Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on May 16, 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
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Business $50,000 To expand the number of Bronx contractors that can retrofit buildings to be more energy efficient: $50,000 to Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Employment and training $95,000 For a paid internship program and other job services for unemployed youths: $95,000 to East Harlem Employment Service (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Employment and training $200,000 For a project that will award grants to several groups to provide industry-specific training for unemployed youths: $200,000 to JobsFirstNYC (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Education $50,000 To improve academic instruction and college guidance at a figure-skating program for girls: $50,000 to Figure Skating in Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Education $40,000 To improve an SAT and college-preparation program for needy students who attend its summer camps: $40,000 to the Fresh Air Fund (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Education $60,000 To improve its four-year college-preparation program for youths: $60,000 to Good Shepherd Services (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Education $50,000 To add a college-bound program to its six-week summer leadership academy, which teaches girls about women's and human-rights issues, democracy, and the environment: $50,000 to the Sadie Nash Leadership Project (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Gay men and lesbians $25,000 To expand an anger-management program for homeless gay youths to a program for HIV-positive youths and to an emergency shelter: $25,000 to Center for Anti-Violence Education (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Gay men and lesbians $70,000 To inform gay men and lesbians of their changing legal rights: $70,000 to the New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Child care $149,000 To train teachers in publicly financed day care programs to teach language skills, involve parents, and use materials that help them observe children's progress: $149,000 to Columbia U., Mailman School of Public Health (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health and human services $80,000 To promote cost and time savings in government-financed human-service programs: $80,000 to the Human Services Council of New York City (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Public policy $60,000 To share technology and other resources among civic and advocacy groups working in Albany: $60,000 to the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (Albany, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Housing $130,000 To transfer apartment buildings in foreclosure to responsible owners: $65,000 each to the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (New York, N.Y.) and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Environment and health $50,000 To build grass-roots support for federal and state chemical-policy reform, including the passage of the Safe Chemical Act: $50,000 to Clean and Healthy New York (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $50,000 For an electronics recycling program that reduces the amount of toxic chemicals entering landfills: $50,000 to the Lower East Side Ecology Center (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $50,000 To prevent the construction of experimental and potentially toxic trash incinerators and promote environmentally sustainable and equitable solutions for dealing with the city's waste: $50,000 to the New York Public Interest Research Group Fund (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $100,000 To increase consumer demand for wood and paper products harvested using environmentally sustainable methods: $100,000 to Forest Stewardship Council U.S. (Minneapolis, Minn.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Environment and health $200,000 To reduce damage from extreme weather caused by climate change by identifying and protecting wetlands and other natural areas: $200,000 to the Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Va.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Environment and health $50,000 To expand the market for crops grown without hazardous pesticides: $50,000 to Pesticide Action Network North America (Oakland, Calif.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $50,000 To protect New York City's drinking water by monitoring land use and conservation in the city's reservoir watersheds: $50,000 to Riverkeeper (Ossining, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $100,000 For a campaign to persuade U.S. businesses to reduce the amount of oil they use for vehicle fleets, shipping, business travel, and employee commuting: $100,000 to the Sierra Club Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Arts and culture $50,000 To help 15 museums serve poor children ages 3 to 5 and their families from a variety of communities: $50,000 to Cool Culture (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Arts and culture $25,000 For an online registration system for low-cost acting, playwriting, directing, and improvisation classes: $25,000 to HB Studio (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Arts and culture $25,000 To start, market, and attract new financing for a public art program that will illuminate the history of the island: $25,000 to Trust for Governors Island (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Education $120,000 To create a search tool on InsideSchools.org to help eighth graders and their parents find the high schools that are a good fit for them: $120,000 to the New School (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Historic preservation $75,000 For emergency repairs of historic buildings owned by nonprofits: $75,000 to the New York Landmarks Conservancy (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Historic preservation $50,000 To mark the 50th year of the Landmarks Law and coordinate a historic-preservation campaign: $50,000 to NYC Landmarks50 Advisory Committee (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Legal services $70,000 To provide legal help to tenants facing eviction: $70,000 to City University of New York, School of Law Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Mental health $100,000 To add new primary-care services to a mental-health treatment