Higher education. For its New Frontiers
of Philanthropy Project, which promotes new ways of financing solutions
for the world’s social and environmental problems: $150,000 to the Johns
Hopkins U., Center for Civil Society
Studies (Baltimore, Md.).
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$2,250,000 over 20 months to Families
in Schools (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Education. To strengthen science,
technology, engineering, and math
opportunities for students in San
Bernardino County: $350,000 over
two years to the Community Foundation Serving Riverside and San Bernardino Counties (Riverside, Calif.).
—For the Career Leaders project:
$800,000 over two years to the Foundation for California Community Colleges (Sacramento, Calif.).
—To expand its California Academies:
$1,800,000 over two years to the
National Academy Foundation (New
York, N. Y.).
—For a coalition of community-based
organizations to strengthen parent
and student engagement around
Linked Learning in the Antioch, Oakland, and West Contra Costa school
districts: $750,000 over two years to
Oakland Community Organizations
(Oakland, Calif.).
—For principal development in Linked
Learning high schools across California, which seek to improve secondary-school options and to increase
the number of poor youths who have
access to higher education and career
options: $650,000 over 21 months
to the U. of San Diego (San Diego,
Calif.).
—To support a coalition of education
and business partners that aims to
improve secondary-school options and
to increase the number of poor youths
who have access to higher education
and career options: $800,000 over
two years to Unite-LA (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—For a coalition of community-based
organizations to strengthen parent
and student engagement around
Linked Learning in the Los Angeles
Unified School District: $1,000,000
over two years to the United Way of
Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—For organizational strengthening
and expansion of a San Francisco Bay
Area office: $650,000 to Year Up (Bos-
ton, Mass.).
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
OF LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.jewishfoundationla.org
Jewish life and culture. For the PJ Li-
brary, which provides families with
Jewish-content children’s books:
$150,000 to the Jewish Foundation
of Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
JOHN S. AND JAMES L. KNIGHT
FOUNDATION
Miami, Fla.
http://www.knightfdn.org
Journalism. For salary support of a chief
digital officer, to develop new ways
to engage audiences, to start an open
source reporting tool for investigative
reporters, to produce new reporting
projects, and to experiment with new
fund-raising models and for-profit
revenue streams: $1,700,000 to the
Center for Public Integrity (
Washington, D.C.).
JEWISH HEALTHCARE
FOUNDATION
Pittsburgh, Pa.
http://www.jhf.org
Health care and hospitals. To provide
patients with a pharmacist advocate
so they can be more able to manage
their medications after being discharged from the hospital: $93,000 to
the U. of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.jimjosephfoundation.org
Jewish life and culture. To expand a
program that establishes Jewish clubs
in public high schools: $1,480,000 over
three years to the Jack E. and Rachel
Gindi Jewish Student Union (Chicago,
Ill.).
KRONKOSKY CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
San Antonio, Tex.
http://www.kronkosky.org
Arts and culture. For operating support:
$250,000 to the Guadalupe Cultural
Arts Center (San Antonio, Tex.), and
$50,000 to Jump Start Performance
Company (San Antonio, Tex.).
Conservation and the environment.
For unrestricted support: $250,000 to
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Inc. (Kendalia, Tex.).
Health. For its Prescription Assistance
Program: $145,000 to Any Baby
Can of San Antonio (San Antonio,
Tex.).
W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION
Battle Creek, Mich.
http://www.wkkf.org
Education. To study the impact of, and
expand, its Parent-Child Education
Program Model, which aims to help
needy Latino parents become en-
gaged in their children’s education:
$12,600,000 to Avance (San Antonio,
Tex.).
LADIES AID SOCIETY
OF THE PRESBYERIAN MEDICAL
CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA
Wayne, Pa.
Children and youths. For arts programs
for youths ages 13 to 18 with serious
mental health and behavioral issues:
$20,262 to the Presbyterian Children’s Village (Rosemont, Pa.).
LEON LEVINE FOUNDATION
Charlotte, N.C.
Health care and hospitals. To establish
a cancer institute: $20,000,000 to
Carolinas HealthCare System (Char-
lotte, N.C.).
LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION
Santa Monica, Calif.
http://www.libertyhill.org
Community and economic development. To improve the health of black
women in South Los Angeles: $30,000
to Black Women for Wellness (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To organize youths to work toward
racial justice in public education
throughout California: $30,000 to
Californians for Justice Education
Fund (Long Beach, Calif.).
