PepsiCo Foundation Update

Due to new and exciting developments at the PepsiCo Foundation, we are currently restructuring our grant making process. We will be unable to accept grant request applications between May 15 and August 15, 2008* in order to update our applications.

We encourage you to read the explanation of focus areas, as outlined below, as they will be the platforms of criteria for funding from PepsiCo Foundation moving forward. If your project request is for $100,000 or less and fits within the focus areas described below, please return to this website to submit your application after August 15*.

We appreciate the time and attentiveness you have dedicated to applying for a grant from PepsiCo Foundation. This temporary suspension of the application process does not mean that we will not review your application if it has been submitted successfully online prior to May 15, 2008. If it has been uploaded into the system before May 15, 2008, we will review it and the proposal contact will receive notification via email. We ask for your patience during this process.

Best wishes for continued success in all of your organization's endeavors.

*This reflects the anticipated date and is subject to change

PepsiCo Foundation’s Focus Area Objectives:

Global Health

Our initiatives in Global Health address the fundamental need for better access to proper nutrition and activity. We are seeking sustainable programs that will provide opportunities, particularly for the underserved, to address the challenges of over nutrition and under nutrition through:

• Community-based Interventions
• Lay Health Educators
• Energy Balance Initiatives

Environment

Ideal programs focusing on the Environment will enable global communities to find ways to make safe water available, limit the crisis of water scarcity in developing countries and develop more efficient ways of using water through better management of resources.
Initiatives of particular interest are those which address one or more of the following areas:

• Agricultural innovations to improve water security
• Water harvesting
• Watershed resource management
• Utilization of Microfinance Models

Global Inclusion

Our mission in the area of Global Inclusion is to work towards closing the gap and creating a pathway to equality for ethnic minorities, girls and women in underserved communities, through education and empowerment models.

Initiatives of particular interest are:

• Dropout prevention in the US
• Girls education and women’s empowerment outside the US