Home«TechGrants«TechGrants You Can Use«Fall 2004«The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation
c/o JPMorgan Private Bank, Global Foundations Group
345 Park Ave., 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10154
Phone: (212) 464-2467
Fax: (212) 464-2305
Contact: Lisa Philp, V.P., JPMorgan Private Bank
E-mail: Philp_lisa@jpmorgan.com
Website: http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/decamp
Type of grantmaker: Independent foundation.
Background: Trust established in 1975 in NY.
Purpose and activities: Grants for community-based health care, foster care, and workforce development.
Program area(s): The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:
Community Health Grants Program: The program seeks to support community health centers in New York City in one or more of the following areas: 1) Organizational capacity building such as leadership development, staff training, and improving fundraising or other resource development capacity; 2) Activities designed to improve efficiency and effectiveness such as strategic planning; markets, operations, and systems analysis; or performance measurement and process improvement; and 3) Capital improvements including current plant renovations, acquisition and development of new space, and information technology and infrastructure enhancements. For more information contact: Jacqueline Elias, V.P., JPMorgan Chase, at (212) 648-4788.
Foster Care Grants Program: Addressing foster care issues is difficult, but is an entree point for focusing on helping troubled families achieve better outcomes. The program seeks to support programs in New York City that address one or more of the following areas: 1) The shift to neighborhood-based services or realignment of services at the neighborhood level, with an emphasis on developing service linkages and partnerships with different service providers within the child welfare community. Preference will be given to neighborhood-based services that are family-centered and holistic, addressing the needs of child as well as parents; 2)Training and strategies to recruit and retain qualified caseworkers and other frontline staff at foster care agencies. Training for birth parents that helps them develop specific job-related skills, negotiate the child welfare system, and interact better with their children; 3) Adolescent services including education, job training, and independent living skills, as well as services for special populations such as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender youth; and 4) Policy and advocacy efforts around issues such as (but not limited to) housing for youth in foster care, updating the foster care rate-setting methodology, and sustaining quality-assurance programs. For more information contact: Lisa Philp, V.P., JPMorgan Chase, at (212) 648-8284.
Workforce Development Grants Program: The program seeks to support nonprofit organizations in New York City that 1) provide job training and placement services to unemployed or underemployed adults or 2) strengthen the field of workforce development by providing training and technical assistance to such programs or by engaging in public policy and advocacy efforts in support of such programs. The foundation's workforce development grants are intended to help address the following needs in New York City: 1) Capacity building, 2) Program development and 3) Research and evaluation. With respect to organizations that provide job training and placement services, the following are elements of such programs that are more likely to be considered for funding: 1) Combination of hard skills and life skills training; 2) Objective is to place adults in full-time competitive employment; 3) Post-placement support; and 4) Collection of data concerning graduation, placement, starting salaries, and retention. Other elements that should be addressed in proposals (to the extent they are relevant to the program) include the following: 1) GED preparation and ESL training; 2) Internships or other temporary work experience as part of the training program; 3) Training in managing one's finances and planning for the future (which may be part of the life skills curriculum); and 4) Other supportive services that assist trainees in addressing child care, housing, and other issues that may impact a person's ability to obtain and maintain employment. For more information contact: Monica Neal, V.P., JPMorgan Chase, at (212) 648-3490.
Fields of interest: Children, foster care; Employment; Health care.
Geographic focus: National
Types of support: Building/renovation, Equipment, Program development, Research, Seed money.
Limitations: Giving primarily in New York City. No support for government-affiliated organizations, or for research on live animals other than rats and mice. No grants to individuals, or for general support, land acquisition, matching gifts, publications, conferences, endowment funds, operating budgets, continuing support, annual campaigns, emergency funds, or deficit financing; no loans.
Application information: See foundation Web site for full application requirements. Application form not required. Applicants should submit the following:
1) Copy of current year's organizational budget and/or project budget
2) Detailed description of project and amount of funding requested
3) Listing of board of directors, trustees, officers and other key people and their affiliations
4) How project's results will be evaluated or measured
5) Copy of most recent annual report/audited financial statement/990
6) Brief history of organization and description of its mission
7) Copy of IRS Determination Letter
8) Population served
Initial approach: Proposal
Copies of proposal: 1
Board meeting date(s): Semiannually
Deadline(s): None
Final notification: 3 to 6 months
Financial data: (yr. ended 10/31/01): Assets, $84,038,904 (M); expenditures, $5,693,094; total giving, $4,915,000; qualifying distributions, $5,258,971; giving
activities include $4,915,000 for 109 grants (high: $200,000; low: $5,000; average: $10,000-$50,000).
