Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on September 6, 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
9/6/2012 Annenberg Foundation Calif. Arts and culture $1,000,000 For general operating support to discover and develop independent artists in film and theater: $1,000,000 over three years to the Sundance Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. HIV/AIDS $2,100,000 For early-childhood development services that improve physical, social, and cognitive outcomes for children up to age five in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia who have been affected by HIV/AIDS: $2,100,000 over three years to Firelight Foundation (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. HIV/AIDS $275,000 To provide early-childhood development programs for young children affected by HIV/AIDS in communities with a high prevalence of the disease: $275,000 over two years to the Global Fund For Children (Washington, D.C.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. HIV/AIDS $1,500,000 To provide needy children up to the age of five affected by HIV/AIDS, their communities, and parents or caregivers with early-childhood development activities in Kenya and Mozambique: $1,500,000 over three years to Plan International (Surrey, England).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. HIV/AIDS $1,400,000 To create and carry out a monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategy for the foundation's program for children affected by HIV/AIDS: $1,400,000 over three years to the Human Sciences Research Council (Pretoria, South Africa).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Children and youths $600,000 To study the outcomes of extended foster-youth benefits past age 18 for the first cohorts of eligible youths: $600,000 over three years to the U. of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration (Chicago, Ill.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Children and youths $650,000 To prepare transition-age foster youths to succeed in college; support pregnant and parenting foster youths; and provide advocacy and support for youths involved in both the foster-care and juvenile-justice systems: $650,000 over two years to Public Counsel Law Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Children and youths $300,000 For work on extending assistance to youths in foster care until their 21st birthdays, updated practice models, and new resources and technology to reach youths: $300,000 over two years to the Alliance for Children's Rights (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Children and youths $2,400,000 For support programs for pregnant and parenting New York City foster youths: $2,400,000 over three years to Inwood House (New York, N.Y.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Children and youths $185,000 To study a cohort of youths transitioning from the foster-care and/or juvenile-justice system in New York City: $185,000 over two years to Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, Center for Innovation Through Data Intelligence (New York, N.Y.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Homelessness $7,775,000 To end chronic homelessness, especially in veterans, in Los Angeles County by 2016: $7,775,000 over three years to the United Way of Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Homelessness $190,000 To study the financing of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people and provide a report with findings and recommendations to guide policy and practice: $190,000 over two years to Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Education $1,200,000 To assist the Department of Catholic Schools with the implementation of its strategic marketing and communications plan: $1,200,000 over two years to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Education $1,000,000 To provide 800 elementary students with tuition awards and to support programs to enhance student development and the marketability of Catholic schools: $1,000,000 over two years to the Catholic Education Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Calif. Health $1,359,000 To provide financial support for treatment, research, and social services for needy people with multiple sclerosis living in the Las Vegas area: $1,359,000 over three years to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio).
9/6/2012 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Tex. Engineering $427,000,000 To enable engineering students to develop products: software valued at $427,000,000 to the U. of Louisville, J.B. Speed School of Engineering (Louisville, Ky.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $1,000,000 To fight viruses that threaten cassava in Africa and the Indian subcontinent: $1,000,000 to Delaware State U. to support the work of Vincent N. Fondong (Dover, Del.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $7,994,966 To double the yields of 85,000 Tanzanian coffee farmers: $7,994,966 over 49 months to Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Koln, Germany).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. HIV/AIDS $3,324,161 To expand the existing specimen and data repository created by the Consortium for the Performance and Evaluation of HIV Incidence Assays: $3,324,161 over three years to the U. of California at San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Economic development $4,999,406 To access capital markets to finance long-term investment that directly benefits the urban poor: $4,999,406 over 51 months to the City of Dakar (Dakar, Senegal).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $4,822,265 To develop EdReady, a free online direct-to-student college-readiness diagnostic and customized remediation tool: $4,822,265 over 29 months to the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (Monterey, Calif.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $2,947,181 To create, test, and scale digital tools that help teachers instruct with primary sources in social studies and history in middle school: $2,947,181 over three years to the Education Development Center (Waltham, Mass.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. HIV/AIDS $2,368,409 To develop an HIV vaccine: $2,368,409 over 37 months to Ruhr-University Bochum (Bochum, Germany).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $5,637,513 To enable Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, and other countries to produce, disseminate, and analyze quality agriculture market statistics using digital technologies: $5,637,513 over 35 months to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome, Italy).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Health $2,993,244 To expand laboratory and training capacity in South Africa: $2,993,244 to the Hutchinson Center Research Institute of South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Health $2,199,688 To reduce cervical cancer among women worldwide by promoting and appropriately evaluating the impact of human papillomavirus vaccination and HPV-based screening programs in low- and middle-income countries: $2,199,688 over five years to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon Cedex, France).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $4,230,034 To improve strategies for the monitoring and management of wheat-rust and cassava-virus diseases in plants: $4,230,034 over 62 months to the U. of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $3,653,426 To develop and test adaptable, scalable, effective, and efficient economic and financial solutions for sanitation pricing and tariffs for the benefit of the urban poor: $3,653,426 over three years to Water and Sanitation for Africa (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $1,390,879 To improve the productivity of chickens in Uganda: $1,390,879 over 25 months to Arizona State U.Foundation (Tempe, Ariz.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Conservation and the environment $5,500,000 For general operating support: $5,500,000 over 23 months to the International Institute for Environment and Development (London, England).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $13,996,740 To strengthen the scientific and leadership skills of the top 10 percent of female agricultural researchers in sub-Saharan Africa: $13,996,740 over 61 months to the International Centre for Research on Agroforestry (Nairobi, Kenya).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Social entrepreneurship $4,000,000 For general operating support: $4,000,000 over 26 months to BRAC USA (New York, N.Y.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $3,062,093 To support virtual communities of teacher leaders: $3,062,093 over three years to the Center for Teaching Quality (Carrboro, N.C.).
