Revised as of December 1, 2008

VKRF is currently emphasizing grantmaking to non-profit organizations having an international focus with the goal of encouraging the most positive response to climate change. The Foundation is also completing the funding of a serious of multi year grant commitments in 2010.

The Foundation will therefore not be accepting unsolicited Letters of Inquiry or Grant Proposals during 2010.

This website will be revised early December 2010 to update information about the Foundation’s grantmaking plans and its policies relating to Letters of Inquiry and Grant Proposals in 2011.

Matters relating to Grants, Letters of Inquiry or Grant Proposals should be directed to Irene Krarup, Associate Director.

Our website provides information and links relating to many of our grantees within our various grantmaking categories, it also reflects our grantmaking history, fields of interest, and priorities within the environmental field from the time the Foundation was created in 1991. We are pleased that since the organization of the Foundation, VKRF has made grants for environmental purposes of approximately $83 million, grants for use in Greenwood and South Carolina of approximately $11 million, and grants for eye research, medical research and other public health causes of approximately $8 million. In addition, the Foundation has future grants committed in these fields of approximately an additional $9 million.

Grantees should acknowledge a grant from the Foundation in the same manner as acknowledgment is provided to other funders.

Contact

See the section Contact Us in this website in order to contact the Foundation with any questions.

References to the Foundation

All references to the Foundation should use either the full name V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation or the initials VKRF.