Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on August 30, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/30/2012 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $4,000,000 | For artistic and educational programs: $4,000,000 over two years to Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Bernard Osher Foundation | Calif. | Higher education | $1,050,000 | To endow the Osher Re-Entry Scholarship program for adult students who are completing baccalaureate degrees: $1,050,000 to Indiana U. at Bloomington (Bloomington, Ind.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Kresge Foundation | Mich. | Arts and culture | $1,000,000 | For facility renovation and repair projects: $1,000,000 to the Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, Miss.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | Md. | Military and veterans affairs | $2,500,000 | For educational outreach: $2,500,000 over 10 years to the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (Falls Church, Va.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | N.Y. | Mental health | $11,900,000 | For mental-health research: $11,900,000 to be divided among 202 mental-health researchers. |
| 8/30/2012 | Foundation Fighting Blindness | Md. | Medical research | $2,400,000 | For research projects aimed at providing treatments and identifying causes of retinal degenerative diseases: $300,000 each to Columbia U., to support the work of Ted Smith (New York, N.Y.); the Johns Hopkins U. School of Medicine, to support the work of Donald Zack (Baltimore, Md.); Oklahoma U. Health Sciences Center, to support the work of Muna Naash (Oklahoma City, Md.); Radboud U. Nijmegen Medical Centre, to support the work of Rob Collin (Nijmegen, the Netherlands); Tufts U. Medical Center, to support the work of Johanna Seddon (Boston, Mass.); the U. of Florida in Gainesville, to support the work of Shannon Boye (Gainesville, Fla.); the U. of Massachusetts Medical School, to support the work of Hemant Khanna (Worcester, Mass.); and the U. of Medicine and Dentistry, to support the work of Marco Zarbin (Newark, N.J.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Lilly Endowment | Ind. | Architecture | $5,000,000 | For earthquake repairs: $5,000,000 to Washington National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Bernard Osher Foundation | Calif. | Higher education | $500,000 | To establish a scholarship endowment benefiting students transferring to Fresno State from a California community college: $500,000 to California State U. at Fresno (Fresno, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Wells Fargo & Company | Calif. | Energy | $2,000,000 | To help bring clean, low-cost solar energy to low-income communities in Colorado: $2,000,000 over five years to GRID Alternatives (Oakland, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | William Randolph Hearst Foundation | N.Y. | Higher education | $100,000 | To establish the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund for African-American students: $100,000 to Flagler College (St. Augustine, Fla.). |
| 8/30/2012 | MetLife Foundation | N.Y. | Education | $1,000,000 | For strategic growth and to develop human capital: $1,000,000 over two years to Communities in Schools (Arlington, Va.). |
| 8/30/2012 | MetLife Foundation | N.Y. | Aging and health | $300,000 | To help raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease among diverse populations: $300,000 to the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (Chicago, Ill.). |
| 8/30/2012 | MetLife Foundation | N.Y. | Aging and health | $100,000 | For the Staying Sharp program, which focuses on understanding how the brain works and maximizing brain function and health: $100,000 to the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | MetLife Foundation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $225,000 | To research and develop new ideas or experiment and implement innovative concepts: $225,000 to be divided among the Atlantic Theater Company (New York, N.Y.), the California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, Calif.), the Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles, Calif.), the Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minn.), and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Ore.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust | Mass. | Arts and culture | $110,000 | To collaborate on a series of educational, outreach, and scholarship activities to promote the artistic and charitable legacy of Polly Thayer Starr: $40,000 to the Boston Athenaeum (Boston, Mass.), $35,000 each to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Mass.), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Henry Luce Foundation | N.Y. | Religion | $375,000 | To enable nuns from China, India, and Vietnam to attend the university: $375,000 over four years to Santa Clara U., Jesuit School of Theology (Berkeley, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $75,000 | To preserve and revitalize the Golden Gate Bridge's Round House in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the bridge: $75,000 to the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $50,000 | For the first phase of restoration of the Pigeon Point Light Station: $50,000 to the California State Parks Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $150,000 | For the conservation of Auguste Rodin's bronze sculptures as part of a comprehensive restoration of Philadelphia's Rodin Museum: $150,000 over three years to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pa.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $50,000 | For professional development and leadership-training services for emerging, mid-career nonprofit arts professionals: $50,000 to the Arts and Business Council of New York (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $440,000 | For the American Express Leadership Academy, to train high-potential emerging nonprofit leaders: $440,000 to the Center for Creative Leadership (Greensboro, N.C.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $150,000 | To expand its leadership-development model to engage 100 fellows per year: $150,000 over three years to Atlas Service Corps (Mechanicsville, Va.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $124,000 | For a leadership academy in India to train high-potential emerging nonprofit leaders: $124,000 to Common Purpose UK (London, England). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $158,000 | For a leadership academy in London to train high-potential emerging nonprofit leaders: $158,000 to Common Purpose UK (London, England). