Mission

It is our mission to support our customers, colleagues and communities by helping them achieve their aspirations and helping their communities thrive. This shapes our work as a responsible corporate citizen. We deliver high-impact funding and initiatives that support people, businesses and non-profit partners so that together, we can make a meaningful difference in the world.

What We Stand For | Our Giving Priorities

We practice the discipline of being Good Company—cultivating meaningful awareness, driving sustainable action, and setting a new standard for how businesses and communities impact the Greater Good together. A grassroots appeal guides our efforts in food and the arts, while a holistic approach integrates commitment to learning and the environment. Compassion is extended from the inside out with actionable goals and a global perspective. We create mutually enriching philanthropic experiences for our CoStars, guests, investors and the community. And, although we are located in Las Vegas, we are home all around the world.

We take part in several charitable and community events throughout the year, many focused on our community giving priorities:

• Food and Hunger Relief - Providing food and nourishment, especially to those that are low-income or homeless.
• Learning and Student Enrichment - Enhancements to schools and programs that help students succeed in school.
• Accessible Art - Providing opportunities for the community to engage with and create their own expression of art.
• World Aware - Every day we commit to making choices that positively influence the world around us.
• Military - Programs and services that support the military, veterans and their families.
• Diversity and Inclusion - Programs and services that support minorities and the LGBT Community.

Organizations may request cash or in-kind donations.

NOTE: Gilead accepts grant applications year-round, meaning your organization may apply whenever you’re ready. Keep in mind that you must submit the application at least 6 weeks before your activity begins, and that it typically takes about 6 to 12 weeks for us to review it. 

Types of Organizations We Support

Patient Community Support

Lack of awareness is often a significant barrier to disease screening and treatment — especially among at-risk populations — leading to acute disparities in care. Gilead supports patients and their communities by funding a variety of awareness-raising projects.

Examples of Patient Community Support projects Gilead has funded include:

• Events or resources to educate patients about prevention and care options, such as:
  • Presentations
  • Web-based resources
  • Printed materials
  • Testing and screening initiatives
• The types of Patient Community Support organizations Gilead has funded include:
  • Patient advocacy and support groups
  • Hospitals and clinics
  • Nonprofit service organizations
  • Professional associations
  • Academic medical centers and universities

Medical & Scientific Support

Ongoing education is essential to ensuring that healthcare professionals can continue to deliver the best possible care based on the latest advances in medicine. Gilead supports high-impact, continuing medical education programs that expand the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals.

Gilead has funded a range of Medical and Scientific Support projects, including:

• Continuing medical education (CME) accredited by ACCME or another relevant organization
• Non-accredited CME in compliance with FDA guidelines
• Scientific conferences
• Lecture series or symposia

The types of Medical and Scientific Support organizations Gilead has funded include:

• Medical universities
• Professional associations
• Community health centers
• Hospitals and academic medical centers

Gilead North America Grants

Gilead is inspired by the work that our grantees do every day to improve access and eliminate barriers to healthcare, and advance education among patients and healthcare professionals. Gilead supports projects across all of our therapeutic areas — HIV, liver diseases, hematology and oncology, and inflammatory and respiratory diseases.

HIV

Continual advances in medical research help millions of people living with HIV have longer, more fulfilling lives today. But HIV continues to have a devastating impact, especially on people who belong to underserved communities and who lack access to medical care. Gilead supports organizations working to help individuals learn their status and get the care they need. We also support organizations that aim to solve the challenges of tomorrow, including how to:

• Understand the impact HIV has on an aging population
• Ensure continuity and retention in care
• Spark appreciation for innovative thinking in HIV treatment
• Identify and create a new generation of advocates

HIV Cure

Gilead works to address the HIV epidemic by discovering transformative and life-saving medicines, developing simplified treatment regimens that increase efficacy, expanding access to treatment for those who need it most and building communities among people affected by HIV and AIDS. Continuing on this commitment, Gilead will partner with and support institutions, community groups and organizations that are engaged in HIV cure activities by providing grant funding.