program for formerly homeless, mentally ill adults: $100,000 to Center for Urban Community Services (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health $120,000 To train workers for community health-center nursing, administrative, and managerial jobs: $120,000 to the Community Health Care Association of New York State (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Mental health $125,000 To expand mental-health services in primary-care facilities that provide patient-centered care to those with multiple health problems: $125,000 to the Mental Health Association of New York City (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health $100,000 To assist veterans with getting jobs in nursing homes: $100,000 to the Southern New York Association (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health $100,000 To improve the training of home health aides to improve the quality of care for homebound older adults: $100,000 to UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Elderly $160,000 To train older adults in public housing to build community gardens and distribute food: $65,000 each to BronxWorks (New York, N.Y.), and Queens Community House (New York, N.Y.), and $30,000 to the Myrtle Avenue Commercial Revitalization and Development Project (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Elderly $50,000 To operate a food project for older adults on Staten Island and strengthen healthy-food projects led by older adults and run by other grantees: $50,000 to Just Food (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Elderly $30,000 To train older adults to run and promote community gardens: $30,000 to United Community Centers (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Elderly $80,000 To coordinate an effort that uses older adults to improve the availability of healthy food in poor communities: $80,000 to United Neighborhood Houses of New York (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $200,000 To recruit a diverse student body and provide financial assistance to minority students pursuing public-health degrees in the Fielding School of Public Health: $200,000 over two years to the Regents of the U. of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $150,000 For the Los Angeles Food Policy Council to sustain efforts to support healthy and sustainable food policies as an environmental health-improvement strategy: $150,000 over two years to Community Partners (Los Angeles, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $100,000 To sustain environmental health education and public-policy efforts to improve the health of tenants living in substandard housing: $100,000 over two years to SAJE (Los Angeles, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $100,000 For an emergency shelter and other supportive services for homeless and runaway youths in Alameda County: $100,000 over two years to Alameda Family Services (Alameda, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $200,000 To develop a series of policy briefs to understand the implications of health-care reform for adolescent reproductive health in California: $200,000 over two years to the Regents of the University of California at San Francisco, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (San Francisco, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $250,000 To improve facilities and programs for incarcerated youths: $250,000 over two years to Liberty Hill Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $100,000 To improve the health of low-income, indigenous women in Los Angeles: $100,000 over two years to Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno (Fresno, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $110,000 To provide case-management and support services to low-income, pregnant women and low-income mothers in Los Angeles County: $110,000 over two years to Great Beginnings for Black Babies (Inglewood, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $100,000 To provide case-management and health-care services to homeless women in the Sacramento region: $100,000 over two years to Women's Empowerment (Sacramento, Calif.).
5/16/2013 California Wellness Foundation Calif. Health $150,000 For the Pesticide and Work Safety Project to inform policy makers and others about occupational health and safety hazards affecting California farmworkers: $150,000 to CRLA Foundation (Sacramento, Calif.).
5/16/2013 Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust N.Y. Conservation and the environment $150,000 For financial support: $150,000 to Charles Darwin Foundation (Galapagos Islands, Ecuador).
5/16/2013 Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust N.Y. Health care and hospitals $614,871 To use telecommunications technology to deliver virtual emergency care and pharmacy services: $614,871 to Henderson Health Care Services (Henderson, Neb.).
5/16/2013 Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust N.Y. Health $1,447,033 To conduct a survey on mental-health needs in South Dakota: $1,447,033 to Oregon Health and Sciences U. (Portland, Ore.).
5/16/2013 Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust N.Y. Health $977,800 For a medical mobile unit to serve northern Israel's health-care system: $977,800 to Medical Research Infrastructure Development and Health Services Fund by the Sheba Medical Center (Jerusalem, Israel).
5/16/2013 Laura and John Arnold Foundation Tex. Higher education $2,700,000 To produce six free online textbooks: $2,700,000 to Rice U. (Houston, Tex.).
5/16/2013 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Employment and training $97,000,000 To create jobs in information communication technology for young people in Africa: $97,000,000.
5/16/2013 Coca-Cola Foundation Ga. Health $1,000,000 To engage children in physical activity, leadership development, nutrition education, and academic enrichment: $1,000,000 to the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta (Atlanta, Ga.).
5/16/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $200,000 To create a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade campus: $200,000 to Columbus Collegiate Academy (Columbus, Ohio).
5/19/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $100,000 To help students attend college: $100,000 to I Know I Can (Columbus, Ohio).
5/19/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $50,000 To use technology to track student and school progress: $50,000 to Learning Circle Education Services (Columbus, Ohio).
