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Educational Fdn of America

Westport, Conn.
http://www.efaw.org/

The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) makes grants to qualifying non-profit organizations that have tax-exempt status and those that are not private foundations as defined in the Internal Revenue Code. EFA provides grants for specific projects. It does not provide funds for endowment or endowed faculty chairs, building/capital programs, religious purposes, grants to individuals, annual fund-raising campaigns, indirect costs, overhead or general support. The Foundation prefers not to fund projects located outside the United States.
Grants: Center for Public Integrity, $130,000 2006-07; Pulitzer Ctr on Crisis Reporting $100,000

Contact Information:

http://www.efaw.org/apply.htm
35 Church Lane
Westport, CT

Elias Foundation

Pleasantville, N.Y.
http://www.eliasfoundation.org

The Elias Foundation seeks to promote a more equitable and progressive society by supporting projects that mobilize community leadership and create networks for community change.

Grants: 2008: AlterNet, $1000

Contact Information:

17 Marble Ave.
Pleasantville, NY 10570
Tel: (914) 449-6782
Fax: (914) 449-6783
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Victor Elmaleh Foundation

New York, N.Y.

Private non-operating foundation

Grants: Center for Public Integrity, 2005: $1,000; 2007: $6000

Contact Information:

950 3rd Ave. Fl 18
New York, NY
10022-2897

Epstein Philanthropies

New York, N.Y.
http://epsteinteicherphilanthropies.org/

Private non-operating foundation

Grants: Center for Investigative Reporting, 2005: $5000. 2006: $5000

Contact Information:

Milton Teicher
75 Rockefeller Plaza 16th Floor,
New York, New York 10019
Tel: (212) 586-0541
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Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Fdn

Oklahoma City, Okla.
http://www.journalismfoundation.org/default.asp

The Chi-Town Daily News has been awarded a one-year, $25,000 grant of general operating funds by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
The Daily News will use this funding to expand its neighborhood journalism program, which has trained more than 80 Chicagoans to cover news in their neighborhoods. With the support of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Daily News will offer more intensive training to its volunteer reporters and will recruit dozens of new reporters from communities across Chicago. The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation grant will also support the Daily News public affairs reporting program, which employs professional journalists to cover local government beats.
Grants: 1) Chi-Town Daily News, $25,000 beginning in 2000 for general operating funds, Purpose: Expand neighborhood journalism project 2) Government in My Backyard, $54,450 2009, 3) Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, $100,000 2009, 4) Center for Investigative Reporting $85,000, 5) Center for Public Integrity $192,956 2008, 6) Investigative Reporting Workshop, $75,000

2007: 1) Fund for Investigative Journalism, $100,000

Other 2008: 1) Center for Investigative Reporting, $12,629.37; 2) New American Media/Pacific News Service. $6,438.50; 3) Center for Public Integrity, $76,133; 4) Fund for Investigative Journalism, $100,000

2010 Grants: 11) Center for Investigative Reporting $150,000 to build and test a replicable model for regional news organizations to generate earned revenue, 2) Center for Public Integrity $100,000 for Phase I of Rocky Mountain Investigative News Networks I-News 3) Fund for Investigative Journalism $100,000 for the Regional Investigative Reporting Grant Program, 4) InvestigateWest $100,000 for production and distribution of watchdog journalism on state and regional issues 5) Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism $100,000 for support of its local, collaborative model for nonprofit investigative journalism. 6) American University for the Investigative Reporting Workshop $75,000 to create significant original investigative reporting on subjects of national and international importance for publication or broadcast 7) FairWarning $50,000 for an online publication focused on safety and health issues affecting consumers and workers 8) Voice of San Diego $50,000 for research, development, production and marketing of a web-based resource aimed at helping communities replicate the voiceofsandiego.org model.

Contact Information:

Nancy Hodgkinson, Senior Program Officer ([email protected])
210 Park Avenue, Suite 3150, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102
tel: 405.604.5388, fax: 405.604.0297

Ettinger Foundation Inc.

Westport, Conn.

Private non-operating foundation

Grants: Center for Investigative Reporting, 2005: $10,000

Contact Information:

35 Church Lane
Westport, CT 06880-3515

Everett Philanthropic Fund (at the New York Cmty Trust)

New York, N.Y.
http://www.nycommunitytrust.org/

Grants: Center for Public Integrity, $52,800 2006-08

Contact Information:

909 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10022
tel: 212.686.0010, fax: 212.532.8528

The Evjue Foundation, Inc.

Madison, Wis.
http://www.madison.com/captimes/evjue/

The Evjue Foundation, Inc. is the charitable arm of The Capital Times, a progressive voice for news, information and opinion for more than 92 years. William T. Evjue founded the paper in 1917 to ensure that those without the power of wealth and station would have a champion in the never-ending quest for clean and just government.

Grants: 1) The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism 2009 $5000,

Contact Information:

Arlene Hornung
tel: 608-252-6401
e-mail: [email protected]
1901 Fish Hatchery Road
Madison, WI 53713

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