Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on July 26, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/26/2012 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Ill. | Arts and culture | $100,000 | For "Citizen Corp," a documentary film exploring the impact of unlimited spending on the American democratic process: $100,000 to Bayside Productions, to support the work of Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. |
| 7/26/2012 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Ill. | Arts and culture | $100,000 | For "E-Team," a documentary film following three human-rights investigators in some of the most volatile regions of the world, including Syria and Libya: $100,000 to Arts Engine, to support the work of Katy Chevigny and Ross Kaufman (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Ill. | Arts and culture | $50,000 | For "In the Middle," a documentary film about the conflict that arises on a small Italian island with the arrival of 55,000 North African refugees and migrants following the Arab Spring: $50,000 to Film2 Inc., to support the work of Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Ill. | Arts and culture | $50,000 | For "Marmato," a documentary film about the impact that a multinational company has on a small subsistence gold-mining community in Colombia: $50,000 to Calle Films, to support the work of Mark Grieco. |
| 7/26/2012 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Ill. | Arts and culture | $100,000 | For "The Truth About Trees," a film series and interactive Web portal about the significance of trees to society, ecology, and the environment: $100,000 to the James Agee Film Project, to support the work of Ross Spears (Riverdale, Md.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $200,000 | To integrate asset-building services with free tax preparation: $200,000 over two years to AccountAbility Minnesota (St. Paul, Minn.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $150,000 | To provide personal financial education, training, and outreach for people with limited access to mainstream banking services: $150,000 over two years to Express Advantage (Seattle, Wash.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $150,000 | To provide financial education, access to credit, and business services for child-care providers in Iowa serving low-income families: $150,000 over two years to First Children's Finance (Minneapolis, Minn.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $268,000 | To use social-entrepreneurship principles to tackle economic inequities in rural and Native American reservation communities: $268,000 over 18 months to Opportunity Link (Havre, Mont.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $250,000 | For job training, earned-income tax-credit assistance, and a program to prepare people to be good tenants, as well as to expand financial literacy: $250,000 over two years to Chief Seattle Club (Seattle, Wash.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $250,000 | To explore income-generating opportunities and to establish a new equity investment fund that will support services to Native Americans throughout Montana: $250,000 over two years to the Native American Community Development Corporation (Billings, Mont.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $500,000 | For job training, financial education, and leadership development and to create a Community Development Financial Institution that supports businesses: $500,000 over two years to the Native American Youth and Family Center (Portland, Ore.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $75,000 | To advance federal rural microenterprise policy: $75,000 to the Center for Rural Affairs (Lyons, Neb.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $175,000 | To advance economic policy and access to capital: $100,000 to Rural Dynamics (fiscal sponsor of the Montana Indian Business Alliance) (Great Falls, Mont.) and $75,000 to the Four Bands Community Fund (fiscal sponsor of the South Dakota Indian Business Alliance) (Eagle Butte, S.D.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $200,000 | To develop and coordinate a statewide coalition that advocates for asset-building and asset-protection policies: $200,000 over two years to Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance (Minneapolis, Minn.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $100,000 | To increase understanding and engagement in policy solutions to reduce poverty, build prosperity, and ensure adequate state revenues for public services: $100,000 to South Dakota Voices for Children (Sioux Falls, S.D.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $90,000 | For learning, sharing, and advocacy on poverty-reduction and wealth-building policies: $90,000 over two years to the Child and Family Policy Center (Des Moines, Iowa). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $155,000 | For policy analysis on work supports, education, and other programs that help young people move from poverty to the middle class: $155,000 over two years to the Iowa Policy Project (Iowa City, Iowa). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $200,000 | For the emerging State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, which conducts analysis on state budget and tax policies: $200,000 over two years to the Mountain States Group (Boise, Idaho). |
| 7/26/2012 | Northwest Area Foundation | Minn. | Economic development | $90,000 | For budget analysis: $90,000 over two years to the Washington State Budget and Policy Center (Seattle, Wash.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Skoll Foundation | Calif. | HIV/AIDS | $2,500,000 | To pair HIV-positive mothers with pregnant HIV-positive women to provide guidance and support and to work with African governments to adopt this model: $2,500,000 to mothers2mothers (Cape Town, South Africa). |
| 7/26/2012 | John S. and James L. Knight Foundation | Fla. | Journalism | $1,900,000 | To build apps focused on data-driven news and to create a job-shadowing program for journalists across the nation: $1,900,000 to ProPublica (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Lilly Endowment | Ind. | Arts and culture | $1,000,000 | To build the Red Skelton Museum and Education Center: $1,000,000 to Vincennes U. (Vincennes, Ind.). |
