Search Through Financial Assistance Grants in Hawaii in the U.S.

Charitable Contributions

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.

Warehouse Donations:

Warehouse donations are handled at the warehouse level - please consult your local warehouse for up-to-date information regarding their donations contacts and review process.

Grant Applications

If the request is under consideration, you may be contacted by staff for any additional information needed. Applications are reviewed within 4-6 weeks, and decisions are made based on several factors, including: type of program; identified community need not otherwise available; indication that evidenced based data will establish measurable results of intended outcomes; community collaboration; broad base of financial support; project budget and operating expenses.

Who We Are

The Creag Foundation is a private grant making foundation established in 2009 in Woodinville, Washington.

The founders of the Creag Foundation believe that meaningful change can only be achieved through hard work, creativity and passion. They also understand the practical mechanisms that allow charitable organizations to succeed and grow. As a group, Creag Foundation principals are dedicated to helping today’s most innovative programs improve the human condition in a wide variety of ways.

Our Focus

The broad purpose of the Foundation is to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations who are innovators in the field of human services. Our particular focus is on smaller organizations that are starting out or established organizations that are looking for funding to take their organization in a new direction.

What We Fund

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The Creag Foundation is focused on innovation in the industry. We will consider proposals from 501(c)(3) organizations that are finding new ways to address societal issues facing the nonprofit community. Applicants must have held 501(c)(3) status for one year before submitting. If your organization has held 501(c)(3) status for over a year, and your believe that your organization has a new approach to an existing social problem or is addressing a previously unaddressed social issue, you are welcome to contact us and request that we consider your organization for a funding opportunity.

Global Impact Cash Grants

Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share our vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge.

We identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. We’re looking for programs that fit within our investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. We accept applications year-round from eligible organizations. An initial information form is used to determine whether your organization will be invited to complete a full application.

Social Investment Areas

At Cisco, we make social investments in three areas where we believe our technology and our people can make the biggest impact—education, economic empowerment, and crisis response, the last of which incorporates shelter, water, food, and disaster relief. Together, these investment areas help people overcome barriers of poverty and inequality, and make a lasting difference by fostering strong global communities.

Education Investments

Our strategy is to inclusively invest in technology-based solutions that increase equitable access to education while improving student performance, engagement, and career exploration. We support K-12 solutions that emphasize science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) as well as literacy. We also consider programs that teach environmental sustainability, eliminate barriers to accessing climate change education, and invite student engagement globally to positively affect the environment.

What we look for:

• Innovative early grade solutions using the internet and technology to bridge the barriers preventing access to education for underserved students globally.
• Solutions that positively affect student attendance, attitudes, and behavior while inspiring action by students to improve learning outcomes, whether they participate in person, online, or in blended learning environments. 
• Solutions with high potential to replicate and scale globally, thereby increasing the availability of evidence-based solutions that support student-centricity, teacher capacity in the classroom, and increased parental participation to help students learn and develop.

Economic Empowerment

Our strategy is to invest in early stage, tech-enabled solutions that provide equitable access to the knowledge, skills, and resources that people need to support themselves and their families toward resilience, independence, and economic security.

Our goal is to support solutions that benefit individuals and families, and that contribute to local community growth and economic development in a sustainable economy.

We target our support in three interconnected areas:

• Skills development to help job seekers secure dignified employment and long-term career pathways in technology or other sectors, including environmental sustainability/green jobs.
• Inclusive entrepreneurship with small businesses as engines of local growth as well as high growth potential start-ups as large-scale job creators nationally and internationally, in technology or other sectors, including environment sustainability/green businesses.
• Banking the unbanked through relevant and affordable financial products and capacity building services.

Cisco Crisis Response

We seek to help overcome the cycle of poverty and dependence and achieve a more sustainable future through strategic investments. We back organizations that successfully address critical needs of underserved communities, because those who have their basic needs met are better equipped to learn and thrive.

What we look for:

• Innovative solutions that increase the capacity of grantees to deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently
• Design and implementation of web-based tools that increase the availability of, or improve access to, products and services that are necessary for people to survive and thrive
• Programs that increase access to clean water, food, shelter, or disaster relief and promote a more sustainable future for all
  • By policy, relief campaigns respond to significant natural disaster and humanitarian crises as opposed to those caused by human conflict. Also by policy, our investments in this area do not include healthcare solutions.