HIV Prevention

More tools than ever are now available to help prevent HIV infection. Yet about 40,000 new cases of HIV are still reported in the U.S. each year. Gilead supports the efforts of community-based organizations, public health entities and similar nonprofit organizations to educate their constituents about comprehensive HIV prevention, including the role of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Specifically, Gilead supports programs designed to:

• Provide comprehensive education on the range of prevention options and strategies available
• Ensure biomedical prevention plans, such as PrEP, are implemented safely and effectively in accordance with recommended guidelines
• Engage communities and individuals at highest risk for HIV infection in prevention efforts

Liver Disease

Each year, more Americans die from Hepatitis C than HIV. Yet public awareness of this disease remains limited because of its disproportionate impact on drug users, minorities and other at-risk groups. Gilead is working to change this by funding organizations that raise awareness of the importance of testing and access to care among these groups, as well as those that:

• Look for ways to increase treatment capacity and sustainability
• Move individuals down the care pathway from screening to cure
• Eliminate intrinsic barriers to care and treatment

Oncology:

Cancer remains one of the greatest health challenges we face. While the search for a cure continues, education and awareness are powerful tools to support diagnosis and treatment. Gilead supports organizations focused on health equity in order to:

• Enable people affected by cancer and their caregivers to make informed health decisions
• Educate healthcare providers on identification, screening and diagnosis
• Improve access to prevention and treatment by overcoming barriers to care

Inflammatory and Respiratory Diseases:

From cystic fibrosis (CF) to influenza, inflammatory and respiratory diseases have a substantial impact on people of every age, gender, ethnic group and economic class. Gilead funds organizations that work in this therapeutic area to:

• Improve individuals’ health literacy, enabling them to make informed health decisions
• Educate healthcare providers on identification, screening and diagnosis
• Improve access to treatment by overcoming financial and other obstacles

NOTE:

• Lumina Foundation’s grant making is primarily proactive in nature. In other words, a large majority of our grants are awarded to partners solicited by the Foundation based on unique capacity or position to leverage large-scale systemic change. We have allocated a modest amount of grant monies for unsolicited inquiries to encourage innovative ideas that relate to our strategic portfolio.
• Lumina Foundation welcomes LOIs year-round from eligible organizations seeking funds for work that fits within Lumina’s mission and guidelines. Generally we review unsolicited inquiries through the end of September. Inquiries submitted after September may be held for consideration until the following year.

A Stronger Nation 

Society’s need for talent has never been more urgent. The nation needs at least 60 percent of adults to have a college degree, certificate, industry-recognized certification, or other credential of value by 2025.

To get there, we are working with business, community, education, and government leaders to restructure education and training systems that have granted exceptional opportunities to some while leaving many Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American adults behind.

This is the story of our work.

Everyone has the right to real opportunity. 

No matter where you come from, what you look like, or how much money your family has, everyone should have what they need to learn, grow, and thrive. From that guiding principle, we work to ensure that:

• More adults who are Black, Hispanic, Latino, or Native American can access programs that lead to credentials beyond a high school diploma.
• Strong academic, financial, and social support is available to ensure their success.
• Earning these credentials leads to good jobs, higher pay, and more opportunity to learn and serve others.

Support proven approaches to produce fairer results. 

We know that opportunity still isn’t equal in America; it’s highly dependent on who you are and where you come from. Because our education systems unfairly hold some people back, Lumina is committed to strategies that put racial equity first, ones that:

• Focus state and federal policymakers on the need to prepare more individuals, especially people of color, for informed citizenship and success in a global economy.
• Increase access to well-designed programs and pathways that address racial disparities in student outcomes.
• Support institutions that serve today’s student, including community and technical colleges, bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, and state higher education systems.

Education and training align with societal and economic needs. 

Lumina focuses on how communities can have stronger, sustainable futures in the new talent economy by encouraging:

• Greater economic opportunity and social mobility, regardless of race, ethnicity, income, or immigration status.
• Fair representation of talent across the nation’s workforce.
• A better-educated country prepared to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Strategies

• Focus state and federal policymakers on the need to prepare more individuals, especially people of color, for informed citizenship and success in a global economy.
• Increase access to well-designed programs and pathways that address racial disparities in student outcomes.
• Support institutions that serve today’s student, including community and technical colleges, bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, and state higher education systems.

What We Support

Children are at the heart of everything we do at the Kellogg Foundation. Our goal is lasting, transformational change for children. As a grantmaker, we recognize that children live in families and families live in communities. Therefore, our three areas of focused work – Thriving Children, Working Families and Equitable Communities – are dynamic and always interconnected.    

Achieving strong outcomes for children happens by connecting what families need – at home, in child care settings, at school, at work and in their communities. As a foundation, we use a variety of change-making tools – grantmaking, impact investing, networking and convening. With our support, grantees and partners work together to make measurable improvements in children’s lives.

