Nonprofit organizations and philan-
thropy. For its center on Nonprofits
and Philanthropy: $20,000 to the Ur-
ban Institute (Washington, D.C.).
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.
Higher education. For programs, fac-
ulty support, and its endowment:
$30,000,000 to U. of Maryland, School
of Law (Baltimore, Md.).
—For member support: $60,000 to the
Erie Downtown Arts Coalition (Erie,
Pa.).
—For the Bicentennial Collaborative
Project: $25,000 to the Jefferson Edu-
cational Society (Erie, Pa.).
Children and youths. For a parent and
school engagement program: $20,000
to Mission Empower (Erie, Pa.).
Social services. For expansion and ren-
ovation: $25,000 to Safenet (Erie, Pa.).
FAIRHOLME FOUNDATION
Coral Gables, Fla.
Higher education. To build a new stu-
dent-activities center: $20,000,000 to
the U. of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.).
FOUNDATION
GRANTS
ARTHUR M. BLANK FAMILY
FOUNDATION
ROBERT STERLING CLARK
FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.rsclark.org
Arts and culture. To allow 15 American
visual artists to travel to 15 different
countries to work with local com-
munities on works of art that deal
with social issues as part of the U.S.
Department of State’s smARTpower
program: $200,000 over two years to
the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New
York, N. Y.).
BRAINERD
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://www.brainerd.org
Conservation and the environment.
To protect the Flathead River
Valley from resource development:
$30,000 to the Sierra Club of Brit-
ish Columbia Foundation (Victoria,
Canada).
—For strategic planning and human-
resource development: $27,000 to the
Washington Bus Education Fund (Se-
attle, Wash.).
COOPER FOUNDATION
Lincoln, Neb.
http://www.cooperfoundation.org
Conservation and the environment. For
general operating support: $20,000 to
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center
(Denton, Neb.).
Health. To supplement revenue lost
through the state’s privatization of
the child-welfare system and cuts in
Medicaid: $25,000 to St. Monica’s
Behavioral Health Services for
Women (Lincoln, Neb.).
BILL & MELINDA GATES
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Health. To increase the nutritional
value of cassava for Kenya and Ni-
geria: $8,300,000 to the Donald Dan-
forth Plant Science Center (St. Louis,
Mo.).
—To develop golden rice varieties for
the Philippines and Bangladesh, to
assist people who lack access to food
with vitamin A: $10,300,000 to the
International Rice Research Institute
(Metro Manila, the Philippines).
GERBER FOUNDATION
Fremont, Mich.
http://www.gerberfoundation.org
Health and human services. To pur-
chase equipment for a new school-
based teen health center: $20,000
to Hackley Community Care Center
(Muskegon, Mich.).
CAMPHILL
FOUNDATION
Chestnut Ridge, N. Y.
http://www.camphillfoundation.org
Social services. For capital improve-
ments to residential and workshop
buildings: $20,000 to Oakwood
Life-Sharing Services (West Plains,
Mo.).
WALLACE H. COULTER FOUNDATION
Miami, Fla.
http://www.whcf.org
Higher education. For an endowment
to foster research collaboration be-
tween bioengineers and clinicians:
$10,000,000 to Duke U. (Durham,
N.C.).
WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT
FOUNDATION
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.hewlett.org
Education. For an executive search:
$35,000 to EdSource (Mountain View,
Calif.).
—To establish the California Education
Policy Fund, which will support orga-
nizations working to reform education
policy throughout the state, with an
emphasis on underserved students:
$3,500,000 to Rockefeller Philan-
thropy Advisors (New York, N. Y.).
HOVDE FOUNDATION
Washington, D.C.
http://www.hovdefoundation.org
Children and youths. In partnership
with the Sunwest Bank Charitable
Foundation, to build and operate a
group home for 60 boys and girls, all
rescued from slavery: $800,000 over
five years to Challenging Heights (Ac-
cra, Ghana).
—To build and operate a group home
for 25 former street boys in Rwanda:
$230,000 over three years to Hope for
Life Ministry (Kigali, Rwanda).
—To build and operate a group home
for 10 former street boys in La Paz,
Bolivia: $295,000 over five years to
Kaya Children International (Lincoln,
Mass.).
—To build a group home for 60 aban-
doned girls in Mombasa, Kenya:
$250,000 to One Home Many Hopes
(East Falmouth, Mass.).
