Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on January 17, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $300,000 | For general support for this organization, which advocates for human rights and improved policies for migrant workers: $300,000 over two years to Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (Baltimore, Md.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $300,000 | For general support for this organization, which improves conditions for farm workers: $300,000 over two years to Farmworker Justice (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $150,000 | For general support for this group, which organizes a global network of advocates to help migrant workers gain access to justice as well as improve transparency and accountability in the guest-worker visa program: $150,000 over two years to the Global Workers Justice Alliance (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $160,000 | For original news coverage and commentary on workers' rights issues: $160,000 over two years to In These Times (Chicago, Ill.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $500,000 | For general support to this organization, which connects religious communities with workers' rights campaigns and program support for advocacy on behalf of workplace safety and health: $500,000 over two years to Interfaith Worker Justice (Chicago, Ill.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Labor issues | $250,000 | For general support for this organization to provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to advocates on legal and policy issues affecting low-wage workers: $250,000 to the National Employment Law Project (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $320,000 | To expand the use of alternatives to youth incarceration in Arkansas: $320,000 over two years to Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (Little Rock, Ark.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $150,000 | For local and statewide efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in Connecticut's juvenile-justice system: $150,000 over two years to the Center for Children's Advocacy (Hartford, Conn.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $150,000 | For the organization's Juvenile Justice Reporting Beat to conduct independent investigative reporting: $150,000 over two years to the Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $170,000 | For a campaign to end the automatic prosecution of youths in adult courts for certain crimes in Maryland: $170,000 over two years to Community Law in Action (Baltimore, Md.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $550,000 | For a Fiscal Policy Center to provide juvenile-justice advocates with technical assistance to analyze budgets; and for the Youth Justice Leadership Institute, which builds leadership skills among juvenile-justice advocates who are minorities: $550,000 over two years to the National Juvenile Justice Network (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $300,000 | To challenge the low numbers of African-Americans on criminal juries in the South and to change parole policies that contribute to Alabama's high incarceration rate: $300,000 over three years to the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (Montgomery, Ala.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $300,000 | To foster state court education and leadership on pretrial detention reform efforts: $300,000 over two years to the National Center for State Courts (Williamsburg, Va.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Public Welfare Foundation | D.C. | Criminal justice | $300,000 | To continue improving criminal justice in Texas and nationwide: $300,000 over two years to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (Austin, Tex.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $160,000 | For the centennial celebration of Grand Central Terminal in February and March: $160,000 over two years to Friends of the New York Transit Museum (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $100,000 | To renovate the Kolb Studio located on the edge of the Grand Canyon: $100,000 to Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $50,000 | To restore the Tower of Victory at Washington's Headquarters: $50,000 to Palisades Parks Conservancy (Bear Mountain, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2012 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $100,000 | To restore and adapt the arts center: $100,000 to the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto, Canada). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Historic preservation | $50,000 | For the historic preservation and adaptive reuse of Villa Dominguito, a 200-year-old traditional building in rural Argentina: $50,000 to Asociacion Civil Responde (Buenos Aires, Argentina). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Leadership | $71,000 | For a leadership-training program in Japan to help social entrepreneurs: $71,000 to ETIC (Tokyo, Japan). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Leadership | $75,000 | For the American Express Leadership Academy, which trains emerging nonprofit leaders in Japan: $75,000 over two years to the Japan Philanthropic Association (Tokyo, Japan). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Leadership | $50,000 | For the Initiative for Nonprofit Talent and Leadership: $50,000 to Independent Sector (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Leadership | $105,000 | For a leadership academy for 24 emerging leaders: $105,000 over three years to the Points of Light Foundation (Atlanta, Ga.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Leadership | $50,000 | For a leadership program that helps emerging leaders in opera administration across the country advance their careers: $50,000 to Opera America (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $50,000 | To help organizations boost pro bono programs: $50,000 to the Taproot Foundation (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $50,000 | To help social entrepreneurs expand their impact by using pro bono support: $50,000 to Ashoka (Arlington, Va.). |
