International grant making by U.S. foundations

Health Affairs

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 234-238

  Leroy, Lauren ^a  

^a Grantmakers in Health   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; FOUNDATIONS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0033125410     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.18.3.234     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. USAID budgeted $1.046 billion for health and family planning activities in 1994. Similarly, annual health funding by the World Bank has ranged from $885.7 million to nearly $2 billion in recent years, and 1994-1995 spending by WHO reached $1.97 billion.
2. L. Renz et al., International Grantmaking: A Report on U.S. Foundation Trends (New York: Foundation Center, 1997).
3. Grants for Foreign and International Programs (New York: Foundation Center, 1998/1999). Reported grants for health programs made in 1996 or 1997 totaled $113.1 million.
4. Renz et al., International Grantmaking.
5. Corporate philanthropy includes corporate-giving programs, which make both cash and product contributions, and corporate foundations. Grants are usually made in communities where the corporation operates.
6. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation also has a major international program of unrestricted grants for biomedical research.
7. SAFE is an acronym that stands for surgery, antibiotics, face washing, and environmental change.
8. See GrantWatch "Outcomes," Health Affairs (March/April 1999): 232.
9. Renz et al., International Grantmaking.
10. This same point was stressed by World Bank President James Wolfensohn in remarks at the Council on Foundations annual meeting, 28 April 1998, in Washington, D.C.