—To build and operate a group home
for 60 girls, all victims of sexual
abuse, in Huánuco, Peru: $1,100,000
over five years to Paz y Esperanza
(Lima, Peru).
—To care for 50 former street children
living in the foundation’s Mexico City
house: $1,250,000 over seven years to
Programa Niños de la Calle (Mexico
City, Mexico).
Homelessness. To partially fund the
construction of a 15-unit apart-
ment building for homeless families:
$400,000 to the Road Home Dane
County (Madison, Wis.).
Human rights. To combat human traf-
ficking, sex slavery, and bonded labor:
$100,000 to International Justice Mis-
sion (Washington, D.C.).
Medical research. To advance research
towards a cure for multiple sclerosis:
$500,000 to the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society, Fast Forward (New
York, N. Y.).
$30,000 to Crossroads of Western
Iowa (Council Bluffs, Iowa).
Education. For preschool programs in
Pottawattamie County school dis-
tricts: $1,200,000 to Green Hills Area
Education Agency (Creston, Iowa).
Social services. To develop a new food-
bank facility in Omaha: $50,000 to
Food Bank for the Heartland (Omaha,
Neb.).
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
(SAN DIEGO)
San Diego, Calif.
http://www.jcfsandiego.org
Technology. For its wireless network
infrastructure project in Balboa Park,
San Diego: $100,000 to the Balboa
Park Online Collaborative (San Diego,
Calif.).
JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.jimjosephfoundation.org
Higher education. To increase the
number of Orthodox pulpit and cam-
pus rabbis and Jewish educators:
$3,000,000 partial matching grant
over five years to Yeshivat Chovevei
Torah Rabbinical School (New York,
N.Y.).
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN
FOUNDATION
Kansas City, Mo.
http://www.kauffman.org
Entrepreneurship. To expand this im-
mersion program for entrepreneurs:
$800,000 challenge grant to Pipeline
(Lenexa, Kan.).
Libraries. For program support and
community outreach: $1,000,000 to
the Harry S. Truman Library Insti-
tute (Independence, Mo.).
Performing arts. For the expansion of
programs and community outreach:
$2,750,000 to the Kauffman Center
for the Performing Arts (Kansas City,
Mo.).
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Erie, Pa.
http://www.cferie.org
Arts and culture. For its capital cam-
paign: $50,000 to the Erie Art Mu-
seum (Erie, Pa.).
IOWA WEST
FOUNDATION
Council Bluffs, Iowa
http://www.iowawestfoundation.org
Disabled. For lift vans to allow people
with disabilities to attend activities:
W.M. KECK FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.wmkeck.org
Higher education. To construct a lab
for its new engineering department:
$250,000 to Benedictine College
(Atchison, Kan.).
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LILLY ENDOWMENT
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.lillyendowment.org
Education. For its summer academy:
$23,000 to 100 Black Men of India-
napolis (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—To purchase a minibus: $25,000 to
Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For summer programs at four clubs:
$34,250 to Boys & Girls Clubs of In-
dianapolis (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For a summer program for youths:
$22,500 to the Concord Center Asso-
ciation (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For a technology center: $25,000 to
the Edna Martin Christian Center
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For equipment and supplies for a
science laboratory: $22,965 to Felege
Hiywot Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido
Church, Children Welfare and Devel-
opment Center (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—To develop teenagers into community
leaders: $31,250 to First-Meridian
Heights Presbyterian Church (India-
napolis, Ind.).
—For acoustical wall treatment and au-
dio-visual and computer equipment:
$25,000 to the Harrison Center for the
Arts (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For a summer camp: $24,000 to the
Hawthorne Social Service Association
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For a summer youth program:
$30,000 to the Indianapolis Algebra
Project (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—To enable high-school students to use
art to examine homelessness and for a
mentor program: $35,000 to Indianap-
olis Art Center (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For programs: $32,000 to the India-
napolis Parks Foundation (Indianapo-
lis, Ind.).
—For three digital science labs: $20,452
to the Indianapolis-Marion County
Public Library Foundation (India-
napolis, Ind.).
—To purchase a van and cargo trailer:
$22,394 to Jameson Camp (Indianapo-
lis, Ind.).
—For playground equipment: $25,000 to
Kaleidoscope Church and Community
Partnership (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For its summer day camp: $25,000 to
the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—To purchase a minibus: $25,000 to
the Salvation Army Indiana Division
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For a leadership development sum-