| 1/17/2012 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $50,000 | For a program that finances projects of young social entrepreneurs and engages American Express employees to judge submissions: $50,000 to Do Something (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $150,000 | To expand a national retail donation program that rescues perishable food products for charitable food programs: $150,000 to Feeding America (Chicago, Ill.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $600,000 | For a community-engagement program to strengthen and improve neighborhoods in central Harlem: $600,000 over four years to Harlem Children's Zone (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $100,000 | To engage professionals in pro bono marketing, strategy, management, and technology consulting for nonprofits: $100,000 to the Taproot Foundation (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $250,000 | To help people affected by Superstorm Sandy: $250,000 to the American Red Cross (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $250,000 | For the short- and long-term needs of New York City in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: $250,000 to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | American Express Foundation | N.Y. | Volunteerism | $50,000 | For day-to-day operations: $50,000 to New York Downtown Hospital (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | N.Y. | Higher education | $700,000 | For digital projects in the humanities: $700,000 to Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.). |
| 1/17/2012 | Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation | Mich. | Higher education | $1,000,000 | To renovate its business and science buildings: $1,000,000 to Adrian College (Adrian, Mich.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Cantor Fitzgerald | N.Y. | Disaster relief | $10,000,000 | To help families in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey who were severely impacted by Superstorm Sandy: $10,000,000. |
| 1/17/2013 | CA Technologies | N.Y. | Science education | $1,000,000 | To encourage young children, educators, and parents to engage in science, technology, engineering, and math learning: $1,000,000 to Sesame Workshop (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | George Kaiser Family Foundation | Okla. | Health | $518,600 | To provide comprehensive health-care services to uninsured patients with serious mental illnesses: $518,600 to Family and Children's Services (Tulsa, Okla.). |
| 1/17/2013 | George Kaiser Family Foundation | Okla. | Health | $275,000 | To help young people who struggle with mental-health related issues: $275,000 to the Mental Health Association (Tulsa, Okla.). |
| 1/17/2013 | George Kaiser Family Foundation | Okla. | Health | $165,000 | To help parents dealing with family trauma, violence, and other challenges: $165,000 to the Parent Child Center of Tulsa (Tulsa, Okla.). |
| 1/17/2013 | George Kaiser Family Foundation | Okla. | Children and youths | $155,000 | To provide weekly campfire experiences to 25 local schools: $155,000 to Camp Fire USA Green Country Council (Tulsa, Okla.). |
| 1/17/2013 | George Kaiser Family Foundation | Okla. | Social services | $150,000 | To provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, counseling, and other services to young people: $150,000 to Youth Services of Tulsa (Tulsa, Okla.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Health | $16,000,000 | To study new ways to significantly reduce childhood mortality and disease in developing nations: $16,000,000 to the U. of California at San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Calif. | Energy | $2,650,000 | To push for policy changes that encourage more intelligent energy use: $2,650,000 to the Energy Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.). | |
| 1/17/2013 | William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Calif. | Climate change | $150,000 | To create a Latin America Regional Climate Foundation: $150,000 to the ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | N.J. | Health | $25,000 | To administer a competition to develop prevention and wellness mobile apps: $25,000 to Health 2.0 (San Francisco, Calif.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Rockefeller Foundation | N.Y. | Employment and training | $300,000 | To explore and assess the issues of long-term unemployment in the United States: $300,000 to Arabella Advisors (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Economic development | $80,000 | For its annual meeting and expo and to help bring to market new ways poor people can make and receive payments electronically: $80,000 to the Electronic Transactions Association (Washington, D.C.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Health | $1,537,867 | For general operating support: $1,537,867 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Liverpool, England). |
| 1/17/2013 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Disabled | $100,000 | For an athlete tuition-assistance program: $100,000 over 25 months to the United States Olympic Committee (Albert Lea, Minn.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wash. | Agriculture | $3,707,883 | To promote African agricultural transformation, food security, and improved livelihoods for small farmers: $3,707,883 over 31 months to the African Union Commission, Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). |
| 1/17/2013 | Creative Capital Foundation | N.Y. | Arts and culture | $4,140,000 | For artistic projects in multimedia, literature, and the performing arts: $4,140,000 to be divided among 46 projects by 66 artists from 17 states and Puerto Rico. |
| 1/17/2012 | Conrad N. Hilton Foundation | Calif. | Housing | $500,000 | To help people affected by Superstorm Sandy with their housing needs: $500,000 to Enterprise Community Partners (Columbia, Md.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Conrad N. Hilton Foundation | Calif. | Housing and homelessness | $100,000 | To help chronically homeless people affected by Superstorm Sandy: $100,000 to Project Hospitality (New York, N.Y.). |
| 1/17/2013 | Irene Diamond Fund | N.Y. | Aging | $13,600,000 | To create the Irene Diamond Fund/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Translational Research on Aging, to train new scientists to work in the area of aging research: $13,600,000 to the American Federation for Aging Research (New York, N.Y.). |
