Couple Gives $350-Million to MIT for Brain Research
A married couple who made their fortune in publishing and high technology have pledged an estimated $350-million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for brain research. Patrick J. McGovern Jr., the founder and chairman of International Data Group, in Boston, and Lore Harp McGovern, a…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
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The New England Grassroots Environment Fund
History: Established in 1996 by four private foundations in New England to support the efforts of grassroots activists working on environmental issues. ALSO SEE:Recognizing That Small Is BeautifulNew England Grassroots Environment Fund: a Sampling of Recent Grants Set up as a special fund at the…
New England Grassroots Environment Fund: a Sampling of Recent Grants
MAINE ALSO SEE:Recognizing That Small Is BeautifulThe New England Grassroots Environment Fund -- To buy equipment that citizen groups can use to monitor phytoplankton and intertidal marine habitats: $2,250 to the Knox-Lincoln County University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service (Waldoboro). --…
Recognizing That Small Is Beautiful
Grant-making consortium nurtures low-budget environmental activism In Brandon, Vt., Michael Shane was concerned that the constant rumble of 18-wheel trucks through that historic village was shattering its serenity and driving guests away from his nine-room country inn. ALSO SEE:New England…
By Stephen G. Greene
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For more than a century, Trail Blazers has given disadvantaged city kids in New York and New Jersey the opportunity to leave behind car fumes and urban stresses for country air and outdoor recreation. On weekends in the winter, and for one- and three-week sessions during the summer, the charity…
Large Grants of 1999: a Sampling
From the issue dated Thursday, February 24, 2000 ALSO SEE: The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search the survey database and browse additional data and related articles. Grant recipient Amount Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) United Negro College Fund $1,000,000,000 W.M. Keck Foundation…
How Much Foundations Plan to Give in 2000
From the issue dated Thursday, February 24, 2000 ALSO SEE: The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search the survey database and browse additional data and related articles. 2000 budget Percentage change
Clinton’s 2001 Budget Proposal
From the issue dated Thursday, February 24, 2000 Spending in fiscal 2000 Proposed for fiscal 2001 Arts and Culture Corporation for Public Broadcasting1 $326,000,000 $360,000,000 Historic preservation $73,000,000 $80,000,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services $189,000,000 $206,000,000 National…
Companies Urged to Close the ‘Divide’
Technology companies should support charities that are working to close the so-called digital divide, a new report says. The report by the Conference Board, a New York research group financed by 3,000 companies, says that closing the divide separating those who have access to computers and the…
$16.8-Million to Help Poor Get Health Care
In an effort to help the rising number of Americans who lack health insurance, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is spending $16.8-million to help cities design new ways to finance and deliver health-care services to the poor. In the first phase of the program, called Communities in Charge:…
Program for Apple Harvesters Among Recent ‘Points of Light’
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the president in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
3 Organizations Each Get $10-Million; Other Gifts
Two universities and a museum have received big gifts. * Christopher H. Browne, a managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, an investment-management firm in New York, has given $10-million to the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, to endow five professorships at the School of Arts and…
How The Chronicle Conducted Its Survey
The Chronicle’s annual survey is based on financial information provided by 146 of the largest private foundations in the country. The foundations in the survey held combined assets of $180.8-billion in 1999 ALSO SEE:The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search the survey database and browse…
New Foundation Leaders Come From Fields Afar
Many of the nation’s biggest foundations are being run by new leaders. At least 15 of the 146 big foundations surveyed by The Chronicle appointed new chief executives last year -- many of whom have never before held full-time jobs as grant makers. ALSO SEE:The 2000 Foundation Giving Survey: Search…
By MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Most of the time, kids would much rather listen to a puppet than to their parents or teachers. The Center for Puppetry Arts, in Atlanta, knows this. For more than two decades the center has offered puppet shows, exhibits at its museum, and educational workshops to entertain kids and teach them…