9/6/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Education $1,500,000 To increase the level of attention and investment in global health issues by the research-based biopharmaceutical industry, and to coordinate activities to achieve greater impact and efficiency with respect to neglected tropical and other diseases: $1,500,000 over 13 months to the New Venture Fund (Washington, D.C.).
9/6/2012 Walton Family Foundation Ark. Marine issues $10,850,000 To preserve the livelihoods of fishermen while restoring depleted fish populations and a healthy marine environment, in collaboration with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Skoll Foundation: $10,850,000 to the Marine Stewardship Council (London, England).
9/6/2012 Walton Family Foundation Ark. Education $3,000,000 To expand school choice in Indianapolis: $3,000,000 to recipients yet to be announced.
9/6/2012 Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Tex. Mental health $2,056,746 To develop and strengthen mental-health services and support for children, youths, and families in Houston and Harris Counties in Texas: $862,580 to the Collaborative for Children (Houston, Tex.), $490,597 to Harris County Protective Services for Children and Adults (Houston, Tex.), $159,294 to Asian American Family Services (Houston, Tex.), $136,732 to DePelchin Children's Center (Houston, Tex.), $130,945 to the Montrose Counseling Center (Houston, Tex.), $102,014 to ChildBuilders (Houston, Tex.), $93,193 to Family Services of Greater Houston (Houston, Tex.), and $81,391 to Star of Hope Mission (Houston, Tex.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $57,000 To help Flagstaff's two largest news organizations provide better real-time information to ensure that residents are prepared for and quickly recover from wildfires, floods, hazmat incidents, and disasters: $57,000 to the Arizona Community Foundation (Phoenix, Ariz.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $102,000 To finance a beat reporter dedicated to environmental issues at a newly launched nonprofit investigative news site: $102,000 to the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (Buffalo, N.Y.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $52,000 To track low-cost rental housing in the District of Columbia by creating an online tool: $52,000 to the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (Washington, D.C.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $252,000 To expand coverage for an online statewide policy news site by increasing its health-care coverage and build an online discussion platform: $252,000 to the Community Foundation of New Jersey (Morristown, N.J.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $802,000 To help develop a network of news organizations and journalists in New Jersey and to start creative projects to encourage more civic dialogue and participation: $802,000 to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Morristown, N.J.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $102,000 To increase local news reporting in southeast Louisiana: $102,000 to the Greater New Orleans Foundation (New Orleans, La.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $52,000 To start a community-awareness campaign on local safe-lending options: $52,000 to the Gulf Coast Community Foundation (Gulfport, Miss.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $62,000 To recruit volunteers to help determine key information gaps, identify critical resources valued by residents and visitors, and develop a way to collect data on the status of the coastal environment: $62,000 to the Key Biscayne Community Foundation (Key Biscayne, Fla.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $52,000 To train older adults in rural communities to be citizen reporters: $52,000 to the Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth, Me.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $502,000 To provide independent, in-depth investigative news and analysis, with an emphasis on content relevant to the county's substantial Latino community: $502,000 to the Santa Barbara Foundation (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $137,000 To train journalists and community members to access information and create compelling data visualizations that can be embedded in news stories and on blogs and Web sites: $137,000 to the Boston Foundation (Boston, Mass.).
9/6/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $252,000 To create apps and other tools to help increase the utility of local government data to benefit community organizations and the broader public: $252,000 to the Chicago Community Trust (Chicago, Ill.).
9/6/2012 National Football League N.Y. Medical research $30,000,000 For research into brain injuries and other medical issues: $30,000,000 to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.).