NEW GRANTS
respiratory nurses and respiratory
therapists: $200,000 to Barlow Respiratory Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.).
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Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil).
Health. To develop the quality improvement, management, and teamwork
skills of 20 San Francisco safety net
clinic management teams: $323,700
over 17 months to San Francisco
Health Plan (San Francisco, Calif.).
Nursing. To update its strategic plan:
$150,000 over 18 months to the
California Institute for Nursing and
Health Care (Oakland, Calif.).
Science. To sequence and perform basic
characterizations of the gene content
of numerous marine microbial eu-karyotes: $1,936,955 over 20 months
to the National Center for Genome
Resources (Santa Fe, N.M.).
—To investigate how corals resist environmental stress: $2,446,138 over 41
months to Stanford U., School of Medicine (Stanford, Calif.).
—To procure scientific laboratory and
field equipment for its oceanography
department: $285,000 to Universidad
de Concepción (Concepción, Chile).
—For advances in imaging informatics
in oceanography: $2,170,431 over three
years to Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (Woods Hole, Mass.).
Science education. For a science and
nature series to improve science literacy and teaching: $110,000 to KQED
Public Media (San Francisco, Calif.).
ber stations in all 50 states to better
inform the public about the impact
of state governments on citizens:
$1,800,000 to National Public Radio
(Washington, D.C.).
GRANTS BY
COMPANIES
tion program: $67,500 to Philadelphia
Futures for Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.).
—To provide academic, financial, and
social support for students entering
college: $60,000 to the White-Williams
Foundation (Philadelphia, Pa.).
HIV/AIDS. For its youth-empowerment
program and educational outreach
to disadvantaged people: $60,000 to
AIDS Task Force (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
Literacy. For a family literacy program:
$48,500 to the Early Childhood Alliance (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
WILLIAM H. PITT FOUNDATION
Norwalk, Conn.
Education. To purchase over 3,000
books for its Trailblazers Academy
Charter Middle School library:
$70,000 to Domus (Stamford, Conn.).
ANITA INTERNATIONAL
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
http://www.anita.com
Health. For efforts to educate women
about breast-cancer screening and
treatments: $35,000 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Dallas, Tex.).
RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION
Providence, R.I.
http://www.rifoundation.org
Human services. To provide emergency
shelter to needy families: $100,000 to
Crossroads Rhode Island (Providence,
R.I.).
AVON FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN
New York, N. Y.
http://www.avonfoundation.org
Domestic violence. For a program to
help victims of domestic violence create independent, violence-free lives:
$47,049 to the New Orleans Family
Justice Center (New Orleans, La.).
India: $30,000 to the Ashraya Initiative for Children (Ithaca, N. Y.).
Families. To organize support groups for
mothers nationwide: $30,000 to Mom-mies Network (Monroe, N.C.).
Health. To provide access to basic health
care for needy women around the
world: $30,000 to the Women’s World
Health Initiative (Salt Lake City,
Utah).
Hunger. To persuade people who are
relocating to donate unopened food,
which will then be distributed to national food banks: $30,000 to Move for
Hunger (Neptune, N.J.).
Sustainable development. To facilitate
sustainable-development projects
in Africa: $30,000 to Develop Africa
(Johnson City, Tenn.).
Volunteerism. To pair disabled children
with teenage volunteers: $30,000 to
the Friendship Circle (Redondo Beach,
Calif.).
—To promote volunteerism among
young children: $30,000 to Little
Helping Hands (Austin, Tex.).
NEW YORK LIFE
FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.newyorklifefoundation.org
Financial education. To promote and
distribute 10,000 sets of “Building
Your Future,” a financial-literacy curriculum, to high schools across the
country: $100,000 to the Actuarial
Foundation (Schaumburg, Ill.).
CHARLES STEWART MOTT
FOUNDATION
Flint, Mich.
http://www.mott.org
Arts and culture. For operations and
maintenance: $1,270,000 to the Genesee County Parks & recreation Commission (Flint, Mich.).
Community development. For debt
reduction: $60,000 to Wellness AIDS
Services (Flint, Mich.).
