The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation administers the philanthropic activities of Deutsche Bank within the United States, Latin America and Canada. Together, the Bank's Community Development Group and Foundation carry out the firm's corporate citizenship commitments through a program of loans, investments and grants. Based in New York City, where the majority of grants are awarded, the Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that concentrate on community development, education, and the arts.

Deutsche Bank works in partnership with local nonprofit organizations to provide distressed communities and disadvantaged individuals with opportunities for safe and affordable housing and economic advancement. The Foundation also seeks to enrich these communities by providing access to the arts, supporting local leaders, and strengthening local organizations. The Bank relies on the talents of its employees and the leadership of its management to leverage its financial commitments in addressing local needs.

Grants Program Areas

Community Development: Grants from the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation support neighborhood-based organizations that develop affordable housing, support the creation of new businesses, generate employment opportunities and address critical service needs. Committed to building healthy and sustainable communities, Deutsche Bank works in partnership with outstanding citywide and national organizations to help community-based initiatives take root and succeed.

The majority of grants in this category are sourced through three-year awards issued through various Requests for Proposals made available to qualified organizations. Examples include the Working Capital program, which funds early stage, predevelopment activities by community-based organizations that are starting housing, commercial, or community facility developments; and the Deutsche Bank Supportive Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Effort (DB SHARE), to support developers of new permanent housing for homeless New Yorkers with special needs.

Education: Deutsche Bank is committed to advancing the educational opportunities and performance of underserved students in New York City public schools. Our education programs focus on two specific areas: creating opportunities for immigrant students, disconnected youth, and boys of color, and improving school facilities in underprivileged communities.

Children of immigrant families now account for more than half the students in New York City’s public schools. We partner with non-profit organizations that help meet the needs of this growing, diverse population with the ultimate aim of helping talented minorities and women attend top schools, prepare for challenging careers and assume leadership roles in the financial services industry.

As part of our approach to giving underserved groups access to greater educational and economic opportunities, in September 2007, Deutsche Bank committed $1 million to fund the first phase of a new “Teachers as Leaders” program. The goals are to promote teaching as a preferred career path and improve methods of spotting and developing potentially talented teachers. Working with CUNY’s Black Male Initiative, the first phase will focus on address the shortage of black male teachers in New York City’s education system through structured apprentices, mentoring, skills development and scholarships.

The second strand of our education program is dedicated to providing charter schools with access to capital to create facilities that meet students’ academic needs and position those schools as centers for community activities. By partnering with non-profit programs such as the New Visions for Public Schools, the largest education reform organization in New York City, which is helping six community groups develop innovative multi-use schools, we believe we can help strengthen the communities in which we live and work.

Arts: Recognizing that communities outside the economic mainstream have realized only limited opportunities from the vitality of the arts sector, Deutsche Bank launched the Arts & Enterprise grants program in 2001. This funding initiative seeks to encourage the use of art, culture and design as tools for the economic development of distressed communities, as well as to provide residents of these areas with new employment, career and entrepreneurial opportunities

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation has made funds available through the Place-Based Revitalization RFP for initiatives that seek to revitalize distressed communities through strategies that rely on the arts as a catalyst for positive economic, physical and social change. Eligible nonprofit grant recipients include community development corporations; arts and cultural institutions; local business development corporations; associations of artists; and partnerships of any of these entities.

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation has established the New Spaces RFP to help eligible organizations who have completed or are in the advanced development stage of building a new or enhanced building become sustainable and responsive institutions within their local communities. Eligible organizations are medium sized arts or cultural organizations with a budget of $1-4 million dollars with programming that has a direct relevance to the experiences and cultures of the local community. The New Spaces RFP will help eligible organizations meet transformative challenges and become sustainable and responsible institutions within their local communities.

Recipient Eligibility

To be considered for a grant, U.S. applicants must be nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations (under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code) serving locations in which Deutsche Bank conducts business and has a grant-making program.
The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation will fund the following 501(c)(3) public charities:

• 509(a)(1) organizations;
• 509(a)(2) organizations;
• 509(a)(3) Type I supporting organizations;,and
• 509(a)(3) Type II supporting organizations.

The Foundation will not fund 501(c)(3) public charities classified as:

• 509(a)(3) Type III supporting organizations.

Applicants from Canada and Latin America being considered for funding will be asked to submit a signed and sworn affidavit, provided by Deutsche Bank, verifying equivalency eligibility.
To help in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, Deutsche Bank may require an organization to provide information regarding the organization and its directors, managers, and/or employees (collectively, the organization's 'affiliates'). Deutsche Bank also may ask the organization and its affiliates to provide identifying documents (such as articles of formation or incorporation). Deutsche Bank may use the information and documents received to verify the identities of borrowers or investees and their affiliates.

Application Process

The Foundation will occasionally accept unsolicited proposals from nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status that meet the criteria outlined in the Foundation guidelines above.

Grant seekers should send a letter of intent, not to exceed three pages, to the Foundation. This letter should provide

a brief statement of the organization's history, mission and objectives
the purpose of the proposed project (goals/projected outcomes)
the amount and duration of the financial request
a copy of the IRS determination letter substantiating 501 (c) (3) status

509(a)(3) organizations only: IRS documentation indicating whether you are a 509(a)(3) Type I; 509(a)(3) Type II; or 509(a)(3) Type III organization

Foundation staff will review all submissions and invite selected organizations to apply for funding. The Foundation will review these grant proposals on an ongoing basis. As a rule, the Foundation does not provide funding to any individual organization for more than three successive years.

Exclusions

The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation does not provide grants in support of

• endowment and capital campaigns
• individuals (e.g., scholarships, expeditions)
• legal advocacy
• political parties or their candidates
• religious work of churches or sectarian organizations
• United Way and pass through-funded agencies, unless they provide a fund-raising waiver from the
• United Way or pass through organization
• veterans' and fraternal organizations
• military organizations
• professional and trade associations
• individual artists, films, and the performing arts
• organizations that are not in full compliance with the anti-terrorism laws legislated by the USA PATRIOT Act
• organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, national origin, disability,
• handicap, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law

To help in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, Deutsche Bank may require an organization to provide information regarding the organization and its directors, managers, and/or employees (collectively, the organization's 'affiliates'). Deutsche Bank also may ask the organization and its affiliates to provide identifying documents (such as articles of formation or incorporation). Deutsche Bank may use the information and documents received to verify the identities of borrowers or investees and their affiliates.
Submission of proposals:

Please direct inquiries to:

Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
60 Wall Street, NYC60-2112
New York, NY 10005

Elsewhere in the United States, proposals may be submitted to local Deutsche Bank offices where local grant-making programs are in place.