NEW GRANTS
Following are grants of $20,000
and more made by foundations,
companies, and other private
sources. Announcements of grants
can be sent to Grants Editor, The
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 1255
23rd Street, N. W., Suite 775,
Washington, D.C. 20037, or sent
via e-mail to grants.editor@
philanthropy.com.
FOUNDATION
GRANTS
PAUL G. ALLEN FAMILY
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://pgafamilyfoundation.org
BOSTON FOUNDATION
Boston, Mass.
http://www.tbf.org
Community and economic development.
For local food production in Boston:
$100,000 over two years to the Conservation Law Foundation (Boston,
Mass.).
Education. For general support of a
partnership that seeks to link schools
and the out-of-school sector: $100,000
to Boston After School & Beyond (
Boston, Mass.).
—To complete Pope John Paul II
Academy’s structural reform and help
deliver high quality, low-cost school
options for students in Dorchester:
$100,000 to Campaign for Catholic
Schools (Braintree, Mass.).
—To build a Boston Adult Opportunity
Network with lead agencies collaborating with adult basic-education providers to serve students and change
the way public dollars are allocated:
$100,000 to World Education (Boston,
Mass.).
Young adults. For general operating
support: $100,000 to Year Up (Boston,
Mass.).
CARNEGIE CORPORATION
OF NEW YORK
New York, N. Y.
http://www.carnegie.org
Education. For a national research committee to define college and career
readiness in K- 16 education: $100,000
over 18 months to the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.).
Philanthropy. For its program on philanthropy and social innovation:
$100,000 over two years to the Aspen
Institute (Washington, D.C.).
CLEVEL AND FOUNDATION
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.clevelandfoundation.org
Conservation and the environment. To
construct a “smart house” to help visitors better understand green building and the effects of global climate
change: $40,000 to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Cleveland,
Ohio).
Education. To sustain operations at
two Cleveland public charter schools:
$94,900 to Friends of E Prep Schools
(Cleveland, Ohio).
CONNELLY FOUNDATION
West Conshohocken, Pa.
http://www.connellyfdn.org
Children, youths, and families. For
fund-raising efforts: $20,000 to Presbyterian Children’s Village (
Rosemont, Pa.).
CONSUMER HEALTH FOUNDATION
Washington, D. C.
http://www.consumerhealthfdn.org
Health. To conduct research, education,
and outreach on budget and tax is-
sues affecting low to moderate-income
residents, particularly as they relate
to poverty and health: $25,000 jointly
to the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities (Washington, D.C.) and the
D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute (Washing-
ton, D.C.).
—To engage in coalition-based advocacy
efforts to improve access to culturally
and linguistically competent health
care for residents with limited profi-
ciency in English: $25,000 to La Cli-
nica del Pueblo (Washington, D.C.).
—To start an education and outreach
series for nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region focused
on national health-care reform and its
impact on low-income communities:
$40,000 to the National Health Law
Program (Washington, D.C.).
COOPER FOUNDATION
Lincoln, Neb.
http://www.cooperfoundation.org
Museums. To design an interactive
water exhibit: $20,000 to Lincoln Children’s Museum (Lincoln, Neb.).
DANFORTH FOUNDATION
St. Louis, Mo.
Science. For expansion: $70,000,000 to
the Donald Danforth Plant Science
Center (St. Louis, Mo.).
DAVID TEPPER CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
Livingston, N.J.
Social services. To purchase new trucks
and replace aging vehicles for its food
banks nationwide: $3,000,000 to Feeding America (Chicago, Ill.).
DRESHER FOUNDATION
Nottingham, Md.
Education. For a summer program
designed to increase retention rates
among incoming students majoring
in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics: $50,000 to Harford
Community College (Bel Air, Md.).
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.ddcf.org
Conservation and the environment. To
provide grants to organizations working to help wildlife adapt to climate
change: $4,900,000 to the Wildlife
Conservation Society (Washington,
D.C.).
BILL & MELINDA GATES
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Health. For a consortium that will study
a bacterium that causes serious disease and epidemics in sub-Saharan
Africa: $1,500,000 to U. of Liverpool
(Liverpool, England).
Museums. For general operating support: $5,500,000 to the Seattle Art
Museum (Seattle, Wash.).
HARTFORD FOUNDATION
FOR PUBLIC GIVING
Hartford, Conn.
http://www.hfpg.org
Homelessness. For a program to move
homeless people into independent,
permanent housing: $45,000 to Journey Home (Hartford, Conn.).
JANE’S TRUST
Boston, Mass.
Higher education. To build, grow,
and strengthen community-based
food-production and -distribution
networks: $75,000 to Unity College
(Unity, Me.).
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON
FOUNDATION
Princeton, N.J.
http://www.rwjf.org
Health. For a practice-based research
network in public health: $150,000
over two years each to Case Western
U. School of Medicine (Cleveland,
Ohio) and the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health (Hartford,
Conn.), and $149,999 over two years
to State of Wisconsin Department of
Health Services (Madison, Wis.).
