Current Grants & Contributions
Earth Protection
- Alaska Conservation Alliance - Anchorage, AK
- State Energy Plan; Alaska Clean Energy Campaign
- Alaska Conservation Alliance protects Alaska's air, land and water by coordinating the conservation community and empowering Alaskans to participate effectively in the civic arena.
- Audubon Alaska - Anchorage, AK
- Alaska's Important Bird Area Program
- Audubon Alaska conserves Alaska's natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations.
- Center for Science in Public Participation - Bozeman, MT
- Alaska Technical and Regulatory Support Program
- The Center for Science in Public Participation provides objective research, education, and technical advice to grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, regulatory agencies, businesses, and indigenous communities on natural resources, especially those related to mining.
- Cook Inletkeeper - Homer, AK
- Promoting Positive Alternatives to Coal in a Changing Climate
- Cook Inletkeeper uses advocacy, monitoring and education to protect Alaska's Cook Inlet watershed and to guarantee clean water for abundant fish and wildlife, healthy communities and strong economies for current and future generations.
- Environmental Law and Policy Center - Chicago, IL
- Iowa Office Energy Initiatives
- ELPC is the Midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy organization working to achieve sustainable energy strategies, promote sound transportation programs that produce cleaner air and more jobs, and protect natural resources to improve the quality of life in our communities.
- Iowa Environmental Council - Des Moines, IA
- Energy Program and Global Warming Solutions
- Iowa Environmental Council actively works in public policy to provide a safe, healthy environment for all Iowans.
- Iowa Renewable Energy Association - Iowa City, IA
- Renewable Energy Training Workshop Series
- I-Renew is a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to promoting more implementation of renewable energy and energy conservation by educating Iowans to achieve long-term social, environmental, and economic sustainability.
- Nature Conservancy Alaska Chapter - Anchorage, AK
- Southeast Alaska Program
- The Nature Conservancy preserves plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
- Renewable Energy Alaska Project - Anchorage, AK
- General support
- Renewable Energy Alaska Project facilitates the increased development of renewable energy in Alaska through Collaboration, education, training, and advocacy.
Promotion of Philanthropy Grants
- Association of Small Foundations - Washington, DC
- Strategic planning and re-branding initiative
- Association of Small Foundations is a membership organization of nearly 3,000 foundations with few or no staff. ASF enhances the power of small foundation giving by providing donors, trustees, and staff of member foundations with peer learning opportunities, targeted tools and resources, and a collective voice in and beyond the philanthropic community.
- The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Women's Philanthropy Institute - Indianapolis, IN
- WPI 2011 Symposium, "Women World Wide Leading through Philanthropy"
- Women's Philanthropy Institute furthers the understanding of women's philanthropy through research, education, and knowledge dissemination.
- National Center for Family Philanthropy - Washington, DC
- Research and education regarding CEO role in family foundations
- The National Center for Family Philanthropy promotes philanthropic values, vision, and excellence across generations of donors and donor families. NCFP provides highest quality information to families.
Volunteerism & Civic Engagement Grants
- Catamount Institute - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer engagement efforts
- Catamount Institute inspires ecological stewardship through education and leadership; consciously connects people with nature.
- CASA of the Pikes Peak Region, Inc - Colorado Springs, CO
- Diligent Search Project: searching for kin-like placement options for children
- CASA of the Pikes Peak Region provides a volunteer's voice in court for children who are victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic conflict and promotes community awareness of these issues to ensure safe and permanent homes.
- Fostering Hope Foundation - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer Engagement efforts
- Fostering Hope Foundation supports foster parents by recruiting, training, and supporting teams of volunteers from faith communities to assist foster parents in caring for foster children. The teams function as an 'extended family' to the foster family.
- Hope & Home - Colorado Springs, CO
- 'Hope Workers' volunteer engagement efforts
- Hope & Home recruits, thoroughly trains and intensely supports families who help rescue and nurture children placed in foster care as a result of abuse or neglect. Hope & Home is a Christian foster care agency dedicated to building bridges to permanency for children and their families.
- Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer Family Mentoring program
- Interfaith Hospitality Network of Colorado Springs exists to engage the community and its resources in providing basic, preventative, and supportive services to families with children who are in homeless situations or at risk of becoming so.
