NEW GRANTS
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
CARNEGIE CORPORATION
OF NEW YORK
New York, N. Y.
http://www.carnegie.org
Community development. For general
support: $1,000,000 over three years
to the Center for Community Change
(Washington, D.C.).
Education. For the congressional program’s Project on Education Reform:
$450,000 to Aspen Institute (
Washington, D.C.).
—To manage the implementation of
Next Generation Learning classrooms;
NGL is a multiyear grant program
aimed at increasing college readiness
and completion through applied technology: $1,000,000 over two years to
New Classrooms Innovation Partners
(New York, N. Y.).
—To integrate online and in-person
instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses:
$875,000 over two years to the New
Technology Network (Napa, Calif.).
—To develop and implement the
Schools for the Future model; SFF
helps students who are about to enter
high school and are two or more years
behind academically to prepare for
college: $250,000 to School and Main
Institute (Boston, Mass.).
—To develop a campaign focused on
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics: $1,000,100 to Teach for
America (New York, N. Y.).
Higher education. To provide resources
and training in fundraising and
alumni development to 19 colleges in
Africa: $450,000 over two years to the
Council for Advancement and Support
of Education (Washington, D.C.).
Immigrants and refugees. To build consensus among evangelical Christian
and business communities as well as
others on immigrants and immigrant
integration: $300,000 to the National
Immigration Forum (Washington,
D.C.).
International. For fellowships in the
humanities in Africa: $5,450,000 over
66 months to the American Council of
Learned Societies (New York, N. Y.).
—For a Center for Advanced Study and
Education project on social transformations in the western Eurasia border region: $500,000 over two years
to the American Councils for International Education (Washington, D.C.).
—For networks and research on political and economic transitions in the
Arab region: $500,000 over two years
to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.).
—For research on relations among Russia, Turkey, and Iran and the implications of these for the United States:
$260,000 over 18 months to the
Center for Strategic and International
Studies (Washington, D.C.).
—To improve educational advancement
capacity at selected African universities: $450,000 over two years to the
Council for Advancement and Support
of Education (Washington, D.C.).
—To identify the conditions under
which an emerging norm of the
‘responsibility to protect’ actually
emerges and shapes government
policy to prevent or react to mass
atrocities in states at risk: $400,200
over two years to the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York
(New York, N. Y.).
BILL & MELINDA GATES
FOUNDATION
Seattle, Wash.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org
Disaster relief. For emergency responses to conflict and displacement
in the states of South Kordofan, Abyei,
and Blue Nile in Sudan: $500,000 to
Oxfam America (Boston, Mass.).
Health. For the Pacific Health Summit
in 2012: $350,000 to the National
Bureau of Asian Research (Seattle,
Wash.).
—To accurately identify people with
active tuberculosis: $515,567 over two
years to SomaLogic (Boulder, Colo.).
HAMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Dallas, Tex.
Child health. To establish an endowment at the new Children’s Research
Institute: $10,000,000 to Children’s
Medical Center of Dallas (Dallas,
Tex.).
WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT
FOUNDATION
Menlo Park, Calif.
http://www.hewlett.org
Climate change. For general operating
support: $100,000,000 to the Climate-Works Foundation (San Francisco,
Calif.).
Education. To strengthen its financial-management systems: $35,000 to the
Beryl Buck Institute for Education
(Novato, Calif.).
Peace and security. For its Global Nuclear Future Initiative, which seeks to
reduce the probability that a terror-
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