Climate Impact

Our strategy is to invest US$100 million in Cisco Foundation funds over the next decade to help reverse the impact of climate change, working toward a sustainable and regenerative future for all.

The commitment includes both grant and impact investment funding for early-stage climate innovation. Both categories of support will be focused on bold climate solutions, and the grants side will also concentrate on community education and activation. Grants will go to exceptionally aligned nonprofit organizations, while impact investments will go to highly promising for-profit solutions through the private sector and climate impact funds.

Funding comes from the Cisco Foundation and will focus on:

• Identifying bold and innovative solutions that:
  • Draw down the carbon already in the atmosphere
  • Regenerate depleted ecosystems and broadly support the transition to a regenerative future
• Developing curricular initiatives to spur community engagement that can lead to measurable behavioral change and collective action

We will prioritize organizations that can achieve, measure, and report outcomes such as:

• Reduction, capture, and/or sequestering of greenhouse gas and carbon emissions
• Increased energy efficiency and improved mapping and management of natural resources, such as ecosystem restoration, forest treatments, reforestation, and afforestation that also will help repair our water cycles
• Transition to inclusive, just, coliberatory, and regenerative operating models, ways of being, and ways of organizing economies
• Creation of, and increase in, access to green jobs and job training
• Changes in community and individual behavior that lead to carbon footprint reduction, community climate resilience, and localized roadmaps to a sustainable shared climate future for all

Hawai‘i’s Forest Stewardship Program

Overview

Hawai‘i’s Forest Stewardship Program (FSP), administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, provides planning and financial assistance to private forest landowners to promote active long-term stewardship, enhancement, conservation, and restoration of Hawaii’s forests.

FSP connects landowners with the information and tools they need to manage their forests and the resources they provide. A prepared forest stewardship management plan provides a comprehensive 10-year roadmap to managing your forest by identifying your goals and management activities needed to meet them.

FSP provides the following financial incentives (subject to availability of program funding):

• 75% cost-share reimbursement for the development of a 10-year forest management plan
• Up to 50% cost-share reimbursement for implementation of management plan practices at allowable cost-share rates set for the program 

Management Objejtives

FSP supports a variety of management objectives, including:

• Forest Stewardship management plan development
• Timber and/or forest product production
• Native species restoration and/or protection
• Native wildlife habitat improvement
• Watershed, riparian, and/or wetland protection and improvement
• Agroforestry (the forestry component only)
• Forest recreation enhancement
• Education and community outreach
• Fire prevention
• Carbon storage or sequestration and/or biomass production

Mission

The mission of the Hearst Foundations is to identify and fund outstanding nonprofits to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States can build healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Through its grantmaking, the Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of focus—culture, education, health and social service—and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies. In each area of funding, the Foundations seek to identify those organizations achieving truly differentiated results relative to other organizations making similar efforts for similar populations. The Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support.

Whether providing a scholarship to a deserving student, supporting a rural health clinic or bringing artists into schools so children can see firsthand the beauty of the arts, the Foundations’ focus is consistent: to help those in need, those underserved and those underrepresented in society. Since the Foundations were formed in the 1940s, the scale and capabilities of the grant making have changed, but the mission has not.

Social Service Grant

The Hearst Foundations fund direct-service organizations that tackle the roots of chronic poverty by applying effective solutions to the most challenging social and economic problems. The Foundations prioritize supporting programs that have proven successful in facilitating economic independence and in strengthening families. Preference is also given to programs with the potential to scale productive practices in order to reach more people in need.

Funding Priorities in Social Service

In the recent past, 15% of total funding has been allocated to Social Service. Organizations with budgets over $5 million have received 60% of funding in Social Service.

The Hearst Foundations are only able to fund approximately 25% of all grant requests, of which about 80% is directed to prior grantees and about 20% is targeted for new grantees.

Types of Support

Program, capital and general support

Funding

Minimum grant size is $100,000.

The Labcorp Charitable Foundation

We believe every person deserves equitable care and education.

In 2020 Labcorp established a private charitable 501(c)(3) foundation to advance our desire to bring quality healthcare access to all by supporting education and our local communities. 

Common grant opportunities include:

• Supporting food pantries and meal programs
• Providing healthcare and patient services for underserved populations
• Encouraging STEM programming
• Advocating for healthy lifestyles through ongoing medical research and screening

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation only accepts unsolicited proposals for specific areas within the education, family economic stability and childhood health sectors in select countries where we work, namely the United States, India and South Africa.

