mer camp: $25,000 to St. Florian Cen-
ter (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For gymnasium repairs: $25,000 to
Westminster Neighborhood Ministries
(Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For its Summer Arts for Youth pro-
gram: $20,000 to Young Audiences of
Indiana (Indianapolis, Ind.).
—For general operating support:
$200,000 to Twin Cities Public Tele-
vision (St. Paul, Minn.), $100,000
each to the History Theatre (St. Paul,
Minn.), and In the Heart of the Beast
Puppet and Mask Theatre (Min-
neapolis, Minn.), and $90,000 to the
Highpoint Center for Printmaking
(Minneapolis, Minn.).
Children, youths, and families. For a
statewide youth engagement project:
$100,000 to the Minnesota 4-H Foun-
dation (Minneapolis, Minn.).
Community development. For general
operating and program support:
$350,000 to the Alliance for Metropoli-
tan Stability (Minneapolis, Minn.).
—For general operating support:
$500,000 to the Greater Metropolitan
Housing Corporation (Minneapolis,
Minn.).
—For general operating and project
support: $150,000 to the Harrison
Neighborhood Association (Minneapo-
lis, Minn.).
—For general operating support:
$250,000 to the Saint Paul River-
front Corporation (St. Paul, Minn.),
$150,000 to Urban Homeworks (Min-
neapolis, Minn.), $140,000 to the
Northside Economic Opportunity
Network (Minneapolis, Minn.), and
$120,000 to Sparc (St. Paul, Minn.).
—To provide technical assistance and
outreach to low-cost housing develop-
ers, designers, and the construction
industry through the Center for Sus-
tainable Building Research: $150,000
to the U. of Minnesota Foundation
(Minneapolis, Minn.).
—For the Direct Design Assistance pro-
gram: $200,000 to the U. of Minnesota
Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).
—For commercial poultry enterprise
development for increased household
incomes in the Mukono and Buikwe
districts: $80,000 to Volunteer Efforts
for Development Concerns (Kampala,
Uganda).
—For the West Side Collaborative:
$268,000 to West Side Citizens Orga-
nization (St. Paul, Minn.).
Conservation and the environment. To
participate in the Mississippi River
Collaborative and for salary support
of the Environmental Law Clinic’s
community outreach director posi-
tion: $232,000 to the Administrators
of the Tulane Educational Fund (New
Orleans, La.).
LUMINA FOUNDATION
FOR EDUCATION
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.luminafoundation.org
Education. For the attainment of de-
grees and credentials by community-
college students across the nation:
$2,000,000 to Achieving the Dream
(Chapel Hill, N.C.).
—To build state capacity to share data
across educational sectors: $200,000
to ACT (Iowa City, Iowa).
—To create the Aspen Prize for Com-
munity College Excellence, which will
recognize outstanding academic and
workforce outcomes and improve-
ments among community colleges:
$1,000,000 to the Aspen Institute
(Washington, D.C.).
—To provide technical assistance to
state consortia to assist in the devel-
opment of strong Community College
and Career Training Grant applica-
tions: $200,000 to Complete College
America (Zionsville, Ind.).
—To explore the applicability and use-
fulness of the Degree Qualifications
Profile, a framework for defining and
measuring the general knowledge and
skills that individual students need
to acquire in order to earn degrees at
various levels, on independent college
campuses: $425,000 to the Council of
Independent Colleges (Washington,
D.C.).
—To explore the applicability and use-
fulness of the Degree Qualifications
Profile, a framework for defining and
measuring the general knowledge and
skills that individual students need
to acquire in order to earn degrees
at various levels, through the Open
Pathways accreditation affirma-
tion process: $425,000 to the Higher
Learning Commission (Chicago, Ill.).
—To assist the Lumina Foundation,
the Partnership for Assessment and
Readiness for College and Career, and
the Smarter Balanced Assessment
Consortia ensure meaningful higher-
education involvement: $47,500 to the
National Center for Higher Educa-
tion Management Systems (Boulder,
Colo.).
—To evaluate Lumina Foundation’s
higher-education productivity work:
$2,800,000 to SPEC Associates (De-
troit, Mich.).
—To manage contracts with states fo-
cused on incentivizing college comple-
tion to encourage graduation of many
more Americans with high-quality
degrees and credentials: $3,096,900 to
Tides Center (San Francisco, Calif.).
