Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on June 21, 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
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $500,000 To encourage 100 million more Europeans to become active in sports and physical activity: $500,000 to the International Sport and Culture Association (Copenhagen, Denmark).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $210,000 To build 12 playgrounds in Ukraine: $210,000 to Klitschko Brothers Foundation (Kiev, Ukraine).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $30,000 To enable 16,000 children to participate in regional and national Special Olympics events: $30,000 to Special Olympics Poland (Warsaw, Poland).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $50,000 For summer and after-school sports programs in Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories: $50,000 to the Palestine Association for Children's Encouragement of Sports (Eastleigh, England).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $30,000 For operations and upkeep of the playground and other facilities at Atlanta's Piedmont Park: $30,000 to the Piedmont Park Conservancy (Atlanta, Ga.).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $25,000 To provide 30 youths with scholarships to attend summer camp: $25,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (Atlanta, Ga.).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $100,000 For a national contest to recognize the 15 best youth-sports programs in the country, including coaches and creators: $100,000 to the Sport School Association (Warsaw, Poland).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $4,800,000 To provide scholarships for students who are the first in their immediate family to attend college: $4,800,000 to be divided among 17 universities.
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $150,000 To provide scholarships to 45 Asian American and Pacific Islander students who are the first in their immediate family to attend college: $150,000 to the Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Washington, D.C.).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $55,000 To provide scholarships: $55,000 to the American Association of Community Colleges (Washington, D.C.).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $200,000 To educate 3,000 New York City high-school students on careers in the arts and entertainment industry: $200,000 to the Apollo Theater Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $250,000 For education and outreach programs: $250,000 to the Atlanta Fulton County Zoo (Atlanta, Ga.).
6/21/2012 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Md. Elderly $250,000 To purchase and renovate a building that will provide a permanent home for the senior center, its services, and administrative offices: $250,000 to Services Now for Adult Persons (Queens Village, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Md. Disabled $400,000 To construct a 60-unit low-cost apartment building: $400,000 to Jewish Family Services (Milwaukee, Wis.).
6/21/2012 Bloomberg Philanthropies N.Y. Urban affairs $9,000,000 For the Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire American cities to devise ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life: $9,000,000 to be divided among five cities to be announced.
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $170,000 For public education and advocacy involving sentencing and pretrial policy change in Delaware: $170,000 over two years to the Delaware Center for Justice (Wilmington, Del.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $150,000 To advance sentencing changes in New York State through coalition building, media advocacy, and participation with the state's Sentencing Commission: $150,000 to the Fortune Society (Long Island City, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $150,000 For the Center's national HIRE (Helping Individuals with Criminal Records Re-Enter through Employment) network to advocate for employment and other opportunities for re-entering prisoners at the state and national levels: $150,000 over two years to the Legal Action Center (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $350,000 To reduce rates of incarceration in Georgia and Alabama through litigation, policy research, media advocacy, grass-roots organizing, and coalition building: $350,000 over two years to the Southern Center for Human Rights (Atlanta, Ga.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $300,000 To advocate for policy changes in various states to reduce youth incarceration rates, end the practice of trying youths as adults, and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile-justice system: $300,000 over two years to the American Civil Liberties Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $160,000 To collaborate with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama Disability Advocacy Program to advocate for alternatives to incarceration for youths in Alabama's juvenile-justice system: $160,000 to the Center for Public Representation (Northampton, Mass.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $300,000 For continued advocacy, education, and research to reduce youth detention and incarceration rates in the juvenile-justice system and to decrease the number of youths tried as adults in Ohio: $300,000 over two years to the Children's Law Center (Covington, Ky.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $190,000 To provide resources, training, and technical assistance to judges, policy makers and others on the deinstitutionalization of youths accused of status offenses: $190,000 to the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (Washington, D.C.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $250,000 For general support for a collaborative that works to reduce the number of youths in the justice system, while promoting fair and effective treatment of those in the system: $250,000 over two years to the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance (Bridgeport, Conn.).