As a guideline, the foundation does not fund more than 25% of a project’s budget or more than 10% of an organization’s total annual operating expenses.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has always recognized the power of providing grants to partner organizations that we knew were already working hard to improve the lives of urban children living in poverty. By aligning with organizations that are already making a difference, we continue to make an immediate impact on the lives of thousands of children.

Foundation priorities:

We fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities.

Partnerships

We collaborate with a range of organizations focused on creating opportunities for children and families living in urban poverty, with a deep emphasis on measuring impact. Our funding advances projects already making an impact in education, health, and family economic stability. Through these enduring and long-standing partnerships, we create lasting change together.

Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation collaborate with a wide range of nonprofit organizations that align with our strategic funding priorities. We prioritize our funding to activities and programs that have a broad reach and support the needs of underserved communities. We aspire to have a positive impact on the communities we serve by using our financial and volunteer resources and business expertise in collaboration with community organizations to help solve complex societal problems.

• Financial health
• Housing affordability
• Small business growth
• Sustainability

We may also support other local needs in eligible communities such as disaster relief, arts and culture, civic engagement, education, human and social services, and workforce development. However, opportunities are limited as our intent is to direct the majority of our giving within our major focus areas.

The Laura Jane Musser Fund was established by the estate of Laura Jane Musser of Little Falls, Minnesota to continue the personal philanthropy, which she practiced in her lifetime.

Environmental Initiative Program

The Laura Jane Musser Fund assists public or not-for-profit entities to initiate or implement projects that enhance the ecological integrity of publicly owned open spaces, while encouraging compatible human activities. 

The Fund's goal is to promote public use of open space that improves a community's quality of life and public health, while also ensuring the protection of healthy, viable and sustainable ecosystems by protecting or restoring habitat for a diversity of plant and animal species.

The Laura Jane Musser Fund encourages the use of a community-based approach with broad and active local stakeholder participation in both planning and implementation stages of projects concerning the environmental preservation and sustainable use of public open spaces. It has been our experience that projects designed through this process have a greater chance of acceptance and lasting success.

The Musser Fund is likely to make a total of 5 to 7 grants in the Environmental Initiative this year. This is a very competitive granting initiative.

Funds will be available for: 

• Planning (UP to $8,000)
• Implementation (Up to $35,000)

Planning Grant Requests: Planning grant applications must demonstrate commitment to a broad-based, active community process for the design and use of local publicly-owned open spaces.

Note - The planning stage is optional and not a required phase prior to applying for or receiving an implementation grant. If an organization receives a planning grant from the Musser Fund, this in no way implies a commitment on the part of the Musser Fund to provide the organization with any subsequent implementation grant. 

Implementation Grant Requests:  Implementation grant applications must demonstrate clear evidence of local community active participation and support.

Calling to Serve

Since its inception in 2016, the Robinson Foundation has sought to demonstrate God’s love through sharing the gifts we have received. We understand the often unspoken hardships and struggles that people in and outside of our community face everyday. As such, our contributions are focused on relieving these hardships for the betterment of our world.

As a family-operated foundation, we pray that our small efforts will not only create immediate change in the lives of our neighbors, but will help set those lives on a course for success in the future. We are thankful for each and every day we have on this earth to use what God has granted us to make a difference.

Areas of Interest

• Animal Welfare
• Children & Families
• Disaster Relief
• Education
• Medical Assistance
• Nature & Wildlife Conservation
• Poverty Relief
• Religious & Spiritual Endeavors
• Veterans' Issues

Grant Considerations

We take many different aspects of applications into account when making grant issuing decisions, however these are some of the high-level questions we ask ourselves during the process:

• How does the organization serve their key audience goals?
• Is the organization fiscally responsible?
• Will a grant have a tangible, meaningful impact?
• Will we see direct results from this grant?
• Does the organization have other financial contributors?

Bank of Hawaii Foundation has a steadfast commitment to strengthening communities in the areas we serve. The Foundation focuses on programs and projects which provide significant impact within low and moderate-income communities.

In addition to financial support, we partner with community organizations, provide technical assistance and advisory services to non-profit organizations, mobilize employee volunteers and collaborate with business partners to leverage our resources and investments.

