Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on May 3, 2012. New grants are posted every Thursday.
Announcements of grants can be sent to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.
| Date Chronicle Announced | Grant Maker | Grant Maker's Location | Subject | How Much Was Given | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Criminal justice | $1,000,000 | To provide postsecondary access and support to young adults in prison: $1,000,000 over five years to the Vera Institute of Justice (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Education | $249,700 | For its annual conference and a special issue of the organization's magazine: $249,700 to Learning Forward (Dallas, Tex.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Education | $50,000 | For its 34th annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence: $50,000 to the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (Austin, Tex.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Immigrants and refugees | $50,000 | For the National Immigrant Integration Conference: $50,000 to Casa de Maryland (Langley Park, Md.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Health | $1,564,515 | For malaria research: $1,564,515 over 34 months to the U. of California at San Diego (San Diego, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $125,000 | For a research project on charitable giving in the United Kingdom: $125,000 to New Philanthropy Capital (London, England). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | International | $1,000,000 | For general operating support: $1,000,000 over 13 months to the One Campaign (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Health | $12,111,401 | For research: $12,111,401 over 37 months to the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Education | $531,001 | To educate the public about the crime-prevention impact and other benefits of expanding access to high-quality early-learning and evidence-based home-visiting programs: $531,001 over three years to the Council for a Strong America (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $100,000 | For general operating support: $100,000 over 25 months to Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (Sao Paulo, Brazil). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | International | $330,000 | To promote implementation of an oil and mining payment disclosure requirement in the United States: $330,000 to Oxfam America (Boston, Mass.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | HIV/AIDS | $100,000 | For activities related to the XIX International AIDS Conference: $100,000 to the Center for Health and Gender Equity (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Arts and culture | $45,000 | For a statewide arts education strategic-planning process: $45,000 to the California Arts Council (Sacramento, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Conservation and the environment | $50,000 | For staff development: $50,000 to Earthjustice (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $150,000 | To expand its offerings of program information about nonprofits: $150,000 to GuideStar (Williamsburg, Va.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $100,000 | To improve its rating system: $100,000 to Charity Navigator (Glen Rock, N.J.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Conservation and the environment | $1,600,000 | For the International Boreal Conservation Campaign: $1,600,000 to the Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia, Pa.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $100,000 | For tools and research on social-impact bonds: $100,000 to the Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $100,000 | For general operating support: $100,000 to FSG Social Impact Advisors (Boston, Mass.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Government | $750,000 | To develop a new international program to promote government transparency: $750,000 over three years to the Sunlight Foundation (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Teenage pregnancy | $2,000,000 | For general operating support: $2,000,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | International | $1,500,000 | For the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network: $1,500,000 over 18 months to the Bread for the World Institute (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | International | $1,232,000 | For fellowships in population, reproductive health, and economic development: $1,232,000 over 40 months to the Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Conservation and the environment | $2,000,000 | For general operating support: $2,000,000 to the Western Conservation Foundation (Denver, Colo.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | International | $2,500,000 | For a project promoting transparent and accountable financing for development: $2,500,000 to the One Campaign (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Conservation and the environment | $5,000,000 | For general operating support: $5,000,000 to the Energy Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | N.Y. | Higher education | $1,000,000 | To endow its Coordinator of College Programs position: $1,000,000 matching grant to Amherst College, Mead Art Museum (Amherst, Mass.). |
