grants

Grants & Scholarships
The Foundation’s core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram
initiatives for social and economic justice; grants & assistance programs for individuals;           small business programs; education support program; international higher education support
program; scholarship & fellowship program; human service program.
Headed by  Nathan
M. Warburg , the
Zurich-based
foundation has given
out over $18 billion
in grants since its
inception, including
over $ 1.1 billion
Over the last 16 years the Nathan M. Warburg Foundation has provided a wide range of grants
for projects including: improving living conditions in United States; bringing light to slums of
Brazil; expanding health care in Mexico; improving education quality in the Philippines; extending
social services throughout the Philippines; universal access to elementary education in Indonesia;
NMWF Projects in Environment; NMWF Projects in Financial Sector ( financial education,
small business grants ); health care reform; real estate reform; improving health care in India;
expanding education in Indonesia.The Foundation has also financed projects such as: expanding
girls education in America; access to technical education in United States; graduate programs in
health, etc..
dollars in
Types of Grants
Recent Grants
Cultural Grants:
  • a) Professional performing art groups ( e.g., theaters, orchestras, dance groups, choral groups )
  • b) Community theater and music groups
  •  Museums
  •  Libraries
Foundation is
pleased to
announce 18705
grants totaling
$1,120,403,211 in
 Education Grants:
fiscal year
  •  Fellowships
  •  Scholarships
  •  Public Television
  •  Economic-education programs
  •  Historical Societies
Grant
Human Service Grants:  
 Warburg Foundation
has awarded grants
totaling more then $18
  •  Programs that serve people with disabilities
  •  Housing programs
  •  Programs for senior citizens
  •  Programs for victims of domestic abuse
  •  Youth programs ( special emphasis on youth who are at risk )
  •  Programs that provide emergency needs ( e.g. clothing, food, housing )
  •  Programs that assist people with limited incomes
  •  Programs that serve people of color
inception
Foundation
has given 155,402
grants totaling over $11
billion to individuals in

Grants and Assistance Programs for Individuals:
 countries.
( grants and other forms of financial assistance to individuals and families )
News

Business Grants:
NMWF provides a number of financial assistance programs for small businesses.
( small business grants and other types of financial assistance designed to
encourage and assist entrepreneurs in starting or expand a small business )
NMWF approved 1040
small business grants
in first quarter...
Areas and Projects Not Funded by the Foundation:
 
  •  National organizations
  •  Organizations designed primarily for lobbying
  •  Seminars, conferences, pageants, fund-raisers and other events
  •  Tours and travel expenses
  •  Athletic events
  •  Sponsorship
  •  Zoos
 
Grant Range
Our grants range between $2.000 and $150.000 ( for individuals )
                                        $30.000 and $ 2.500.000 ( for organizations )
 
Grant Process
If an applicant's Letter of Inquiry is chosen for further action, they will be notified and
will enter into a dialogue concerning their project with the appropriate member of the
Foundation's staff.
Letters of inquiry and proposals are reviewed year-round. There are no submission
deadlines.
We will acknowledge receipt of letters of inquiry received by email within three weeks.
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In 2007,
the Foundation has
awarded more than 12000
small business grants
totaling nearly $300 million.
 press release
Billionaire, financier
and philanthropist
Nathan M. Warburg
donated $1 billion in
2007 to support
Scholarship &
Fellowship             Read more..
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