Our Focus Areas:

The Foundation’s interests generally fall within the following categories:

• Community Development, including financial literacy, asset building and economic development.
• Education, with an emphasis on financial literacy and increasing disadvantaged children’s access to high-quality educational opportunities.
• Human Services, with an emphasis on addressing basic needs such as food, shelter, health and clothing.
• Arts and Culture, with an emphasis on programs that integrate the arts into children’s education or increase children’s access to our major arts partners.
• Foundation-initiated special projects.

Our focus includes partnering with community development organizations whose programs are designed to strengthen low and moderate income communities. These might include:

• Community development non-profits with a focus on affordable housing, economic development, revitalization of low- and moderate-income areas, and community development services.
• Community development corporations and community development financial institutions.
• Public policy advocacy groups that broadly impact low- and moderate-income communities

Major Capital Grants

Grants are predominantly for capital needs of a major nature. 

Bank of Hawaii Foundation has a steadfast commitment to strengthening communities in the areas we serve. We focus on programs and projects which provide significant impact within low and moderate income communities.

In addition to financial support, we partner with community organizations, provide technical assistance and advisory services to non-profit organizations, mobilize employee volunteers and collaborate with business partners to leverage our resources and investments.

Our Focus Areas:

• Community Development, including financial literacy, asset building and economic development.
• Education, with an emphasis on financial literacy and increasing disadvantaged children’s access to high-quality educational opportunities.
• Human Services, with an emphasis on addressing basic needs such as food, shelter, health and clothing.
• Arts and Culture, with an emphasis on programs that integrate the arts into children’s education or increase children’s access to our major arts partners.
• Foundation-initiated special projects.

Our focus includes partnering with community development organizations whose programs are designed to strengthen low and moderate income communities. These might include:

• Community development non-profits with a focus on affordable housing, economic development, revitalization of low- and moderate-income areas, and community development services.
• Community development corporations and community development financial institutions.
• Public policy advocacy groups that broadly impact low- and moderate-income communities.

The Dudley T. Dougherty Foundation Vision

The Dudley T. Dougherty Foundation, "A Foundation for All", was established in 2002. It was begun in order to give a clear voice for those who wish to be a part of the many, worthy, forces for change in our world.

We are a foundation whose purpose is to look ahead towards the future, giving the past its due by remembering where we came from, and how much we can all accomplish together. We aim to make the critical difference on our planet by recognizing and having respect for our ever changing world. We respect all Life, the Environment, and all People, no matter who they are.

Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Grant

The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs.

Grants-in-Aid Objectives

Each awarded Grants in Aid grant shall be used to provide services to economically and/or socially disadvantaged populations or provide services for public benefit in the areas of the arts, culture, economic development or the environment, as further defined:

• Public Services
  • Funds in this category must be used to support qualified public services and programs for the target populations deemed by the CITY to be most vulnerable including, but not limited to, seniors, persons with disabilities, children, and victims of domestic violence, homeless persons, and those suffering from the effects of substance abuse or poor mental health.
• Arts, Culture, Community/Economic Development, and the Environment
  • Funds in this category must be used to support the sustainable improvement in the well being and quality of life of local communities, especially low- to moderate-income areas.
  • Projects could include, but are not limited to, the creation, development and empowerment of community based organizations, providing planning, organizational support, and technical assistance to organizations, supporting financial literacy programs and services, supporting micro-enterprise and business training, and supporting programs that promote cultural or environmental enhancement, protection, or awareness.
  • "Arts" means and includes music, dance, painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, drama, poetry, prose, crafts, industrial design, interior design, fashion design, photography, television, motion picture art and all other creative activity of imagination and beauty.
  • "Culture" means and includes the arts, customs, traditions and mores of all of the various ethnic groups of Hawaii.

Funding

The requested amount for Tier I Grants must be at least $5,000.00 and no more than $10,000.00. The requested amount for Tier II Grants must be at least $25,000.00 and no more than $150,000.00.

Centene Charitable Foundation

Successful corporate citizenship happens when companies invest in the local organizations that know their communities best. The Centene Foundation works with our local partners on initiatives that focus on inclusion, the whole person and community development.

Vision

Centene’s purpose is transforming the health of the community, one person at a time. The Centene Foundation is an essential part of how we pursue this purpose. We achieve measurable impact for the communities we serve through partnerships and philanthropy efforts that invest in initiatives with holistic approaches to dismantling barriers to health.

Areas of Focus

Reflecting Centene’s commitment to the needs of those who rely on government-sponsored health care and to addressing social determinants of health and health equity, preference will be given to initiatives in three distinct areas of focus.

