NEW GRANTS
—For program and administration support: $10,000,000 to Youthprise (
Minneapolis, Minn.).
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tive effort focused on deciphering how
human cells are wired: $32,500,000 to
the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.).
Southern Region Education Board
(Atlanta, Ga.).
LILLY ENDOWMENT
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.lillyendowment.org
Higher education. To enable the university’s Public Policy Institute to start a
fundraising campaign: $6,600,000 to
Indiana U. Foundation (Indianapolis,
Ind.).
—To renovate its undergraduate facilities: $33,000,000 to Indiana U., Kelley
School of Business (Bloomington,
Ind.).
MARCUS FOUNDATION
Atlanta, Ga.
Health care and hospitals. To establish
the Marcus Neuroscience Institute:
$25,000,000 to Boca Raton Regional
Hospital (Boca Raton, Fla.).
ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.mellon.org
Arts and culture. For its Resident Commissioned Artists program, which
offers one midcareer artist a two-year
residency, and for subsidized studio
rental space: $517,000 to New York
Live Arts (New York, N. Y.).
—To create a reserve fund and for its
playwright-in-residence programs:
$2,000,000 to Signature Theatre (New
York, N. Y.).
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION
Minneapolis, Minn.
http://www.mcknight.org
Arts and culture. For general operating
support: $150,000 to the Textile Center of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.).
Community and economic development.
To make southern Minnesota stronger
and more prosperous: $6,000,000 to
the Southern Minnesota Initiative
Foundation (Owatonna, Minn.).
Community development. For general
operating support: $500,000 to the
Neighborhood Development Center
(St. Paul, Minn.).
Conservation and the environment. To
reduce nitrogen pollution from farms
in the upper Mississippi River basin
and to restore Louisiana’s coastal wet-lands: $240,000 to the Environmental
Defense Fund (New York, N. Y.).
—To encourage federal policies that
protect and restore the Mississippi
River and coastal Louisiana: $650,000
to the National Wildlife Federation
(Reston, Va.).
—To engage hunters and fishers to advocate for federal conservation policies
to improve water quality: $120,000 to
the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation
Partnership (Washington, D.C.).
Education. To implement an early-literacy program and to measure its
outcomes: $3,300,000 to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).
—For a partnership with education and
nonprofit organizations to provide
intensive and continuous educational
and family-support services focused
on students from preschool to third
grade: $250,000 to the U. of Minnesota
Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).
RICHARD KING MELLON
FOUNDATION
Pittsburgh, Pa.
http://foundationcenter.org/
grantmaker/rkmellon
Arts and culture. For its capital and endowment campaign: $8,000,000 to the
Westmoreland Museum of American
Art (Greensburg, Pa.).
federal policy and budget decisions)
research and strategic communications: $574,000 to America’s Promise
Alliance (Washington, D.C.).
—To conduct a broad range of research,
analysis, and technical assistance to
help strengthen Medicaid and the
Children’s Health Insurance Program
and support implementation of the
Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act: $495,000 to the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities (
Washington, D. C.).
—For policy analysis, research, communications, and technical assistance
to improve access to health-insurance
programs for children in immigrant
families: $295,000 to the National Immigration Law Center (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
—For the Campaign for Grade Level
Reading: $316,000 to Tides Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
Climate change. To minimize the social,
environmental, and climate impacts
of global palm oil trading operations:
$250,000 to the Rainforest Action
Network (San Francisco, Calif.).
—To develop a comprehensive methodology for the production of greenhouse
gas emission offset credits from the
livestock sector: $300,000 to the
Winrock International Institute for
Agricultural Development (Arlington,
Va.).
—To develop solutions to the most
significant impacts of beef and dairy
production: $220,000 to the World
Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.).
Conservation and the environment. To
build a global database of island species and threats: $235,000 to Island
Conservation (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
—For general support and executive
coaching: $1,900,000 to the Marine
Stewardship Council (London, England).
—For operations, research projects,
and capital expenses during 2012:
$36,726,120 to the Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute (Moss
Landing, Calif.).
—To protect investments in domestic
fisheries management and national
ocean policy, and for general support:
$900,000 to the Ocean Conservancy
(Washington, D.C.).
Reproductive health and population.