—To build tenant leaders, preserve low-cost housing, combat slum housing,
and strengthen rent control: $35,000
to the Coalition for Economic Survival
(Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To organize low-wage immigrant
workers and families: $30,000 to the
Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—To organize parents to combat zero-tolerance policies and other harsh disciplinary measures at schools: $30,000
to Community Asset Development
Re-Defining Education (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—To improve workplace conditions for
car-wash workers across Los Angeles:
$30,000 to Community-Labor-Envi-ronmental Action Network Carwash
Campaign (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To preserve and expand low-cost
housing in Long Beach: $30,000 to
Housing Long Beach (Long Beach,
Calif.).
—To build power among students
and parents in Boyle Heights, East
Los Angeles, El Sereno, and Lincoln
Heights: $35,000 to InnerCity Struggle (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To train religious leaders and congre-
gations across Los Angeles to achieve
equity in health, education, immigra-
tion, and housing: $35,000 to LA Voice
PICO (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To bring green construction projects
to blacks and create a pre-appren-
ticeship program for black youths:
$20,000 to the Los Angeles Black
Worker Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To improve tenants’ rights, housing
preservation, civil rights, economic
development, and access to healthy
food: $35,000 to the Los Angeles Community Action Network (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
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—To help foster children and disadvan-
taged youths in South Los Angeles:
$30,000 to Peace4Kids (Compton,
Calif.).
—To help needy Pilipino families and to
organize for better conditions for im-
migrant workers: $30,000 to Pilipino
Workers’ Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To increase the financial security,
safety, and health of day laborers and
immigrant workers in Pomona Valley:
$30,000 to the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (Pomona, Calif.).
—To expand resources and improve the
quality of housing free of substance
abuse in South Los Angeles and
Compton: $20,000 to Sober Living
Network (Santa Monica, Calif.).
—To build skills and power within
religious congregations and community organizations to promote social
and economic change in Los Angeles
County: $30,000 to the Southern California Education Fund (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—To eliminate slum housing, expand
tenants’ rights, and to improve jobs
in the Figueroa Corridor and housing
development: $30,000 to Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—To bring low-cost housing, clean
water, and economic opportunities to
Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, and
Maywood: $40,000 to Union de Veci-nos (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Conservation and the environment. To
change environmental policies and
practices in industrialized areas of
southeast Los Angeles and Wilmington to improve the health of residents:
$40,000 to Communities for a Better
Environment (Oakland, Calif.).
—To promote policy changes to eliminate industrial pollution in City of
Commerce and East Los Angeles:
$40,000 to East Yard Communities for
Environmental Justice (City of Commerce, Calif.).
—To help Long Beach residents to
confront threats to air quality and
environmental health: $25,000 to the
Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization (Long Beach,
Calif.).
—To promote environmental and economic justice locally, nationally, and
internationally: $50,000 to the Labor
Community Strategy Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To bring about environmental health
and justice in northeast San Fernando
Valley: $35,000 to Pacoima Beautiful
(Pacoima, Calif.).
—To alleviate environmental health
problems in South Los Angeles and
other areas of the county: $20,000 to
Physicians for Social Responsibility
(Washington, D.C.).
Gay men and lesbians. To promote gay
marriage and equality among Asians
and Asian Pacific Islanders in Los
Angeles: $40,000 to Asian & Pacific
Islander Equality-Los Angeles (Los
Angeles, Calif.).
—To improve the health and well-being
of low-income, minority transgender
people in Los Angeles: $35,000 to Gender Justice L.A. (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To promote gay marriage and equality among African Americans in Los
Angeles: $25,000 to Jordan/Rustin
Coalition (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—To promote liberty, equality, and justice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Latinos through
public policy: $40,000 to the Latino
Equality Alliance (Los Angeles, Calif.).
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LUMINA FOUNDATION
FOR EDUCATION
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.luminafoundation.org
Continuing education. For a program to
help adults get college degrees and job
training: $250,000 to Goodwill Indus-
tries International (Rockville, Md.).
—To encourage former students to re-enroll and complete their two- or four-year degrees: $800,000 to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Foundation (St. Paul, Minn.).
Higher education. To examine critical
higher-education issues related to
the kind of education Americans will
need for the 21st century: $500,000
to American Public Media (St. Paul,
Minn.).
—To develop communications activities and products that strengthen the
ability of states to graduate more
students within existing resources
while maintaining academic quality:
$900,000 to Communication Works
(Washington, D.C.).
—To implement a pilot for a virtual
Prior Learning Assessment Center:
$1,000,000 to the Council for Adult
and Experiential Learning (Chicago,
Ill.).
—To manage state contracts and coor-
