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Contents:
Ameritech Corporation
Coca-Cola Foundation
Florida Humanities Council
Ford Foundation
J. Paul Getty Trust
Historic Preservation Grants
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Library Services and Technology Act
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Historical Publications and
Records Commission
National Park Service
National Science Foundation
National Semiconductor Corporation
Rockefeller Foundation
UNESCO World Heritage
Ameritech Corporation
Ameritech "contributes
time and money to support programs that improve education,
economic development and quality of life." The Library of Congress/Ameritech
digital library competition grants ended in 1999.
Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation "works
to support education and advancement at the local level to help people around
the world refresh their hopes and dreams through education. Colleges and universities
constitute laboratories for change, where the challenges of society can be tackled.
The Coca-Cola Foundation often helps higher education find innovative solutions
for those challenges."
Florida Humanities Council
The Florida Humanities
Council, the "steward
of Florida culture, will provide grants from 1998-2003 to support public programs
based in the humanities and responding to our initiative, Floridians: Finding
a Common Path. Projects eligible for our support will vary widely in design,
content and audience; however, all projects must include the participation of
humanities scholars. FHC is eager to work with interested organizations to identify
scholars and humanities resources throughout the state."
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is
a "resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. The goals are to
strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international
cooperation and advance human achievement." They work mainly by making grants
or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks.
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The Getty Grant Program "funds
a diverse range of projects that promote researching the history of art and related
fields, advancement of the understanding of art, and conservation of cultural
heritage. It supports projects that set high standards and make significant contributions
to their fields. Grants may fund conceptual projects that take intellectual risks,
or they may support more basic resources and activities."
Historic Preservation Grants
The purpose of the Historic
Preservation Grants, under the Florida Department of State, Division
of Historical Resources, is to "assist in the identification, excavation, protection,
and rehabilitation of historic and archaeological sites in Florida; to provide
public information about these important resources; and to encourage historic
preservation in smaller cities through the Florida Main Street program."
Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS)
IMLS grant programs "help
libraries bring people the information they want and can use. Through statewide
initiatives and subgrants, nationwide competitions for leadership activities
and grants to improve Native American and Native Hawaiian library service, IMLS
support reaches libraries in thousands of communities every year. IMLS expands
the educational benefit of museums and libraries by supporting collaborations.
These partnerships provide a synergy that enhances learning opportunities for
the entire community."
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
The Library
Services and Technology Act (LSTA) is a "federal grant program administered
in by the State Librarian who awards grants on a competitive basis. Successful
projects begin on October 1 of each federally specified grant year and conclude
on September 30 of the following year."
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The purpose of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is to "aid and promote such religious,
charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes as may be in the furtherance
of the public welfare or tend to promote the well-doing or well-being of mankind.
Under this broad charter, the foundation currently makes grants on a selective
basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing
arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs." Funding
interests related to libraries are described in Don
Waters' presentation to the Coalition for Networked Information.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation "makes
grants of cash, software, and technical support to nonprofit organizations around
the world. Our giving is guided by three objectives: to help bring the benefits
of information technology to underserved people and communities; to provide support
to organizations in communities in which our employees live and work; and to
support our employees taking an active role in their community through volunteer
and matching gift programs."
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
The National Endowment for the
Humanities is "an independent grant-making agency of the United States
government dedicated to supporting research, education, and public programs in
the humanities. NEH launched a nationally coordinated program to preserve the
intellectual content of approximately three million brittle books through preservation
microfilming. To date, this program has microfilmed 860,000 endangered volumes."
National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC)
The NHPRC funds "projects
that deal with the following kinds of documentary source material: records of
state, county, municipal, tribal, or other non-Federal units of government, manuscripts,
personal and family papers, or organizational and business archives, collections
of photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, electronic records, and/or
such visual materials as unpublished architectural, cartographic, and engineering
drawings."
National Park Service
The National Park Service "funds
a wide variety of grants to preserve and protect cultural resources nationwide.
The NPS administers a number of very successful federal historic preservation
funding programs for preservation research, information management, and training
projects proposed by non-profit organizations, universities, and federal agencies."
National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National
Science Foundation (NSF) "funds research and education in most fields
of science and engineering. It does this through grants to and cooperative agreements
with more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses,
informal science organizations, and other research institutions throughout the
United States."
National Semiconductor Corporation
The National
Semiconductor Corporation "is the premier analog company driving the
information age. Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology,
the company is focused on the fast growing markets for wireless handsets; displays;
information appliances; and information infrastructure. With headquarters in
Santa Clara, California, National reported sales of $2.1 billion for its last
fiscal year and has about 9,800 employees worldwide."
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation's original
mandate was "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." Within
this mandate, however, it was decided that the mission for the 21st century should
be: "The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with
a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded
people throughout the world."
UNESCO World Heritage
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World
Heritage "seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation
of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding
value to humanity. Cultural heritage refers to monuments, groups of buildings
and sites with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological
or anthropological value. Natural heritage refers to outstanding physical,
biological and geological formations, habitats of threatened species of animals
and plants and areas with scientific, conservation or aesthetic value."
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