INVESTMENT AREAS

Current Grants

2011 Grants


YOUNG LEADERS IN SCIENCE AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

Model-Makers: Scaling Impact and Media2Movement
Ashoka
$50,000 & $10,000

Capacity Building Strategic Plan
and Project Pilot
Educators 4 Excellence, Generation Citizen, Global Kids, Green City Force,
and Isles, Inc.
$260,039 & $250,000

Tumor Suppressor Gene
Institute for Advanced Study and Cancer Institute of New Jersey
$50,000

PopTech Science Fellows and Social Innovations Fellows 2012
PopTech
$125,000

Emerging Leaders Project and Project Pilot
Princeton AlumniCorps
$100,000 & $25,000

Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
$1,930,000

 

CIVIC LITERACY AND ENGAGEMENT

Healthcare Investigative Reporting
Center for Public Integrity
$250,000

State Integrity Investigation
Center for Public Integrity
$450,000

Hyperlocal News Project
The Citizens Campaign
$134,014

Urban Civic Learning Lab
Facing History and Ourselves
$300,000

SHINE
Public Broadcasting Atlanta
$50,000

Open State/OpenGovernment.org
Sunlight Foundation
$300,000


COMMUNITY BUILDING

Will to Create, Will to Live: The Culture of Terezín
92nd Street Y
$35,000

Urban Fresh Foods Project
Isles, Inc.
$150,000

PeaceTXT
PopTech
$250,000

A New Natural Approach to Wastewater Management
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
$325,000

 

OTHER

Foundations and Social Media
The Center for Effective Philanthropy
$45,000

Support the Met Broadcasts Campaign
The Metropolitan Opera
$100,000