Our Interconnected Priorities:

• Thriving Children: We support a healthy start and quality learning experiences for all children.
  • improving access to high quality, early childhood education
  • support healthy birth outcomes
  • quality maternal and infant health care
  • children's early development
  • increase breastfeeding rates
  • expand access to oral health care
  • increase access to fresh, local healthy food
  • improve nutrition for children and families in early child care settings
• Working Families: We invest in efforts to help families obtain stable, high-quality jobs.
  • widen pathways to stable, high-quality jobs
  • more equitable employment opportunities
  • expand support for tribal-, minority-, and women-owned business enterprises
  • accelerate small business growth
  • inform policies and change systems to create greater economic stability
• Equitable Communities: We want all communities to be vibrant, engaged and equitable. 

Embedded within all we do are commitments to advancing racial equity and racial healing, to developing leaders and to engaging communities in solving their own problems. We call these three approaches our DNA and believe they are essential to creating the conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success.

About the APA Foundation

Medical science, public education and dedication drive our vision of national awareness, personalized treatment and compassion. As the charitable foundation of the American Psychiatric Association, we:

• Raise awareness and overcome barriers.
• Invest in the future leaders of psychiatry.
• Support research and training to improve mental health care.
• Lead partnerships to address public challenges in mental health.

With the backing of the APA, the world's leading psychiatric organization, our efforts are strengthened by research and designed to achieve results ensuring that we're making real impact, every step of the way.

Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health

The Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health were established in 2003 by the American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) to recognize community organizations that have undertaken innovative and supportive efforts to advance minority mental health.

Award recipients will receive an award check in the amount of $5,000, a plaque, and recognition in APA/APAF publications and websites.

At Nasdaq, our purpose is to champion inclusive growth and prosperity. We power stronger economies, create more equitable opportunities and contribute to a more sustainable world to help our communities, clients, employees and people of all backgrounds reach their full potential.

Our Bold New Ambition

Nasdaq's Purpose is designed to support women and under-represented minority communities with the resources needed to grow and sustain their businesses. Nasdaq's Purpose comprises the company’s philanthropic, community outreach, corporate sustainability, and employee volunteerism programs to leverage Nasdaq’s unique place at the center of capital creation, markets, and technology.

Quarterly Grant Program

The Nasdaq Foundation's Quarterly Grant Program strives to accelerate progress in diversifying entrepreneurship and empowering a more diverse group of investors, and is accepting grant requests for programs that align with our mission.

Areas of Focus

We use our resources in two areas of focus:

• Programs designed to empower diverse investors with the financial knowledge and confidence they need to share in the wealth that markets can create.
• Programs designed to support women and under-represented minority communities with the resources needed to grow and sustain their businesses.

Program Criteria:

Empower-Financial Knowledge And Confidence

Empower diverse investors with the financial knowledge and confidence they need to share in the wealth that markets can create.

Grants will be given in this area to organizations and programs which deliver impact in one or more of the following ways:

• Enhance financial literacy among women and under-represented communities
• Improve access to knowledge and tools among women and underrepresented communities

Support diverse entrepreneurs with the resources to strengthen and scale their businesses and contribute to the prosperity of society.

Grants will be given in this area to organizations and programs which deliver impact in one or more of the following ways:

• Equip women and diverse founders with mentoring and resources
• Improve access to capital for women and diverse founders

Amounts and Terms

There is no set minimum or maximum grant amount, though the average size of a grant made by the Foundation is $75,000. The Nasdaq Foundation’s Leadership Team will consider whether the amount requested is commensurate with the project proposed and appropriate for the Nasdaq Foundation’s annual grant making target and charitable purposes.

Reasonable overhead costs may be included in the grant request but must be specified.

Unless otherwise specified and agreed upon, all grants have one-year terms. Under very limited circumstances, the Nasdaq Foundation will make a multiple-year commitment. It is incumbent upon the grant seeker to demonstrate the necessity or benefit of multiple-year funding in the grant proposal.

There is no limit as to the number of proposals a single entity may submit at one time.

The Cigna Group Foundation is committed to eliminating health disparities and improving health and well-being for all. We wish to partner with nonprofits who are addressing the root causes of health inequity, including supporting under-resourced and systemically disadvantaged communities with poor social determinants of health (SDOH).

Given recent incidents here in the U.S. and around the world, the persistence of COVID-19 and the economic climate, this grant cycle will focus on funding programs that address improving and ensuring good mental health.

Application Background

According to research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Psychiatry, individuals with mental disorders have a reduced life expectancy of approximately 10 to 20 years. In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that individuals with depression have a 1.8 times higher risk of premature mortality. Depression also increases the risk for many types of physical health problems, particularly long-lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Similarly, the presence of chronic conditions can increase the risk for mental illness.4 Unfortunately, these challenges are compounded by an overall shortage of mental health professionals.