—To manage contracts with states
focused on restructuring costs of ad-
ministrative and academic services
to expand capacity to educate college
students: $5,053,100 to Tides Center
(San Francisco, Calif.).
—For strategic planning: $200,000 to
the United Negro College Fund (Fair-
fax, Va.).
n Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $10.3-mil-
lion to the International Rice Research Institute
to develop golden rice varieties, which contain
vitamin A, for the Philippines and Bangladesh
n WellPoint Foundation: $2.7-million to the
Oasis Institute to expand a program that pairs
adults with children to encourage healthier eating
and physical activity
n Wal-Mart Foundation: $1-million to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans With Disabilities to allow 300 veterans to take part in the boot-camp program and for small-business training for
more than 100 members of military families
n Pew Charitable Trusts: $95,000 to Career
Wardrobe to provide workplace attire and life-skills classes to women entering the work force
n New York Community Trust: $40,000 to the
National Jazz Museum in Harlem to preserve a
collection of live jazz radio broadcasts from the
1930s and ’40s
A SCIENTIST HOLDS GRAINS OF GOLDEN AND WHI TE RICE ISAGANI SERRANO
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at http://philanthropy.com/grants
We now place grants online every Thursday to help you keep on top of grant-making priorities.
—To carry out a water-quality moni-
toring project in Iowa’s Boone River
watershed: $80,000 to Agriculture’s
Clean Water Alliance (Ankeny, Iowa).
—To protect and restore wetlands and
native forests along the middle and
lower sections of the Mississippi
River: $140,000 to the American Land
Conservancy (San Francisco, Calif.).
—To support the development of state
and federal policies that protect and
restore wetlands and floodplains:
$100,000 to the Association of State
Wetland Managers (Windham, Me.).
—To reduce agricultural pollution in
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wiscon-
sin: $110,000 to the Center for Rural
Affairs (Lyons, Neb.).
—To analyze the economic value of
ecosystem services in the Iowa-Cedar
Rivers Basin: $80,000 to Earth Eco-
nomics (Tacoma, Wash.).
—To strengthen efforts to improve wa-
ter quality and the resilience of the
Mississippi River: $440,000 to the En-
vironmental Law & Policy Center of
the Midwest (Chicago, Ill.), $278,000
each to Midwest Environmental Advo-
cates (Madison, Wis.), and the Prairie
Rivers Network (Champaign, Ill.).
2011
Social Impact Exchange
Taking successful innovation to scale
Conference on
Scaling Impact
June;;;;;;;;;New York City
Where funders, advisors and leaders gather to share knowledge, learn about innovative co-funding
opportunities and develop a community to help scale top programs and build the �ield.
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION
Minneapolis, Minn.
http://www.mcknight.org
Arts and culture. For general operating
support: $90,000 to the Cedar Cul-
tural Center (Minneapolis, Minn.).
—For a performing apprentice program:
$150,000 to the Children’s Theater
Company and School (Minneapolis,
Minn.).
—For author advances, book production,
audience development, educational
outreach, and administrative needs:
$100,000 to Coffee House Press (Min-
neapolis, Minn.).
—For general operating support and
capital funding: $105,000 to the Du-
luth Art Institute Association (Duluth,
Minn.).
—To provide unique opportunities for
Minnesota artists: $150,000 to the
Guthrie Theatre Foundation (Minne-
apolis, Minn.).
—To cultivate, promote, and dissemi-
nate provocative artwork by emerging
Minnesota artists through the Min-
nesota Artists Exhibition Program:
$150,000 to the Minneapolis Society
of Fine Arts (Minneapolis, Minn.).
—To underwrite the permanent lower-
ing of ticket prices at the Ordway
Center for Performing Arts and Ted
Mann Concert Hall beginning in
the 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13
seasons: $150,000 to the Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra Society (St. Paul,
Minn.).
By invitation only http://conference.socialimpactexchange.org or (212) 551-1148
FEATURED SPEAKERS
JOEL L. FLEISHMAN
Professor of Law and
Public Policy,
Duke University
KERRY H. SULLIVAN
President
Bank of America
Charitable Foundation
PAUL BREST
President
The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation
HELEN L. HUNT
Founding Chair,
Women Moving
Millions
STEPHEN GOLDSMITH
GARA LAMARCHE Deputy Mayor of New York City
President and CEO
The Atlantic
Philanthropies
Presented by:
Growth Philanthropy Network, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
The Rockefeller Foundation and Duke University
