The Commonwealth Fund
1 E. 75th St.
New York, NY 10021
(212) 606-3800
www.cmwf.org
• Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, $595,698 to evaluate the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program.
• Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein, New York, $216,045 to estimate the costs and consequences of enrollment instability in Medicaid, Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus.
• Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, DC, $193,984 to plan a seamless health insurance system for New York families.
• Columbia University, New York, $375,025 to evaluate an intervention program to promote child development for vulnerable young children and families.
• MEM Associates, Falmouth, MA, $197,855 for building support for the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
1 Biscayne Tower, Ste. 3800
2 S. Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL, 33131
(305) 908-2600
www.knightfdn.org
• Boys and Girls Club of Baldwin County, Milledgeville, GA, $75,000 to recruit and train volunteers.
• California State University, Long Beach, $100,000 to develop a comprehensive intervention and training project on the effects of stipends on retention rates of early childhood professionals.
• Child Care Resources, Charlotte, NC, $1.9 million for Curriculum Matters, a school readiness project.
• Early Childhood Alliance, Fort Wayne, IN, $213,000 to improve school readiness outcomes for Fort Wayne children.
• Foundation for the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC, $90,000 to improve out-of-school programs through Partners in Out-of-School Time.
• United Way of Central Georgia, Macon, $16,125 to host a community dialogue day in Milledgeville to develop a community action plan for positive youth development.
• Impact Online, San Francisco, $750,000 for operating support for VolunteerMatch, which helps nonprofits find, recruit and manage volunteers.
• New Profit, Cambridge, MA, $250,000 for general support.
• Parents for Public Schools, Jackson, MS, $150,000 for general support.
• People for the American Way Foundation, Washington, DC, $250,000 to expand a national civic participation project.
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
135 E. 64th St.
New York, NY 10021
(212) 288-8900
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/rsclark
• Center for Alternative Sentencing & Employment Services, New York, $45,000 for policy analysis, data collection and other assistance to city and state officials to enhance access to education for court-involved youth.
• Family Law Unit, New York, $45,000 for assistance to government officials to strengthen parental involvement in service planning for foster children and improve visitation practices.
• New York State School Board Association, Latham, $40,000 to purchase automated telephone survey technology for school boards to conduct community surveys.
• Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S., New York, $75,000 for an advocacy effort to alert policy-makers and the public to the risks associated with abstinence-only education.
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
888 Seventh Ave., 45th Fl.
New York, NY 10106
(212) 586-5404
www.hearstfdn.org
• Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc., New York, $100,000 for a college preparation program.
• Asian American Federation of New York, $100,000, for technical assistance programs and recovery after the World Trade Center disaster.
• Center for Community Change, Washington, DC, $100,000 for technical assistance and capacity-building services to nonprofits in rural and urban low-income communities.
• Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, San Francisco, $50,000 for general support.
• Student Sponsor Partners, New York, $50,000 for general support.
• Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS, $100,000 for research programs in the Child and Family Center.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, $75,000 for the Juvenile Justice Mentoring Program.
• Earth Conservation Corps Northwest, Portland, OR, $50,000 for the Salmon Corps, a youth development program for young Native Americans.
• Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, New York, $75,000 for the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Treatment Center.
• Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, New York, $50,000 to expand the Youth Employment Program to three new sites in Brooklyn.
• National Economic Development & Law Center, Oakland, CA, $50,000 for assistance in helping rural communities nationwide understand and address issues related to child abuse and neglect.
• Equinox, Albany, NY, $75,000 for the Independent Living Program.
• Public Allies, Milwaukee, $75,000 for the Institute for Continuous Learning.
• United Neighborhood Houses of New York, NY, $100,000 for an endowment fund.
• Wolfeboro Area Children’s Center, Wolfeboro, NH, $50,000 for capacity building and organizational strengthening.
• City Lore, New York, $75,000 for arts-in-education programs.
• Portland Youth Philharmonic Association, Portland, OR, $100,000 for an endowment fund.
• Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, $150,000 to establish an endowment fund.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
P.O. Box 2316
Princeton, NJ 08543
(609) 452-8701
www.rwjf.org
• Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton, NJ, $2.2 million for the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being study.
• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC, $1.6 million for general support.
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, $367,985 to build a collaboration for improving care for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia, $275,000 for dissemination of guidelines on media coverage of suicide.
• National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, DC, $2.5 million for educating the public about the framework convention on tobacco control.
• University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, $2.3 million to track the media and policy impacts of state-level tobacco control.
