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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
BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES
New York, N. Y.
Medical research. To attract scientists
to discover the root causes of lupus:
$8,000,000 to the Lupus Research Institute (New York, N. Y.).
CARNEGIE CORPORATION
OF NEW YORK
New York, N. Y.
http://www.carnegie.org
Historic preservation. To conduct an
oral history project on the most recent
14 years of the Carnegie Corporation:
$500,000 to the Columbia Center for
Oral History (New York, N. Y.).
CLEVEL AND FOUNDATION
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.clevelandfoundation.org
Education. For a new program in
Cleveland to increase the retention,
achievement, and advancement of
Latino students: $216,530 to Aspira
Association (Washington, D.C.).
—To strengthen its ability to serve
the health-care needs of homeless
people and other underinsured people:
$117,090 to Care Alliance (Cleveland,
Ohio).
—To implement the Ohio Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teaching Fellows Program:
$90,000 to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (
Princeton, N.J.).
Transportation. For three transportation projects: $175,000 to the Greater
Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
(Cleveland, Ohio).
DILLER-VON FURSTENBERG FAMILY
FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
Parks and recreation. For construction,
the endowment, and operating support of the High Line, a park on top
of an elevated rail structure in New
York: $20,000,000 to Friends of the
High Line (New York, N. Y.).
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.ddcf.org
Arts and culture. To establish the Performing Artists Initiative, to provide
cash grants to individual artists:
$50,000,000 to be divided among 200
individual artists.
DUKE ENDOWMENT
Charlotte, N.C.
http://www.dukeendowment.org
Higher education. For a new science
center, scholarships, and to renovate a
residence hall: $35,000,000 to Johnson
C. Smith U. (Charlotte, N.C.).
ETHICS AND EXCELLENCE
IN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
Oklahoma City, Okla.
http://www.journalismfoundation.org
Journalism. To allow six students from
this school and the Univesity of Okla-
homa’s Gaylord College of Journalism
and Mass Communication to collabo-
rate with peers across the country to
produce in-depth news coverage on
critical issues and work with digital
media: $150,000 over two years to Ari-
zona State U., Walter Cronkite School
of Journalism and Mass Communica-
tion (Tempe, Ariz.).
FORD FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.fordfound.org
Theater. To complete its renovation:
$2,000,000 to the Public Theater (New
York, N. Y.).
FUND FOR NEW JERSEY
New Brunswick, N.J.
http://www.fundfornj.org
Conservation and the environment. To
protect the aquifers, forests, farmlands, wildlife, historic resources, and
diverse recreational opportunities
found in the New Jersey Highlands:
$100,000 to the New Jersey Highlands Coalition (Boonton, N.J.).
BILL & MELINDA GATES
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Disaster relief. For relief and recovery
efforts following the drought in the
Horn of Africa: $2,500,000 to Mercy
Corps (Portland, Ore.).
Economic development. To improve
the lives of people with small farms
in sub-Saharan Africa by providing
market opportunities for their crops
to national school feeding programs:
$7,500,000 to SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (The Hague,
the Netherlands).
Education. For its work with the Seattle
Public Schools and the foundations
that invest in them: $300,000 over 35
months to the Alliance for Education
(Seattle, Wash.).
—For general operating support:
$6,500,000 over two years to the New
Teacher Project (New York, N. Y.).
—To create a comprehensive early-learning system in Washington State
by providing technical assistance
to state-level organizations and local early-learning collaboratives:
$250,000 over 22 months to Third Sector New England (Boston, Mass.).
Health. For research into the causes of
premature births: $20,000,000 to the
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (Seattle, Wash.).
—For the Roll Back Malaria Partnership: $6,000,000 over 16 months to
the World Health Organization (
Geneva, Switzerland).
Rural development. To broaden and
deepen its impact in rural communities in Bhutan, India, and Nepal:
$4,700,000 over three years to Rural
Education and Development Global
(San Francisco, Calif.).
GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.gundfdn.org
Higher education. For its capital cam-
paign: $5,000,000 to the Cleveland
Institute of Art (Cleveland, Ohio).
JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.irvine.org
Civic affairs. For civic engagement and
public-policy development among low-income and ethnic communities in Los
Angeles and to strengthen organiza-tional-leadership capacity: $275,000
over two years to Strategic Concepts
in Organizing and Policy Education
(Los Angeles, Calif.).
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON
FOUNDATION
Princeton, N.J.
http://www.rwjf.org
Elderly. To engage older adults who live
alone in team-oriented volunteerism
at local nonprofits: $250,000 matching
grant to Seniors on a Mission (
Jacksonville, Fla.).
KDK-HARMAN FOUNDATION
Austin, Tex.
http://www.kdk-harman.org
Education. For general operating support of this organization focused on
ensuring equitable and sustainable financing for public schools: $25,000 to
Austin Voices for Education and Youth
(Austin, Tex.).
—For general operating support of
this organization working to improve
college readiness and college access:
$50,000 to Breakthrough Austin (
Austin, Tex.).
n Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: $50-million to
establish the Performing Artists Initiative, which will provide cash grants to artists
n Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: $2.2-million to
the U. of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment to improve understanding of how agriculture and the environ-ment affect each other, and to create tools corporations,
conservation organizations, and countries can use to better understand those ties
n Wal-Mart Stores: $1-million to the Congressional Black
Caucus for its Emerging Leaders Internship Program to
help black students get internships on Capitol Hill or at
government agencies
n Ford Motor Company Fund: $50,000 to Kettering U.
for an urban farm on its Flint, Mich., campus so it can
teach horticulture and commercial food production skills
to local residents
$255,573,445 worth of grants are listed in this issue.
To see all the grants we have published since 2006,
go to http://philanthropy.com/grants
We now place grants online every Thursday
to help you keep on top of grant-making priorities.
—For general operating support and
expansion for its efforts to improve
college access: $25,000 to College Forward (Austin, Tex.).
—For operating support for this re-search-based regional collaborative
that works to align education system
from preschool through college and
improve educational and economic
outcomes for central Texas: $50,000 to
E3 Alliance (Austin, Tex.).
—For out-of-school-time enrichment
programs: $60,000 to the U. of
Texas Elementary School (Austin,
Tex.).
KORET FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.koretfoundation.org
Arts and culture. For the Rineke Dijk-stra exhibition: $100,000 to the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(San Francisco, Calif.).
Children and youths. For the Touchdown
for Kids Program, which supports
charities that help needy local youths:
$40,000 to the San Francisco 49ers
Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
Education. To provide students with a
corporate internship program where
cooperating businesses employ them
in entry-level positions five days a
month during the school year by
which earnings are returned to the
school as a substantial portion of the
student’s tuition: $100,000 to Immaculate Conception Academy (San
Francisco, Calif.).
—To start San Francisco High School:
$400,000 to KIPP Bay Area Schools
(Oakland, Calif.).
—For general operating support:
$100,000 to Rocketship Education
(Palo Alto, Calif.).
Health. For the California Fresh Works
Fund project in West Oakland, a pub-
lic-private partnership loan fund cre-
ated to bring grocery stores, markets
that offer fresh produce, and other
innovative forms of healthy food retail
and distribution to communities that
do not have them: $50,000 to NCB
Capital Impact (Oakland, Calif.).
