurricane Katrina

Amount available: $5-million over 18 months

Web site: http://www.freddiemacfoundation.org