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $50,000 | For a leadership program for 26 emerging leaders: $50,000 to CARE (Atlanta, Ga.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $150,000 | For professional leadership training for 50 current and future leaders within its international network: $150,000 over two years to NatureServe (Arlington, Va.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $100,000 | For a strategic management and leadership training program for 160 senior-level executives, managers, and board members across the country: $100,000 over two years to SER-Jobs for Progress International (Irving, Tex.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $75,000 | For a two-year fellowship of leadership training, peer mentoring, and problem solving and new theory learning for 14 YouthBuild directors: $75,000 over two years to YouthBuild USA (Somerville, Mass.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $100,000 | For a series of moderated public dialogues with prominent nonprofit leaders on issues shaping the nonprofit sector: $100,000 to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Leadership | $50,000 | For a volunteer-led leadership and financial-literacy program for high-school and college students in Beijing and Shanghai: $50,000 to Junior Achievement International China (Raleigh, N.C.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $55,000 | To pair American Express volunteers in New York with needy middle-school students: $55,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $300,000 | For New York City community greening projects: $300,000 over two years to the New York Restoration Project (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $600,000 | For a community-engagement program to strengthen and revitalize neighborhoods in central Harlem: $600,000 over four years to Harlem Children's Zone (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $125,000 | To engage citizens, nonprofits, and education partners in service with and for active military veterans on the National September 11th Day of Service: $125,000 to My Good Deed (Newport Beach, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $50,000 | For Garth Fagan's 1978 work "From Before," a new addition to the Alvin Ailey Repertory: $50,000 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $200,000 | For the Lincoln Center Festival 2012, an annual performing-arts festival in New York City: $200,000 to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $50,000 | For the Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Clifford Odets's "golden Boy" as part of the 2012-3 season: $50,000 to the Lincoln Center Theater (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Obesity | $1,000,000 | To reduce rates of childhood obesity in minority, urban communities in collaboration with the Harlem Children's Zone: $1,000,000 over three years to New York U. Langone Medical Center (New York, N.Y.). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Financial education | $70,000 | To provide free financial advice and debt-counseling services across the United Kingdom: $70,000 to Money Advice Trust (London, England). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $300,000 | For a new annual festival in London presenting a variety of dance performances: $300,000 over two years to Sadler's Wells Association (London, England). |
| 8/30/2012 | American Express Company | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $100,000 | For a dance production performed in three cities at historic structures in Mexico: $100,000 to Project Bandaloop (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Dell | Tex. | Education | $2,400,000 | To help needy youths succeed in school: $2,400,000 to be divided among 50 charities across the nation. |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Health | $3,600,000 | To help needy children and their families gain access to health care: $3,600,000 over three years to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington, D.C.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Race relations | $3,600,000 | To use media, training, and research to popularize racial justice: $3,600,000 over three years to the Applied Research Center (Oakland, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Race relations | $14,850,000 | For general operating support: $3,600,000 over three years each to the National Congress of American Indians (Washington, D.C.), and over three years the National Council of La Raza (Washington, D.C.), $2,800,000 over three years to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Baltimore, Md.), $2,600,000 over three years to the National Urban League (New York, N.Y.), and $2,250,000 over three years to the Advancement Project (Washington, D.C.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Employment and training | $500,000 | To develop programs, policies, and relationships to expand opportunities and support services to ensure greater economic security for needy job seekers with families: $500,000 over two years to Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (Detroit, Mich.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Economic development | $3,000,000 | To increase retail economic activity in core Detroit neighborhoods of Midtown, Corktown, and Eastern Market, with a focus on neighborhood stores and food retail: $3,000,000 over 10 years to the Invest Detroit Foundation (Detroit, Mich.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Economic development | $1,000,000 | To strengthen family economic security in the poorest municipalities of Chiapas, Quintana Roo, and Campeche by creating new jobs for low-income farmers: $1,000,000 over 45 months to Union de Credito Estatal de Productores de Cafe de Oaxaca S.A. de C.V. (Oaxaca, Mexico). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Higher education | $375,000 | To raise public awareness about declining social mobility and its impact on children through research and outreach efforts: $375,000 over two years to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.). |
| 8/30/2012 | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Mich. | Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy | $750,000 | For general operating support: $750,000 to the Bridgespan Group (Boston, Mass.). |
| 8/30/2012 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Conservation and the environment | $150,000 | For the Coalition to Reduce Oil Use in Transportation: $150,000 to Sierra Club Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 8/30/2012 | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Calif. | Health | $500,000,000 | To start the Patient Care Program: $500,000,000 over 10 years to to recipients yet to be announced. |
