Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on August 2, 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
8/2/2012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Ill. Arts and culture $100,000 For "Untouchables," a documentary film following four young people in India's Dalit, or "Untouchable," caste as they become the first members of their families to receive an education: $100,000 to Big Year Productions, to support the work of Vanessa Roth (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Education $50,000 To raise awareness among current and potential supporters of the need in developing countries for increasing access to low-cost primary and secondary schools throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America: $50,000 to Opportunity International (Oak Brook, Ill.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $50,000 To study whether partnerships between nonprofits to offer innovative projects will attract financial support from corporations, foundations, and other institutions: $50,000 to the Rotary Foundation (Evanston, Ill.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Health $50,000 For the Eye Bank Partner Program, a fundraising project to scale up corneal eye banks in India: $50,000 to SightLife (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Agriculture $35,000 To work with female Maasai dairy farmers in Kenya to improve their farming and business techniques: $35,000 to TechnoServe (Washington, D.C.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Child health $50,000 To develop an interactive game to engage donors to support a project to vaccinate the last 20 percent of un-immunized children: $50,000 to the U.S. Fund for Unicef (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Global Impact Va. Water $50,000 For a marketing campaign that broadens public awareness of the global water crisis: $50,000 to Water for People (Denver, Colo.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $45,000 To protect Alaska's air, land, and water by promoting effective citizen engagement: $45,000 to the Alaska Conservation Alliance (Anchorage, Alaska).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $90,000 To promote solutions-based climate policy in the region: $90,000 over two years to Climate Solutions (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $100,000 To protect Idaho's clean water, air, wilderness, and quality of life through citizen engagement, public education, and advocacy: $100,000 over two years to the Idaho Conservation League (Boise, Idaho).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $35,000 To educate journalists to improve the quality of coverage of natural-resource issues that impact the West: $35,000 to the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources (Missoula, Mont.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $30,000 To protect wildlife and wildlife habitats in Montana: $30,000 to Montana Audubon (Helena, Mont.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $70,000 To protect the ecological integrity of the Transboundary Flathead River Valley and the Crown of the ContinentEcosystem: $70,000 over two years to the National Parks ConservationAssociation (Whitefish, Mont.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $100,000 To bring Oregonians together for a healthy environment: $100,000 over two years to the Oregon Environmental Council (Portland, Ore.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $80,000 To promote a sustainable economy and healthy environment in the Salmon River Region: $80,000 over two years to the Salmon Valley Stewardship (Salmon, Idaho).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $50,000 To catalyze new philanthropic leadership on conservation issues: $50,000 to Social Venture Partners (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $80,000 To build capacity and networks for regional conservation in the High Divide: $80,000 over two years to Sustainable Northwest (Portland, Ore.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $20,000 To equip donors to be more effective grant makers in the field of conservation: $20,000 to the Seattle Foundation (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $30,000 To build conservation capacity in central Oregon: $30,000 to Trout Unlimited, Deschutes Office (Bend, Ore.).
8/2/2012 Brainerd Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $40,000 To test and deliver a new communications framework for progressive causes in Washington State: $40,000 to the Washington Progress Fund (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. International $1,600,000 For general operating support: $1,600,000 over two years to the Center for U.S. Global Leadership (Washington, D.C.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. International $1,000,000 For general operating support: $1,000,000 over three years to the Collaborative African Budget Reform Initiative (Pretoria, South Africa).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and population $2,500,000 For general operating support: $2,500,000 over three years to the African Population and Health Research Centre (Nairobi, Kenya).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and population $2,025,000 For general operating support: $2,025,000 to International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide (London, England).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $50,000 For its climate change, energy, and wildlands program: $50,000 to the Nevada Wilderness Project (Reno, Nev.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Teenage pregnancy $400,000 To prevent teenage pregnancy: $400,000 to the Latino Community Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Journalism $50,000 For general operating support: $50,000 to Boston Review (Cambridge, Mass.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Technology $50,000 For general operating support: $50,000 to Code for America (San Francisco, Calif.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Technology $25,000 To analyze monitoring and evaluation software available to nonprofits: $25,000 to Idealware (Portland, Me.).