| 7/26/2012 | News Corporation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $20,000,000 | To provide health services, financial assistance, and other support to current and retired entertainment-industry workers: $20,000,000 to the Motion Picture and Television Fund (Los Angeles, Calif.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Bank of America Charitable Foundation | N.C. | Housing | $22,000,000 | To build and renovate low-cost housing, offer foreclosure-prevention services and homeowner counseling, and provide other services: $22,000,000 to approximately 650 nonprofit organizations in 34 states. |
| 7/26/2012 | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Calif. | Science | $2,250,000 | To study microbes and viruses beneath the ocean floor: $2,250,000 to the Marine Biological Laboratory, to support the work of Julie Huber (Woods Hole, Mass.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Home Depot Foundation | Ga. | Housing | $2,700,000 | For the Repair Corps Program, to provide Habitat affiliates across the country with the resources to repair the homes of more than 180 veterans and their families: $2,700,000 to Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Merck Company Foundation | N.J. | Health | $3,000,000 | To better serve people living with HIV/AIDS and prevent its further spread: up to $1,000,000 over three years each to the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health (Philadelphia, Pa.), the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness (Atlanta, Ga.), and the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (Houston, Tex.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Medtronic Foundation | Minn. | Health | $3,750,000 | To improve sudden cardiac arrest survival rates in Illinois and in select communities served by American Medical Response in the next five years: $3,750,000 jointly to American Medical Response (Greenwood Village, Colo.) and the U. of Illinois (Champaign, Ill.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Ford Foundation | N.Y. | Education | $1,500,000 | For expanded after-school learning opportunities for low-income high-school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District: $1,500,000 to the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Arts and culture | $50,000 | To start a traveling art-exhibition business: $50,000 to the Arizona Museum for Youth (Mesa, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Arts and culture | $290,000 | To expand and improve its facility: $290,000 over two years to Childsplay (Tempe, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Arts and culture | $65,000 | To develop and implement a mariachi music program: $65,000 over three years to Rosie's House: a Music Academy for Children (Phoenix, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Arts and culture | $300,000 | For its marketing program and to support the search for a new musical director: $300,000 over 18 months to the Phoenix Symphony (Phoenix, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Children and youths | $55,330 | To implement a parent-training program to increase literacy on health practices for young children: $55,330 to the Scottsdale Prevention Institute (Scottsdale, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Children and youths | $1,065,379 | To strengthen after-school and youth programs in Maricopa County, Ariz.: $1,065,379 over 60 months to the U. of Arizona, John and Doris Norton School, Family and Consumer Sciences (Tucson, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Children and youths | $505,200 | To provide school clothing: $505,200 to be divided among 289 public elementary schools within 41 districts in Maricopa County, Ariz. |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Health and human services | $250,000 | To establish a medical respite center for homeless adults: $250,000 over two years to Circle the City (Phoenix, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust | Ariz. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $248,500 | For a program to build strength and endurance within nonprofit organizations: $248,500 over 30 months to Arizona State U., Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation (Phoenix, Ariz.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation | Md. | Education | $5,000,000 | To build 12 new libraries over four years: $5,000,000 to the Baltimore City Public Schools (Baltimore, Md.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Glenn Foundation for Medical Research | Calif. | Aging | $5,000,000 | For research on the biology of the aging process: $5,000,000 over five years to the American Federation for Aging Research (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Social entrepreneurship | $25,000 | For a Web-based crowd-financing platform to accelerate efforts to find and engage social entrepreneurs from around the world: $25,000 to Ashoka (Arlington, Va.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | HIV/AIDS | $50,000 | To improve early-childhood development programs for children under the age of five in Mozambique: $50,000 to CARE (Atlanta, Ga.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Health | $50,000 | To develop a hospital: $50,000 to Doctors Without Borders USA (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Health | $25,000 | For program development and staffing for its global projects in preventing blindness and reducing malnutrition: $25,000 to Helen Keller International (New York, N.Y.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Health | $50,000 | For a partnership to provide prevention, training, treatment, and advocacy to focus on accidents and acts of violence involving burns: $50,000 to International Medical Corps (Santa Monica, Calif.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Health | $50,000 | To raise money to bring water and sanitation to needy people: $50,000 to Lutheran World Relief (Baltimore, Md.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Global Impact | Va. | Technology | $50,000 | To provide peer mentoring, fellowships, internships, and scholarships for girls in the developing world who either work or aspire to work as information-technology professionals: $50,000 to NetHope (Fairfax, Va.). |
| 7/26/2012 | Chicago Foundation for Women | Ill. | Women and girls | $336,000 | To improve the lives of women and their families: approximately $336,000 to be divided among 30 nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area. |