6/21/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $350,000 For general support for an organization that advocates for juvenile-justice change in the District of Columbia: $350,000 over two years to DC Lawyers for Youth (Washington, D.C.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $50,000 For operating support of this agency, which provides free art therapy for low-income survivors of trauma: $50,000 over two years to Art Therapy Outreach Center (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $150,000 For mental-health services to immigrant survivors of torture and war trauma: $150,000 over two years to the Bellevue/NYU Hospital Program for Survivors of Torture (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $100,000 To expand mental-health services to children and familiesin the Family Foster Care Program: $100,000 to Cardinal McCloskey Services, United States Catholic Conference (Valhalla, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $90,000 For its Mobile Outreach Service Team, which identifies and assists homebound older adults in central Queens who are mentally ill: $90,000 over two years to Samuel Field YM and YWHA (Little Neck, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $124,000 To help mentally ill clients who have housing with financial management: $124,000 over two years to Human Development Services of Westchester (Mamaroneck, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $450,000 For training and accreditation programs to develop and support strong clubhouses for mentally ill people worldwide: $450,000 over three years to the International Center for Clubhouse Development (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $50,000 To enable social workers to provide play therapy to needy and emotionally disturbed children ages 2 to 11 and their families: $50,000 to Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey (Elizabeth, N.J.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $100,000 For salary support of a full-time social worker to focus on the needs of immigrant clients with mental illnesses: $100,000 over two years to the Legal Aid Society (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $47,000 For training and basic courses in Spanish and English : $47,000 to the National Alliance on Mental Illness in New York State (Albany, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Van Ameringen Foundation N.Y. Mental health $100,000 For a direct video hookup between four upstate prisons and its New York City-based sites, so that children in the city can regularly communicate with their incarcerated parents: $100,000 over two years to the Osborne Association (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Water $1,500,000 To create a monitoring, evaluation, and learning system to measure progress of the foundation's efforts to support sustainable safe water access for poor people in developing countries: $1,500,000 over three years to the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
6/21/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Homelessness $300,000 For community outreach and policy work in California to build support for safe, stable, accessible, and permanently low-cost homes for low-income and homeless people: $300,000 over two years to Housing California (Sacramento, Calif.).
6/21/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Homelessness $700,000 For the San Fernando Valley Homeless Coalition's efforts to provide permanent housing and services for about 140 chronically homeless people and frequent users of local hospitals: $700,000 over two years to L.A. Family Housing (Los Angeles, Calif.).
6/21/2012 Hilton Worldwide Va. Children and youths $3,000,000 To help expand life and work opportunities for youths around the world: $3,000,000 over three years to the International Youth Foundation (Baltimore, Md.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health $75,000 To train community leaders to advocate for healthy and sustainable national food and farming policies: $75,000 to the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health $100,000 To help regional farmers sell more produce to consumers in New York City by working with GrowNYC to establish a wholesale farmers' market in the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center: $100,000 to Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Gay men and lesbians $25,000 For a leadership program for gay minority youths that trains them in political advocacy and community organizing: $25,000 to Fierce (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Women and girls $150,000 For a career-exploration program for girls from low-performing middle schools in the Bronx: $150,000 to the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Women and girls $75,000 For a science- and health-career program for girls in Harlem middle schools: $75,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $50,000 To train black and Latino Bronx high-school and college students for environmental careers through paid applied-science internships with the Bronx River Alliance, the NYC Audubon Society, and other groups: $50,000 to Rocking the Boat (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Poverty $100,000 To produce and release "The Unheard Third," a report on the concerns and views of poor New Yorkers on issues including employment, housing, and public benefits: $100,000 to the Community Service Society of New York (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Social services $86,000 To help religious institutions evaluate the effectiveness of programs for the homeless, ex-offenders, and domestic-violence survivors: $86,000 to Fordham U. Graduate School of Social Service (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Social services $200,000 To help four foster-care agencies to enable parents to cope with and avoid behavior that triggers child abuse: $200,000 to Graham Windham (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Parks and recreation $40,000 To develop a 14-mile continuous waterfront greenway from Greenpoint to Bay Ridge, which will also reduce the overflow of raw sewage by integrating spillways and landscaping along the path to absorb runoff: $40,000 to the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $50,000 To help green-industry employers find workers trained by nonprofit employment programs: $50,000 to Solar One (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 Helios Education Foundation Ariz. Education $3,900,000 To prepare students for college: $3,900,000 to the Yuma Union High School District (Yuma, Ariz.).
6/21/2012 Citi Foundation N.Y. Employment and training $1,000,000 To help Americans get back to work: $1,000,000 to the Create Jobs for USA Fund (Philadelphia, Pa.).
6/21/2012 McKnight Foundation Minn. Literacy $3,104,000 To increase literacy by grade 3: $2,980,000 over three years to Saint Paul Public Schools (St. Paul, Minn.), $62,000 each to Academia Cesar Chavez (St. Paul, Minn.), and Community of Peace Academy (St. Paul, Minn.).
6/21/2012 Google Calif. Technology $300,000 For its Open Source Lab, to make software available to users worldwide: $300,000 to Oregon State U. (Corvallis, Ore.).
6/21/2012 General Motors Foundation Mich. Employment and training $250,000 To pay for job fairs nationwide aimed at finding employment for returning veterans and their spouses: $250,000 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Washington, D.C.).
6/21/2012 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Economic development $300,000 To improve economic security and civic engagement in the central and southwest regions of Haiti: $300,000 to the American Jewish World Service (New York, N.Y.).
6/21/2012 New York Life Foundation N.Y. Children and youths $100,000 To provide academic and job skills to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youths: $100,000 over two years to he Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (New York, N.Y.).