Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on July 12, 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
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. International $1,200,000 To collaborate with the University of Ghana and Makerere University to promote research excellence and retention of early- and mid-career scholars and scientists: $1,200,000 over three years to the U. of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. International $321,600 For policy analysis and outreach on Iran, Afghanistan, and other key national security issues in the run-up to the United States presidential election and beyond: $321,600 over two years to the Center for a New American Security (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. International $450,000 For a series of media guides on global challenges and the Council of Councils program, which connects foreign-policy institutes from around the world on issues of global governance: $450,000 over two years to the Council on Foreign Relations (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. International $1,999,900 To build the next generation of scholars in peace, security, and development in African universities: $1,999,900 over three years to King's College London (London, England).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. International $900,000 For the security studies program: $900,000 over three years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, England).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. Immigrants and refugees $1,500,000 For general support: $1,500,000 to the America's Voice Education Fund (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. Education $300,000 To develop the Global Cities Education Network: $300,000 over 18 months to the Asia Society (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. Immigrants and refugees $300,000 To analyze the economic impact of state-level immigration laws: $300,000 over two years to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. Education $336,000 To collaborate with the Los Angeles Unified School District to train school-turnaround leaders: $336,000 to Green Dot Public Schools (Los Angeles, Calif.).
7/12/2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York N.Y. Education $2,000,000 For general support: $2,000,000 over 25 months to New Leaders (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Higher education $16,500,000 For unrestricted operating support: $12,500,000 to Duke U. (Durham, N.C.), $1,400,000 each to Davidson College (Davidson, N.C.), and Furman U. (Greenville, S.C.), and $1,200,000 to Johnson C. Smith U. (Charlotte, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $3,350,000 To implement a rural-hospital improvement program in North Carolina: $3,350,000 to the North Carolina Hospital Foundation (Cary, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $1,650,000 To implement a rural-hospital improvement program in South Carolina: $1,650,000 to the South Carolina Hospital Research & Education Foundation (Columbia, S.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Religion $1,247,000 To provide scholarships for the 2012 Summer Field Education Assistant Pastors program: $1,247,000 to Duke Divinity School (Durham, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $1,000,000 To expand South Carolina's telepsychiatry network: $1,000,000 to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (Columbia, S.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Religion $150,000 For a program to assist Latinos with health-care issues: $150,000 to Wilmington District, North Carolina Conference, United Methodist Church (Wilmington, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Children and youths $150,000 To broaden support for evidence-based programs that strengthen families: $150,000 to Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (Raleigh, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $260,000 To expand Healthy Smiles, an outreach program providing comprehensive dental services to uninsured people: $260,000 to the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (Spartanburg).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $199,144 To expand health services to uninsured people of Wayne County: $199,144 to Wayne Memorial Hospital (Goldsboro, N.C.).
7/12/2012 Duke Endowment N.C. Health care and hospitals $225,000 To adopt a therapeutic foster-care curriculum and recruit and train families: $225,000 to the South Carolina Youth Advocate Program (Columbia, S.C.).
7/12/2012 Getty Foundation Calif. Arts and culture $390,000 To conserve a series of six panel paintings by Peter Paul Rubens known as the Triumph of the Eucharist: approximately $390,000 to Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain).
7/12/2012 William Penn Foundation Pa. Education $15,000,000 To create at least 50,000 seats in high-performing classrooms by taking the best-performing schools and expanding their capacity to serve Philadelphia's students: $15,000,000 to the Philadelphia Schools Project (Philadelphia, Pa.).
7/12/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $8,500,000 To help dairy farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda: $8,500,000 to Heifer International (Little Rock, Ark.).
7/12/2012 John Templeton Foundation Pa. Education $1,000,000 To develop and carry out ways to instill "intellectual virtues" such as curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness in children: approximately $1,000,000 to Loyola Marymount U., to support the work of Jason Baehr (Los Angeles, Calif.).
7/12/2012 Lilly Endowment Ind. Education $5,000,000 To link educational opportunities to careers, especially in the industrial sector: $2,900,000 to Heritage Fund-the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County (Columbus, Ind.) and $2,100,000 to the Community Education Coalition (Columbus, Ind.).
7/12/2012 Texas Instruments Foundation Tex. Arts and culture $1,500,000 For operating support: $1,500,000 to be divided among 12 arts and culture organizations in North Texas.
7/12/2012 William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation Calif. Higher education $5,000,000 To endow a chair in biology: $5,000,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).
