Program Grants help disadvantaged individuals, improve the quality of people’s lives, and strengthen our communities. The Foundation will consider a broad range of requests including specific program needs, capital or general operating support in the following areas: physical health, psychological health and addiction, family support and social connectedness, and others.

The Foundation is providing seed money to implement imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, from infancy to 7 years, on a national scale. Areas of support include parenting education, early childhood welfare, and early childhood education and play. Submit Letter of Inquiry online.

The Foundation's Fighting Hunger Program provides grants to nonprofits that fight hunger in communities. Funded programs may include local food pantries, food banks, meal assistance programs for children, families, seniors, and more.

The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) program increases diversity in the health professions and nursing workforce by providing awards to eligible health professions schools for use in awarding scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have financial need.

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (DPH) Perinatal Equity Initiative is seeking proposals from interested and qualified individuals, organizations, and firms to provide Fatherhood / Partner services to partners of Black/African American birthing people in the San Bernardino Valley region of the County to address the causes of and help eliminate disparities in infant mortality. For any questions, please contact Samantha Padilla, Samantha.padilla@dph.sbcounty.gov 909-677-2929.

The Foundation supports programs to fight against HIV and AIDS, with an interest in smaller communities and rural areas. Grants are for care and direct services, education, and research, including seed money for new programs, projects, or structures.

Through its grant program, the Foundation supports U.S. nonprofits working in the areas of healthcare, education, social services, environment, and civic and culture.

The Impact Fund is providing recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice. Focus areas include human and civil rights, prisoners’ rights, voting rights, juvenile justice reform, gender equity, disability rights, immigrants’ rights, LGBT rights, combatting racism, fair housing, and more.

The purpose of the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (Rural MOMS) program is to support collaborative improvement and innovation networks to improve access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas.

The Foundation’s Youth Initiative supports direct service programs that promote resilience, stability, and pyscho-social health for youth ages 14-21 who have experienced trauma by adverse childhood experiences, including mental illness in the household, emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, and others.

The Foundation’s Grant Program makes contributions to US charitable organizations whose principal purposes are in the areas of health, medical advancements, or education.

The Richard Reed Foundation seeks out smaller, forward-thinking, non-profit organizations that are looking to create better communities through outreach and programs in areas of mental health, child health and development, community welfare, animal welfare, and community environmental impact. The foundation’s geographical focus is the mountain west region of the United States, especially communities in Colorado, California and Arizona.

This funding supports multidisciplinary and innovative intervention research to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States, with a particular focus on racial and ethnic minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and underserved rural populations. The grant is part of the NIH's Implementing a Maternal health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, which aims to understand and address the factors affecting pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. IMPROVE emphasizes reducing preventable maternal deaths and improving health outcomes before, during, and after delivery, with a special focus on health disparities among disproportionately affected populations.

The Foundation provides grants to U.S. nonprofits for programs that directly serve the health, education, development, and welfare of youth. Focus areas include homelessness, child advocacy, scholarships, workshops and conferences, and more. Details on website.

Costco Wholesale’s primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business. Throughout the year we receive a large number of requests from nonprofit organizations striving to make a positive impact, and we are thankful to be able to provide support to a variety of organizations and causes. While we would like to respond favorably to all requests, understandably, the needs are far greater than our allocated resources and we are unable to accommodate them all.