To improve access to sexual and re-
productive health information and
services by institutionalizing
education in medical and educational
institutions in Pakistan: $250,000 to
Aahung (Karachi, Pakistan).
LUMINA FOUNDATION
FOR EDUCATION
Indianapolis, Ind.
http://www.luminafoundation.org
Higher education. For market research
and game design for a prototype that
engages students on financial-aid and
financial-literacy topics: $200,000 to
College Forward (Austin, Tex.).
—To build and test customizable transition management systems for open-enrollment institutions: $200,000 to
the Educational Policy Improvement
Center (Eugene, Ore.).
—To test an enhanced information/
mentoring platform with new partners: $155,000 to EduGuide (Lansing,
Mich.).
—For research and development for a
third-generation student mentoring
platform with new analytic tools and
more powerful data capacity: $200,000
to iMentor (New York, N. Y.).
—To integrate public and private data
and overcome privacy and confidentiality barriers for a new San Francisco
student tracking and guidance system: $150,900 to the San Francisco
Education Fund (San Francisco,
Calif.).
—For recommendations to states for
quick-to-market mobile applications
on college access: $200,000 to the
GORDON AND BETTY MOORE
FOUNDATION
Palo Alto, Calif.
http://www.moore.org
Science education. For its mobile science laboratory: $1,100,000 to ‘Imiloa
Astronomy Center of Hawaii (Hilo,
Hawaii).
ROBINA FOUNDATION
Minneapolis, Minn.
http://www.robinafoundation.org
Foreign affairs. To expand its activities on international cooperation:
$10,300,000 over five years to the
Council on Foreign Relations (New
York, N. Y.).
KENNETH T. AND EILEEN L. NORRIS
FOUNDATION
Long Beach, Calif.
http://www.norrisfoundation.org
Higher education. To expand cancer-care facilities: $15,000,000 to the U.
of Southern California (Los Angeles,
Calif.).
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
New York, N. Y.
http://www.rockfound.org
Health. To assist 10 countries in Asia
and Africa in providing universal
health coverage: $1,300,000 to the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
(Cambridge, Mass.).
O. WAYNE ROLLINS FOUNDATION
Atlanta, Ga.
Higher education. To construct a new
building: $15,000,000 to Emory U.,
Candler School of Theology (Atlanta,
Ga.).
DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD
FOUNDATION
Los Altos, Calif.
http://www.packard.org
Children, youths, and families. For work
in the areas of children’s health, children in the federal budget and family
economics, and to strengthen First Focus’s (an organization focused on making children and families a priority in
S.D. BECHTEL JR. FOUNDATION
San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.sdbjrfoundation.org
Higher education. For campus life and
for K- 12 educational programs for
students and teachers throughout
California: $25,000,000 over five years
to the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).
JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION
West Conshohocken, Pa.
http://www.templeton.org
Religion. To study the science of “
intellectual humility,” an openness to new
ideas, receptivity to new evidence, and
a willingness to revise deeply held beliefs in the face of compelling reasons:
$5,300,000 to Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, Calif.).
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FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAS
New York, N. Y.
http://www.mcfamericas.org
American Indians. To secure indigenous
rights as a basis for facilitating
projects on reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation:
$150,000 over two years to the Indian
Law Resource Center (Helena, Mont.).
Conservation and the environment.
To protect biodiversity on the Juan
Fernandez Islands of Chile: $150,000
over four years to Island Conservation
(Santa Cruz, Calif.).
—To prepare needy high-school students for college degree programs in
environmental and related science
fields: $30,132 to the National Council for Science and the Environment
(Washington, D.C.).
—To start a sustainable tourism program in Brazil: $100,000 over two
years to the Rainforest Alliance (New
York, N. Y.).
—For the Yosemite Leadership Program, an environmental-leadership
program for college students: $65,000
to the U. of California at Merced (
Merced, Calif.).
—For its conservation work on the Pa-tagonian coast of Argentina: $50,000
over two years to the Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N. Y.).
—To promote effective salmon fisheries
conservation: $30,000 to the Yukon
River Drainage Fisheries Association
(Anchorage, Alaska).
TARGET CORPORATION
Minneapolis, Minn.
http://www.target.com
Education. For improvements:
$5,000,000 to be divided among 50
schools.
