The Pinkerton Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1966 by Robert Allan Pinkerton, the chairman and CEO of Pinkerton’s, which was the nation’s oldest and largest security company. The Foundation supports community-based programs for children, youth, and families in economically disadvantaged areas in New York City. The Foundation favors direct service programs that have one overriding goal: to help young people reach their full potential. Preference is given to groups with capable leadership, high expectations, well-defined goals, and active, engaged participants. Most of the program funded take place in the after-school, weekend, or summer hours and focus on providing opportunities for academic development, career readiness, and cultural enrichment.
The Foundation also supports a number of programs that offer a way forward for young people after an encounter with the criminal justice system or years in foster care. Letters of inquiry are welcome at any time. The Foundationâ??s Board of Trustees has two grantmaking meetings a year, in May and December. Grant decisions are announced immediately after those meetings. Additional information can be found on the Pinkerton Foundation website.
The New York Community Trust
The Trust primarily makes grants to organizations located in the five boroughs of New York City. Grants are focused on four topic areas: children, youth and families; community development and the environment; arts, education and human justice; and health and people with special needs. Children, youth and family grants fall into the following categories: social work research, education and practice; youth development, girls and young women, hunger and homelessness, social services and welfare, and substance abuse. Community development grants are awarded to projects in civic affairs, community development, conservation and the environment, technical assistance and workforce development. Arts, education and human justice grants support arts and culture, historic preservation, education and human justice. Health grants fund biomedical research, health services, health systems and policy, and people with special needs including those with AIDS/HIV, children and youth with disabilities, the elderly, mental health and mental retardation, and blindness and visual disabilities. The New York Community Trust has an open application deadline, please check the website for additional information.
George I. Alden Trust
The Trust supports independent colleges and universities in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and the six New England states having full-time traditional undergraduate enrollments of at least $1,000 students and with a total undergraduate and graduate student population of under 5,000. The Trustees focus their grantmaking on capital needs. Recent funding has included support for classrooms, libraries, and laboratories as well as for the acquisition of scientific and technological equipment and infrastructure. The Trustees consider proposals at four distribution meetings a year. Complete proposals received for the March, June, September and December meetings must be received by the 15th of the month prior to the meeting. Additional information including application instructions can be found on the website.