• Healthcare Access
• Social Services
• Education

Established in 1980, the James & Abigail Campbell Foundation embraces the values and beliefs of James and Abigail Campbell by investing in Hawaii’s people and the communities that nurture them.

Over the years, the Foundation has had a great return on this investment — in the form of stronger families, more effective educational programs and an improved quality of life for the people of Hawaii. In 2005, the Foundation, which is funded primarily by Campbell family members, was renamed the James & Abigail Campbell Family Foundation to reaffirm the family’s commitment to Hawaii and its future well-being. It is dedicated to continuing the Foundation’s work in memory of James and Abigail Campbell.

The Foundation supports projects in the following areas: 

• Youth- Programs that address the challenges of young people. 
• Education- Support for public schools, early childhood education and environmental stewardship. 
• Hawaiian- Support for programs that promote values and the health and welfare of Hawaiians.

Guidelines

Grants from National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting on-going preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for preservation projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector.

A small grant at the right time can go a long way and is often the catalyst that inspires a community to take action on a preservation project. Grants generally start at $2,500 and range up to $5,000. The selection process is very competitive.

Eligible Activities

National Trust Preservation Fund grants are awarded for planning activities and education efforts focused on preservation. Grant funds can be used to launch new initiatives or to provide additional support to on-going efforts.

Planning: Supporting existing staff (nonprofit applicants only) or obtaining professional expertise in areas such as architecture, archaeology, engineering, preservation planning, land-use planning, and law. Eligible planning activities include, but are not limited to:

• Hiring a preservation architect or landscape architect, or funding existing staff with expertise in these areas, to produce a historic structure report or historic landscape master plan.
• Hiring a preservation planner, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce design guidelines for a historic district.
• Hiring a real estate development consultant, or funding existing staff with expertise in this area, to produce an economic feasibility study for the reuse of a threatened structure.
• Sponsoring a community forum to develop a shared vision for the future of a historic neighborhood.
• Organizational capacity building activities such as hiring fundraising consultants, conducting board training, etc.

Education and Outreach: Support for preservation education activities aimed at the public. The National Trust is particularly interested in programs aimed at reaching new audiences. Funding will be provided to projects that employ innovative techniques and formats aimed at introducing new audiences to the preservation movement, whether that be through education programming or conference sessions.

Major Capital Grant

The Distribution Committee provides assistance to qualified tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organizations on the Big Island of Hawaii that focus on teens from 11-18 years of age. 

Fields of Interest:

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Services
• Religion
• Community

Support is occasionally provided as funding for direct expenses (i.e. specific equipment and/or material) relating to a teen program or project.    

The Distribution Committee provides assistance to qualified tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organizations on the Big Island of Hawaii that focus on teens from 11-18 years of age. 

Priority is given to programs/projects that support teens with higher needs and limited access. The following are examples of “higher needs and limited access”: financial need, little or no family support, limited access to transportation, resources, and/or activities

Fields of Interest:

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Services
• Religion
• Community

Awareness. Education. Prevention.  These are three key tenets of Bayer Fund’s investments in health and wellness.  With a focus on cancer and cardiovascular disease, we provide resources to organizations dedicated to educating and/or providing services to patients, caregivers and at-risk populations.

Health & Wellness Grants

Programs that Bayer Fund will support include those that focus on patients and their families needing assistance with issues to managing cardiovascular disease and cancer. This includes education, disease awareness, and supportive services for these diseases. In areas related to cardiovascular disease, priority (though not exclusivity) will be given to charitable organizations that focus on programs and support for the African American community due to the high incidence rate of disease in this population.

Giving in this category will focus on support services such as education, disease awareness, and general access to care (e.g., housing for families traveling for cancer or heart care).

All funding requests and budgets must be for program activities and expenses that start after funding decisions are made. All programs must be completed within one year of the start date, except in limited situations where longer term programs have been agreed upon. Grant award amounts vary, depending on the size of the community, the type of programming, and the reach of the organization.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

The Chun Foundation in Memory of Say Chong Chun, Chew Hoong Lum Chun, and Bowman Michael Chun was created in 1994 for the purpose of funding organizations which carry on medical research into the causes and cures of the diseases of children, and those which provide funds for the medical care of such children, particularly the children of Hawaii. The donor, Bowman Michael Chun, established the foundation in honor of his parents and in recognition of his concern for the plight and suffering of children in Hawaii who are afflicted with disease.