• Entertainment Industries Council, Reston, VA, $3,500,000 for encouraging accurate depictions of substance abuse and addiction in industry products.
• Brandeis University’s Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Waltham, MA, $289,264 for analysis of the substance abuse treatment delivery system.
The Ford Foundation
320 E. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 573-5169
www.fordfound.org
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, $125,000 for an outcome study of adults who lived in assisted housing as children.
• Asian Neighborhood Design, San Francisco, $100,000 to reorganize its financial management systems.
• Focus: Hope, Detroit, $3 million for investments to provide partial capitalization of a student loan fund for participants in educational programs.
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, $6,779 for research on community-based organizations’ temporary staffing services.
• Visser and Associates, Chevy Chase, MD, $150,000 to test an evaluation tool that measures the progress of grantee organizations and the impact of grant-making on the workforce development field.
• Nicaraguan Association of Microfinance Institutions, Nicaragua, $100,000 to strengthen training and policy analysis programs.
• Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, $250,000 to explore expanding faith-based programs for at-risk youth.
• Peace Development Fund, Amherst, MA, $250,000 to help Building Action for Sustainable Environments.
• Center for Law in the Public Interest, Los Angeles, $100,000 for the City Project, a collaborative effort to secure equal access to parks and recreation in underserved neighborhoods.
• Action Alliance for Virginia’s Children and Youth, Richmond, $200,000 for efforts to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• State of Arizona, Phoenix, $100,000 to develop credible indicators of children’s school readiness.
• Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Little Rock, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Little Rock, $200,000 to build a national research network to enhance state-based child policy organizations.
• Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Little Rock, $100,000 to develop credible indicators of children’s school readiness.
• Association for Children of New Jersey, Newark, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy, Madison, WI, $75,000 for communications expansion.
• Children’s Action Alliance, Phoenix, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, DC, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• Colorado Children’s Campaign, Denver, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• State of Colorado, Denver, $100,000 to develop credible indicators of children’s school readiness.
• Columbia University, New York, $300,000 for research and publications on new parents and children during the welfare reform period.
• Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, $200,000 to help the Wisconsin Partnership for Fragile Families with long-term programs for noncustodial fathers.
• Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort, $100,000 to develop credible indicators of children’s school readiness.
• Kentucky Youth Advocates, Louisville, $200,000 for efforts to increase state commitment to working-poor Kentucky families.
• Rhode Island Kids Count, Providence, $200,000 for efforts to increase state commitment to working-poor Rhode Island families.
• University of Southern Maine, Portland, $85,000 for the Institute of Child and Family Policy to build the capacity of state-level children policy groups.
• Tides Center, San Francisco, CA, $515,000 for its Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development.
• Voices for Alabama’s Children, Montgomery, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Madison, $200,000 to increase state commitment to working poor families.
• State of Wisconsin, Madison, $100,000 to develop credible indicators of children’s school readiness.
• AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families, Washington, DC, $100,000 for a project that documents the adverse health effects of abstinence only sexuality education on gay and bisexual youth and young women of color.
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, $1 million to help develop ways to mobilize broad public support for preserving women’s reproductive rights.
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, $300,000 for the Institute on Race and Poverty.
• Alliance for Justice, Washington, DC, $100,000 for future planning.
• Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL, $500,000 to help the Alabama Organizing Project build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Idaho Women’s Network Research and Education Fund, Boise, $500,000 to help the Idaho Collaborative build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Kentucky Coalition, London, $500,000 to help the Kentucky Economic Justice Alliance build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• North Carolina Council of Churches, Raleigh, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Reno, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• ProTex Network for a Progressive Texas, Austin, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Rural Organizing Project, Scappoose, OR, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Save Our Cumberland Mountains Resource Project, Lake City, TN, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Southern Echo, Jackson, MS, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• Washington Association of Churches, Seattle, $500,000 to build statewide partnerships between community and policy organizations.
• University of California-Davis, $73,000 to develop a research agenda on educational entrepreneurship and its consequences for public education.
• Center for Educational Policy, Washington, DC, $400,000 to monitor and report on the effects of high school exit exams.
• Education Commission of the States, Denver, $200,000 for activities to revitalize the civic mission of schools.
• Kansas City Chapter of Young Audiences, MO, $150,000 for a documentary on the Internet collaboration of rural white and racially diverse urban high school students to create a mural depicting their identities and cultures.
• Youth News Service Los Angeles Bureau, $100,000 to help LA Youth, an independent newspaper written by and for teens.
• Safe Space NYC, New York, $70,000 for relocation costs of its Homeless Youth Drop-In Center.
