Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on September 13, 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
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $32,000 To create a mobile app for the Neighborhood Voice, its local news publication and Web site, to connect residents to the services and institutions available in the greater University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland: $32,000 to the Cleveland Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $102,000 To increase public understanding about how education funding works in Duval County, Fla.: $102,000 to the Community Foundation in Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Fla.).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $302,000 To create a cooperative news network where partners will be able to share content to better serve the information needs of rural Oregon news organizations: $302,000 to the Oregon Community Foundation (Portland, Ore.).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $302,000 To produce an investigative report on gas- and oil-well drilling: $302,000 to the Raymond John Wean Foundation (Warren, Ohio).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $202,000 To help a Philadelphia Public Schools news site better connect with its audiences: $202,000 to Resources for Human Development (Philadelphia, Pa.).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $62,000 To provide more critical information to residents: $62,000 to the Wyoming Community Foundation (Laramie, Wyo.).
9/13/2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fla. Journalism $192,000 To increase coverage of local issues like education, safety, and health and wellness: $192,000 to the United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Wis.).
9/13/2012 Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation Wis. Higher education $1,800,000 To improve college completion for students in Wisconsin: $1,800,000 to be divided among 14 colleges and organizations in Wisconsin.
9/13/2012 Ford Motor Company Fund Mich. Zoos and aquariums $400,000 To study the health of giant pandas: $400,000 over two years to the Smithsonian Institution, National Zoo (Washington, D.C.).
9/13/2012 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Calif. Patient safety $8,900,000 To study how to prevent patient harm at intensive-care units: $8,900,000 to the Johns Hopkins U., Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (Baltimore, Md.).
9/13/2012 Home Depot Foundation Ga. Housing $50,000,000 To provide housing for military veterans: $50,000,000 over three years to recipients yet to be announced.
9/13/2012 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Md. Medical research $40,000,000 For the Collaborative Innovation Awards, to carry out potentially transformative research: $40,000,000 to be divided among six teams of 28 researchers from 20 institutions in the United States, Germany, and Israel.
9/13/2012 Center for Arab American Philanthropy Mich. Arab-Americans $53,000 For grass-roots Arab-American organizations around the country, for efforts such as assisting refugees, promoting student success, and informing the public through arts and culture: $53,000 to be divided among 10 organizations across the nation.
9/13/2012 Seneca Foods Foundation N.Y. Higher education $20,000,000 To provide undergraduate financial aid: $20,000,000 to Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.).
9/13/2012 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Health $5,000,000 To produce fresh, locally grown food, train new farmers, and provide healthy produce for children and families in low-income neighborhoods and minority communities: $5,000,000 over five years to Growing Power (Milwaukee, Wis.).
9/13/2012 Community Safety Foundation Calif. Public safety $1,000,000 For disaster training and preparedness efforts throughout the United States: $1,000,000 to the American Red Cross (Washington, D.C.).
9/13/2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation N.Y. Arts and culture $3,300,000 To create the Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts program, which will bring innovative early-career to midcareer artists to campus: $3,300,000 challenge grant to Princeton U. (Princeton, N.J.).
9/13/2012 Pittsburgh Foundation Pa. Higher education $2,000,000 To establish two endowed chairs supporting cancer research and personalized medicine: $2,000,000 to the U. of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
9/13/2012 John Templeton Foundation Pa. Ethics $1,100,000 To study the Laws of Life Essay Contest, a competition in which students write essays on which principles (such as the Golden Rule or "honesty is the best policy") have most affected their lives: $1,100,000 to Sewanee: the University of the South, to support the work of Sherry Hamby (Sewanee, Tenn.).
9/13/2012 Wal-Mart Stores Ark. Disabled $350,000 To help disabled people access jobs, made through Sam's Club: $350,000 to the National Organization on Disability (New York, N.Y.).
9/13/2012 Lilly Endowment Ind. Religion $8,000,000 To identify, train, and sustain outstanding ministers and pastors for Christian congregations throughout the United States: $8,000,000 to the Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis, Ind.).
9/13/2012 California HealthCare Foundation Calif. Health and human services $300,000 For technology innovation and policy reform to improve consumer access to health and human services: $300,000 to Social Interest Solutions (Sacramento, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Bloomberg Philanthropies N.Y. Conservation and the environment $6,000,000 To minimize the environmental impacts of natural-gas operations through hydraulic fracturing: $6,000,000 over three years to the Environmental Defense Fund (New York, N.Y.).
