foundation awards

The foundation has announced thirty-seven grants, including $1.2 million to Drexel University to help underwrite the costs of its merger with the Academy of Natural Sciences and create a department of biodiversity, earth, and environmental sciences....

The challenge grant is designed to help JumpStart America raise an additional $14 million to expand its efforts to twenty additional cities over the next three years....

Grants were awarded to fifty-eight nonprofits serving the Pacific Northwest region in the areas of arts and culture, asset building and emergency relief, education and youth engagement, and science and international efforts....

The foundation will provide support to organizations working in each of its four main program areas — arts and culture; civic involvement, community, and the environment; education; and health and human services....

The grants will help organizations across eighteen states and the District of Columbia working to address hunger and financial insecurity among adults age 50 and older....

More than a third of the total, some $10 million, was awarded to organizations working in the areas of education and economic development, which are the focus of the foundation's new strategic plan....

The grant will support a range of activities at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, including student scholarships, two endowed faculty chairs, and annual fellowships for visiting scholars, activists, artists, thought leaders, and faculty....

The five-year grant will enable the council to expand its International Institutions and Global Governance program, the launch of which the foundation supported in 2008....

The University of California, Davis has received two grants of $1 million in support of research on cell mechanics and the genetics of common diseases....

Awarded through the foundation's medical research program, the three-year grants seek to develop new therapies and/or increase understanding of how to treat the debilitating symptoms that accompany sickle cell disease....