7/12/2012 UPS Foundation Ga. Education $50,000 For its Model UN program, which engages middle- and high-school students around the world on contemporary international issues and institutions: $50,000 to the United Nations Association of the USA (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 UPS Foundation Ga. Disabled $100,000 For its Emerging Leaders Summer Internship Program for disabled youths: $100,000 to the Viscardi Center (Albertson, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Arts and culture $3,000,000 For awards made through the New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, to support local New York City art and artists: approximately $3,000,000 to 16 arts and culture organizations in New York.
7/12/2012 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Children and youths $3,000,000 For a national public information campaign that will focus on five issues that affect America's children: the education system and the impact of student debt; increased childhood poverty; the struggles of working parents; the impact of today's digital media environment on families; and the increased number of young people living with chronic disease: $3,000,000 to the Center for the Next Generation (San Francisco, Calif.).
7/12/2012 Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation Mass. Poverty $650,000 To end extreme poverty: $650,000 to the Global Poverty Project (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 New York Life Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $500,000 For programs in Boston, Chicago, New York City and Westchester County, N.Y., to provide entrepreneurship education programs to needy young people: $500,000 over two years to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 Silicon Valley Community Foundation Calif. Housing $455,000 To provide housing counseling and legal services to homeowners and renters facing foreclosure: $63,000 each to Able Works (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (Oakland, Calif.), the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County (Redwood City, Calif.), Neighborhood Housing Services Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.), and Project Sentinel (Fremont, Calif.), $57,000 to Bay Area Legal Aid (Oakland, Calif.), and $20,000 to the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley (San Jose, Calif.).
7/12/2012 Silicon Valley Community Foundation Calif. Poverty $1,000,000 To provide food and shelter to needy residents: $1,000,000 to be divided among 19 nonprofit organizations in San Mateo County.
7/12/2012 Middendorf Foundation Md. Nursing $125,000 For a simulation laboratory that will contain low- and high-fidelity mannequins to mimic patient symptoms and clinical scenarios that a nurse may encounter: $125,000 to Notre Dame of Maryland U. (Baltimore, Md.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Climate change $125,000 To build public support for federal farm policy that balances conservation and agricultural production: $125,000 to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Climate change $66,100,000 For general support of its work to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate change: $66,100,000 to the ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $1,100,000 For habitat restoration and invasive species removal from important seabird breeding islands: $1,100,000 to Island Conservation (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $337,500 To protect coastal systems in Oregon and Washington: $337,500 to the Surfrider Foundation (San Clemente, Calif.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $250,000 For the Navajo San Juan Conservation Initiative, to develop a Navajo voice for the conservation of Utah's public land, and to affect improved and expanded conservation for these lands: $250,000 to Round River Conservation Studies (Salt Lake City, Utah).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $635,000 To protect landscapes and waters across the Colorado Plateau, specifically focusing on the Yampa River Basin, Dolores River Basin, Virgin River Watershed, and southeast Utah, and general support: $635,000 to the Wilderness Society (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $360,000 For general support: $150,000 to the Center for Effective Philanthropy (Cambridge, Mass.), $100,000 to the Council on Foundations (Arlington, Va.), $60,000 to Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (Washington, D.C.), and $50,000 to GuideStar (Williamsburg, Va.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and population $300,000 For general support: $300,000 to the International Women's Health Coalition (New York, N.Y.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and population $300,000 To mobilize resources for reproductive-justice efforts led by women who are minorities: $300,000 to the New Venture Fund (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Children, youths, and families $1,350,000 To provide technical assistance to state-based organizations working on children and family coverage and for work on federal issues impacting child and family coverage: $1,350,000 to Georgetown U. (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 Lumina Foundation Ind. Higher education $1,000,000 To make LearningCounts.org, which evaluates and assesses an individual's lifelong learning for college credit leading to degree completion, certification, or professional development, a self-sustaining, ongoing enterprise: $1,000,000 to the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago, Ill.).
7/12/2012 Lumina Foundation Ind. Higher education $1,200,000 To make LearningCounts.org, which evaluates and assesses an individual's lifelong learning for college credit leading to degree completion, certification, or professional development, a self-sustaining, ongoing enterprise: $1,200,000 to the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (Chicago, Ill.).
7/12/2012 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Higher education $1,000,000 For the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which recognizes community colleges for their achievements with respect to student learning outcomes, college completion, labor market success, and equitable opportunity: $1,000,000 over two years to the Aspen Institute (Washington, D.C.).
7/12/2012 Horizon Foundation for New Jersey N.J. Health $2,000,000 To expand access health care for uninsured residents of New Jersey: $2,000,000 to 13 health centers and clinics in New Jersey.