Where Annenberg’s $500-Million Education Gift Is Going

May 4, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

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Large Education Gifts and Grants: a Sampling

Grants to Large Urban School Districts
Program	Amount
Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project	$53,000,000
Children Achieving Challenge (Philadelphia)	$50,000,000
Chicago Annenberg Challenge	$49,200,000
South Florida Annenberg Challenge	$33,400,000
Bay Area Reform Collaborative (San Francisco)	$25,000,000
New York Networks for School Renewal	$25,000,000
Houston Annenberg Challenge	$20,000,000
Schools of the 21st Century Initiative (Detroit)	$20,000,000
Boston Annenberg Challenge	$10,000,000

Grants to Rural Schools
Program	Amount
Rural Challenge (nationwide)	$50,000,000

Arts-Education Grants
Program	Amount
Center for Arts Education (New York)	$12,000,000
Transforming Education Through the Arts (nationwide)	$4,300,000
Minnesota Arts and Education Partnership (Minneapolis)	$3,200,000
Galef Institute (Los Angeles)	$3,000,000

Other School-Improvement Grants
Program	Amount
Success for All Students (Chattanooga, Tenn.)	$4,000,000
Vanguard Initiative (Salt Lake City)	$4,000,000
The Boston University/Chelsea (Mass.) Partnership	$2,000,000
Urban Atlanta Coalition Compact	$1,500,000
Baltimore New Compact Schools	$1,000,000

Awards to National Education Groups
Program	Amount
New American Schools (Arlington, Va.)	$57,000,000
Annenberg Institute for School Reform (Providence, R.I.)	$50,000,000
Education Commission of the States (Denver)	$6,500,000

Literacy
Program	Amount
Greater Philadelphia First	$5,000,000
Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project	$5,000,000

Other
Program	Amount
Evaluation of the schools’ grants	$3,500,000
Communications and fund-raising assistance for grantees	$2,500,000
Meetings of grant recipients	$175,000

Note: Numbers do not add to $500-million due to rounding.
SOURCE: Annenberg Foundation