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
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
CALDERWOOD CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
Boston, Mass.
Arts and culture. For its endowment:
$10,000,000 to the Huntington Theatre Company (Boston, Mass.).
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.calfund.org
Health. To serve low-income children
using mobile medical clinics: $500,000
over two years to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.irvine.org
Arts and culture. To provide technical
assistance to the Arts Regional Initiative, a program to build the capacity of
regional arts organizations in Southern California, the Central Valley, and
Central Coast: $800,000 to the TCC
Group (San Francisco, Calif.).
Children and youths. To support the
California Office to Reform Education,
a partnership of seven of the state’s
leading school districts focused on
facilitating, leveraging, and expediting shared educational reforms to
improve student outcomes: $500,000
to California Education Partners (San
Francisco, Calif.).
—To support and manage the Linked
Learning Alliance, a statewide coalition of education, industry, and community organizations dedicated to improving California’s high schools and
preparing students for postsecondary
education and career: $800,000 over
21 months to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York, N. Y.).
Civic affairs. To provide opportunities
for San Diego County residents to
participate in public decision making
on land use and environmental health
issues: $450,000 over three years to
the Environmental Health Coalition
(National City, Calif.).
—To make grants and provide technical assistance to San Joaquin Valley
organizations working to involve
diverse residents in public decision
making on resource-management issues: $400,000 over two years to the
Resources Legacy Fund (Sacramento,
Calif.).
—To conduct research on social-equity
issues in partnership with community
organizations and to initiate a state-
wide network of similar university-
community collaborations: $350,000
over three years to the U. of Southern
California (Los Angeles, Calif.).
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON
FOUNDATION
Princeton, N.J.
http://www.rwjf.org
Health. To evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s New
Connections program, which aims to
bring new perspectives to its grant
making by supporting researchers
from historically disadvantaged and
underrepresented communities to conduct secondary analyses on existing
data sets and to help the foundation
focus on specific research questions:
$303,875 to Community Science
(Gaithersburg, Md.).
—To lift the overall quality of health
care in certain communities, reduce
racial and ethnic disparities, and
provide models for national reform:
$1,564,500 over two years to Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
(Watertown, Mass.), $1,374,238 over
two years to WellSpan Health (York,
Pa.), $1,306,545 over two years to the
Puget Sound Health Alliance (Seattle,
Wash.), $1,300,000 over two years to
the Alliance for Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.), and $1,299,995 over two
years to Greater Kansas City Local
Investment Commission (Kansas City,
Mo.).
—For a camping program for health-impaired children: $490,000 to the
Middlesex County Recreation Council
(Edison, N.J.).
W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION
Battle Creek, Mich.
http://www.wkkf.org
Business. To increase the level of
awareness in the business community
about the need to invest in early care
and education through educational
activities within a core group of business leaders: $500,953 over two years
to the Committee for Economic Development (Washington, D.C.).
Child health. To promote the health
and well-being of school-aged children
and maximize their potential for
learning by providing a community-based, family-centered, prevention-oriented service: $825,000 over three
years to the Calhoun County Public
Health Department (Battle Creek,
Mich.).
—To incubate community kitchen projects to locally process food grown in
the region and increase access to good
food by needy children: $1,000,000
over two years to the Eastern Market
Corporation (Detroit, Mich.).
—To help low-income children in Detroit succeed through leveraging the
purchasing power of the health-care
sector to facilitate a transition to
healthier food environments: $300,000
over three years to the Ecology Center
(Ann Arbor, Mich.).
—To facilitate hospital development
for the Nelson Mandela Children’s
Hospital by conducting a gap analysis: $468,652 to the Nelson Mandela
Children’s Fund (Johannesburg,
South Africa).
—To assist needy children and families
in accessing quality food options,
physical activities, and behavioral
choices that promote overall health:
$1,499,175 over three years to the
YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids
(Grand Rapids, Mich.).
Children, youths, and families. To provide comprehensive intervention for
preschoolers and their families by increasing knowledge about healthy eating, physical activity, and preventive
care in the Copper Country region of
Michigan: $318,691 over three years
to the Baraga Houghton Keweenaw
Child Development Board (Houghton,
Mich.).
—To provide families and children in
northeast Michigan with parenting
and child-development education,
behavioral, and health-care services
by collaborating with multiple agencies who will implement programs
increasing child safety, stability, and
security regardless of income or home
size: $2,449,725 over three years to
the Northeast Michigan Community
Service Agency (Alpena, Mich.).
—To improve the health and environment of pregnant and parenting African American women and their children by developing interventions to
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