Economic development. To build state
capacity for timely, credible, and accessible tax and budget analysis on
behalf of low- and middle-income families: $100,000 to the North Carolina
Justice Center (Raleigh, N.C.).
Governance and civil society. To
strengthen citizen oversight of the
role of the Brazilian government in
financial sector reform and provide
input into international debates concerning financial regulation: $100,000
to INESC (Brasilia, Brazil).
ROSENBERG FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.rosenfound.org
Economic development. For policy
advocacy, research, and organizing:
$100,000 to the East Bay Alliance
for Sustainable Economy (Oakland,
Calif.).
Violence prevention. For a program to
prevent children’s exposure to violence and promote service to child victims: $65,000 to the Family Violence
Prevention Fund (San Francisco,
Calif.).
Women and girls. For a communications and policy campaign to reduce
the number of women prisoners in
California and strengthen public support for alternatives to incarceration:
$60,000 to the Women’s Foundation of
California (San Francisco, Calif.).
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
Charlotte, N.C.
http://www.bankofamerica.com/
foundation
Economic development. To strengthen
local economies and support jobs:
$18,400,000 to be divided among 92
nonprofit organizations in 45 cities.
CAREFIRST BLUECROSS
BLUESHIELD
Owings Mills, Md.
http://www.carefirstcommitment.com/
html/ index.html
Higher education. To increase college graduation rates among needy
students majoring in the health and
life-science fields: $50,000 to the Independent College Fund of Maryland
(Baltimore, Md.).
DELTA AIR LINES
Atlanta, Ga.
http://www.delta.com
Museums. For programs and a new
facility: $1,000,000 to the National
Center for Civil and Human Rights
(Atlanta, Ga.).
OTHER
GRANTS
JANE AND DANIEL OCH FAMILY
FOUNDATION
STUART FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.stuartfoundation.org
Children and youths. To evaluate a permanency program for foster youths:
$75,000 to Child Trends Incorporated
(Washington, D.C.).
Education. To provide comprehensive
services to current and former foster
youths as they develop and pursue
their educational goals: $125,000 to
the Los Angeles City College Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.).
—For the Ready to Succeed Program,
which works to improve the educational outcomes for children and
youths in foster care: $125,000 to U. of
California at Berkeley, California Social Work Education Center (Berkeley,
Calif.) and $100,000 to the Center for
the Future of Teaching and Learning
(Santa Cruz, Calif.).
EXXONMOBIL FOUNDATION
Irving, Tex.
http://www.exxon.com/community/
index.html
Conservation and the environment.
To provide more integrated access to
nationwide scientific information on
species and ecosystems through Land-Scope America, an online resource:
$48,500 to NatureServe (Arlington,
Va.).
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS
New York, N. Y.
http://www.soros.org
Journalism. To add reporters to mem-
WEINGART FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.weingartfnd.org
Health. For a program designed to increase recruitment and retention, and
ensure the competency of newly hired
J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO.
New York, N. Y.
http://www.jpmorgan.com
Disabled. To provide information,
resources, and support to families nationwide affected by autism: $30,000
to Talk About Curing Autism (Costa
Mesa, Calif.).
Education. To provide educational opportunities to poor children in Pune,
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LINCOLN FINANCIAL
FOUNDATION
Fort Wayne, Ind.
http://www.lfg.com
Education. For an after-school tutoring
program for students in kindergarten
through third grade who are succeeding below their grade level: $45,000 to
the Allen County Education Partnership (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—For an after-school program: $25,000
to Boys and Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne
(Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—To help young people aging out of
foster care learn how to live independently: $20,000 to the Child Saving
Institute (Omaha, Neb.).
—For computer training, GED preparation, and English-as-a-second-lan-guage classes: $25,000 to the Educational Opportunity and Talent Search
Center (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—For a business-education program for
high-school students: $20,000 to the
Enterprise Center (Philadelphia, Pa.).
—For education programs for disadvantaged and minority students: $35,000
to the Franklin Institute Science Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.).
—To provide camp scholarships to low-income girls: $30,000 to Girl Scouts of
Northern Indiana-Michiana Council
(Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—To help underwrite the bicentennial
celebration of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
birth: $25,000 to the Harriet Beecher
Stowe Center (Hartford, Conn.).