5/16/2013 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals N.Y. Animals and wildlife $50,036 To subsidize spay/neuter surgeries and rabies/distemper vaccines for the cats and dogs of low-income pet owners in upstate New York: $50,036 to Central New York Spay/Neuter Assistance Program (Cortland, N.Y.).
5/19/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $75,000 To expand a program that helps children prepare for kindergarten: $75,000 to United Way of Central Ohio (Columbus, Ohio).
5/19/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $75,000 To help students succeed by keeping their families from being homeless: $75,000 to the Siemer Institute for Family Stability (Columbus, Ohio).
5/16/2013 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals N.Y. Animals and wildlife $26,000 To transport shelter dogs from Mississippi to Northeastern states, where adoption opportunities are greater: $26,000 to Mississippi State U., College of Veterinary Medicine (Starkville, Miss.).
5/16/2013 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals N.Y. Animals and wildlife $20,810 For a coordinator whose primary function will be to reunite pets with their owners, and for microchipping and tagging newly adopted pets at adoption events: $20,810 to Greenville County Animal Care Services (Greenville, S.C.).
5/19/2013 Columbus Foundation Ohio Education $230,958 For a youth club in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus: $230,958 to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus (Columbus, Ohio).
5/16/2013 Rockefeller Foundation N.Y. Urban affairs $100,000,000 To help 100 cities around the world develop plans to become more resilient to catastrophes: $100,000,000 over three years.
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Energy $649,790 To reduce energy consumption on campus: $125,000 each to Ferrum College (Ferrum, Va.), and Lynchburg College (Lynchburg, Va.), $89,790 to Washington College (Chestertown, Md.), $75,000 each to Emory & Henry College (Emory, Va.), and Transylvania U. (Lexington, Ky.), $60,000 to Agnes Scott College (Decatur, Ga.), $50,000 each to Hollins U. (Hollins, Va.), and Sewanee: the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Higher education $150,000 For a farm director and project manager for White Harvest Farms, an urban farming project that provides job training, employment, and access to fresh foods: $150,000 to Clara White Mission (Jacksonville, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Arts and culture $150,000 To assist with expenses and organizational rebranding related to the search for a new music director: $150,000 to the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (Jacksonville, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Health $140,000 For a partnership with the Community HealthFree Clinic to enable the clinic to provide dental services to needy people: $140,000 to St. Pius X Parish (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Arts and culture $135,200 For the Port St. Joe Citywide Choir and an after-school academic program: $135,200 to Church of God in Christ (Port St. Joe, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Criminal justice $135,000 To hire a consultant to strengthen staff and board communications and the organization's public relations: $135,000 to the Osborne Association (New York, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Early-childhood education $110,000 To expand the Latino Education Achievement Partnership, a collaboration between the diocese and 10 Episcopal churches, to provide early-childhood education and tutoring services to Latino children: $110,000 to the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina (Raleigh, N.C.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Mental health $105,225 To educate people about the impact of untreatedmental illness: $105,225 to Mental Health America of Northeast Florida (Jacksonville, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Religion $97,800 To hire a community organizer: $97,800 to Epiphany Episcopal Church (Timonium, Md.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Education $80,340 To start Daniel Academy, a private school for children with emotional and learning disabilities: $80,340 to Daniel Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Libraries $50,000 To conduct a feasibility study for a comprehensive capital campaign: $50,000 to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library (Staunton, Va.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Education $27,090 For the North Port St. Joe Youth Academic Initiative, which provides academic support for children ages 6 to 13: $27,090 to Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church (Port St. Joe, Fla.).
5/16/2013 Jessie Ball duPont Fund Fla. Religion $22,975 To hire a consultant to perform a feasibility study for a capital campaign for facility repairs and improvements: $22,975 to St. John's Cathedral (Jacksonville, Fla.).
5/16/2013 DentaQuest Foundation Mass. Health $700,000 To improve oral health: $700,000 to seven organizations across the United States.
5/16/2013 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Md. Elderly $500,000 For renovations: $500,000 matching grant to Jewish Home Lifecare, Sarah Neuman Center (Westchester, N.Y.).
5/16/2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation N.Y. Higher education $2,500,000 To create a new interdisciplinary program in music between the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Peabody Institute, to expand arts programs, and to support postdoctoral fellows in the humanities: $2,500,000 to the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore, Md.).