Grants

The Rockefeller Foundation, a global leader in philanthropy, has awarded a $515,000 grant to Calvert Foundation. The grant will fund strategic planning efforts that will help determine next steps for Calvert Foundation’s role as a leader in impact investing. Calvert Foundation, a public charity, raises money from the public to finance community groups providing jobs, health care and more in the U.S., and microfinance and other poverty alleviating activities in developing countries. The objective of this type of investing is to provide a social and financial return to investors.

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all, announced that it has been awarded a $3 million grant from The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, the philanthropic organization for The Dow Chemical Co., to support the participation of 480 early-career science teachers from Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas over a three-year period in the NSTA New Science Teacher Academy.

The JPMorgan Chase Foundation is making a $1 million grant to help about 70 police officers and city employees move back to Detroit over the next two years. City workers will receive money for a down payment on homes in two Detroit Works demonstration neighborhoods, and police also can qualify for assistance to purchase homes in Project 14 neighborhoods.

The Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP) announced its third round of grant making, which includes AACDC and Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture among 12 grassroots organizations throughout the country to receive a total of $53,000. CAAP has awarded nearly $180,000 since it began making grants in 2009.

icouldbe.org, an online mentoring program for at-risk middle and high school students, today announced that E*TRADE Bank has renewed its support of the nonprofit organization, marking the ninth consecutive year. E*TRADE will provide icouldbe.org with a one-year grant of $300,000 to fund the organization’s online youth mentoring programs in low-income communities in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., San Diego and Los Angeles.

Help, and a lot of cash, is on the way to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill victims in North Florida. Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida, a social ministry of the Catholic Church, has been selected by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to administer a $3.5 million fund that will assist local residents who were financially, emotionally or physically injured by the spill. The fund was created by an anonymous donation to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

The Joyce Foundation is awarding 35 organizations more than $7 million in its summer 2011 grant-making cycle. The Foundation supports efforts to protect the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure its residents good schools, decent jobs, a strong democracy, and a diverse and thriving culture. In July 2011, Joyce awarded $7,369,338 in grants in six different program areas including Education, Employment, Environment, Gun Violence, Culture, and Special Opportunities.

Sage North America announced that the Grant Professionals Association, the premier membership organization of grant professionals, has endorsed its new Sage Grant Management solution. Web-based and available either on-premises or in a hosted environment, Sage Grant Management helps nonprofit and government organizations maximize their funding potential by tracking grants and providing transparency at the organization, program, and grant levels.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has announced a first round of grants through its California Education Policy Fund (CEPF) to organizations working to advance education policy reform in California.

Totaling $3.73 million over three years, the nine grants will support efforts to boost student achievement and college success, especially among underserved students. Established earlier this year with a $3.5 million gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and overseen by RPA, the fund aims to support an "ecosystem" of advocacy groups that can engage a broad array of stakeholders to effect policy changes at the state level.

Forty-four community organizations around the world will receive a total of $6 million in grant awards from The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company. The grants, approved during the second quarter, support community initiatives aimed at improving education, fitness and nutrition programs, community recycling and access to clean water.

Since the beginning of the year, The Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded more than $38 million to 123 organizations. Of the $6 million allocated during the second quarter, approximately $5.4 million support the Foundation's community investment priorities, including: