Harford organizations receive more than $21,000 in grants from Close Foundation The Albert P. Close Foundation has been busy over the past several weeks awarding $21,800 in grants to eight Harford County organizations. Recipients of grants this year include The Samaritan Women, Chesapeake Therapeutic Riding, Center for Educational Opportunity/Alternative Education and PBIS at Alternative Education, Trinise Jones Summer Camp/Inner County Outreach, the Homecoming Project, Addiction Connections Resource, the SAGE Group and Arrow Child & Family Ministries. |
Funding News Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards $227,000 in grants in Greater BaltimoreThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation today announced $227,000 in grants to 17 nonprofits in the Baltimore region to help individuals and families build better financial lives. These grants will support access to housing, financial education, jobs skills training and basic human services, all of which help communities thrive. "Our philanthropic support focuses on addressing basic human services to meet the daily needs of those who live and work in our community,” said David Millman, Maryland and Baltimore Market President, Bank of America. "These grants will help nonprofits address Baltimore’s most pressing needs while helping individuals become more financially stable in the long term.” Read More > Breakout Labs awards grants to biotech, medical tech From tagging cells to printing no-harm meat, Thiel's grant extension invests in life-saving techWhen it comes to technology, we usually hear a lot about consumer products and Internet algorithms more than the advancing biotechnologies that could save lives or change our way of lives forever. But grants built from on of the biggest investors in consumer tech, Peter Thiel, are now going toward tagging cells, detecting biomarkers and creating no-harm synthetic meat. Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal and an investor in Quora, BuddyMedia, Facebook Zynga and dozens of other Internet tech companies, launched Breakout Labs in October 2011, and has now given grants to nine companies furthering life science and biotech advancements. The latest three companies announced Wednesday include Bell Biosystems, Entopsis and Modern Meadows. These three companies were the lucky few out of the hundreds of grant applicants to receive funding and support up to $350,000 each to help them reach scientific research goals over the next 12-24 months. I caught up with Breakout Labs' Executive Director Lindy Fishburne to find out how these grantees are selected. "Funding for life science research is a lengthy process, especially in the early days when you have to prove your scientific advancements in order to move forward," Fishburne explained. "We place early bets on the really big ideas that we think can reach key milestones in the next 15-18 months." Read More >TESTIMONIALS |
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