—For academic and support services
that help youths access independent
schools and college: $25,000 to Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation (
Hartford, Conn.).
—To provide financial assistance to
high-school students in the Collegiate
Connection program, which allows
them to earn college credits: $40,000
to Indiana U.-Purdue U. Fort Wayne
(Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—For educational programs and visits
by area students: $20,000 to the National Constitution Center (
Philadelphia, Pa.).
—To broadcast All Things Considered:
$32,000 to Northeast Indiana Public
Radio (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
—For field trips for low-income schools:
$20,000 to the Omaha Children’s Museum (Omaha, Neb.).
—To provide high-school students with
paid internships at area businesses
for six weeks during the summer:
$25,000 to the Philadelphia Youth
Network (Philadelphia, Pa.).
—For youth centers that provide after-school tutoring and mentor programs
in three neighborhoods: $30,000 to the
Police Athletic League of Philadelphia
(Philadelphia, Pa.).
—To narrow academic achievement
gaps through an educational-enrich-ment program: $20,000 to Project
Forward Leap Foundation (
Philadelphia, Pa.).
—For a year-long pre-kindergarten program to improve school readiness using music, dance, and the visual arts:
$20,000 to Settlement Music School
(Philadelphia, Pa.).
—To strengthen educational opportunities for low-income urban children:
$80,000 to Teach for America-Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) and
$50,000 to Teach for America-New
Haven (New Haven, Conn.).
—To provide financial aid for low-income students: $25,000 to the U.
of North Carolina at Greensboro
Excellence Foundation (Greensboro,
N.C.).
—For a summer camp, outdoor education, and child-care programs: $45,000
to the YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne
(Fort Wayne, Ind.).
Higher education. For a college-reten-
PBR HAWAII AND ASSOCIATES
Honolulu, Hawaii
http://www.pbrhawaii.com
Higher education. To create a scholarship endowment for the School of
Architecture: $40,000 to U. of Hawaii
at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii).
PNC FOUNDATION
Pittsburgh, Pa.
http://www.pnccommunityinvolvement.
com/ PNCFoundation.htm
Conservation and the environment. For
an educational center: $1,000,000 to
the Parklands of Floyds Park (
Louisville, Ky.).
WELLS FARGO
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.wellsfargo.com
Conservation and the environment. For
scholarships for low-income youths
to attend environmental- and wilder-ness-leadership programs: $55,000 to
NatureBridge (San Francisco, Calif.).
Housing. To increase the availability
of low-cost housing: $5,000,000 to
be divided among nonprofit housing
organizations in 34 cities across the
nation.
AMERICAN LEGION CHILD
WELFARE FOUNDATION
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.legion.org/cwf
Children and youths. To disseminate
information on children’s mental and
physical welfare to the general public:
$666,670 to be divided among 21 non-profit organizations across the United
States.
HELIOS EDUCATION
FOUNDATION
Phoenix, Ariz.
http://www.helios.org
Education. For high-school mentoring,
improvements to its Web-based data-collection system, online college-readi-ness tools, and online virtual college
tours: $1,000,000 to Take Stock in
Children (Miami, Fla.).
UNITED HOSPITAL FUND
New York, N. Y.
http://www.uhfnyc.org
Health. To test an enhanced home-care
model that incorporates palliative-care services not currently available
to home-care patients approaching the
end of life: $50,000 to Calvary Hospital (New York, N. Y.).
—For a partnership between the United
Hospital Fund and the Greater New
York Hospital Association: $250,000
to the Greater New York Hospital Association (New York, N. Y.).
—To establish a task force that will
develop recommendations to improve
the transition of young adults with
chronic diseases from pediatric to
adult medicine: $48,000 to Steven and
Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical
Center of New York, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
(New Hyde Park, N. Y.).
—For two programs to train home care-givers and clinicians: $100,000 to the
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
(New York, N. Y.).
Health insurance. To provide an updated profile of health-insurance coverage in New York State and to help
inform policy choices for the implementation of health reform: $50,000
to the Urban Institute (Washington,
D.C.).
