Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on February 14, 2013. 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
2/14/2013 Pershing Square Foundation N.Y. Criminal justice $1,000,000 To educate, train, and work cooperatively with law enforcement to eliminate wrongful convictions: $1,000,000 to the Innocence Project (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Minn. Elderly $3,000,000 To help older adults live better in rural areas: $3,000,000 to Ecumen (Shoreview, Minn.).
2/14/2013 John A. Hartford Foundation N.Y. Elderly $1,350,000 To build a workforce of social workers trained and educated in geriatrics: $1,350,000 over three years to the Gerontological Society of America (Washington, D.C.).
2/14/2013 Moody Foundation Tex. Higher education $20,000,000 To build a new Center for the Arts: $20,000,000 to Rice U. (Houston, Tex.).
2/14/2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation N.Y. Higher education $2,500,000 To establish the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, a partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, which develops new methods and technologies to investigate art: $2,500,000 to Northwestern U. (Evanston, Ill.).
2/14/2013 Robin Hood Foundation N.Y. Disaster relief $10,500,000 To help victims of Superstorm Sandy: $10,500,000 to be divided among 50 groups in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York.
2/14/2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation N.Y. Higher education $550,000 To collect and archive Web resources: $550,000 to Columbia U. Libraries (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $145,000 To test a new model to educate and support early-stage entrepreneurs, including retirees, veterans, and recently unemployed yet highly skilled workers: $145,000 to Arizona State U. (Tempe, Ariz.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $100,000 To expand its entrepreneurial support network and maximize the delivery of resources to entrepreneurs in the greater New Orleans area: $100,000 to the Idea Village (New Orleans, La.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $100,000 To provide additional resources to the highest potential start-ups: $100,000 to Launch Tennessee (Nashville, Tenn.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $60,000 To re-establish a program that would expose 1,600 needy New York City public school students in third through sixth grades to entrepreneurship: $60,000 to Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $120,000 To make high-quality, customized, industry- and discipline-specific support available to entrepreneurs across the country: $120,000 to Pacific Community Ventures (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $100,000 To connect its program that accelerates the development of start-ups in Silicon Valley with academic hubs of Boston, New York, and the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina: $100,000 to StartX (Palo Alto, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $100,000 To test a program that helps entrepreneurs who solve urban problems: $100,000 to Tumml (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $150,000 To replicate its program in Providence, R.I.: $150,000 to Venture for America (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Blackstone Charitable Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $160,000 To expose more African-American students to entrepreneurship as a career option across its 38 colleges and universities: $160,000 to the United Negro College Fund (Washington, D.C.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $950,000 To train physician teachers to improve the quality of children's lives who have limited access to critical health-care services in Ecuador: $950,000 to Andean Health and Development (Madison, Wis.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $157,300 To add a neonatal trainer to teams traveling to Belize, Ghana, India, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and Tanzania who will help address the issues of birth asphyxia and reduce infant mortality rates: $157,300 to Project C.U.R.E. (Centennial, Colo.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $269,063 To help decrease child mortality in the Kibera slum of Kenya by creating a system of 100 trained community health promoters serving households with basic care and health education: $269,063 to Carolina for Kibera (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $164,050 To promote community development, health, and sanitation in rural communities in Honduras: $164,050 to Georgetown U. Medical Center (Washington, D.C.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $900,000 To establish a network of pediatric eye centers in India and Bangladesh: $900,000 to Orbis International (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $200,000 For its Mental Health Program in Liberia: $200,000 to the Carter Center (Atlanta, Ga.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $300,000 For its health and nutrition program in eight countries in Africa to improve access to childhood vaccines, prenatal care, antenatal care, and antimalarial bed nets: $300,000 to the Hunger Project (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities Ill. Child health $150,000 To expand its teen outreach program: $150,000 to Wyman (St. Louis, Mo.).
2/14/2013 Aetna Foundation Conn. Diversity $50,000 To travel to six campuses to provide minority college students with information and advice to plan for careers in medicine and dentistry: $50,000 to the Tour for Diversity in Medicine (Boston, Mass.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $144,110 To study the effects of cholesterol and fatty-acid levels on how premature infants develop: $144,110 to the U. of California at San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $112,033 To identify the incidence of middle-ear disease and hearing loss in preterm infants: $112,033 to Wayne State U. (Detroit, Mich.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $20,000 To evaluate the effects of phototherapy on the risk of developing cancer: $20,000 to the U. of California at San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $166,953 To develop methods for rapid nutritional analysis using infant tears: $166,953 to Michigan Technological U. (Houghton, Mich.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $289,194 To assess toddler development and aluminum levels in body tissues: $289,194 to Children's Hospital Boston (Boston, Mass.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $291,420 To longitudinally assess thyroid function in infants with Down syndrome: $291,420 to the U. of Massachusetts (Worcester, Mass.).
