Procter & Gamble Fund

Overview: The foundation is committed to focusing their charitable contributions and sustainability efforts on a single cause: improving life for children in need, ages 0-13, through their corporate cause, P&G Live, Learn and Thrive. In fact, because of this focus, they already have helped improve life for more than 40 million children in need around the world..

P&G resources:
-Help children in need live by helping ensure they get off to a healthy start;

-Provide children in need with places, tools and programs that enhance their ability to learn;

-Give children in need access to programs that help develop the self-esteem and life skills that they need to thrive.

Why Concentrate Resources on these Areas?
-Disadvantaged children are most vulnerable and least able to help themselves.

-P & G have existing programs in children's education and development as well as deep expertise in health and hygiene, which will be critical in addressing global needs for children and the world.

-Child development is a universal concern across all global stakeholders in both developed and developing countries.

• Arts & Culture:
• Community Development:
• Disabilities, People with Disabilities:
• Diseases/Disabilities General:
• Economics:
• Education:
• Education, Higher Education: Support for colleges selected on the basis of their value as a continuing source of employees for the company. Each of the schools is rated using a calculation that places major emphasis on the number of graduates working at Procter & Gamble, as well as the number of job offers made each year at the institutions. Departments within the colleges and universities that rate highly in producing graduates receive unrestricted departmental grants that may be used for such purposes as curriculum improvement or faculty development.
  
• Education, K-12:
• Education, Literacy & Reading:
• Education, Math & Science Education:
• Employment, Workforce Development:
• Family Services:
• Health Care, Rehabilitation:
• Health, Mental Health:
• Health, Public Health:
• Housing/Shelter, Homelessness:
• Human Services:
• Hunger:
• Libraries, public:
• Media/Communications:
• Medical School/Education:
• Museums:
• Nonprofit management:
• Performing Arts:
• Performing Arts, Dance:
• Performing Arts, Music:
• Performing Arts, Theater:
• Public policy, research:
• Technology, Education and Careers in Science and Technology:
• Technology, Women & Racial/Ethnic Minorities in Sciences in Technology:
• Youth Development, Centers/Clubs:
• Youth Services:

Sample Grants
$ 200,000 to ACHIEVE, Inc , Cambridge , MA
$ 25,000 to AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati , OH
$ 16,666 to Advocates for Children with Cochlear Implants , North Bend , OH
$ 40,000 to African American Heritage Foundation , Stanford , IA
$ 16,000 to Albany Area Arts Council , Albany , GA
$ 10,000 to Alice Hawthorne Educational and Development Fund , Albany , GA
$ 15,000 to American Council on Science & Health , New York , NY
$ 15,000 to American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Research , Rockville , MD
$ 15,000 to American Indian College Fund , Denver , CO
$ 175,000 to Americas Second Harvest , Chicago , IL
$ 60,000 to Amistad Research Center , New Orleans , LA
$ 100,000 to Arizona Recreation Center for the Handicapped , Phoenix , AZ
$ 10,000 to Black Career Women Resource Center , OH
$ 11,125 to Botanical Garden Society of the Ozarks , Fayetteville , AR
$ 21,310 to Calvin College , Grand Rapids , MI
$ 10,000 to Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation , Alexandria , VA
$ 12,000 to Catalyst , New York , NY
$ 12,000 to Center for Anti-Slavery Studies , Montrose , PA
$ 50,000 to Center of Science and Industry , Columbus , OH
$ 25,000 to Chenango Soccer Club , Norwich , NY
$ 20,000 to Clark Atlanta University , Atlanta , GA
$ 33,000 to Colonial Williamsburg Foundation , Williamsburg , VA
$ 10,000 to Concert Competitions and Musical Development , MI
$ 55,000 to Consortium for Graduate Study in Management , Saint Louis , MO
$ 20,000 to Curative Workshop of Green Bay , Green Bay , WI
$ 54,319 to DePauw University , Greencastle , IN
$ 12,500 to Downtown Sherman Preservation and Revitalization , Sherman , TX
$ 60,000 to Education Alliance of Northern Kentucky , Fort Mitchell , KY
$ 25,000 to Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media , New York , NY
$ 729,525 to Fine Arts Fund , Cincinnati , OH
$ 26,900 to Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico , San Juan , PR
$ 10,000 to Ford's Theater Society , DC
$ 15,000 to God's Pantry Food Bank , KY
$ 40,770 to Hillsdale College , Hillsdale , MI
$ 12,000 to Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities , San Antonio , TX
$ 20,000 to Howard University , Washington , DC
$ 33,300 to Iowa Childrens Museum , Coralville , IA
$ 10,000 to Iowa City Public Library , Iowa City , IA
$ 11,250 to Izaak Walton League of America , St. Paul , MN For programs in Evansville, IN
$ 34,000 to John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , Washington , DC
$ 10,000 to Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) , Los Angeles , CA
$ 10,000 to Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent and Nursing Hospital , Newbury Park , CA
$ 10,000 to Mississippi State University , Mississippi State , MS
$ 25,000 to Mount Zion Community Reinvestment Corporation , Albany , GA
$ 25,000 to NAACP , Baltimore , MD For Act So Program
$ 25,000 to NAACP Special Contribution Fund , New York , NY
$ 10,000 to National Black MBA Association , Chicago , IL
$ 25,000 to National Center for Construction Education and Research , Gainesville , FL
$ 33,334 to National Center for Health Education , New York , NY
$ 10,000 to National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise , Washington , DC
$ 275,000 to National Council of Negro Women , Washington , DC
$ 75,000 to National Council of Nonprofit Associations , Washington , DC
$ 10,000 to National Legal Center for the Public Interest
$ 20,000 to National Railroad Museum , Green Bay , WI
$ 10,000 to Northern Tier Industry Education Consortium , Dimock , PA
$ 20,000 to Occupational Physicians Scholarship Fund , Schaumburg , IL
$ 17,000 to Opportunities Industrialization Center, American Indian , Minneapolis , MN
$ 15,000 to Options for Independent Living , Green Bay , WI
$ 21,000 to Parents for Public Schools , Jackson , MS
$ 26,000 to People of America Foundation , MD
$ 16,000 to Pitt County Schools , Greenville , NC
$ 17,500 to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic , CA
$ 40,000 to SER - Jobs for Progress, National , Irving , TX
$ 15,000 to Southeast Missouri State University , Cape Girardeau , MO
$ 10,000 to Spelman College , Atlanta , GA
$ 10,000 to Theater IV , VA
$ 60,000 to Tunkhannock Library , Tunkhannock , PA
$ 30,000 to Tuskegee University , Tuskegee , AL
$ 70,000 to Tyler Health Foundation , Tunkhannock , PA
$ 175,000 to United Way of Central Maryland , Baltimore , MD
$ 33,400 to United Way of Marshall County , IN
$ 100,000 to Urban League, National , New York , NY
$ 20,000 to Virtual Classroom-Georgia , Albany , GA
$ 11,800 to Wabash College , Crawfordsville , IN
$ 10,000 to Washington Center for Internships & Academic Seminars , Washington , DC
$ 10,000 to Washington Legal Foundation , Washington , DC
$ 80,000 to Wellness Community , Indianapolis , IN

Application Procedures:: Complete the online application. Do not call for guidelines. Grant requests from colleges and universities are discouraged, as most grants are initiated by the trustees within specified programs.

Grants Paid

1999 ($25,009,145 )

2000 ($28,915,000 )

2001 ($27,503,000 )

2002 ($27,462,844 )

2003 ($24,882,658 )

2004 ($26,355,075 )

2005 ($25,389,729 )

2006 ($20,498,566 )

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