8/2/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Economics $2,000,000 For general operating support: $2,000,000 over three years to Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (Mexico City, Mexico).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Health $26,666,502 To reduce childhood morbidity and mortality from lower respiratory infections in low-income regions by developing a vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae: $26,666,502 over 61 months to PATH Vaccine Solutions (Seattle, Wash.).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $9,970,086 To raise income and improve food security for 500,000 small farmer households in India: $9,970,086 over 43 months to Digital Green (Berkeley, Calif.).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Water $6,038,926 To improve the effectiveness, efficiency, inclusion, and sustainability of sanitation approaches for the poor in three states of Nigeria: $6,038,926 over 49 months to WaterAid America (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $1,492,904 To collaborate with member schools in Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania to develop agribusiness management and training programs to support foundation grantees and strengthen local institutions: $1,492,904 over 25 months to the Association of African Business Schools (Johannesburg, South Africa).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $3,000,000 For general operating support: $3,000,000 over 25 months to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Chicago, Ill.).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $9,872,613 To test the feasibility of developing cereal crops capable of fixing nitrogen as an environmentally sustainable approach for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to increase maize yields: $9,872,613 over 61 months to the John Innes Centre (Norwich).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Water $1,496,144 To develop sustainable and scalable models for efficiently delivering safe and accessible sanitation for poor people living in Africa's urban informal settlements: $1,496,144 over 25 months to the Umande Trust (Nairobi, Kenya).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Water $486,360 For a women-led model of sanitation service delivery in Bihar, India: $486,360 over 25 months to the Mahilia Housing SEWA Trust (Ahmedabad, India).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $2,490,430 To support teachers and to strengthen operations: $2,490,430 over 37 months to Student Achievement Partners (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $1,068,788 For its education policy work: $1,068,788 over 25 months to the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Washington, D.C.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $80,000 For general support: $80,000 to Philanthropy New York (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Technology $75,000 For the costs of editing the international journal Gender, Technology, and Development: $75,000 over three years to the Asian Institute of Technology (Pathumthani, Thailand).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Community and economic development $250,000 To organize and train a leadership coalition representing racially and socioeconomically diverse suburbs to promote social inclusion, environmental sustainability, job creation, and infrastructure policies beneficial to them: $250,000 to the Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (Collingswood, N.J.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Labor issues $125,000 To develop, produce, and promote a multimedia project to shift the perceptions of and promote improvements in working conditions for low-wage restaurant workers: $125,000 to the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Education $67,500 To administer and award the Maathai Award, an annual cash award to two New York City high-school seniors who have demonstrated academic and extracurricular commitment to environmental stewardship within the urban context: $67,500 over five years to the Municipal Art Society of New York (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Philanthropy $109,635 To promote philanthropic giving among young Africans: $109,635 over 18 months to the African Foundation for Development (London, England).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Energy $150,000 To provide a vision for the future of American energy development that creates jobs, boosts the American economy, and helps the move toward energy independence: $150,000 to the Center for American Progress (Washington, D.C.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Women and girls $50,000 For the "Leaders' Forum on the Future Women Want: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment for Sustainable Development": $50,000 to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (New York, N.Y.).
8/2/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Social entrepreneurship $100,000 To mobilize investment capital to drive social change and develop the social-impact bond field: $100,000 to Social Finance (Boston, Mass.).
8/2/2012 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Health $2,000,000 To improve access to vision care for needy families, study and focus on inequities in children's vision care, and increase the vision care provided to low-birth-weight babies: $2,000,000 over five years to the Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
8/2/2012 Danville Regional Foundation Va. Entrepreneurship $10,000,000 To help entrepreneurs start businesses: $10,000,000 to the Southside Business Technology Center (Danville, Va.).
8/2/2012 Mars, Incorporated Va. Business $5,000,000 For an exhibition focusing on the role of business and innovation in the United States from the mid-1700s to the present: $5,000,000 to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.).
8/2/2012 Target Corporation Minn. Education $5,000,000 To help needy public schools: $5,000,000 in cash and noncash support to be divided among schools nationwide yet to be announced.