2/14/2013 Gerber Foundation Mich. Health $20,000 To study the effects of prenatal medications on kidney injury in premature infants: $20,000 to the U. of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Colorado Trust Colo. Early-childhood development $983,639 To integrate health into their work of connectingchildren and families to early-childhood resources and services: $983,639 to be divided among early-childhood councils in Colorado.
2/14/2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation N.Y. Arts and culture $720,000 To endow an artist award: $720,000 to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Pinkerton Foundation N.Y. Health $50,000 To encourage young women who wish to pursue careers in health, science, and medicine: $50,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine (New York, N.Y.).
2/14/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Philanthropy $100,000 To provide seed support for a new affinity group focused on grant making in Africa: $100,000 over two years to the Tides Center (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Civil society $80,000 For general support: $80,000 to Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation (Washington, D.C.).
2/14/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Civil society $200,000 For greater public participation in the decision-making processes of international financial institutions working in the Balkans: $200,000 over two years to CEE Bankwatch Network (Prague, Czech Republic).
2/14/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Employment and training $175,000 To create sustainable employment and promote career advancement for low-income Flint residents by working with health-industry employers: $175,000 to the Greater Flint Health Coalition (Flint, Mich.).
2/14/2013 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Poverty $157,726 For use by its National Poverty Center toward the costs of a research project on the well-being of the long-term unemployed after 2008: $157,726 over 18 months to the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
2/14/2013 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Race relations $250,000 For a research survey to understand Americans' attitudes toward shifting racial and ethnic demographic patterns, their relationship to economic growth, and the need for policies to advance equity in the long term: $250,000 to the Center for American Progress (Washington, D.C.).
2/14/2013 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Entrepreneurship $80,000 To encourage entrepreneurship among lower-income people in India: $80,000 over 54 months to Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (Mumbai, India).
2/14/2013 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Conservation and the environment $30,000 For a communications plan that links ocean conservation to economic health: $30,000 to Resource Media (San Francisco, Calif.).
2/14/2013 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Education $35,000 To improve the quality of summer enrichment programs provided by the Gilroy Unified School District: $35,000 to the Monterey County Office of Education (Salinas, Calif.).
2/14/2013 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Reproductive health and rights $40,000 To discuss how sexual and reproductive health and rights should be positioned within the post-2015 international-development agenda: $40,000 to the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights (Rockville, Md.).
2/14/2013 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Calif. Education $35,000 To improve the quality of summer enrichment programs for youths in Fresno, Calif.: $35,000 to the Central Valley Children's Partnership (Clovis, Calif.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $75,000 For its Racial Justice and Open Governance programs: $75,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (Newark, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $75,000 For the New Jersey Immigrant Rights program: $75,000 to the American Friends Service Committee (Newark, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $140,000 To advocate for increased availability of low-cost housing and to defend the Mount Laurel Doctrine, which prohibits economic discrimination against the poor by the state and municipalities in the exercise of their land-use powers: $140,000 to the Fair Share Housing Center (Cherry Hill, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $75,000 For outreach and educational activities to increase support for marriage equality among minorities and religious people: $75,000 to the Garden State Equality Educational Fund (Montclair, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $100,000 For the Poverty Research Institute: $100,000 to Legal Services of New Jersey (Edison, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Conservation and the environment $110,000 To provide counseling, advocacy, and legal representation to environmentalists in New Jersey: $110,000 to the Eastern Environmental Law Center (Newark, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Conservation and the environment $60,000 For statewide policy and advocacy on environmental issues: $60,000 to the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (Mendham, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $25,000 To help citizens in New Jersey participate fully in politics and government: $25,000 to Citizens Campaign (Metuchen, N.J.).
2/14/2013 Fund for New Jersey N.J. Public policy $25,000 To increase understanding of and appreciation for the social and economic importance of the nonprofit sector, strengthen government-nonprofit relations, and serve as a watchdog on important issues affecting charities: $25,000 to the Center for Non-Profits (New Brunswick, N.J.).