Medical Care of Children (Aged 15 and Under)

Grants will be made to community-based charitable organizations, which in turn distribute these funds in the form of financial assistance for eligible children. Assistance is intended to provide help in areas where other services are unavailable.

Eligible child means a person who (ALL criteria must be applicable to each child):

• Is aged 15 and under, born, raised and living in the State of Hawaii;
• Is suffering from a childhood disease;
• Is in financial need.

Examples of assistance for medical care:

• Medical expenses for health care, not covered by insurance or other health care programs;
• Prescription costs, not covered by insurance or other health programs;
• Transportation costs to receive treatment;
• Airplane and hotel costs for children coming to Oahu from other islands in order to receivetreatment(requires explicit information)

Each expenditure must respond to a specific request made by a professional service provider (such as a social worker, therapist, physician) for a specific item or service.

Payments must be made to vendors for the benefit of eligible individuals. Payments must not be made directly to the child or his or her family member.

Indirect and/or administrative costs are limited to 5% of the project/program budget. 

The trustees general policy is to consider one request each year from qualified organizations in the State of Hawaii serving the community.  Grants are intended to provide financial assistance to qualified elderly adults and children.

Teresa F. Hughes Trust provides grants to community-based service organizations, which in turn distributes these funds in the form of financial assistance to improve and enhance the lives of qualified adults and children, specifically:

• Adults who are at least 70 years of age, in financial need, and in ill health
• Children who are under 18 years of age, in financial need, and have been abused, neglected or abandoned or resides in a household where abuse has occurred. 

Assistance for eligible adults include costs of: assistive devices, clothing, day care, dental needs, dietary needs, food, furniture, housekeeping, housing, medical expenses for health care, prescriptions, private hire, professional fees, recreation, respite care, therapy, transportation & utilities.

Examples of assistance to children:

• Extracurricular school expenses (e.g., athletic uniforms, field trip fees)
• Social activity expenses (e.g., prom or graduation attire)
• After-school activities, hobbies, sports (e.g., hula lessons, soccer registration)
•  Intersession school activities (e.g., summer camp)
• Facilitation of transition into adulthood (e.g., driver’s education, copy of birth certificate)
• Other quality of life enhancements (e.g., birthday/Christmas gifts -$50 maximum, books, toys)
• School-related expenses (e.g., tuition, books, fees, tutoring, pre-school)
• Health-related expenses (e.g., medical, dental, therapy, counseling)
• Basic needs (e.g., bedding, car seat, clothing, food, stroller, etc.)

Community Partnership Award

The Mutual of America Foundation Community Partnership Award recognizes outstanding nonprofit organizations in the United States that have shown exemplary leadership by facilitating partnerships with public, private or social sector leaders who are working together as equal partners, not as donors and recipients, to build a cohesive community that serves as a model for collaborating with others for the greater good.

Each year, the Mutual of America Foundation sponsors a national competition in which hundreds of organizations demonstrate the value of their partnership to the communities they serve, their ability to be replicated by others and their capacity to stimulate new approaches to addressing significant social issues.

Six organizations are selected by an independent committee to receive the Community Partnership Award.

• The Thomas J. Moran Award is given to the national award-winning program and includes $100,000 and a documentary video about the program.
• The Frances R. Hesselbein Award is given to a partnership that is addressing social challenges in more than one community, or which demonstrates the potential to be replicated in other communities. This recipient receives $75,000.
• Four other organizations are named Honorable Mention recipients for their programs, and each receives $50,000.

Since its inception in 1996, the Community Partnership Award has recognized 262 partnerships from cities and towns across America. Like so many of our clients working in the nonprofit community, Mutual of America is dedicated to having a direct, positive impact on society.

The Elsie H. Wilcox Foundation was established by Deed of Trust on February 15, 1938 for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes. The Trust provides a flexibility to permit use of income to meet changing requirements or needs.

General Capital Information

Fields of Interest

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Services
• Religion
• Community

The Elsie H. Wilcox Foundation was established by Deed of Trust on February 15, 1938 for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes. The Trust provides a flexibility to permit use of income to meet changing requirements or needs. 

General Operating Information

Fields of Interest

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Services
• Religion
• Community

Policy Support is provided for programs that better the lives of individuals and families in the state of Hawaii with preference to Kauai Island.Fields of Interest

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Human Services
• Religion
• Community

Historical Background can be found here.