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Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area

United States of America

The mission of the Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area is to create lasting positive change. CFHZ works to build a permanent community endowment that supports high impact charitable projects, they help donors achieve their charitable goals and they lead and partner in community level initiatives.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Americas

Impact: Community Development

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Cordillera Foundation

United States of America

The Cordillera Presidents Foundation began in 1982 founded by seven individuals including the governor of Colorado at the time Richard Lamm. The Foundation is constituted as a 501(c)(3) exempt organization under the federal tax code and as a corporation under Colorado law. Throughout much of its history attorney James E. Bye led the Foundation. Following Mr. Bye's death in April of 2007 Denver businessman Jim Polsfut became its president.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Crystal Springs Foundation

United States of America

Crystal Springs Foundation (CSF) is the family foundation of Mike and Joyce Murray. It was named after Crystal Springs Farm the old dairy farm located a few miles outside of Redmond Washington where the Murrays live. The primary mission of CSF is to help create permanent improvements in the lives of the poor and less fortunate. The foundation does this through grants and Program Related Investments (PRIs). The foundation has a history of making start up and catalytic grants and PRIs to high impact non profits both domestic and international. The foundation does not respond to unsolicited requests for grants.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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David Weekley Family Foundation

The David Weekley Family Foundation (DWFF) was established in 1990 with profits from David Weekley Homes a U.S. homebuilding company started by David Weekley in 1976 with support from his older brother Richard. The financial success of the company makes it possible to contribute a significant portion of its earnings to the foundation. DWFF is guided by the belief that everyone has a responsibility to give back and serve others by investing one s treasures talent and time to make a difference in communities throughout the world.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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FB Heron Foundation

United States of America

The Heron Foundation was created in 1992 to help people and communities help themselves out of poverty. Today the foundation is focused on building a better economy in the United States one in which reliable employment and income are available to every willing worker or household. The New York based foundation aims to deploy the full balance of its endowment towards that mission and invests all of its assets through a single capital deployment office removing the traditional foundation s operating distinction between investments and grant making.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Fireman Foundation

United States of America

The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation is a family foundation based in Boston Massachusetts. It dedicates a major share of its funding resources to ending family homelessness in the Commonwealth and beyond. The Foundation also supports a range of other causes.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Footprint Foundation

United States of America

The Footprint Foundation was formed in 2012 when the Lyndhurst Foundation reorganized to create a new community led board. The reorganization spun off five smaller family foundations including the Chattanooga based Footprint Foundation.Inspired by the city of Chattanooga s vibrancy the commitment and spirit of its citizens and the natural beauty of the region the Footprint trustees strive to honor their family s legacy by supporting people who work to preserve and build upon the uniqueness of place.

Type: Foundation

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Community Development

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M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust

United States of America

The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust was created in 1975 to enrich the quality of life in Alaska Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington.From day one our mission has been to serve individuals families and communities across the Pacific Northwest by providing grants and enrichment programs to organizations that strengthen the region s educational social spiritual and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Medtronic Foundation

United States of America

The Medtronic Foundation regularly makes grants to organizations around the world that prevent and treat non communicable diseases. The charitable arm of one of the world's largest medical technology companies the Medtronic Foundation devotes its global health efforts to preventing and treating non communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes. However it occasionally offers one off grants for communicable diseases as noted in its recent grantmaking to combat Ebola.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Mitsubishi Corporation Disaster Relief Foundation

The Mitsubishi Corporation Disaster Relief Foundation was established in March 2012 one year after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Mitsubishi Corporation set up the Mitsubishi Corporation East Japan Earthquake Recovery Fund in April 2011 with the purpose of making concerted efforts for supporting restoration and recovery for the afflicted regions. The Recovery Fund was set up in the spirit of The Three Corporate Principles of Corporate Responsibility to Society Integrity and Fairness and Global Understanding Through Business which have been the corporate philosophy of the Company since it started operations. While also carrying on the activities of the Recovery Fund the Foundation aims to contribute to industry recovery and job creation in order to help achieve a stronger recovery for the afflicted regions.

Type: Foundation

Geography: Japan

Impact: Capacity Building