New Grant Programs

Grant maker: Home Depot Foundation (Atlanta)

Purpose: To support increased availability of low-cost homes for working families and to plant and preserve trees in urban areas

Amount available: $100-million over 10 years

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

Grant maker: Morris Animal Foundation (Denver)

Program: Canine Cancer Campaign

Purpose: For efforts to cure canine cancer and to apply the research to the prevention, treatment, and cure of human cancers, in particular those affecting children

Amount available: $30-million over 20 years

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

Grant maker: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago)

Program: New Communities Program, administered by Local Initiatives Support Corporation Chicago

Purpose: To support community- and economic-development efforts in 16 of Chicago’s lowest-income neighborhoods

Amount available: $26-million over five years

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

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

Program: Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education

Purpose: For efforts to improve dental health among low-income and other people who lack dental care

Amount available: $23-million

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

Grant maker: The Colorado Trust (Denver)

Program: Equality in Health Initiative

Purpose: For efforts to reduce disparities in health care for minorities in Colorado

Amount available: $13.1-million over seven years

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

Grant maker: Public Interest Projects (New York)

Program: Communities for Public Education Reform

Purpose: To help local groups and citizens exert influence on education-improvement efforts in their regions

Amount available: $6-million over three years

Web site: http://www.racialjusticecollaborative.org/pip.cfm

Grant maker: Connect US (Washington)

Program: Global Security and Cooperation Initiative

Purpose: To build support for American involvement in international affairs, including climate change and energy policy, human rights, nuclear-weapons proliferation, and international trade and development

Amount available: $5-million over two years

Web site: http://www.connect.us