workforce Funders

Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD


Founded in 1948, the primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bellevue, WA


To ensure that all people—no matter where they live—have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. The foundation is focused on using grantmaking and advocacy to help solve complex, entrenched problems that affect billions of people, including the AIDS and malaria epidemics, extreme poverty, and the poor state of American high schools.

Boston Foundation, Boston, MA


As Greater Boston’s community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI


Creating a just, equitable, and sustainable society is the basis upon which the Mott Foundation was established as a private foundation in 1926. While this remains the guiding principle of the foundation's grantmaking, it has refined and broadened its grantmaking over time to reflect changing national and world environment conditions.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Goodlettsville, TN


Dollar General supports programs that improve the quality of life for individuals by investing millions of dollars each year in literacy programs for youth and adults.

Ford Foundation, New York, NY


Chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford, the Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions around the world. The foundation was founded to advance human welfare, and all work flows from this fundamental commitment.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Owings Mills, MD


The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is dedicated to assisting the poor, primarily through operating and capital grants to direct-service organizations. These grants are focused on meeting basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, health and socialization, and on enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs, with an emphasis placed on the elderly and Jewish communities.

Hitachi Foundation, Washington, DC


Established by Hitachi, Ltd. in 1985, the foundation’s purpose is to enhance the well-being of economically isolated people in the United States, especially by exploring the value and limits of good corporate citizenship.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL


A national foundation with local roots, the Knight Foundation seeks opportunities to transform both communities and journalism, and to help them reach their highest potential. The foundation wants to ensure that each community's citizens get the information they need to thrive in a democracy.

Kentucky Community College and Technical College System, Versailles, KY


Since its creation in 1997, KCTCS has become the largest provider of postsecondary education and workforce training in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KCTCS provides a seamless path from high school to postsecondary education and the workplace.

Living Cities, New York, NY


Founded in 1991, Living Cities is an innovative philanthropic collaborative of 21 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions focused on improving the lives of low-income people and the urban areas in which they live by effectively addressing issues surrounding jobs, housing, climate change, asset building and health care.

MetLife Foundation, Long Island City, NY


The MetLife Foundation was created in 1976 with the goals of empowering people to lead healthy, productive lives and strengthening communities. Underlying the foundation's programs is a focus on education at all ages and a commitment to increasing access and opportunity. The foundation makes grants in health, education, civic affairs, and culture.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA


Through monetary grants, software and curriculum donations, technology solutions, and employee volunteer hours, Microsoft supports programs and organizations that address the needs of communities worldwide.

North Carolina Community College System, Raleigh, NC


The mission of the North Carolina Community College System is to open the door to high-quality, accessible educational opportunities that minimize barriers to postsecondary education, maximize student success, develop a globally and multiculturally competent workforce, and improve the lives and well-being of individuals.

Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, MN


The mission of Northwest Area Foundation is to support efforts by the people, organizations, and communities of its eight-state region to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity.

Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ


Since 1875 the Prudential Foundation has been committed to making a difference in communities through both volunteer work and corporate donations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ


The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans, with the goal to help Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need.

Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY


Established in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation seeks to identify and attack the underlying causes of human suffering at their source. The foundation pioneered the frontier of global philanthropy and now attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st-century challenges.

U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC


The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving working conditions, advancing opportunities for profitable employment, protecting retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.

Walmart Foundation, Bentonville, AR


Walmart Foundation supports initiatives focused on enhancing opportunities in education, workforce development/economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health and wellness. The foundation has a particular interest in supporting veterans and military families, traditionally underserved groups, individuals with disabilitie,s and people impacted by natural disasters.

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, AR


WRF uses its resources to build and sustain strong communities for all Arkansans by supporting and strengthening the organizations that serve them. Program areas include economic development; education; and economic, racial, and social justice.