9/13/2012 JPMorgan Chase & Co. N.Y. Science $1,000,000 For teacher-education programs and quarterly free Sundays over the next three years: $1,000,000 to the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Health $3,700,000 To identify the best policies and practices for increasing and improving water-quality testing for African water suppliers and surveillance agencies: $3,700,000 to the Aquaya Institute (San Francisco, Calif.).
9/13/2012 J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $150,000 To recruit and support entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses in needy communities: $150,000 to Rising Tide Capital (Jersey City, N.J.).
9/13/2012 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Calif. Jewish life and culture $250,000 To create a program called Culture Lab, a series of monthly events and short-term collaborations among East Side local artists aimed at inspiring conversations about Jewish thought and tradition and encouraging involvement in the Jewish community: $250,000 over two years to the Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Calif. Jewish life and culture $175,000 To create a social-entrepreneurship fellowship program, with PresenTenseLA: $175,000 over three years to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Calif. Jewish life and culture $250,000 For a yearlong program for up to 75 young adults who have attended the Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel: $250,000 over three years to American Jewish U. (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Calif. Jewish life and culture $225,000 To bring together 400 teenagers with Holocaust survivors for meaningful dialogues focused on social awareness and speaking up about injustice: $225,000 over three years to the Righteous Conversations Project (Santa Monica, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Calif. Jewish life and culture $200,000 For bar/bat mitzvah learning, educator training, and religious=school integration for special-needs children: $200,000 over three years to Vista Del Mar (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/13/2012 New York Life Foundation N.Y. Death and dying $750,000 To provide grief counseling to needy children: $750,000 to be divided among 21 organizations.
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Education $75,000 For an intensive leadership-development program for 50 Latino students: $75,000 to Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership (Cambridge, Mass.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Conservation and the environment $40,000 To minimize the environmental impact of human activities on the Galapagos Islands: $40,000 to Fundacion Galapagos Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Water $515,000 To help local sugar-cane farmers improve the quality of water entering the Great Barrier Reef in Australia: $515,000 to the World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Water $60,000 To reduce water consumption in schools by 50 percent: $60,000 to Fundacion Para La Sostenibilidad Y La Equidad (San Jose, Costa Rica).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Conservation and the environment $250,000 To establish a campus recycling program and reward participating students with bicycles for transportation: $250,000 to Universiti Putra Malaysia (Serdang, Malaysia).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $25,000 For diabetes education and outreach to Latinos in Los Angeles: $25,000 to the American Diabetes Association (Alexandria, Va.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $132,000 To educate urban planners on the need for parks and green spaces in communities: $132,000 to Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk E.V. (Berlin, Germany).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $200,000 For sports and fitness programs for youths in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco: $200,000 to Good Sports (Quincy, Mass.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Volunteerism $650,000 To engage 15,000 youths in community projects: $650,000 to Croix Rouge Francaise (Paris, France).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $25,000 For 16 participants who are preparing for nonprofit leadership and management roles: $25,000 to Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (Los Angeles, Calif.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Military and veterans affairs $1,250,000 For programs to benefit 100,000 military veterans and their families and for the construction of rehabilitation centers at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and Fort Belvoir Hospital in Fairfax, Va.: $1,250,000 to United Service Organizations (Arlington, Va.).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Entrepreneurship $96,510 To provide small loans to 350 low-income Pakistani women to start or grow their businesses: $96,510 to Kashf Foundation (Lahore, Pakistan).
9/13/2012 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Energy $214,900 For a solar-energy project in India: $214,900 to Mahila Sewa Trust (Ahmedabad, India).
9/13/2012 Robert R. McCormick Foundation Ill. Child abuse $850,000 To improve the social and emotional well-being of children affected by abuse and family violence and to reduce the risk of child abuse: $850,000 to be divided among 27 charities in the Chicago area.
9/13/2012 George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Utah Higher education $3,000,000 To construct the student-life center: $3,000,000 to the U. of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah).
9/13/2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation N.Y. Humanities $800,000 For digital humanities programs: $800,000 to Southwestern U. (Georgetown, Tex.).
9/13/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and population $900,000 To promote universal access to female condoms: $900,000 to Oxfam Novib (The Hague, the Netherlands).
9/13/2012 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Transportation $151,500 To improve future transport policies and projects for poor people in the Bangkok metropolitan area: $151,500 to Chulalongkorn U. (Bangkok, Thailand).