United States Program Special Initiatives

The main focus of our Special Initiatives grantmaking is the exploration of potential new areas giving through focused learning grants. Sometimes we also make grants in response to unique challenges and unanticipated events where we determine we have a unique opportunity to contribute.

We are not making learning grants through our U.S. Program at this time.

Note: Our U.S. Program was officially launched in April 2006. However, we began making limited grants in this area earlier.

 Grants

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Date Title Jul 21, 2008 University of California Berkeley Foundation $250,000 over 1 year to support an endowed chair in engineering Jul 3, 2008 Center For Law And Social Policy $400,000 over 1 year to establish the Center on Postsecondary and Economic Success and provide technical assistance to help post-secondary education state policy grantees Jul 3, 2008 Higher Education Policy Institute $5,384,226 over 3 years to support new and on-going work of major higher education research and policy organization Jun 27, 2008 MDRC $13,000,000 over 4 years to support evaluations of three interventions that break the intergenerational transmission of poverty: Performance-Based Scholarships, Learning Communities and National Guard Youth Challenge Jun 23, 2008 Georgetown University $2,976,601 over 4 years to support a project aligning education and training systems with career requirements to increase opportunity for low and moderate income youth Jun 20, 2008 Trustees Of Princeton University $892,667 over 4 years to support the production, dissemination, and outreach activities for four volumes of The Future of Children focused on disadvantaged young adults Jun 13, 2008 The Evergreen State College Foundation $292,000 over 2 years to support academic success for tribal members May 23, 2008 Performing Arts Center Eastside $6,000,000 over 4 years to support a capital campaign Apr 28, 2008 5th Avenue Theatre Association $250,000 over 18 months to support a capital campaign Apr 14, 2008 Leadership Conference On Civil Rights Education Fund, Inc. $880,153 over 1 year to support the planning phase of an immigration reform project Apr 8, 2008 Asian American Justice Center, Inc. $200,000 over 1 year to support adult ESL in the United States through public opinion research, development of a message framework, and a communications strategy Apr 4, 2008 Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. $3,000,000 over 1 year to support a capital campaign Mar 18, 2008 Population Resource Center $250,000 over 1 year to enlist the support of local foundations and organizations in reducing the undercount of children, young adults, and minorities in the 2010 Census Mar 3, 2008 Pacific Lutheran University $1,000,000 over 5 years to support a capital campaign Jan 25, 2008 Overlake Hospital Foundation $1,000,000 over 1 year to support a capital campaign

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