GRANTS HIGHLIGHTS
n New Balance Foundation: $7-million to Children’s
Hospital Boston to establish a center for childhood-obesity
prevention
n Peter G. Peterson Foundation: $1.2-million to be divided among six organizations with differing ideological
perspectives to develop solutions to the nation’s projected
long-term debt and deficits
n Richard H. Driehaus Foundation: $1,000,000 to the Better Government Association for its
efforts to fight government corruption in Illinois
n Mertz Gilmore Foundation: $349,500 to be divided among seven organizations for efforts to
stop the construction and use of coal-fired power plants
n Standard Charitable Foundation: $25,000 to Give an Hour to provide free mental-health
services to U.S. military personnel and their families affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
$211,880,088 worth of grants have been listed online in the past two weeks
at http://philanthropy.com/grants
We now place grants online every Thursday to help you keep on top of grant-making priorities.
—To strengthen state advocacy networks to expand health coverage:
$150,000 each to Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation (
Augusta, Me.), the Health Access Foundation (Sacramento, Calif.), the New
Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund
(Newark, N. J.), the Oregon Health Action Campaign (Gresham, Ore.), and
the Washington Community Action
Network Education & Research Fund
(Seattle, Wash.).
—To provide impartial, continuous,
and accessible analysis to chronicle
real-time enactment of health reform:
$514,147 to George Washington U.
Medical Center, School of Public
Health and Health Services (
Washington, D.C.).
—To reduce violent behavior in schools
by focusing on building, strengthening, and repairing relationships:
$200,000 over two years to Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.).
—To develop tools to guide policy makers in evaluating policy and environmental programs to increase physically active school transportation such
as biking or walking: $50,000 to Texas
A&M U., College of Architecture (
College Station, Tex.).
LILLY ENDOWMENT
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.lillyendowment.org
Community development. For general
operating support: $1,147,500 to Eitel-jorg Museum of American Indians and
Western Art (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For general operating support:
$1,200,000 to the Indiana Association
of United Ways (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For general support: $6,300,000 to the
Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing
Partnership (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Education. For Teach for America in Indianapolis and other teacher and principal quality programs: $2,000,000 to
the Mind Trust (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Religion. For research on the institutional financial and leadership practices of theological schools: $1,169,796
to Auburn Theological Seminary (New
York, N. Y.).
HENRY LUCE FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.hluce.org
Higher education. For a project to
promote collaboration between
internationalization and multicul-tural-education programs on college
campuses: $400,000 over three years
to the American Council on Education
(Washington, D.C.).
JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T.
MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
Chicago, Ill.
http://www.macfound.org
Media. To develop technology that will
allow producers of online documentaries and other videos to use public
contributions to translate and subtitle
their work: $100,000 to the Participatory Culture Foundation (Boston,
Mass.).
Nonprofit organizations and philan-
thropy. For the 2011 MacArthur
Awards for Creative and Effective
Institutions: $1,000,000 each to Bay
Area Video Coalition (San Francisco,
Calif.), Sargent Shriver National
Center on Poverty Law (Chicago, Ill.),
and the Urban Institute’s Tax Policy
Center (Washington, D. C.), $750,000
each to the Sociedad Mexicana Pro
Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City,
Mexico), and the W. Haywood Burns
Institute (San Francisco, Calif.),
$500,000 each to Arms Control Associ-
ation (Washington, D.C.), and Redress
(London, England), $350,000 each
to Action Research and Training for
Health (Rajasthan, India), National
Alliance of Latin American and Carib-
bean Communities (Chicago, Ill.), the
Royal Society for Protection of Nature
(Thimphu, Bhutan), and the Social
and Economic Rights Action Center
(Lagos, Nigeria).
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION
Minneapolis, Minn.
http://www.mcknight.org
Conservation and the environment. To
protect and restore the Mississippi
River: $650,000 over two years to the
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.)
and $450,000 over two years to the
National Audubon Society (New York,
N.Y.).
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.mellon.org
Higher education. For salary support
of a senior conservator: $1,250,000 to
Duke U. Libraries (Durham, N.C.).
Libraries. For salary support of a senior-level conservator: $1,250,000
challenge grant to the U. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Library (Urbana,
Ill.).
MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.mertzgilmore.org
Climate change. For a pilot project in
New York City public schools to reduce energy use and related climate
emissions: $75,000 to Community Environmental Center Stuyvesant Cove
(New York, N. Y.).
—To help leverage online donations for
climate change solutions in New York
City: $50,000 to In Our Backyards
(New York, N. Y.).
Community development. To help
residents in East Harlem organize
themselves to preserve safe, low-cost
housing, focus on landlord abuses, and
prevent displacement: $50,000 to the
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute (New
York, N. Y.).
—For a policy campaign to mandate
paid sick leave for all New Yorkers:
$20,000 to A Better Balance (New
York, N. Y.).
—For a campaign for an independent
New York State redistricting commission and other governance reforms:
$50,000 to the Citizens Union Foundation (New York, N. Y.).
—For public housing, welfare reform,
and voter-education campaigns:
$100,000 over two years to Community Voices Heard (New York, N. Y.).
—To help community-based organizations produce their own media stories:
$35,000 to Fund for the City of New
York (New York, N. Y.).
—For general support to focus on hous-
ing and workforce issues, community
development, and environmental jus-
tice: $80,000 over two years to Good
Old Lower East Side (New York, N. Y.).
