Appendix A: Key Resources

Foundations

Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.aecf.org

Douglas W. Nelson
President
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
P: 410-547-6600
F: 410-547-6624

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private institution that was founded in 1948. To this day the Foundation works to help build better futures for disadvantaged children who are at risk of poor educational, economic, and health outcomes.

Davis and Lucile Packard Foundation
http://www.packard.org

Carol S. Larson
President
300 Second Street
Suite 200
Los Altos, CA 94022
P: 650-948-7658

The Packard Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations who concentrate on conservation, population, science, children, families and communities, arts, and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy.

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu

King Davis, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box 7998
Austin, TX 78713-7998
P: 512-471-5041
F: 512-471-9608
grants@hogg.utexas.edu

An administrative unit of the University of Texas at Austin, the Hogg Foundation defines mental health broadly and is interested in programs that implement and evaluate innovative projects that are designed to meet the broad mental health needs of Texans. While the Foundation invites proposals dealing with any aspect of mental health service delivery, program development, research, and education, priority is given to projects targeting its primary program areas of mental health policy and law, mental health services research, public education and outreach, and academic and professional training.

The JEHT Foundation
www.jehtfoundation.org

Robert Crane
President
120 Wooster Street
Second Floor
New York, NY 10012
P: 212-965-0400
F: 212-966-9606
info@jeht.foundation.org

The JEHT Foundation was established in April 2000 to support its donors’ interests in human rights, social justice, and community building. The name JEHT stands for the core values that underlie the Foundation’s mission: Justice, Equality, Human Dignity, and Tolerance. The Foundation’s Community Justice and International Justice programs reflect these interests and values.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org

Jonathan F. Fanton
President
Office of Grants Management
140 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603-5285
P: 312-726-8000
F: 312-920-6285
4answers@macfound.org

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private independent grant-making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The Foundation seeks the development of healthy individuals and effective communities; peace within and among nations; responsible choices about human reproduction; and a global ecosystem capable of supporting healthy human societies. This mission is pursued by supporting research, policy development, information dissemination, education and training, and practice.

The Tow Foundation
http://www.towfoundation.org/about_mission.htm

Diane Sierpina
Senior Program Officer
43 Danbury Road
Wilton, CT 06897
P: 203-761-6604
F: 203-761-6605

Motivated by the philosophy that no child is beyond help, the work of The Tow Foundation is focused on system reforms that would provide vulnerable youth with an opportunity to succeed and become productive members of their communities.