- Leadership Pikes Peak - Colorado Springs, CO
- Women's Community Leadership Initiative; develop, train, and facilitate young professionals toward service on local nonprofit boards
- Leadership Pikes Peak is a gateway to community engagement. Leadership Pikes Peak fosters the vision and courage of citizens to lead, helps individuals make the world a better place in their own unique ways, and develops community trustees and facilitates their enduring contributions.
- Partners in Housing - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer and financial resource development
- Partners in Housing gives homeless families with children the hope and opportunity to achieve self-sufficiency through supportive services and transitional housing.
- Pikes Peak Community Foundation - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer recruitment and retention program for Aspen Valley Ranch, Pinello Ranch, and community fitness initiative
- Pikes Peak Community Foundation advances community philanthropy in the Pikes Peak region.
- Trails and Open Space Coalition - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer engagement efforts
- Trails and Open Space Coalition works in the Pikes Peak region in Colorado to preserve open space and parks and to create a network of trails, bikeways and greenways.
- Urban Peak Colorado Springs - Colorado Springs, CO
- Volunteer engagement efforts
- Urban Peak helps young people overcome homelessness and other real life challenges by providing safety, respect, essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-reliant adults.
Education and Human Community Grants
- Waterloo Development Corporation - Waterloo, IA
- Cedar Valley SportsPlex
- Waterloo Development Corporation promotes civic, industrial, mercantile, traffic and transportation, agricultural and other interests of Waterloo, Cedar Falls, and Northeast Iowa areas. The entity works closely with the communities to enhance social, recreational, and educational opportunities in the area.
- Covenant House Alaska - Anchorage, AK
- General support
- Covenant House Alaska provides shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and at-risk youth. The five core Covenant House Principles: Immediacy, Sanctuary, Values Communication, Structure, and Choice.
Direct Charitable Activities
Executive Director Jane Leighty Justis works in volunteer management, civic engagement, and the promotion of philanthropy.
Director Bill Leighty assists with research in energy policy.
Both serve relevant organizations and present their work at conferences.
Contributions
Earth Protection
- 1000 Friends of Iowa
- Alaska Center for the Environment
- Alaska Community Action on Toxics
- Alaska Conservation Foundation
- Climate Solutions
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Earthworks
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Ground Truth Trekking
- Jane Goodall Institute
- Juneau Watershed Partnership
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Plains Justice
- PlugIn America
- Sitka Conservation Society
- Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
- Southeast Alaska Land Trust
- The Land Institute
- Tides Center, Rivers Without Borders
- Trustees for Alaska
- Windustry
Education
- Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
- Cedar Valley Catholic Schools
- Cedar Valley Preschool & Child Care Center
- Children's Literacy Center
- Coast Alaska Radio
- Colorado Nonprofit Association
- Colorado Public Radio
- Discovery Southeast
- Gastineau Channel Historical Society
- Island Institute
- Juneau School District
- National Outdoor Leadership School
- National Wildlife Federation, Alaska Youth for Environmental Action
- National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Dan Gable Museum
- University of Northern Iowa Foundation, Center for Energy & Environmental Education
- Waterloo Community Schools
Promotion of Philanthropy
- Center for Nonprofit Excellence
- Colorado Association of Funders
- Greccio Housing
- Pikes Peak United Way
- TESSA
Health and Human Community
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Alaska Public Telecommunications, KSKA Radio
- Amnesty International
- Asla Foundation
- Doctors Without Borders USA
- Ecumenical Social Ministries
- EngenderHealth
- Family and Children's Council of Black Hawk County
- Gastineau Humane Society
- Gazette-El Pomar Foundation Empty Stocking Fund
- Mat-Su Borough Animal Care and Regulation
- National Public Radio
- Operation Rainbow, Inc
- Peak Vista Community Health Centers
- Plan USA
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest
- Porch Productions
- Save the Children
- Self-Help International
- Shjon Podein Children's Foundation
- Yolo County SPCA
Peacemaking
- Handicap International, Landmine Project
- Internat'l Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- World Security Institute, Center for Defense Information
Spirituality
- Dale House
- Downing House
- Family Life Services
- MOPS
- New Life of New York City, Inc.
- Potter's Inn
- UW Sports Ministry
Volunteerism & Civic Engagement
- Early Connections
- Metro Volunteers
- Pikes Peak Community Foundation, Edmundson Capacity Building Fund
- Points of Light Institute
- Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
Women's Interests
- Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
- Women's Resource Agency