Here are some important statistics about mental health in the U.S.

• Depression and anxiety are two of the leading causes of disability worldwide.
• Over half of adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment, totaling over 27 million adults who are going untreated.
• More than 150 million people in the U.S. live in a designated mental health professional shortage area.

Mental health issues are even more pronounced in ethnic minority communities. Ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation minorities often suffer from poor mental health outcomes. Such outcomes include the examples below:

• African Americans living below the poverty level, as compared to those over twice the poverty level, are twice as likely to report serious psychological distress.
• Asian Americans are 60 percent less likely to use mental health services as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
• Among young adults ages 18 to 24, Native Americans have higher rates of suicide than any other ethnicity and higher rates than the general population.
• More than 1 in 5 women in the United States experienced a mental health condition in the past year, such as depression or anxiety.
• LGBTQ individuals are more than twice as likely as heterosexual men and women to have a mental health disorder in their lifetime.

These poor mental outcomes are due to multiple factors including inaccessibility of high quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health.

Goals

Despite steady improvement in overall health outcomes over the past decade, many under-resourced communities continue to experience substantial health disparities.

• Increased access to health care.
• Increased access to primary care.
• Increased health literacy, the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic mental and behavioral health information and services to make appropriate health decisions and follow directions for treatment.

The Cigna Group Foundation recognizes that this is a broad topic, therefore grants should address at least one if not more than one of the following programmatic areas, specifically in ethnic minority and underserved populations:

• Suitable care that provides access to mental health services and addresses depression, stress, anxiety, and promotes resiliency and mental well-being.
• Programs addressing the shortage of mental health care professionals.
• Cultural competency and awareness training for healthcare providers that addresses the stigma associated with seeking mental health care.

Rooted in Evidence Grants

The Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition (GSCN) is pleased to release the Request for Proposals (RFP) for its third round of the Rooted in Evidence Food Bank Evaluation and Grant Program (herein referred to as “Rooted in Evidence”). Rooted in Evidence is an opportunity for selected food banks and their partners to enhance measurement and evaluation related to their programming. In addition, this program will provide funding for innovative and dynamic programming to improve the health and dietary quality of emergency food recipients. A highlight of this opportunity is to work in partnership with GSCN to conduct a robust evaluation of the grant activities in order to better understand the impact of funded projects and to create meaningful communication pieces. The overarching goal of this RFP is to strengthen the skills and competency of funded organizations to effectively evaluate the impact of their programming and share findings with their communities.

The Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition (GSCN) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Omaha, Nebraska, established in 1973 with a focus on research and evaluation related to healthy eating and active living, improving food security and healthy food access, promoting local food systems and applying a health equity lens across all initiatives. GSCN specializes in both process and outcome evaluation, including the development and implementation of quantitative (e.g., survey) and qualitative (e.g., interview, focus groups) approaches, measurement development, and statistical analysis. GSCN works collaboratively with partners to design feasible, yet rigorous, study designs, along with developing complementary high-quality reports and other communication deliverables. Through Rooted in Evidence, grantee food banks can expect to work collaboratively to design and implement a high-quality project and accompanying evaluation that will yield meaningful data and information to share with partners and leverage future funding.

What We Aim to Fund

Since the focus of Rooted in Evidence is to enhance evaluation and dissemination capacity, we anticipate that food banks will allocate dedicated staff time for communication and collaboration with GSCN through virtual trainings and technical assistance, data collection and management activities, and reporting. It is highly recommended that food bank applicants partner with a local researcher/evaluator/graduate student to assist in the development of their evaluation plans and to help with data collection efforts if their internal staff has limited experience with evaluation.

GSCN intends to fund innovative and dynamic programming and/or initiatives that seek to improve dietary quality among food pantry and food bank clients. Applicants should consider basing their proposal around evaluation efforts of a program that is either novel (i.e., not commonly done by food banks) or has an innovative twist. For example, while many food banks have BackPack programs, an innovative change to this program could be working with a new partner or taking a novel approach to delivery, such as working with a local Head Start to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to participants. Additionally, these approaches could include existing or new/adapted programming that may include various:

• Settings and distribution sites (e.g., home delivery models, mobile or other “pop-up” pantries, college campuses, schools, child care settings, traditional pantries, clinics, including FQHCs).
• Components or levels of the emergency food system (e.g., distribution, procurement, food environment, client interactions to target knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors to promote healthy eating).
• Target populations (e.g., children, adults, families, seniors, ethnic/racial minorities, new American/immigrant populations, college students, staff/volunteers, cancer survivors or other disease conditions, urban/rural).