FOUNDATIONS BY PROGRAM AREA

These Foundations fund non-profit organizations that provide projects, programs, and facilities that enhance artistic development and expression in the visual and performing arts and educational programs whose end purpose is the art form. These foundations may also support the preservation of cultural histories as well as the advancement of a people's culture. Culture is further defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social group.

These Foundations consider proposals that make a contribution to the field of education by expanding access to learning.

These Foundations make grants to organizations which help maintain a healthy, natural environment through land use planning, preservation, conservation, and restoration. They also make grants concerned about global warming, renewable energy, biodiversity, recycling and other environmental issues.

Foundations interested in advancing health-related causes make grants to organizations that improve the health of communities through medical education, research, public health policy, safety, prevention, and treatment. Human Services is further defined as those programs or facilities which provide basic health, welfare, and other needs of a society or group, as of the poor, sick, or elderly.

Grants that support community welfare provide funds for programs or facilities which provide for the betterment of the general population. These include government-provided services and relief and welfare programs for the social democracy. Civic service refers to an organized engagement and contribution to the local, national, or world community.