| 5/3/2012 | John S. and James L. Knight Foundation | Fla. | Journalism | $2,000,000 | To seek best practices for digital reporting (grant made in collaboration with the Tow Foundation): $2,000,000 to Columbia U. Graduate School of Journalism (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Robert W. Woodruff Foundation | Ga. | Higher education | $8,000,000 | To build a simulation center: $8,000,000 to Georgia Health Sciences U. (Augusta, Ga.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Ford Foundation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $500,000 | For Voices From Latin America, a festival celebrating Latin American music and culture at Carnegie Hall: $500,000 to the Carnegie Hall Corporation (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Ford Foundation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $250,000 | To explore new artistic talent emerging from Latin America: $250,000 to the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | W.W. Grainger | Ill. | Volunteerism | $3,000,000 | For a new online volunteer-management system: $3,000,000 to the American Red Cross (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Helen Bader Foundation | Wis. | Employment and training | $1,100,000 | To create innovative approaches to linking unemployed people in Milwaukee with sustainable employment: $1,100,000 to be divided among 23 local organizations. |
| 5/3/2012 | Omidyar Network | Calif. | Social entrepreneurship | $2,100,000 | To expand social impact bonds in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Scotland, and the United States as well as in the international development sector: up to $1,300,000 over two years to Social Finance (Boston, Mass.) and up to $800,000 over two years to Social Finance Ltd. (London, England). |
| 5/3/2012 | North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation | N.C. | Higher education | $1,500,000 | For science and math student scholarships and programs: $1,500,000 to North Carolina Central U. (Durham, N.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Avon Foundation for Women | N.Y. | Cancer | $125,000 | To bring genetic counseling, testing, and risk reduction to Harris County's Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital: $125,000 to the U. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Tex.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Avon Foundation for Women | N.Y. | Cancer | $150,000 | To develop new tests to predict which women are at increased risk of developing breast cancer: $150,000 to the U. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, to support the work of Isabelle Bedrosian (Houston, Tex.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | N.Y. | Education | $51,413 | For the New York City Summer Learning Project: $51,413 to the After-School Corporation (New York, N.Y.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | Social entrepreneurship | $400,000 | To foster the growth, maturity, innovation, and market readiness in the social-enterprise and impact-investment sectors in Asia to tackle social and environmental problems: $400,000 to Impact Investment Shujog Limited (Singapore). |
| 5/3/3012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | International | $106,380 | For research products to enhance the strategic knowledge base of the international development community on topics related to poverty reduction in the Global South: $106,380 to Intellecap (Palo Alto, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | International | $99,635 | To research policy barriers and enable impact investing in Nigeria to benefit poor communities: $99,635 to Pan-African U., Lagos Business School (Ajah, Nigeria). |
| 5/3/2012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | Philanthropy | $139,970 | For a series of activities exploring global and regional philanthropic priorities, strategies, and infrastructure, including convening to spark collaboration between philanthropy and development in Asia and Africa: $139,970 to Resource Alliance Limited (London, England). |
| 5/3/2012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | Health | $800,000 | To expand best practices in the private-health sector through existing networks of health-care providers in low- and middle-income countries: $800,000 to Access Health International (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | Technology | $175,000 | To advance the understanding of social innovation among policy makers, science experts, the private sector, and civil society in Africa: $175,000 to the African Technology Policy Studies Network (Nairobi, Kenya). |
| 5/3/2012 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | N.J. | Health | $50,000 | To assess the governance and financing of graduate medical education to produce a more effective physician work force: $50,000 over 21 months to the National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | N.J. | Health | $1,496,603 | To develop approaches for effective adoption and long-term sustainability of programs and practices that advance social and emotional learning: $1,496,603 over two years to George Washington U. (Washington, D.C.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | N.J. | Health | $498,087 | To focus on barriers to payment and quality improvement in maternity care in California: $498,087 over three years to the Pacific Business Group on Health (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 5/3/2012 | Lilly Endowment | Ind. | Children and youths | $2,100,000 | For summer youth programs and capital projects: $2,100,000 to be divided among 149 organizations in the Indianapolis area. |
| 5/3/2012 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Calif. | Education | $1,012,847 | To provide professional development to more than 520 middle-school mathematics teachers in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in California: $1,012,847 to be divided among 17 school districts and nonprofit organizations. |
| 5/3/2012 | Lilly Endowment | Ind. | Government | $75,000 | For general operating support: $75,000 to the Tax Foundation (Washington, D.C.). |
